Does Christianity allow Capitalism?

[creature386]

As you know, most right-wingers are Christians. I can see some support of right-wing thinking in Christianity (the rejection of homosexuality for example). But without going in detain a lot, there is one core point of right-wingism:
The economy.
Capitalists support a free market economy, with few regulations. This means things can get easily privatized. To show you an extreme example, Nestlé (Swiss food concern) privatizes water in some third world countries, to make more many. Many people of course can't pay there and therefore a lot of poverty is created. The entrepreneurs however make a lot of money. Most of the wealth in some countries is also financed through the suffering of people in Africa. Africans (especially children) are cheap labor force, the companies can see everything cheaper, the people can consume more, wealth is created. Even within the countries, such disparities can be created. There are rich countries like Germany, Singapore or Italy (Switzerland is also among them, even though they wanted to enforce one) which have no minimum wage. This means that such exploitation can exist within the borders of rich countries as well. Then there are the guest workers in Arab countries who are treated like crap and finance the prosperity of the Arabs. OK, Singapore and the Orient are of course no Christian societies, but I just gave examples for how these things work.
This is of course a pretty one-sided depiction, but without discussing about your own view whether capitalism is evil or not, I want to know if Christianity can actually agree with it. Historically, Christianity was used to justify capitalism. The concept is simple. Poor people are favored in Christianity and hence you can easily tell them "If you work hard for low wages, you get in heaven". During the cold war, Christianity was also seen as a protection from socialism.
But, the interesting question is the following. My father is a socialist and therefore doesn't like religion that much (except for Orthodox-Christianity), but he and a friend of him in Belgrade have the thesis that Christianity and capitalism can't coexist and that Jesus was the first communist.
The Bible makes clear statements on rich people:

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
Mark 10, 25

And clear statements on poor people:

"And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God."
Luke 6:20

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied."

Matthew 5:3-6

Finally, an unambiguously communist message:

"Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus, sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet."

Acts of the Apostles 4:32-37.

What is the irony? It are mostly the Christian parties who support economic growth. How does economic growth happen? Through consumption of course. In the other hand, it are the less religious left-wing parties who want a more fair distribution of wealth who want to regulate more who are not so much into massive consumption ect. Not to mention that I think you know who supports defense spending more…
Pacifism is another subject where I can provide more quotes, the Sermon of the Mount should tell you enough though.
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
I don't want to discuss about politics so much, nor I want to influence your votes or something, but I want to know what you think about the relationship of Christianity and capitalism. I am personally convinced that the Bible doesn't allow it. In the ideal world according to the Bible, nobody is rich, but everyone has what he needs.

That of course doesn't mean that I think Christians are communists, especially because communists are against a God, so they can't coexist either. I am just saying that their imagination of economy has a lot in common.

[creature386]

Again a hopeless thread, i will just post what I wanted to tell guate somewhere else:

Jun 11, 2014 11:20:42 GMT 5 guategojira said:

Communism is based in an incorrect idea that you can have the happiness without God. They teach that there is no need of private property, that all the resources most be equal to all, and that is be good, but latter they change they words and they teach you that you most follow the ideology of materialism and you can’ think or say ANYHTING that is against it. They are killers and they will no doubt in destroying you if this serve to the colony. Communism punishes the free ideas, and is full of vanity trying to show that they have the only solution, only with the human mind and the worst of all, they descend the human dignity to a mere animal, saying that humans don’t have souls and that if you die, that is the end of all.

I never said that Christianity and communism can coexist either. In fact, in my thread ( theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/832/christianity-allow-capitalism ) I even said in the very end why. I am merely talking about the economic point of view, not thinks like human rights where communism in the known form fails. In economic terms, we would call it planned economy vs market economy. Even though Christianity could never cooperate with an atheist worldview, I believe it could very well accommodate planned economy. There aren't really many more economic models than these two. I would like to discuss this in my thread though.