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Wall Street Journal - August 20, 2004
Meeting in Ghana this month, the alliance, which represents 75 million Christians in 100 countries, claims that U.S.-style capitalism ranks as the world's greatest threat. The free market and the corporations that control it, these clergy believe, have "created job loss and grinding poverty, an unprecedented rise in crime and violence, ecological degradation, and the spread of HIV/AIDS."
The Acton Institute of Grand Rapids, Michigan, points out that this is a rare instance of solidarity between Hollywood and religion. Too many churchmen, the Institute says, buy into "the warped and delusional view of the business world" as presented in the movie. It's hard to say which is worse: Hollywood's view of religion or some religious leaders' view of corporations.
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