The Three C's?

I saw on the History channel that there was once a preacher, who ventured to a poor African town said, that the three C's (Christianity, commerce, and civilization) would elevate the condition of the people.

Christianity, may be, as long as the religion does not erase the culture and traditions that make the people special. Consider the tragic lost of the wisdom and wealth of knowledge of the Mayan civilization; they conceived one of the most accurate calenders ever attained by mankind.

Civilization, again depends. In the Maker's anger, man has to earn his food by the sweat of his face (Genesis 3: 19). Even Gerry Spence spoke of the "curse" of work woven within the architecture of man's life. There is only one species on earth that is "civilized", man and look at how aggressive we are towards the environment and each other in terms of our feeding upon earth's resources. We took lands upon lands for our cultivation and development, and in the process, drive "animals' out of their homes. The list goes on and on, and on. We discover E=mc [2], and pharmacology, but who has to pay for our advancement.... just look at the white mouse in the labs of drugs company, and one will get some idea. If Siddhartha considers the tramping upon an ant as cruelty, imagine what happened to all the animals when US and other counties did when they test their atom bombs, nuclear bombs, precision weaponry, etcetera.

When we build roads, animals' habitat get segregated, and many of them get killed by cars as they tried to cross to the other side. So what if a mother deer got killed, or a young cougar got hit by a speeding car, right.

Commerce, again, is a two edge sword. A very sharp sword. Capitalism though something enjoyed by the successful and the wealthy and the superwealthy, is more a curse to billions than a blessing; the well being of the planet aside.

The poor across the globe needs the three C's? May be we the in the "developed" nations need the three C's more than they, the "poor". I am quite sure the planet didn't need it in the first place.