Yesterday, NPR’s “Morning Edition” ran a story about the practice, especially among conservatives, to use Biblical passages as justification for their right-wing economic agenda.
This is something we have been writing about for a while and our colleague Peter Montgomery was even quoted in the NPR piece, so it was pretty interesting to see Bryan Fischer suddenly join the movement today on his radio program when he declared that the “secret of capitalism” came right out of Mark 10:45, which says that “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
In fact, said Fischer, the entire concept of capitalism “is built on the teaching of Jesus himself” and this passage is even the source for the idea that the customer is always right:
