Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Um, what?

If you're talking about soviet-style communism, nah. And that might explain why people who define themselves as communist rarely speak about economic growth, they are in other because of other things.(equality, hippestuff, etc). But then again, the USSR did have a very high growth rate in the years after ww2 - the consensus among histories seems to be that it represented "the height" of mass production, but that it proved completely incapable of adjusting to a changing world, which the market manages to do wonderfully.

If you're talking about China, well... It's a rather undeniable fact that China has had a growth rate of about 10% per year over the last decade or so. Whether that represents "communism" is quite debatable.

But what does that have to do with missionaries blatantly lying abiut raising the dead? The bible is quite clear about lying being a sin you know... And communism of course does not have a ban on lies
Because in the eyes of theoretical economics communism is a blatant enemy of the guiding principles of economic growth. Are you blatantly lying through your teeth? My econ book is pretty clear certain conditions should be present to encourage economic growth you know.

So
A. Maybe they aren't lying.

B. Maybe they think it is a miracle. There have been plenty of verified cases in the west of "miracles" that have happened that are then explained easily using western medicine and very expensive machines. For some reason I doubt that MRI and X ray machines are floating around the bush.

Just because YOU have no faith and don't believe in a God doesn't mean he isn't real. Hell, I felt self obsessed just writing that.