[lbo-talk] RE: Xmas message

[John Thornton]

>On Saturday, December 27, 2003, at 10:11  PM, Bill Bartlett wrote:
>>They had to create their own religion - Protestantism - to compete. This 
>>new religion is well adapted to the early accumulative stages of 
>>capitalism, but is quite unsuitable for modern economic conditions.

Is this what Protestantism is about down there? In the US Protestants snap 
up books like "The Prayer of Jabez" that tell them it is not only right to 
pray for material gain but material gain is a reward from god. If you're 
wealthy god loves you, generally left unsaid but understood is that if 
you're poor, well god probably doesn't like you too much. Seems suitable 
enough in these times to me.

John Thornton