American Economy in Perspective

Here is a perspective-bringing, somewhat-scathing review of Christians' treatment of the American gas situation in view of the rest of the world's economy. I am often amazed at how America-centric American Christians are (I admit that I can be America-centric, too). Americans are often kind people, but they have little awareness of the outside world and the way they contribute to its problems and could positively influence it. I need to post more on economics and the Christian scriptures. I fear most American Christians see capitalism as a "Christian thing," but capitalism and the Christian thing, as it is expressed in the New Testament and early Christianity, are often (if not almost always) antithetical. Eventually, though, the economic system became very powerful, so Christianity gave in and blessed it and attempted to make it a Christian thing. This didn't happen until relatively recently.