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That said, it is a popular lie to suggest that Puritans believed that financial success demonstrated that a person was elect, whereas financial troubles proved the opposite. Despite what your textbook suggests in the last sentence or two of the quote, that is nonsense, too.

A lie with a history. It's essentially a corrupted version of Max Weber's thesis in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.


Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.