[Modernman]

Other people, the pagans of India, the Buddhists of East Asia and the Daoists and Confucians learn Trade and Capitalism by example of the successful Christian and Jewish merchants and factors.

Hmm.... I don't know about capitalism, as that's a pretty modern concept, but Hindus, Confucians, Daoists etc. have known about trade for a very long time. After all, the Silk Road from China to the Levant has existed for most of recorded human history, and certainly before the existence of Christianity. Marco Polo was trying to break into the highly profitable Eastern market, but the West had very little to offer in the way of trade in those days.

[ThanhPhero]

Yes they have traded as have all societies. But they had not the economic concepts that come from the Judaeo Christian base. Their business could get very rich but not particularly widespread. They were based on family connections and the ruler's interests. The ruler controlled trade. Modern trade springing from Judaeo Christian Europe grew rapidly because it was based on trust and rules that pertained across family and ethnic lines and did not depend on the beneficience of rulers. Europens did not depend on rulers or family connections. The Europeans certainly made use of such relationships but much trade was carried on in spite of rulers. The Asians were limited to even steven trade. The Jews developed letters of credit and could trade in receipts and bills of lading and work with discounting ond other manifestations of a system of trust.

[ThanhPhero]

Atheists and those falsely posing as religious (and they are legion) worship their own minds, desires and intellect. They themselves are the supreme authority

What the West had was traders who could trade on their own authority in a superior system that the Asians could not match. That is why the Europeans became the world traders, not the resources they started with but the mindset they traded with.