Academic Capitalists

Anyone who has spent any time in higher education recognizes the socialist, and sometimes even communist, tendencies of a large portion of the faculty. Yet at the same time, a large proportion of these faculty members have no problems giving grades, which they see as indicators of ability and effort.

So, as long as they are in charge of distributing the rewards, they believe in capitalism, but as soon as the rewards fall out of their personal control, capitalism suddenly becomes evil.

Secular Humanism

Has anyone else noticed that the periods of the greatest stability and societal happiness (the Golden Age of Greece, the Height of Rome, the Renaissance, Victorian England, post war America) tend to come about during those brief periods when a secular humanist perspective is allowed to run freely over the moral foundation that was previously established by a religion?

Brief, because secular humanists refuse to acknowledge the good that the religious foundation (and therefore the collective wisdom of human history) provides and the religious view everyone but themselves as the mouthpiece of Satan.