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I've deleted your comment because ...Anon@12:08<br /><br />I've deleted your comment because it wasn't civil. Keep it civil or you're bannedThe Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-534970441176118632013-04-27T00:38:12.188+10:002013-04-27T00:38:12.188+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-57779153745157156102013-04-04T22:03:40.538+11:002013-04-04T22:03:40.538+11:00Actually, as Rodney Stark in his VICTORY OF REASON...Actually, as Rodney Stark in his VICTORY OF REASON shows, it is actually the Catholic Work Ethic which predates the so-called Protestant Work Ethic by hundreds of years.Petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-12206699103801328182013-04-04T18:09:22.788+11:002013-04-04T18:09:22.788+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-66551428567298248412013-04-04T18:08:26.597+11:002013-04-04T18:08:26.597+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-76853141519093411472013-04-04T17:32:24.120+11:002013-04-04T17:32:24.120+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-88884136802451709642013-04-04T04:41:10.298+11:002013-04-04T04:41:10.298+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-23915422983986299032013-04-04T02:02:31.043+11:002013-04-04T02:02:31.043+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-3370017054689995692013-04-02T11:16:55.278+11:002013-04-02T11:16:55.278+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-9923374100010180982013-04-01T17:59:19.493+11:002013-04-01T17:59:19.493+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-5737885840683269682013-04-01T17:37:21.463+11:002013-04-01T17:37:21.463+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-25586785938459381492013-03-31T23:32:49.260+11:002013-03-31T23:32:49.260+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-31688467162043291072013-03-31T08:11:17.153+11:002013-03-31T08:11:17.153+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-79815650377596872512013-03-30T02:53:27.876+11:002013-03-30T02:53:27.876+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-42386265681526928192013-03-29T08:05:14.743+11:002013-03-29T08:05:14.743+11:00Oh the hacks...Oh the hacks...GK Chestertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11412564496846777444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-17267381015950892872013-03-27T21:13:39.044+11:002013-03-27T21:13:39.044+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-23070949854604865392013-03-26T14:05:32.885+11:002013-03-26T14:05:32.885+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-21496352548538564152013-03-26T13:40:44.640+11:002013-03-26T13:40:44.640+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-36022709696498669522013-03-26T04:20:16.098+11:002013-03-26T04:20:16.098+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-44894436207038372492013-03-11T15:39:23.006+11:002013-03-11T15:39:23.006+11:00" Anyone that says anything else is often an ..." Anyone that says anything else is often an Indian nationalist"<br /><br />You say that like its something bad. LOL!<br /><br />I'm not Indian. I'm a "white" American Hindu, so no Indian Nationalist here. I suppose you could call me an American patriot. Definitely a liberty lover. Especially religious liberty.<br /><br />I already mentioned the pre-British negative impact of Islamic and other foreign invasions. It was still however resource rich enough for the British to want a piece of the pie. Indeed, UK "industry" depended upon India. The UK was amongst the last globally in industry before it exploited South Asia.<br /><br />"India's current export of IT engineers would have also been impossible without the British educational system."<br /><br />You say that like its a good thing!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Jaya Shiva Shambo!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-62452627271643382732013-03-11T08:56:39.487+11:002013-03-11T08:56:39.487+11:00@ Jaya Shiva Shambo,
India was in free fall befor...@ Jaya Shiva Shambo,<br /><br />India was in free fall before the British. Anyone that says anything else is often an Indian nationalist, which is ironic in and of itself. The British brought steam power, a stable financial system, a stable government, an end to petty wars with princelings, and world trade. <br /><br />India's current export of IT engineers would have also been impossible without the British educational system.GK Chestertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11412564496846777444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-67845274186834687322013-03-09T23:25:29.506+11:002013-03-09T23:25:29.506+11:00Agree. Not just USians but Westerners in general.
...<i>Agree. Not just USians but Westerners in general.</i><br /><br />I think the first time I noticed that something was not quite right with Western "spirituality" was when Dan Brown's <i>The DaVinci Code</i> came out. It just seemed entirely too convenient that there was this secret, ancient "authentic" version of Christianity that just happened to correspond with everything that trendy 21st Century Americans wanted to believe was true.<br /><br />Brown, of course, said with a wink that it was a work of fiction and some things had been dramatized. As it turns out, it wasn't just a dramatization of fact. <a href="http://www.historyversusthedavincicode.com/" rel="nofollow">The whole awful screed is built on wishful thinking</a> and stilted hack prose to boot.<br /><br />It's interesting to note that the premise that Catholicism is a perversion of some idealized, older form of Christianity is a trope you hear <i>all the freaking time</i> from Protestants. The most gloriously absurd example I've come across so far has got to be the work of Jack T. Chick which, among <i>many</i> other things, affirms that <a href="http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp" rel="nofollow">Communion is Pagan in origin.</a> How he came to this bizarre conclusion, given that the ritual of Communion is explicitly outlined at several points in the New Testament, I do not know!<br /><br /><i>Disagree. It's a world affirming faith. It's a religion that affirms the goodness of the created world.</i><br /><br />I'm out of my depth on this. I think of Christianity as a world-denying faith because of passages in the New Testament saying things like it's harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, and passages referring to Satan as the ruler of the world. Obviously, the Socialist and Albigensians respectively took these ideas to the extremes.<br /><br />I'm certainly eager for clarification on the matter. Like I said, way out of my depth on this one.<br /><br /><i>I don't suffer from work-worship but and definitely see the importance of leisure, but I wouldn't underestimate the socially corrosive powers of unemployment, the Brownshirts were filled with men who had no other gainful employment.</i><br /><br />Protestant work-worship, if anything, tends to make the problem worse by disguising unemployment through the creation of fake jobs. The Brownshirts you mention would be an extreme example. Universities are filled top to bottom with (somewhat) less alarming ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-74367704897864635862013-03-09T06:34:04.347+11:002013-03-09T06:34:04.347+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-85148676021195802052013-03-07T13:26:07.067+11:002013-03-07T13:26:07.067+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-26376701403993266562013-03-07T07:34:50.493+11:002013-03-07T07:34:50.493+11:00I don't know about Far East Asia, but South As...I don't know about Far East Asia, but South Asia was a trade, economic and civilizational powerhouse before foreign invasions and the British Imperialism.<br /><br />This is of course because of its Hindu ethos which beautifully intertwines dharma (worldly duties) with moksha (liberation).<br /><br />Indeed, a dharmic life leads to ultimate liberation while still embodied.<br /><br />This is why dharmic traditions are so attractive to Westerners, they address all levels of being and weave them masterfully.<br /><br />Never before have we been so blessed with so much access to these traditions has we have today.Jaya Shiva Shambo!noreply@blogger.com