Treacy: Remember the wag who said that if God were not around we would
have to invent him. He is a very efficient monitoring agent. He knows
when you have been good or bad and will reward you---incentives are
important---according to your just deserts.
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On Thu, 26 Jan 1995, Ross B. Emmett wrote:
> Judging by the tone of recent postings here and comments made to
> me at the ASSA meetings in Washington, one thing that economists
> of the right and left share is a hatred of insitutional religion
> (I exclude the prophetic voice, as was indicated in another
> posting). For mainstream economists, religion is an irrational
> institution that will die away as rationality comes to rule; for
> radical economists, religion is an instrument of oppression
> wielded by the powerful.
>
> For mainstream economists, I pose the following question: how to
> explain the ongoing vitality of religion after 300 years of
> modernity?
>
> For radicals, the question is: how do you explain the fact that
> many grassroot organizations working for change around the
> world are based in religious communities? Far from being an
> opiate, religion is often the catalyst of change.
>
> Ross
>
>
>
> Ross B. Emmett, Augustana Univesity College, Camrose, Alberta
> CANADA T4V 2R3 voice: (403) 679-1517 fax: (403) 679-1129
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