Why I am not a Friend (Christian, Buddhist, Atheist...)

[Terrance]

How come that the Puritans and the other Sects accepted slavery so
easily, 
   having suffered & fled from all the injustice and religious
intolerance in 
   Europe?



Read Max Weber "The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism" and
you know why... 


kwp

What does Weber say about Slavery in America? 

Anything? 

I think he says that with one exception (Catholics) peoples that were
persecuted for their religion, he gives these examples,  Quakers,
Huguenots, Nonconformists, Jews, were driven with peculiar force into
economic activity. Catholics were not. Unlike Protestants, Catholics
show no major evidence of economic development in the times when they
were persecuted or only tolerated. 

This is the most important point in the "The Protestant Ethics and the
Spirit of Capitalism." That's not my opinion, it's Weber's. 

Why is this such an important point? Because this difference in how
Catholics reacted economically or rather failed to act and how
Protestants reacted economically when they were persecuted or only
tolerated is what drives Weber to discover some permanent intrinsic
character in the religious beliefs (**the Protestant Ethic**), and not
in the temporary external historico-political situations, that drove the
Protestants to Capitalism. 

"The Protestant prefers to eat well, the Catholic, only to sleep
undisturbed." 

		--Weber