Capitalism Vs Christianity

To have a better understanding of how Capitalism and Christianity are interwoven to America, we should first understand what Capitalism means. Many people think of Capitalism with “corporatism” a society of private corporations serving as an organ to political representation in which we could see this today in the U.S systems. According to the Social Critic by Dr. Younkins, “Capitalism is an economic system characterized by freedom of thought and voluntary action creatively applied to production; it is based on private property rights, economic justice, the profit motive, competition, a division of labor, and requisite social cooperation” (Younkins, 1998).

“Christianity is a religion based upon the teachings and miracles of Jesus”, Christianity

In Contrast, to the force that is exercised in everyday life by doctors, police officers and even the way a prison is. Foucault talked about a perfect example of the interior of the penitentiary at Stateville, Unites States in the twenty Century created by British social reformer Jeremy Bentham. Bentham created a circular prison will hundreds of cells around and in the centre there was a tower in which prisoners would assume prison guards were watching them at all time in which they would act properly. This self-governance is a perfect example of Foucault theory of modern power. Foucault argues that surveillance is used in modern institutions to govern and control people. Some other modern concepts would be traffic light cameras or camera at shopping centers which people helps capture people who are breaking the law. This help individuals think they are constantly being watched and they are less likely to break the law whether they are being watched or the camera is off is irrelevant. This is enough to influence the behavior of most people to ensure they are following the rules. Foucault called this dynamic normalization when the awareness of people believing they were being watched created conformity and people start thinking and acting the same from fear they might be

Their Primary goal is not to establish democracy through rule of people but to establish Fundamentalism through their religious beliefs such as religious requirement in which they would inflict on all citizens for this reason they are against of civil liberties. Religious Fundamentalist do not engage those political institutions rather its own agenda on religious views. In Contrast, neoliberal capitalism is a strategy of capitalism, “Neoliberalism proposes privatization, a free-market economy, and producing for the export market” (Unknown). Connolly characterized the contemporary American spirituality as ‘evangelical-capitalist resonance machine’ which I do I agree with him, “At first, the parties sense preliminary affinities of sensibility; eventually they provoke each other to trans duct those affinities into a massive political machine. And the machine then foments new intensities of solidarity between these constituencies” (Wolins, 2005). One way to challenge this would be through protest on these economics affects that are affecting people of corporate