Robert Sirico - [There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious lef

[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive and commercialism. Yet, they seem to think that the key to happiness is giving people more stuff - by enlisting the coercive power of government. This perverse way of thinking holds that 'social justice' demands that we take money from those who have earned it and give it to those who have less of it. That's not social justice; that's materialism.

- Robert Sirico

topic: Religious, Thinking, Government, Commercialism, Profit Motive, Enlisting