The Spiritual Battle Between Communism and Capitalism

The Spiritual Battle Between Communism and Capitalism

In the Biblical book of First Kings, Yahweh’s prophet Elijah challenged 450 pagans to a spiritual showdown on Mount Carmel in northern Israel. The stakes were high: whom would the Jewish people worship, Yahweh or Baal? Since the victors wrote the book, you can probably guess who won. Some three millennia later, with the publication of Karl Marx’s three-volume Das Kapital, communism and capitalism began a similarly high-stakes contest for the sou…