Very good article, and it gives lots of examples of how capitalism flourished with the help of, and the spread therein, of Christianity.

http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/article.php?id=344

I never said you were a communist.

The point I was trying to make was that Christianity had a lot to do with how the world's economies functioned.

No, it's not an under-handed attempt for a state-sponsored religion (I'm not Communist, remember that), but I never really thought about how Christianity did all that.

Stop making this into a debate, icm. That wasn't the intention of it. Just some interesting background info on economics.

Are you trying to prove something because this is the stupidest thread ever, it has no point...

In particular the branch of Christianity, Calvinism, had a lot to do with fueling Capitalism; mainly do to the Calvinist ideas of the world not mattering and salvation being the important thing. Also the Calvinist idea of preordained salvation had a lot to do with it also.

And so slavery was a "main locus" for the "first flowerings" of our nation's economy. That didn't make it right, if indeed what you're doing here is attempting to bolster support for state-endorsed religion by passing it off as harmless tradition.

It was an interesting article though. I'd never thought about it before.