Tapsearch Com EditorHuman Nature still on trial in the global economic arena
January 13th 2010 19:38
Human Nature is still on trial from the top to the bottom Religion and Philosophy are still late in their response to the global economic arena - even proportional ethics is taking over. Even proportional ethics is touted by top clergy and a Jesuit priest who is President of a Jesuit university proclaims Thomas Friedman's Flat World as an example of all that is good in the global economy. ( The Flat World of Friedman is a fable about the scam of the century - Free Trade. )
A 1971 several church groups and association compiled views on what lay people think the church ought to do to help them be responsible Christians in their occupational, political and social relationships. Not much has changed and in many areas things have become worst.
The groups including blacks and whites, men and women, young and old businessmen, housewives professors industrialists, arms manufacturers, technologists, union leaders, laborers, government employees, civil rights workers and lawyers. It should be noted that this happened in better economic times with most of our corporations and small businesses were still intact. With the new computer generation coming, there were even articles and studies about what to do with the coming new volume of leisure time which was predicted to follow computerization.
Here is the conclusion of the poll taken:
"Most Christians are involved in jobs and institutions which desparately need to come under the guidance fo our highest ethical and religious values." They concluded the church is in trouble because it is failing to minister to the people "where they live and work."
" It abandons us in our day to day activities," - They said the church serves the faithful within its own confines but offers little guidance to people "at the most crucial level in their lives - where they carry on their daily work and influence."
Christians today are in danger of despair because their faith is divorced from their world" -- religious decay is inevitable when "faith gets out of touch ith the institutions of society."
The 70 page report said most laymen still worship and serve in their churches but find little help in secular institutions where they spend most of their time.
Soon after reading about this, a friend and I started a group dedicated to approaching these issues. We could get only a few people interested. Then the economic work day took on even a darker side as Free Trade came and "survival of the fittest" thinking took over and President Franklin Roosevelt's adage became a reality - He said economic diseases are highly communicable. Today these deseases seem to be out of control while at the same time shoppers shop their way out of their jobs in a intense global economic arena where no one wins.
The first question to ask - and the preachers who claim their 10 percent tithing should ask this question first - is it only human nature to shop for the cheapest price possible without considering the conditions and events behind the given price ?
And are we doing unto others as we would like them to do for us?
In the investment communities and stock market - Is it just human nature to seek profit in a wholesale fashion or should we note things like people getting fired instead of hired for the sake of added profit ?
And Free Trade has opened pandora' box, letting out all the human ills into the world while relgion and philosophy seem befuddled by it all in a "bewildered new world." Even the new economic encyclical by Pope Benedict avoids direct references to dark side of so called Free Trade.
A 1971 several church groups and association compiled views on what lay people think the church ought to do to help them be responsible Christians in their occupational, political and social relationships. Not much has changed and in many areas things have become worst.
The groups including blacks and whites, men and women, young and old businessmen, housewives professors industrialists, arms manufacturers, technologists, union leaders, laborers, government employees, civil rights workers and lawyers. It should be noted that this happened in better economic times with most of our corporations and small businesses were still intact. With the new computer generation coming, there were even articles and studies about what to do with the coming new volume of leisure time which was predicted to follow computerization.
Here is the conclusion of the poll taken:
"Most Christians are involved in jobs and institutions which desparately need to come under the guidance fo our highest ethical and religious values." They concluded the church is in trouble because it is failing to minister to the people "where they live and work."
" It abandons us in our day to day activities," - They said the church serves the faithful within its own confines but offers little guidance to people "at the most crucial level in their lives - where they carry on their daily work and influence."
Christians today are in danger of despair because their faith is divorced from their world" -- religious decay is inevitable when "faith gets out of touch ith the institutions of society."
The 70 page report said most laymen still worship and serve in their churches but find little help in secular institutions where they spend most of their time.
Soon after reading about this, a friend and I started a group dedicated to approaching these issues. We could get only a few people interested. Then the economic work day took on even a darker side as Free Trade came and "survival of the fittest" thinking took over and President Franklin Roosevelt's adage became a reality - He said economic diseases are highly communicable. Today these deseases seem to be out of control while at the same time shoppers shop their way out of their jobs in a intense global economic arena where no one wins.
The first question to ask - and the preachers who claim their 10 percent tithing should ask this question first - is it only human nature to shop for the cheapest price possible without considering the conditions and events behind the given price ?
And are we doing unto others as we would like them to do for us?
In the investment communities and stock market - Is it just human nature to seek profit in a wholesale fashion or should we note things like people getting fired instead of hired for the sake of added profit ?
And Free Trade has opened pandora' box, letting out all the human ills into the world while relgion and philosophy seem befuddled by it all in a "bewildered new world." Even the new economic encyclical by Pope Benedict avoids direct references to dark side of so called Free Trade.
Economic diseases rampant while human nature is on trial - and is Free Trade really slave trade
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