Reply #8: Outstanding! and as for this paragraph [View All]

[Uncle Joe]

"Such faith- faith in the unsustainable - is nothing more or less than faith in a lie. The whole thing is based on what Ayn Rand - the late high priestess of capitalism, cruelty, arrogance, free markets and the "virtue" of selfishness, called, ironically enough, given the context, the "blank out."

"In God We Trust" is literally the message of money, so in that sense the strict capitalists; ie Ferengi are every bit as faith based in their reality as the religious fundamentalists. Maybe this is why Jesus in his most violent act supposedly threw the money changers out of the Temple, he knew it was an unholy alliance.

Thanks for the thread, Joanne.