The preterite and The Protestant Ethic

[David Morris]

Really any religion.  A natural reaction from those wanting
order/meaning/justice, which really gets down to wanting Mommy or
Daddy to take care of it all.  It's closely related to why so many
religious right folks just can't believe God would let global warming
happen.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds Hindu. It's their karma, man.
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> From a review of a book on homelessness;
>> This emphasis on sickness and sin has roots in the religious approach to poverty. The Protestant moral construction of poverty and transiency influenced the American management of homelessness. Poverty relief seems to have been always constructed as relief from the poor, not for the poor.