War, slavery, money, democracy, and Christianity. We seem to have eliminated all of these from history except the one that is now effectively the god of this world.
Christmas is not really about radical economic reform. Close….but not really. If money is the god of your world, then, yes, you can frame Christianity in prosperity gospel terms. Or you can place your faith in whatever context you like. Even Russian Cosmism, with resurrection as the “common task” to be accomplished by humankind, which was the original transhumanist movement at the beginning of the 20th century. Over a century ago. It has only been twenty centuries since Christianity began. Five centuries before Christianity, twenty-five centuries ago, western democracy began. Over twice as long ago, over seventy centuries ago, there were lists of goods and services traded and other accounting records being kept. Money. Before all of this there was prehistoric slavery and war. Slavery was finally abolished in the west with the American Civil War 159 years ago. War as humankind has known it effectively ended 79 years ago with the first nuclear weapon test.
Market Fundamentalism is money as the god of this world with nothing else having any meaning. Not truth or justice or oppression or suffering or the future or the past. Only the present account balance. And that will be the extinction of humankind, the eternal end of all our children’s children if nothing is done to change what has happened.
Those of us who only care about the moment they live in, what they can individually own, they have no worries. The rest of us are collectively damned by them.
Ice on the Moon 