For what we are about to receive,may we be truly grateful

Religion and socialism

'For what we are about to receive may we be truly grateful' seems to be the sum total of Catholic teaching on work, employment and money and the highways and by ways of capitalism.Not for Catholic priests socialist thinking and the discovery of the laws of industrial production and capitalist accumulation.

Some of us wonder if priests pray that the giving hand may never cease in Ireland because, while willing recipients,priests rarely agitate for better social provision.

On a more sombre tone,their educational endeavours are funded by the British government. 

Who pays the piper,calls the tune?

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The mediaeval Church's approach to revenue raising?

Selling places in heaven.

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No theological grasp of reality or the sordid realities of business and capitalist accumulation.

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Some German Lutheran profundities 

Freilich erhalten ist freilich gegeben counters the German Lutheran trade union organiser, in defence of the brutal  enslavement of the prisoner of German technical exploitation giants such as Mercedes and BMW and others too numerous to mention.

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For absolute moral laws,moral clarity and mental hygiene,stick with Catholicism, those of you in moral crisis and all you waverers.

The German shop steward seeks members and that,too,is a morally healthy purpose but he is a strict judge who 'dumps' on the unwary youngster or foreign worker who does not accept his invitation,often getting him sacked with no hope of future employment.

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Eventually,one way or another,those who do not find their way into a trade union or join an associative organisation,end up on the scrapheap at thirty.

That is what fascists such as policemen and Nazis and counter-insurgency troops want.

 With the deceleration of Western industry's pace came the decline of the only worthwhile institution in Western society that does any good for the working man or marginalised,a trade union.

Endgame for non-unionised workers

The doctor,nurses and social workers eventually step in with the non unionised young man and witless degraded worker. The policing approach explains how welfarism and public health was taken in toe by dictators such as Margaret Thatcher, Douglas Hurd and Roy Tebbit.