Thomas Sowell explains, It would be devastating to the egos of the intelligentsia to realize, much less admit, that businesses have done more to reduce poverty than all the intellectuals put together. Ultimately, it is only wealth that can reduce poverty, and most of the intelligentsia have no interest whatever in finding out what actions and policies increase the national wealth (Capitalism Magazine, May 9, 2005).
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Socialism is built on a slogan: What can government do for me today? instead of What can I do to better prepare myself to take care of myself in order to be a better Christian and servant of my Lord? Preparation involves individual responsibility, traditional family values, education, love of God and neighbor, and compassion for the up-and-outers as well as the down-and-outers.
Socialists stand against nearly every Christian, conservative principle imaginable. Compare the socialist agenda with Yale professor David Gelernters summary of the conservative position the freedom of every American to make his own way, free speech on the radio and everywhere else, free elections for workers and other people
freedom to acknowledge and celebrate the nations rootedness in Christianity, Judaism and the Bible
love of liberty and love of God (National Review, March 23, 2009, p. 32).
In 2006, Barack Obama was the keynote speaker at Jim Wallis Call to Renewal conference, Building a Covenant for a New America. Following his address, in an interview by the United Church News, he cited the teachings of the UCC (United Church of Christ) as foundation stones for his political work. He said, Just as my pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, welcomed me as a young man years ago, UCC churches across the country open their doors to millions of Americans each Sunday .
I believe that democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal values. Social justice and national security are both universal values, values that may originate for some in their religious beliefs, but are shared by us all.
What Americans can look forward to now that Rev. Wallis has the ear of the president is what Sojourners magazine has been pedaling since 1971 advocating Americas transformation into a socialist nation (Accuracy in Media Research Report, May 1983, Section 19).