Dec 28 2006
Of Capitalism and Christians…
Dr. Gerry Lower ties together the most unholy alliance of capitalism and Christianity in his ‘Letters to a Christian Friend’:
In dealing with the monument to unfairness and inequality that America has become under religious capitalism, we have the option of painting a more beautiful and meaningful world view than Abraham was able to paint in the absence of human knowledge. We also have the option of painting a black view of Abraham’s religions. Both approaches are solid because religion and capitalism do survive and thrive on both ignorance and fear. There would be no other way to get people to believe in so much unadulterated Roman rot.
Worst of all (and horribly anti-Christian) is the fact that the Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Romanism and Islamism, make people afraid to think for themselves, to the point of not being very human at all, oftentimes to the point of being remarkably inhuman. One wonders why these people can’t see this in themselves … but that blindness to reality is their reward for believing in what amounts to a self-proclaimed infallibility and righteousness.
He makes some very good points, namely that the time of hoping for some more compassionate, equitable form of capitalism is long past:
Unfortunately, a return to a more fair version of capitalism is simply not going to happen at this late stage in the evolutionary program. The values of religion and capitalism are the root causes of most of our problems in the western world. Our only hope is that the Abrahamic religions (as justification for despotism) will self-terminate as scheduled in their prophetic end of times. Americans uniformly guarantee that this will happen - the result of religion’s infallibility and wealth’s self-righteousness.
The lack of interest in postmodern natural philosophy is related to a number of factors. Firstly, the scientific community in the west has never been so ill-educated, most scientists knowing nothing of natural philosophy and the world view which birthed American democracy. Secondly, postmodern natural philosophy’s embrace of conceptual and cultural evolution and the fact that the end of times for religion can be plotted right out on log graph paper frightens the living hell out of people.
I still believe, that in the near future at least, we will eventually have some sort of capitalist/socialist hybrid, like in Scandinavia. But we seem to be one of the most materialistic, shallow nations on earth, so I’m probably wrong.
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