Killing God And Elevating Greed
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The separation of church and state is a deep western value. Secularism is the liberal value par excellence, you can have faith, but keep it to yourself, and certainly out of governing. But given that western values also include killing children, we have to question such things.
Long ago — in the ‘Enlightenment’ they stole from the Lord Buddha — Europeans killed their Lord and called it a brave new day. They’ve been proselytizing this path ever since, calling it secularism. Instead of an invisible man they now believe in an invisible hand, with economists as its priests and scientists as its miracle workers. And this great golden god called ‘the economy’ really did work miracles. People got used to growth every year, something which used to be an anomaly. The first shall be first and the last shall be last, but don’t worry, it’ll trickle down eventually. When things got bad, as they do cyclically, the economists just sacrificed some children and poor people and it all got growing again.
In truth, all they really value is money. Principal is the only principle, profit is the only prophet, usury is the only use. The astonishing belief that there was a man in the sky was replaced with ‘the [even more] astonishing belief that the nastiest…
