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To: greenspirit who wrote (42794)	6/30/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 108807

A chimpanzee can never understand the spiritual dimensions of commerce. A person in the marketplace, living by the Judeo-Christian ethic, views another man in terms of potential mutual benefit. He asks himself the beautiful question that fuels all commercial enterprise. What can we do for one another? A person in the marketplace living by any other ethic views another person in much the same way. Ask any overseas Chinese businessman. The wonderful thing about the free market is that it works as well in one culture as in another. The notion that free commerce is an exclusive attribute of Judeo-Christian Society is entirely absurd. All commerce, everywhere, from the time one caveman traded an extra stone axe for a haunch of meat that another could not consume before it rotted, started out free. Commerce becomes un-free when individuals in power begin controlling it for their own profit. Judeo-Christian societies - during their religious heyday - controlled commerce with unexcelled zeal; have you forgotten the age of mercantilism? The return to free commerce has more to do with a movement to restrict the power of rulers both secular and religious that it does with religious influence. Free thought, not religion,is the progenitor of the free market. Free thought rose in the west as much in spite of religion as because of it; the Renaissance was largely a counter-movement to the religious oppression of the middle ages. Empirical evidence and logic draw absolutely no connection between economic evolution and religious belief. The truth that free markets developed in Judeo-Christian cultures does not mean that the Judeo-Christian tradition caused free markets to develop. It should be noted that the most commercially successful Judeo-Christian cultures are the ones that have embraced no religion at all, and taken direct steps to keep religion in the home and the church, where it belongs. Fortune smiles on those who keep religion private.

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