Now, here’s a steel cage match for you.
In the blue corner, we have . . . capitalism! The creator of unparalleled economic growth, it promises perpetual change, and boasts about creative destruction. It brings both wealth and endless insecurity. Value is established, not by some fixed measure of inherent worth, but by how much a willing purchaser is prepared to pay in a free market. It generates new winners and losers every day.
In the red corner, we have . . . revealed religion! Here, God has provided the truth to the world, and it is immutable. If changing facts get in the way of the story, you are required to believe the story, not your eyes.
It sounds like a classic battle between the irresistible force and the immovable object, doesn’t it?
And the winner is . . . capitalism, at least for those of us who don’t accept revealed religion as a source of truth. For conservative members of the GOP who embrace both, trying to balance them must be an intellectual nightmare.