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Capitalism is often interpreted as a religion. However, if religion is understood in terms of Religare, as something that binds, then capitalism is anything but a religion because it lacks any force to assemble, to create community…And what is essential to religion is contemplative rest, but this is the antithesis of Capital. Capital never rests. It is in its nature that it must always work and continue moving. To the extent that they lose the capacity for contemplative rest, humans conform to Capital. The distinction between the sacred and profane is also an essential characteristic of religion. The sacred unites those things and values that give validity to a community. The formation of community is its essential trait. Capitalism, by contrast, erases the distinction between the sacred and the profane by totalizing the profane. It makes everything comparable to everything else and thus equal to everything else. Capitalism brings forth
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Capitalism is often interpreted as a religion.
However, if religion is understood in terms of Religare, as
something that binds, then capitalism is anything but a
religion because it lacks any force to assemble, to create
community…And what is essential to religion is
contemplative rest, but this is the antithesis of Capital.
Capital never rests. It is in its nature that it must always
work and continue moving. To the extent that they lose the
capacity for contemplative rest, humans conform to Capital.
The distinction between the sacred and profane is also an
essential characteristic of religion. The sacred unites
Toward An Adventist Theology Of Health – XII - The Theological Shift
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May 13, 2021
As Roy Porter reminds us in his book Flesh in the Age of Reason, [1] the success of modern medicine lies in the fact that it has made the body predictable. Therefore, at the base, there is a strong process of bodily objectification. This has, on the one hand, has taken away its mystery and, on the other hand, made it governable through the introduction of refined mechanisms of measurement, experimentation and control of vital processes. The resulting paradox is a body that is hyper-performing but remains dominated. Or to put it differently, we have a body that, in order to hide the fact that it is controlled, presents itself as aesthetically beautiful and medically fit.