To those with the goal of becoming a great gangster, Scarface recommends these steps: “First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women.” To those with the goal of entering the global capitalist system, history recommends this be your first step: get some religion.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban President Raul Castro attended a ceremony for the country’s first religious beatification on Saturday in another sign of warming relations between the Communist-ruled island and the Catholic Church.
Dressed in a dark suit, Castro sat in the first row at the mass conducted with a Vatican envoy for Father Jose Olallo, the first Cuban to receive such honors on the island in its more than 500 years of Catholic history.
After Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolution in 1959, Cuba expelled priests and Catholics faced decades of official atheism. Ties improved after Cuba guaranteed religious freedom in 1992 and Pope John Paul II visited six years later.
First you get God, then get the market, and then you’ll get the money.
Organize spirituality to organize minds to organize consumption.
Could be very bad; but is one answer ‘complementary currencies‘?
oops.. Meant to post this:
“Religion and Capitalism: Allies Not Enem….”
Which is a pack of lies, of course, because all religion warns away from Usury, which is at the very heart of capitalism.
Also a fun read: “A Christian Speaks Up For Capitalism“.
Proving yet again that Bible passages can be abused like statistics.
That’s a scary looking book. Really scary.