Against the picture painted by the ideologist, who sees 'oppression' everywhere, Minogue points out that we, all of us, enjoy times of unprecedented comfort and ease, but not because of any systematic plot to advance one section of the population at the expense of another. What we have is owed to the unplanned, unpredictable and free workings of markets

It is because other people are sacred, individually, that we have duties to them, and because I am sacred, individually, that I have responsibilities to myself and others. In this sense religion is not essentially social in a worldly sense, and should not be seen as attempting to produce a political settlement on earth