The preterite and The Protestant Ethic

[Ian Livingston]

Yes, now we're speaking the same language.


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:14 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure.  Selfishness with a pure conscience.  It's also the reason the
> right wants to deny global warming.
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But, no, I really believe it is to do with economics. Religion is just
>> the spoonful of sugar to help the bad medicine go down. It's an
>> opiate, not a basis of social reckoning. Economics drives society,
>> religion soothes people for the actions taken in their name.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "liber enim librum aperit."
>>
>



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"liber enim librum aperit."