&gt; Besides, the hits were driven by politics, religion is just a facade.<p>Politics, markets and religion are greatly overlapping concepts!<p>For example, an anthropologist points out that markets and major religions formed at the same time, and are frenemies. <i>&quot;Nowadays, the work of destroying such ways of life is still often done by missionaries–representatives of those very world religions that originally sprang up in reaction to the market long ago. Missionaries, of course, are out to save souls; but they rarely interpret this to mean their role is simply to teach people to accept God and be more altruistic. Almost invariably, they end up trying to convince people to be more selfish and more altruistic at the same time. On the one hand, they set out to teach the “natives” proper work discipline, and try to get them involved with buying and rolling products on the market, so as to better their material lot. At the same time, they explain to them that ultimately, material things are unimportant, and lecture on the value of the higher things, such as selfless devotion to others.&quot;</i> (Originally from Harper’s Magazine, reprinted here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libcom.org&#x2F;library&#x2F;army-altruists-alienated-right-do-good" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libcom.org&#x2F;library&#x2F;army-altruists-alienated-right-do...</a>)<p>Note these inversions:<p>- ISIS is Muslim. Sharia law economics is free market. (Adam Smith apparently cribbed many of his most famous arguments from medieval Persan free market theorists. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Islamic_economics#Markets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Islamic_economics#Markets</a>)<p>- The US is capitalist. It&#x27;s among the most fundamentalist religious. (About 40% believe Earth was created less than 10k years ago.)<p>So-called &quot;economics&quot; and religion are duals. Very hard for those enmeshed in them to see.