----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 7:39 PM Subject: Re: "Religion's misguided missiles"
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> >To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> > > "It came from religion. Religion is also, of course, the
underlying
> >source
> > > of the divisiveness in the Middle East which motivated the use
of
> >this
> > > deadly weapon in the first place. But that is another story and
not
> >my
> > > concern here. My concern here is with the weapon itself. To fill
a
> >world
> > > with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like
littering
> >the
> > > streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used."
> > >
> > > [Full text:
> > >
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4257777,00.html]
> >
> >===========
> >
> >That both Islam and Christianity [in it's earlier manifestations]
> >condemned usury rather unequivocally, as did many who espoused
social
> >revolution, should not be lost on us if we are to espouse a
> >materialist analysis of last week....
> >
> >Ian
>
> Am not sure what your point is, but I was fascinated by Michael
Lewis's
> hallucinatory explanation of why the WTC, with all its financial
businesses,
> was targeted by the terrorists -- a comment that is certainly marked
> capitalist religiosity of the most fundamental kind:
>
> "The sort of people who work in financial markets are not merely
symbols but
> also practitioners of liberty. They do not suffer constraints on
their
> private ambitions, and they work hard, if unintentionally, to free
others
> from constraints. This makes them, almost by default, the spiritual
> antithesis of the religious fundamentalist, whose business depends
on a
> denial of personal liberty in the name of some putatively higher
power."
>
> Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/magazine/23LEWIS.html
>
> Carl
==============
That whoever was responsible for the attack ain't exactly of fan of
finance capital and, to the extent that their purpose was motivated by
Islamic teachings in any way, we need to understand what they perceive
as an *ethical* prohibition of usury which entails the corollary that
those who do engage in usury are *unethical* and should be
stopped......
< http://users.bart.nl/~abdul/chap4.html >
Ian