From: John Medaille  >all of economics is religious, in that all   
economics terminates in terms that cannot be   
resolved from within economics itself.<  
  
  
The ethical foundations of economics are not really religious if ethical propostions can
be derived using reason.
  
Religous economics would be such as the literature and history of thought on applying
economics to religious law, such as on charging interest.
  
> When one   
speaks of a "free market," one is already in the   
middle of a theological discussion on the nature   
of freedom;<  
  
Why call it religious rather than philosophical?  
Philosophy uses reason rather than religious tradition, revelation, or authority.  
  
Many economists have combined ethics and economics, as distinct from religion,  
and the invokation of religion by some could easily filter out the religion to  
leave only the ethics.  
  
Fred Foldvary