Comments by "Philip Rayment" (@PJRayment) on "UK police have 'no interest in policing actual crime'" video.

@N/A You're right, except for one detail. Capitalism—the freedom to use your own capital the way you see fit—has actually been very successful. But then it was a product of Christianity (Rodney Stark, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success ).
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@igorpotocnik7231 "Very successful in creating biggest fortune disbalance in history of mankind." It has made the poor a lot richer. That it has made some people mega-rich therefore sounds like envy, and a reason to find fault with a good system.
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@Unbroken "Did Stark recount the history of the struggle to divorce the common law from church law and how the common law is the actual foundation for the U.S. Constitution? I suspect not." I don't know. I haven't read all of Stark, who has written many books. But I suspect that you are wrong anyway. One who has written about the relationship between Common Law and the Bible is legal scholar Augusto Zimmerman, who says (although I haven't read his books) that Common Law is based on the Bible.
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@scotty90 "how the hell has captalism been a sucsess?" By lifting millions out of poverty. By providing freedom for people to work at what they want instead of being serfs. By providing competition and innovation and a vast variety of goods and services for people. "We have ended up with corporations lobbying governments all over the world while central banks and intrest have stolen all the people's money." Blaming capitalism for that is like blaming a hammer for what a burglar does with it. "YOU ARE LIVING IN A CLOUD" Maybe it's cloud nine?
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@GBValode "yeah, Christianity is responsible for all the good :D Surely." It's well documented that it is the source of a lot of good. Do you doubt that? Why? " You can be conservative for capitalism and still not subsribe to scams like Religion :" I never gave "Religion" any credit. I gave Christianity credit. Why do you conflate a wide range of views—including atheist views—into one? That makes no sense. And of course Christianity is not a scam. Unless you can produce evidence of your claim?
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@dizzywilliams3557 "Rubbish,,a couple of Hebrew fellows were using the system first,,,sure wasted your time reading that book!" So you know better than a scholar who has done the research? What are your qualifications? What research have you done? Look, hypothetically you might be right. But you're not going to convince anyone (who is not already convinced) just by denying the scholarship.
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