Letters to the Editor
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It's not just the diversity of religions . . .
. . . its also the internal diversity of the predominant religion, Hinduism, with its plethora of beliefs, that is distinctly suited for modern-day business and technology. Monotheistic centralized religions tend to max out at a certain technological level, and it is surprisingly consistent how technological progress over the last 500 years has tracked with how far a society has been able to move beyond the old hierarchal religion. The Muslim world entered amber 500 years ago; America, by breaking the shackles of Church on State, has broken away from the rest of the world; and Catholic Europe has followed the lead of their Protestant apostates in shunning the Pope in favor of Progress. It is also no coincidence that America is trying to re-establish Church and State just as its empire tips into decline. Russia, sadly, is an also-ran, seemingly burdened by an enduring trust in dictatorship, in which the Orthodox Church is a willing partner. The Japanese and Chinese don't have centralized religions so much as a social over-deference to central authority, which will define their max-out points. In the long run (100+ years) my money's on India, if they can walk the line between glorious diversity and outright chaos.