Let’s Stop Worshipping Businesses

Roderick Graham
6 min readOct 23, 2021

My mother is a firm believer in Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior. When she receives an unexpected windfall or a report of good health from her doctor, she says she has been blessed. When things are not going well, it is God testing her faith. Never, absolutely never, does she question any of the decisions by her personal Lord and Savior.

This is the relationship many Americans have with business.

Except for a contingent on the far left, local companies, major firms, and multinational corporations are revered in this country. Its CEOs…

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Roderick Graham

Gadfly | Professor of Sociology at Old Dominion University | I post about social science, culture, and progressive politics | Views are my own