Chris asserted:
If she bothered to learn history properly, she would’ve known that free enterprise and the virtues of personal responsibility and thrift were distinct Christian concepts and the hell-hole she left was the logical extension of placing man at the center.
This is false on two points.
First, “free enterprise” is most definitely NOT a “Christian concept”. Christianity dominated the world politically for centuries — and not a single Christian-ruled nation practiced “free enterprise” the basic economic/social system. Not one — in hundreds of years of Christian rule over dozens of nations.
The Industrial Revolution and the free enterprise system it made possible were both born during the Age of Enlightenment when reason finally set the human mind free from the shackles of religion.
Second, it is false to claim that communism failed because it placed “man at the center”. Communism failed because it systematically destroyed all individual rights — especially the individual’s right to property and the right to work in the pursuit of one’s own selfish happiness by means of one’s own honest effort.
Communism turned an entire population into right-less slaves doomed to labor per the dictates of an all-powerful Party that allegedly represented the “proletariat“. This system of slaves working under total state control couldn’t even produce enough to feed itself — and as a result, millions starved to death. In no shape, form or fashion could such a system be deemed to be an example of putting “man at the center”.
