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Many Bad Bibles … and the Worst of them All

June 26, 2015 by Randal

I buy bad Bibles. Call it a perverse fascination with consumer culture if you like. I prefer to think of it as a genuine interest in the ceaseless ways that the marketplace finds to represent the Bible to those who have the money to pay for it. The charismatics get Spirit-filled study Bibles, the tree […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, Bibleman, capitalism, consumerism, marketing

On socialists like you

October 11, 2011 by Randal

Snardiff wrote: “That’s the thing that always amazes me about socialists like you” (to Jag, apparently). Note the us vs. them dichotomy. Snardiff places him/herself on the “us” side and “socialists” on the “them” side. Unfortunately it isn’t so easy to marginalize other voices. Here’s the central question: are there any societal institutions which should […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: capitalism, economy, socialism

Did Adam Smith’s invisible hand give us the “Skymall” catalogue?

August 23, 2011 by Randal

I continue my recent practice of reposting old articles from my CP blog that are no longer available. In this post (originally titled “The Tragedy of Capitalism”) I offer a meditation on the absurdity of contemporary consumer capitalism. *** One hour into my flight home yesterday from Denver, panic set in. I had completed my […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: capitalism, consumer capitalism, consumerism, consumption, economics, environmentalism, ethics, The Story of Stuff

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