Moore Video

The statement that stood out most to me in this clip was when he grouped all religions as one. Certainly all religions are not the same and they do not believe in the same theories either. I was especially concerned that Mr. Moore did assume that I as a Christian am no different from a Muslim or someone who believes in wicca even. If all religions were the same there would not be conflict among them and we would already have one religion and one government system. Moore got the idea in a way about how a rich man is not supposed to take nine slices of pie and leave the remaining pie for the poorer people to fight over but he took it as everyone who believes in a religion believes this too. In other words he said that all religions were just aimed at helping the poor but that they had no individual focus. We understand that like in Heart Soul and Money a major theme was “there are certain extremes of wealth and poverty which are in and of themselves intolerable.” And also that, in James 5:1-6 a time is depicted when landlords “were growing wealthier at the expense of the impoverished day-laborers.” These are examples of people who wanted to glorify only themselves with material possessions rather than Jesus. This still has no proof that socialism should be the economic system used because it has no direct relevance really and socialism also would not be effective. Socialism would basically promote people to be lazy and leave people like us to carry out the harder jobs because no one else would have to. Because the world is a sinful place, everyone would want what is best for only themselves so they would work the minimum amount to survive if they got paid either way. Overall, all religions are not the same and socialism would not be effective as Moore suggests because we are of a fallen and sinful world that simply could not get along and count on one another all the time.