[UA] What Do You Believe?

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Cassady Toles
>

> On 15 Jun 2001 12:48:07 -0000, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
>
>   How they explained successful businessmen of other faiths and those who
> clearly sinned to obtain money, like the mafia, I don't know.
>
> At the time there was no mafia.  There were ruling landowners in
> Italy, but
> not in the US.  This was also pre-industrial revolution in the US, where
> there was no nobility.  Thus, the only ways to have money in the US was to
> be a merchant or a laborer and work a lot.  Calvinists thought
> working a lot
> was inherently good.  The idea of backhanded merchants cheating investors,
> etc. doesn't really become possible in the modern sense for over
> 100 years.
>
> Modern Calvinists feel slightly differently, but it's a long story.

...but not modern Amway workers, some of whom have dusted off this
particular brand of Calvinism in response to Bible Belt resistance to the
American Way.


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