Antonin Scalia, Is Capitalism or Socialism More Conducive to Christian Virtue? 09/06/2013

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Antonin Gregory Scalia is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As the longest-serving justice currently on the court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor of the
court's conservative wing. In 1986, Scalia was appointed by Reagan to the Supreme Court to fill the associate justice seat vacated when Justice William Rehnquist was elevated to Chief Justice. Scalia was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, and took his seat on September 26, 1986. In his quarter-century on the court, Scalia has staked out a conservative ideology in his opinions, advocating textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation.
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@JustTayo 7 месяцев назад

“He thinks the world owes him a living”

@David-ur4mp 3 года назад

This is marvelous. I am surprised it has not been viewed more often.

@briane173 8 месяцев назад

It's been out for three years and yet only three comments. I find that astonishing, if for no other reason than it demonstrates a lack of interest in dissecting the intellect of this preeminent _thinker._ Lots of people will disagree with his positions and they're free to do so; but they won't be able to assault Scalia's intellect in order to prove themselves right. His intellect is unassailable.

@jadapinkett1656 5 месяцев назад

@@briane173 Hardly.

@-dash Год назад

Excellent. Thanks for uploading.

@danielcartwright8868 8 месяцев назад

I see the point he's making, but the Old Testament does have a lot to say about the rights of the poor and even had safety nets in place to benefit the poor. I think we can have a minimum provision for every citizen while still leaving room for people to go above and beyond with charity.

@briane173 8 месяцев назад

Still, that's a public policy issue and not a theological one. It's quite apparent that the people have come to some consensus about having at least a minimum provision of relief in order to promote the general welfare; but we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking that a fundamental precept of Christianity is calling upon the _government_ to dispense charity, therefore leaving us taxpayers free to declare before God that we did the Christian thing by delegating the dispensation of charity to the central government. Christ certainly didn't help the poor or elderly or disabled by handing them a welfare check or Medicaid at the expense of the wealthy, and he didn't goad government into doing it _for_ us. He admonished us all to give from our _hearts_ directly, personally, from our own wealth -- as a true gift and not an entitlement. Making government the middleman in that transaction isn't charity at all; all it does is relieve us of any direct responsibility to the less fortunate among us. And to the extent that government continues to tax us to pay for all that "charity," it robs even the most magnanimous among us of our ability to even _be_ charitable. We ought to be careful not to conflate public policy with a call to service to our fellow man as a demonstration of Christian virtue. Taxation and redistribution of wealth through the power of centralized government doesn't rise to that definition.

@brandiwest-bx6pr Месяц назад

Do not conflate poor with lazy.

@EatSomeAcorns 6 месяцев назад

Some conflation of socialism and welfare capitalism. For example, SNAP is redistributive but not socialist since the groceries stores are privately owned. Overall loved hearing his views.