Religious Economics: What position would you take?

[Pope Joan]

The Anabaptists have generated several successful communal organizations, most recently the Bruderhof. They practice Christian communism. This means that they are patterned after the early church; in no way should it be understood that they admire or want to emulate Lenin.

http://www.billionbibles.org/china/chri ... unism.html

Mennonites is general are hard working capitalists. They can be shrewd businesspeople. They save money by spending nothing on luxuries. But they are also extremely generous, helping friends, neighbors and strangers with gifts of cash, physical labor, and material gifts. A pastor gave me a car. Outright, no strings.

I do not know what kind of economic system that would be called, but I like it.

Me too, that's why I'm really drawn to the Amish way of life, they seem to have created a true socialist utopia to me, and I quite like that kinda model. Tbh I'm a libertarian, and I like to keep religion seperate from politics, but I'm christian demo-curious, and distributism is quite intriguing.

This is from the Third Way Cafe, a Mennonite information and blogging site; it shows the deep relationship between everyday economic life and faith:
"Mennonites believe that Christians need each other for encouragement and growth, for confronting one another in a supportive way and for help in time of crisis. Mennonites believe that it is important to be concerned for both the spiritual and physical aspects of life."
http://www.thirdway.com/menno/glossary.asp?ID=55

[Temujinn]

Wealth can be a blessing from God, I don't see what's wrong with that.
The issue arises when you squander that blessing by say not assisting those in need.

Well, that's the thing. Implicit in prosperity theology is that those less fortunate than you don't deserve your charity. In other words, "If you were right with god, you'd be rich."

Which is nonsense and isnt backed by scripture.

[Sefard]

I would support Islamic banking and economics.

The mandatory zakat payments and interest free loans are very good.
In addition, Sharia recognizes that natural resources are public property.