I would suggest that the rich is poor in technology and science because they are rich in spiritual anodines... I want to feel my pain until I can root out its cause...Endurance of injustice is an invitation to greater injustice, and I do not want to go there... So long as I am not demoralized I have a chance, and for me an eastern philosophy or faith would be the same a accepting demoralization...

Just as in Ancient Rome, our religion supports the political power structure and the economy... Why do the Catholics so hate the communists???The early Christians were clearly communists; but the church has long since abandoned that form... The communists in their ideology are clearly more moral than the church, so the church that holds itself as the ultimate moral judge naturally feels threatened...If people can behave morally without the church then who needs the church??? So you are right that it is blind faith, which is the worst sort of faith to base ones society upon...Every form of relationship requires faith and trust...If the facts were known and the faith and trust we hold in our forms of government, and religion, and economy were suddenly ripped away and the situation in all its vulgarity was revealed, the whole mess would not last a day...It is this aspect which most adds violence to revolution... Change need not be violent... It is when people try to correct centuries of hurt in a single generation that violence become inevitable...