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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (152430)	6/12/2001 12:10:06 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

The muslim countries that have these problems have poor economic and educational systems that could mitigate the power their religious leaders hold over them. Religions here are still important in people's lives but the clergy are less powerful (though not powerless). Religious ideas have been absorbed by both the economy and educational institutions in a way that has allowed them to expand and add to the general prosperity. "The undoubted historical connection between religion and the values that have shaped and furthered our civilisation, such as the family and several property, does not of course mean that there is any intrinsic connection between religion as such, and such values. Among the founders of religion over the last two thousand years, many opposed property and family. But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family. Thus, the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family (and also anti-religion) is not promising. For it is, I believe, itself a religion which had its time and which is now declining rapidly. In communist and socialist countries we are watching how the natural selection of religious beliefs disposes of the maladapted." F A Hayek "The Fatal Conceit"