Church of transnational capital, it’s God and his commandments
| AN OUTSIDERS VIEW |
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| Ken Fuller |
Reading many Filipino commentaries on economic matters, one gets the impression that their authors consider the various elements of the status quo to be unalterable features of the economic environment, just as typhoons and thunder are features of the natural environment, or, alternatively, that they must have been decreed by a source as authoritative as that which handed Moses the stone tablets on Mount Sinai. And this, as we will see, is not far from the truth.
If there is one clear distinction between the prevailing economic creed and the Decalogue, it is that the latter was written by and for Israelites. The god Yahweh was a national god, initially one of several. The Decalogue was, therefore, addressed to Israelites (initially known as Hebrews) — although not all of them. Consider the following.
“But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor any stranger that is within thy gates.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120117com5.html
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