Understanding Consumerism: M Sampson

http://capitalismproject.org/ Reported here by: SPMG, 6 August 2009

...Critics of consumerism can be found among all political allegiances, every religious faith and within most fields of ethical inquiry. However, it is not immediately clear that there is a consensus about how consumerism functions in society. Consumerism is often portrayed as simply an ideology or a belief system. Within this portrayal, a Christian response to consumerism is found by investigating the conflicting beliefs… Any investigation into what it means to be made in the image of God would quickly critique the notion of human-as-consumer.