Economics: Dominant Religion

Post date: Dec 22, 2014 12:53:46 PM

In our time the dominant religion of the planet is “economism.” Its god is endless economic growth, its priests are economists, its missionaries are advertisers, and its church is the mall. In this religion, virtue is called “competition” and sin is called “inefficiency.” Salvation comes through shopping alone.

McDaniel, Jay (1997), “The Sacred Whole: An Ecumenical Protestant Approach,” in The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment, and the Good Life, John E. Carroll, Paul Brockelman, and Mary Westfall, eds. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 105–125.