Comments on: Plan for the future with faith-based or socially responsible investments http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2008/08/31/plan-for-the-future-with-faith-based-or-socially-responsible-investments/ The voice of Clarksville, Tennessee Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:33:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jayperoni http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2008/08/31/plan-for-the-future-with-faith-based-or-socially-responsible-investments/comment-page-1/#comment-9979 jayperoni Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:39:54 +0000 http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/?p=8478#comment-9979 There is continued confusion pertaining to the difference between socially responsible investing and faith-based investing. Your article is good as it encourages socially responsible investing. Faith-based investing focuses on moral responsible investing. Moral responsible investing looks at investing that avoids companies whose activities are intrinsically evil, meaning the activities are always immoral, regardless of the circumstances or culture, as revealed by God through time. For example, abortion, the murdering of the innocent, is always wrong and immoral even if it is legally permissible within a society. “Socially responsible investing,” on the other hand, is investing that avoids companies whose activities are not considered socially responsible, and tends to correlate the important issues of a time period or a current fad. For example, though certain activities that can cause damage to or are not conducive to preserving the environment may not be socially responsible, such activities are not intrinsically evil or immoral. As the resident authority on faith-based investing, I have helped differentiate between social and moral responsible investing. That is why I wrote The Faith-Based Millionaire. Jay Peroni, CFP Author of The Faith-Based Millionaire www.jayperoni.com There is continued confusion pertaining to the difference between socially responsible investing and faith-based investing. Your article is good as it encourages socially responsible investing. Faith-based investing focuses on moral responsible investing. Moral responsible investing looks at investing that avoids companies whose activities are intrinsically evil, meaning the activities are always immoral, regardless of the circumstances or culture, as revealed by God through time. For example, abortion, the murdering of the innocent, is always wrong and immoral even if it is legally permissible within a society.

“Socially responsible investing,” on the other hand, is investing that avoids companies whose activities are not considered socially responsible, and tends to correlate the important issues of a time period or a current fad. For example, though certain activities that can cause damage to or are not conducive to preserving the environment may not be socially responsible, such activities are not intrinsically evil or immoral.
As the resident authority on faith-based investing, I have helped differentiate between social and moral responsible investing. That is why I wrote The Faith-Based Millionaire.

Jay Peroni, CFP
Author of The Faith-Based Millionaire
http://www.jayperoni.com

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