The Humanities has great importance for the socio-economic future of the Western world -

For it is from Murdoch Uni' where I obtained data, taking groups since 1995 in what is known as the Changing Global Political Econonomy which changes every year to discuss the ever changing economic situation.

As I have saved the subject matter over the years, it is so interesting to re-read the early warnings concerning the return of the free-market, along expecially with the dangers of too much deregulation, as even Adam Smith warned about many many years before.

"Rights, cultural democracy and capitalism are all aspects of the great project of spiritual freedom. The origins of this project lie in the development of Christianity..."

That would be why the first democracies were established in the heavily religious Catholic nations of Spain and Italy, right, and not in the secular environments of, say, enlightenment France and Britain? And obviously this makes the separation of church and state a really bad idea, so the upstart United States can't expect to have much cultural influence or produce much in the way of capitalism...

Democracy needs Christianity like a fish needs a bicycle.

The first democracies (if that means the democracies which were established without emulating earlier examples) were established in even more superstitious times and places: Athens and Iceland.

Neither was Christian at the time, of course, but you would not argue they were secular.