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Marriage of work and spirituality?


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FirebringerOct 6, 2004 3:34pm
This concept is just too important not to bash about. Where has it been all these years? It's hard for me to believe that people are only now rediscovering the ideas that people are more important then profit - that economic systems exist for the good of the people who participate in them, not the other way around - and that the economy itself is a SUBsystem of the environment.

So here is a premise/question: The existing socio-economic system in the west was/is greatly influenced by Old Testament notions that the natural resources of the earth were put here for humans to use/consume, and Calvinist notions that overt wealth is good - because it is an indication that you are "chosen".
Has the rise of paganism, the spread of Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism (to name only the larger Eastern systems), and an appreciation of the New Testament and the writings of people like Gandhi begun to shake the Judeao-Christian Calvinists life view that fueled the industrial revolution and consumerism?
304187Mar 26, 2005 3:54am
Just because paganism and the eastern religions are more KNOWN in the west does not mean they are spreading. Islam is the fastest growing religion, and that religion along with the growth of China, Russia, India, and Brazil will shape what is to come in the "West".


Marriage of work and spirituality?

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