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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: greenspirit who wrote (42851)7/1/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: Achilles  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>>For some reason it seems to take a religious worldview to recognize the wisdom of private ownership of all property.<<

Forgive me for taking this remark out of context, Michael, but your remark seems to me to be rather significant. It is significant (I think) not for the accuracy of its assessment of the history of property rights (on which we now have the learned and eloquent disquisition of jbe). Rather, I think it reveals a tendency for us to use religion to protect those institutions that we are most used to. Very few of us have experienced any system in which property ownership does not play a significant role. It is something that we live and breath and the idea of a system in which it does not exist (or more probably in which property rights exists but have a lower priority) is deemed to be unnatural. For someone who is religious, what is unnatural is interpreted as being anti-God, because for him or her religion in many is just as deeply embedded as the idea of property ownership. It therefore strikes you as incongruous that property ownership and religion are not deeply and universally linked within the history of humanity. In fact, however, the links are as ambiguous and varied as this wonderful world would lead us to expect, once we set aside the idea that what is here and now is what has been everywhere and always.
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