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   It has been argued that the JudeoChristian God put the earth at man's   
   disposal, hence provided for science and capitalism. Or to put it another   
   way, linear eschatology (endtime resurrection) is focused on man's   
   accomplishments, but circular eschatology (ie, reincarnation) seeks to   
   preserve the status quo (nature worship), because, well, you could come back   
   as worm.   
      
   Communism is actually a prehistoric system intended for fallow crop rotation   
   and as such, for example, hates fertilisers and other crop technology.   
   Tocqueville debunks the family farm (and the Jimmy Carter notion of "small"   
   business) by showing USA agriculture was always industrial and capitalist,   
   not feudal.   
      
   The Bible certainly discourages greed and hoarding, but also (Talents)   
   encourages investment and delayed gratification. If you forget religion, it is   
   the middle class which hoardes and fears risktaking but the very rich are   
   focused on "winning", ie, perpetual struggle for creative destruction and   
   improvement.  So the guy with the warehouses is feudal, not capitalist.   
      
   THerefore drawing conclusions about earthly sysytems from the Bible is as   
   Podhorets Prophets closes Ideology-Ideolatry-Idolatry, the worship of man   
   made ideas (Apple of Edem) instead of divinely created fellow man.   
      
   --   
   	 Vasos Panagiotopoulos  panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm   
     ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully disclaimed.}---   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)