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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH - Monday, 12 March 2012 [View all]Tansy_Gold
(17,857 posts)religious principles.
Oh, it's not in the Constitution, of course, and there's that ol' separation of church and state, but the Calvinist Protestant institutions were already well ingrained in the cultural fabric. Simple things like swearing on a Bible. . . .
And the Calvinists believed in predestination, that it was "God's will" and should be accepted -- whatever it was, and usually it was something that benefited the upper echelon Calvinists.
Central to that, of course, was the belief that wealth was a sign of "God's" favor: If God wanted you to be wealthy, well, go out and grab as much as you can and He'll let you have it. If he doesn't want you to be wealthy, he'll take it away from you.
God loves Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein; you can tell that because they're rich.
God does not love Allen Stanford.
That's all there is to it.
TG, no mud