Section five

With the wisdom of feminism, and the redressing of the balance between male and female, there is a big danger of society swinging to far in the direction of failing to see the value of men. Accepting the understanding via Darwin leads to the conclusion that we are a kind of animal. This tells us that the primary function of the female animal is to bear young. The primary function of the male animal is the evolution of the species. You cannot have one without the other. If we had not have had males, we would not have had evolution.

In contemporary capitalist societies, a common measure of fitness a human male has, is the amount of money he has, as a measure of how successful he is. (Usually indicated by the status symbols he has)
Communism was an attempt to make a rational perfect economic system.

As a system nears perfection it has less need of evolution. Collectively we are not perfect yet. Collectively we are becoming an ecological, economic disaster. I restate, capitalism is the engine of the industrial evolution that is despeciating our planet. Capitalism is a hard word to define accurately, to do this we must find out from where it came. In his essay called The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber states that the origins of modern industrial capitalism must be seen in western culture, and above all in puritan Protestantism. Capitalism is the engine of the industrial revolution which is gradually destroying the earths biosphere. I think I have found where the Protestants found their justification for this economic system. This justification came from two parables in the Bible. I will now present these two parables from the Bible and explain how and why, I think that they have profoundly affected our evolution as a species.
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First parable. Matthew chapter 20.

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder which went out early one
morning to hire labourers to work in his vineyard.
And when he agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
And when he went out on the third hour and saw others standing in the marketplace idle.
And to them he said, ' Go ye into the vineyard and whatsoever is right I will give you.' And they went on their way.
Again he went out about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did likewise.
And about the eleventh hour he went and found others standing idle and he
sayeth unto them, 'why stand ye here all the day idle?'
They say unto him, 'because no man hath hired us.' He saith unto them, 'Go ye also into the vineyard.'
And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, 'Call the labourers and pay them their hire beginning from the last unto the first.'
And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour they received every man a penny.
And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they likewise received every man a penny.
And when they received it they murmured against the householder. Saying, 'These last have spent but one hour and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat. But he answered and said unto one of them, 'Friend I do thee no wrong, didst thou not agree with me for one penny'
'Take that which is thine, and go away, it is my will to give unto the last, even as unto thee.'
'Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own. Or is thine eye evil because I am good.'
So the last shall be first and the first last.
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Some Christians say that this is nothing to do with the creation of capitalism. Their interpretation was; that the person who accepts Christ as the lord, an hour before Armageddon, will go to heaven just the same as someone who has accepted Christ all their lives. I would say to them, there have been that many different Christian sects, how do they know that all of them, have placed that interpretation on this parable.

The parallels between the way our economy works and this parable are very strong, I would propose they are stronger than coincidence. There is not a direct connection between the amount of money we get paid and the amount of work we do. The employer wants to get as much work as possible for as little money as possible. The employee wants to get as much money as possible for as little work as possible. There is constant competition between employer and employee as to the money value of work. I would define work as the designing, building, (Or growing.) and delivery of the things we buy and consume. I would further define the word work, to mean the expenditure of energy, to the benefit of others, that cannot be done by machinery and automation.

In the above parable, there is not a connection between the amount of work carried out and the amount of money paid. For an economic system to grow there has to be a surplus, this surplus is usually achieved by paying the worker less than he earns or by automation. By this means money as a measurement of work, is generated for future development. The real wealth of a nation is in its production, but the working people can't take out all this wealth, otherwise there would be no surplus production, to supply the needs of workers on new ventures. The study of economics has a very profound problem that is; Knowledge is at its truest in the light of experience. When economics graduates study, where do they get their information from? Usually from qualified economics professors and where do these professors get their knowledge from? Usually the incestuous process of learning from other professors. One of the key words of capitalism is competition, usually this operates on the visceral (gut reaction) level of personal status acquisition, this is a short sighted cynical view of this process. The objective analysis, gives the global historical connection between scientific advances, capitalism, and the Bible. These connections have given us the ability to sow life`s seed in space.

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Second Parable;

Matthew 25 verse 14

For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
And unto one he gave five talents, to another two talents, to another one talent; to each according to his several abilities; and went on his journey.
Straightway he that received the five talents went and traded with them and made another five talents
. In like manner he who had received the two gained another two. But he who received one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
Now after a long time the lord of these servants returned and maketh a reckoning with them.
And he that received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, 'Lord thou deliverest unto me five talents lo I have gained another five talents.'
His lord said unto him, 'Well done good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter thee into the joy of the lord.
And he that received the two talents came and said, 'Lord thou deliverest unto me two talents. Lo I have gained another two talents.
His lord said unto him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; enter thee into the joy of the lord.
And he also that had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord I knew thee that thou art a hard man reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering where thou didst not scatter: and I was afraid, and went away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo thou hast thine own.'
But his lord answered and said unto him, 'thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knowest that I reap where I sowest not, and gather where I did not scatter.
Thou oughtest therefore to put my money to the bankers and at my coming I should have received mine own back with usury. Take ye away therefore the talent from him and give it unto the one who has ten talents.

For everyone that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance, but from him that hath not even that which he hath shall be taken away. And cast out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness; there shall be a weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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The part that amazes me is the previous paragraph, which is saying that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The income figures over the last ten years seem to confirm this. This is not a coincidence, because if you have a lot of money you can invest it and live off the interest, you need not work at all.

The result will be that people will admire your big house and car and nobody will call you a parasite. Or to put it, as the servant put it, you have reaped where you have not sown. Another reason for the previous parable to be seminal in the creation of capitalism. Is that in the early Catholic church and the Moslem church, usury was seen as a sin. It would be impossible for capitalism to work without the borrowing of money at interest. I can imagine early protestants being able to read the bible in their own language unlike the catholics at the same time. And arriving at the conclusion that usury was okay after all. This would not have happened before Martin Luthor set the protestant revolution in motion.

On top of the Old Bailey in London, there stands a statue. In her right hand she holds a sword and in her left hand a pair of scales. Probably the most fundamentally profound definition for justice is balance, life strives for balance. Humanity is on a path of destroying the natural balance that existed for millennia before humanity did. This has been an ongoing situation since the human race discovered fire. The rate of change in the effect of humanity on the ecological balance, accelerated with the start of the industrial revolution.

The industrial revolution started with the Protestant work ethic, which was promoted by the Calvinists and Quakers. It is almost certain that they would have read the parables above, and conceived the idea that people standing around in the marketplace idle, should be given something to do. The profit made from not paying these workers the full value of their earnings, (by delinking the amount of work done, from the amount of money paid) would then be invested as in the second parable. It is my thesis that it has been these precursors that have created the economic system, There is only one explanation that makes sense . Strange as it may seem, I have found a part of the Bible that seems to agree with me.

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REVELATION 21:23

And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine upon it:
for the glory of God did light it and the lamp thereof is the lamb.
And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof and the kings of the earth
do bring their glory into it.
And the gates thereof shall be in no wise shut by day.

(For there shall be no night there.)

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My interpretation of this is:

The first part; that the city has no need of the Sun, suggests that the city could be a space ark, that might travel from our solar system and visit other solar systems. The most telling part however, is the part in brackets. There is only one place we can go, for there to be no night, that is space. (Night is caused by the turning of the Earth, the Sun never stops shining.) We have evolved the science to colonise space, the Americans spent billions of dollars getting to the moon, it is a shame that they did not plant life's seed there.

One of the biggest factors that created the second world war was the economic situation in Germany after the first world war. Were there not rampant inflation, massive unemployment and first world war reparations to pay back, Hitler would never have been able to take power by blaming the economic situation on the Jews and in doing so unite his country. One of the diseases of capitalism is inflation. It is a total waste of time looking at history and saying it should not have happened the way it did.

My hypothesis explains all the pain and grief suffered by humanity over the centuries, caused by all those wars, no pain no gain, it takes grit in an oyster to create a pearl. Again we are back with evolution. If we had not have had the second world war, we would not have computers, radar and rockets, all of which have given us the ability to reach the heavens. As with other chaotic systems having an underlying pattern, I believe I have found the one to human history and our collective evolution.

When the Bible is read with Chaos theory in mind and considering our collective evolution, it reads rather differently than the Christian hierarchies would have us believe.
Eg. God becomes the Sun that has created us,

(Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire)

The kingdom of Heaven, Heavens above! = space.

Our salvation becomes creating habitation off the earth. Our absolution comes with the returning our Earth to the state that it was in, before we started the process of the gradual destruction of the natural environment. To explain the concept of a loving God requires that the word love, be defined properly, the purest definition of love, is giving unconditionally. The Sun gives us light, warmth, creates the weather and grows our food, what do we give it back? May I remind the reader that if Darwin was right, then the environment has created us via evolution. The engine of the environment is the Sun. Taking this to a logical conclusion suggests that the Sun is fundamental to our creation.

Jesus was the artist of Chaos. He planted the seeds which will force us to go in the logical direction our history, the theory of evolution, the Bible, many great thinkers, Arthur C. Clarke, NASA, the Russian space achievements, all those people who have been pointing to the stars and striving for them, driven by an elemental desire for new frontiers. The final frontier, as a trekkie would have it.

As we go merrily on chopping down more and more trees, covering the Earth with more and more tarmac and concrete, putting ever more packaging in ever more holes in the ground, increasing our birth rate, (This explains why the Pope doesn't like birth control (He's in a hurry to get us to Heaven)) These processes are creating the conditions which will force us to go, the only one way left to increase our space and survive. It is an outrageous shame that we continually desecrate the natural ecosphere in terms of our expansion. When we have evolved the ability to reach for the stars and by doing so return the Earth to its natural state. When people consider Heaven from a religious perspective, there is difficulty in imagining how it could be space.


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