I think they're much closer to politics than business...

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Post #14,046

by Another Scott

10/18/01 5:52:56 PM

I think they're much closer to politics than business...

myself. (In response to:)

The organized religions are extensions of bizness, the root faith of capitalism, whose creed includes the idea that things are what is important: amassing, disposing of, and guarding same (and gloating as the pile grows).

At least if one takes Catholicism and its history as the representative example.

Then Protestant off-shoots could be regarded as rival political factions, etc.

I haven't thought about this too deeply, but even so I think it's a better comparison than to business.

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #14,051

by Ashton

10/18/01 6:47:59 PM

No argument here..

If you look at the wholesale purchase of legislators, via PACs and the various means of $-transmission amongst the ruling miniscule group (ever consolidating by merger, ex-pols <--> bizness* before&after); add-in the techno- perfecting of propaganda/spin, as would make G\ufffdbbels proud:

What difference is there between bizness and politics - as actually done (not theory) ?

As the churches remain silent as always, about the social and other consequences of the Scam - allegedly their turf? - just make it a kind of umm

Trinity, then.

* catch last Sunday's Doonesbury re who's sleeping in the Lincoln bedroon.. now ?

Ashton

War On Religion - (deSitter) - (63) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:10:44 AM EDT

Re: War On Religion - (gtall) - (37) - Oct. 18, 2001, 08:04:14 AM EDT

Re: War On Religion - (addison) - (36) - Oct. 18, 2001, 10:33:47 AM EDT

You must be an exception... - (Arkadiy) - (18) - Oct. 18, 2001, 10:49:30 AM EDT

Not really. - (addison) - (17) - Oct. 18, 2001, 11:02:48 AM EDT

Re: Not really. - (Arkadiy) - (16) - Oct. 18, 2001, 11:13:26 AM EDT

Not an expert. - (addison) - (14) - Oct. 18, 2001, 11:22:31 AM EDT

Re: Not an expert. - (Arkadiy) - (10) - Oct. 18, 2001, 11:47:52 AM EDT

Re: Not an expert. - (addison) - (8) - Oct. 18, 2001, 12:43:21 PM EDT

Re: Not an expert. - (Arkadiy) - (6) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:33:23 PM EDT

Re: Not an expert. - (addison) - (5) - Oct. 18, 2001, 02:02:30 PM EDT

More clear now. - (Arkadiy) - (4) - Oct. 18, 2001, 02:31:45 PM EDT

Re: More clear now. - (addison) - (3) - Oct. 18, 2001, 03:08:38 PM EDT

End of discussion? - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Oct. 18, 2001, 03:29:46 PM EDT

In a sense. - (addison) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2001, 03:34:58 PM EDT

And I _do_ avoid Religion forum for a reason :) -NT - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 18, 2001, 06:52:29 PM EDT

Japanese 'saving' in context. - (Ashton) - Oct. 18, 2001, 03:31:43 PM EDT

Japanese Highway men (sorta - it's more long term than that) - (Simon_Jester) - Oct. 18, 2001, 10:21:26 PM EDT

Hate - (Brandioch) - (2) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:31:19 PM EDT

Re: Hate - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:35:11 PM EDT

Song: "You Have to be Carefully Taught" (to Hate) - (Ashton) - Oct. 18, 2001, 03:59:46 PM EDT

The chinese will contract a debt for several generations -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:06:49 PM EDT

Re: War On Religion - (gtall) - (16) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:01:49 PM EDT

Re: War On Religion - (addison) - (15) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:46:25 PM EDT

That's what I hoped to get from you... - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 18, 2001, 03:01:33 PM EDT

Re: War On Religion - (gtall) - (10) - Oct. 18, 2001, 03:50:45 PM EDT

Never fear, I am. - (addison) - (7) - Oct. 18, 2001, 04:55:46 PM EDT

I think I caught your show a few months ago... - (screamer) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2001, 05:36:19 PM EDT

Thanks for link! - (Ashton) - Oct. 18, 2001, 06:35:23 PM EDT

Re: Never fear, I am. - (gtall) - (4) - Oct. 19, 2001, 08:24:13 AM EDT

I think there is an unwarranted assumption there - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Oct. 20, 2001, 11:35:21 PM EDT

Re: I think there is an unwarranted assumption there - (gtall) - (2) - Oct. 21, 2001, 08:54:14 AM EDT

ya also find beer containers ]:-> -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 21, 2001, 10:21:27 AM EDT

I think you missed the point - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 21, 2001, 11:38:13 AM EDT

C'mon Gerard - (Ashton) - Oct. 18, 2001, 04:56:17 PM EDT

One *hell* of a Freudian slip... - (pwhysall) - Oct. 18, 2001, 04:59:41 PM EDT

SIngle biggest influence was science fiction? - (marlowe) - (2) - Oct. 18, 2001, 04:12:14 PM EDT

Don't *make* me come over there. - (addison) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2001, 04:22:23 PM EDT

Find it also a rich vein - (Ashton) - Oct. 18, 2001, 05:27:43 PM EDT

Ya missed heathens, pagans, and buddists :) -NT - (boxley) - (7) - Oct. 18, 2001, 08:47:20 AM EDT

Buddha - (tuberculosis) - (6) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:25:01 AM EDT

I'll drink to that - (Ashton) - (5) - Oct. 18, 2001, 05:45:23 PM EDT

I think they're much closer to politics than business... - (Another Scott) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2001, 05:52:56 PM EDT

No argument here.. - (Ashton) - Oct. 18, 2001, 06:47:59 PM EDT

Ellsworth Toohey - (deSitter) - Oct. 19, 2001, 02:58:35 AM EDT

Bottoms up - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:29:42 AM EDT

Earthquake proof? - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 19, 2001, 08:54:49 PM EDT

tell ya what - (cwbrenn) - (5) - Oct. 18, 2001, 09:43:58 AM EDT

First on the agenda..... - (addison) - (3) - Oct. 18, 2001, 10:16:18 AM EDT

I thought you were both moral and forward-looking - (jb4) - (2) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:57:04 PM EDT

Re: I thought you were both moral and forward-looking - (addison) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2001, 02:04:22 PM EDT

Yeah, but I'm a miserable cook - (jb4) - Oct. 18, 2001, 06:54:34 PM EDT

Atheists run the world? - (marlowe) - Oct. 18, 2001, 04:08:36 PM EDT

Thank you for making the case against religion. - (marlowe) - (6) - Oct. 18, 2001, 04:35:38 PM EDT

Don't throw out the baby with the radiator water, though.. - (Ashton) - Oct. 18, 2001, 05:57:17 PM EDT

Re: Thank you for making the case against religion. - (deSitter) - (4) - Oct. 19, 2001, 01:28:06 AM EDT

Now yer talkin. -NT - (Steve Lowe) - Oct. 19, 2001, 01:33:50 AM EDT

So is there no hope for man? -NT - (inthane-chan) - Oct. 19, 2001, 12:14:59 PM EDT

I'm pretty sure man exists, myself. - (marlowe) - (1) - Oct. 19, 2001, 01:11:09 PM EDT

Yeah, he's just a figment of my imagination. -NT - (CRConrad) - Oct. 22, 2001, 09:40:42 AM EDT

Resection - (kmself) - (3) - Oct. 19, 2001, 06:29:07 PM EDT

No move thread command yet. -NT - (admin) - Oct. 19, 2001, 06:45:03 PM EDT

I Don't Get You - (deSitter) - Oct. 21, 2001, 02:32:09 AM EDT

No. - (addison) - Oct. 21, 2001, 12:33:52 PM EDT

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