Yes, scientism and puritanism are the modern substitutes and counterfeits for Grace and a completely integrated ethics. They block an ascension to Grace as concept and as experience. I admire the Paul’s for their steadfast anti-militaristic stance, their libertarian viewpoints on various issues and their otherwise efficient thinking about the economy and government, but as you say Wally, they just cannot reconcile efficiency and distribution to the individual. They will probably still require the guy who wakes up the guy who has been waiting 8 hours to press the off button on the robot that has created a thousand cars….to remain on the job….because “There ain’t no free lunch!”  Its a fixed idea, a computational psychosis. And the pitiful thing is that this mental mistake ends up aligning them with the very monopoly…that they THINK they are opposing in the FED. Their economic and monetary analysis only goes to the structural level and does not penetrate to the level of the idea, the philosophy, the paradigm where monetary grace the free gift is the obvious countervailing idea to debt only in consumer finance and will effect the transformation of a modern technologically advanced economy and so stabilize it. Ironies abound.