In addition to @culpritus@hexbear.net’s explanation, Calvinists believed that you could tell you were going to be saved if you were blessed in this life. So if you started a business and made a lot of money, that’s a sign you had God’s favor. The inverse, of course, is that if you’re poor it’s because you’re a hellbound sinner. To map that to politics, the conclusion is that if you can’t afford eggs it’s because you didn’t vote for the right candidate and don’t deserve anything.
Ah yeah I was gonna say that sounds more like some weird American prosperity theology. Which idk I associate more with Pentecostalism? Or related movements
In addition to @culpritus@hexbear.net’s explanation, Calvinists believed that you could tell you were going to be saved if you were blessed in this life. So if you started a business and made a lot of money, that’s a sign you had God’s favor. The inverse, of course, is that if you’re poor it’s because you’re a hellbound sinner. To map that to politics, the conclusion is that if you can’t afford eggs it’s because you didn’t vote for the right candidate and don’t deserve anything.
I thought election was based on nothing and there was no real way to tell if you were saved?
People didn’t really like that too much so you got these elaborations that eventually evolved into Prosperity Gospel.
Ah yeah I was gonna say that sounds more like some weird American prosperity theology. Which idk I associate more with Pentecostalism? Or related movements
Here’s a good summary: https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/return-to-max-vebers-theory-of-development/
It all got jumbled up a bunch in the US so I might not have the family tree correct but there are common roots.
Okay I’ll have to go over that. I do know Weber and the Protestant work ethic, though I’ve never read it.