[UA] What Do You Believe?

[Nick Wedig]

>i've seen televangelists who say that their wealth is a reward from god for
>their faith, so a holy plutomancer's certainly plausible. the nasty side of
>course to that sort of thinking is that if wealth is a sign of goodness,
>then poor people "deserve it" as they obviously aren't good enough.

One of the more Puritanical sects that founded our contry had such beliefs... I think it was the Calvinists, but could be completely wrong.  But money was seen as a reward and sign you were going to heaven.

How they explained successful businessmen of other faiths and those who clearly sinned to obtain money, like the mafia, I don't know.

Mr. Teapot
pious but poor

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