DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Religion: "While a source of opportunity and progress, markets focus on monetary rewards, according to Ms. Blank. A greedy mindset can lead to ethical abuses in the market, she said.

Mr. McGurn, a Catholic, said he rejects the idea the market is based on greed. 'A God that designed wealth based on greed seems like a perverse God,' he said during the panel discussion."

This book looks interesting. These two debate the morality of the market, and at a glance, I agree more with Ms. Blank on this. She says elsewhere in the interview, that the market is based on different assumptions than faith.

As for Mr. McGurn's arguments, I hope he was misquoted. "A God that designed wealth based on greed seems like a perverse God." Begs the question, doesn't it? While at least conceding that greed is bad, he assumes that God designed the market. Since God couldn't design something bad, therefor it can't be greedy? What kind of effing logic is that? What about all the other options--most apparently that mankind developed the market?

Most disturbing for me is the realization that for most Christians, especially in the conservative evangelical set, capitalism is completely compatible with Christianity. The odd thing about it is that the market system is Darwinian--a philosophy that most Christians hate. It rewards the strongest, not the weakest. It rewards those who are first, not those who are last.