[Ratmagiclady]

Of course.
I have never held the idea that any advanced modern economy can work based only on purely collective or individualistic principles.

I leave such thinking to the Tea Party folks.

You'd think by now that Cold War thinking would be obsolete and we could evaluate things on other terms, eh?

Funny how the original post was about a 'God' and rationality, and it went *right* to existential issues about money and parties, eh?

Maybe that's *exactly* what was constructed?

(Just like with monotheists vs atheists, if you make that artificial dichotomy, you get the 'data' that you framed in the questions. Maybe it's not the 'theism or atheism.' Maybe it's the *structures that frame these questions.* Most religions don't actually let you claim to *override* the 'laws' of physics and then 'believe you're right anyway' when you recurringly fall flat on your back/are shown *consistently wrong even if you manage to always get your way* ....And sane economic systems don't operate on that kind of basis either.)