Subject: Re: File the F*cking motion"
And most of these republicans pretend to be Christians...
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They are Christians.

They have a different idea of what it means to be Christian than you're thinking of.


I think this is basically a reflection of what had been called the Protestant Ethic. Achieving financial success was regarded as reflecting God's blessing and identifying you as having achieved salvation. And conversely, the poor and those with just modest means were regarded as unworthy of God's seal of approval.....unworthy of salvation. They were considered to be fatally and permanently flawed as human beings, and worthy only of scorn.