The unholy alliance of capitalism, modern American Libertarianism and Protestant religion. The link is individualism, as British historian R. H. Tawney explored in Religion and the Rise of Capitalism.
It's a struggle for the "soul of the nation" between individual freedom and social justice based on different readings of the Bible from opposing ideological perspectives. The battle still rages.
It's a struggle for the "soul of the nation" between individual freedom and social justice based on different readings of the Bible from opposing ideological perspectives. The battle still rages.
How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin M. Kruse, professor of history at Princeton and the author, most recently, of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, from which this article has been adapted
h/t Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism
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