Friday, September 17, 2004

Satan not on the Fortune 500

This CNN article is exactly what I mean. It refers, towards the end of the article, to a 1980s rumour that Proctor & Gamble are connected to Satan.

In what way? Is he a shareholder? Short seller? Market analyst? Does he have stock options?

Christians need to do a much, much better job at understanding their own religion's theology. Satan is at most a fallen angel. Certainly not a Manichean antigod.

There are many corporations that do many bad things - you have to look at the dot com bust and see how many filthy rich CEOs lined their pockets with overhyped stock options, and let tens of thousands of their workers break their 401Ks - people who can now never retire. That is evil - not because Satan did it - but because people overlooked the common good and saw only to their own good.

Now that is real evil. The kind we have to purge, each one of us, from our own selves.

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