Historically it has been the opposite. The Austrian economists were atheists and religions have always required their followers to pay taxes to the church and redistribute wealth to the poor. “Oh you’re not one of us? Burn him alive!” I believe there’s a misunderstanding of history among these people. They romanticize the past as if it was a better time. A time when slavery was common and women were property. Why doesn’t religion end these things? Nobody talks about this dirty side.

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Yet many of the Austrians today are Catholic and Christian. Why?

There are ones that are also Jewish. Saifedean is Muslim. Pretty sure there are Hindu and Buddhist Austrian economists too. So which way do we go now? My point was the original ideas were born from atheists because they go against religious teachings that require taxation and redistribution of wealth. They are Austrian economists despite their religious backgrounds not because of it. They are not the norm.

The way of Truth. I’ll pray my daily rosary for you every day this week. God bless.