Greetings Economists, On Feb 24, 2007, at 8:06 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
In the USA, Marxists might, for instance, aim for separation of church and science instead. For most denominations of most religions have no problem reconciling their faiths with science in practice and only Christian fundamentalists have trouble doing so.
Doyle; Science isn't sexy enough. It is a cultural question. Prohibition (a religion based moral movement) lost on the 'wild' living gin drinking (gin medicates depression and the blues) masses who couldn't be repressed. Socialist culture has to offer something Christianity can't which is freedom from religious strictures the masses crave. I'll repeat my previous contention, a 'say everything' culture is a socialist culture, in that private life, the little bed side prayer is being challenged by the intensely craved need to connect by intimacy that online communities deliver upon. This end of privacy is socialist culture which breaks the moralistic codes upon which religion depends to hold it's flock together in social solidarity. Doyle
