but likely you're pcusa so it doesn't count.
Church of Scotland, actually. The auld kirk.
Ah well. That is different. There is some chance you don't worship the god of chance. But there is no great chance that you don't highly esteem Adam Smith. And there's the rub.
from the
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About Stewart’s intellectual biography of Adam Smith, Gould has this to say: “[Darwin] imbibed the basic belief of the Scottish economists that theories of overall social structure must begin by analyzing the unconstrained actions of individuals … The theory of natural selection is a creative transfer to biology of Adam Smith’s basic argument for a rational economy: the balance and order of nature does not arise from a higher, external (divine) control, or from the existence of laws operating directly upon the whole, but from struggle among individuals for their own benefits.”
Now this is all right as far as it goes. It just doesn't go very far. Well, ok. Its half right. And Jesus was, after all, fully a Man.