At the mention of capitalism, many on the left refer to Jesus' cleansing of the Temple as evidence that Jesus opposed not only capitalism, but commerce. They are in good company. Philosophers since Aristotle have despised commerce and considered it evil. Church fathers baptized Aristotle's economics and for 1,500 years declared that commerce condemned those who practiced it to hell. BTW, Aristotle despised craftsmen like Joseph and Jesus, too.
Then, astronomers began to prove Aristotle's astronomy wrong and opened a crack in veneration of the pagan philosopher. Theologians at the University of Salamanca during the Reformation drove a truck through the crack by distilling the principles of capitalism from natural law with Biblical support.
