Human psychology is what creates and drives markets. Markets are only as rational as their human participants, which is to say, barely at all most of the time.
Changing ourselves is not only a religious duty, it is our duty to Humanity and the World, to our political life and our economic lives. Religion is the ONE area of man's spirit that may peaceably extend its influence over all other facets of mankind.
But it can not do so in its present form.
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But the only downside at the present is the extreme lack of tolerance between religions, and also some of the extreme inequality between men and women (especially in Islam). If those factors were eliminated or vastly improved, I think religion would certainly be a path into wrenching the world back on the mystical path to the Elysium, rather than the goblin and spider filled wilderness it currently walks, ever in fear.
It's ironic that religions seems to be unideal at present, because they're supposed to adhere to peace and tolerance, and abhor all injustice. Extreme Irony. Religion is unideal at present...we need it to swing the other way from Yin to Yang where religions are again ideal and where all people try and be saintlike.
Ben
There are always downsides: change one, another pops up.
Present religions have created prisons of rituals in that the new symbol that is created by my interaction with God is immediately subsumed back into the pre-existing philosophy and legal canons of the orthodoxy.
Mysticism is much too individualistic for religions. Most religions only acclaim dead mystics... they canonize them, they build them shrines, and so on because they are now dead and they can be "digested" back into the communal orthodoxy.
A Place has to be created for the individual religious experience in the major religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. They pretty much have closed the doors on it in this present age.
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