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Re: IT IS! IT IS! IT'S THE INDUSTRIAL RELIGION!



David C. Larkin wrote:
> 
> Jay Hanson <jhanson@ilhawaii.net> wrote:
> 
> >                  THE INDUSTRIAL RELIGION     revised 12/29/95
> >                       by Jay Hanson
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >  In the 16th century, Martin Luther established a new form of
> >Christianity that ultimately came to regard work as the only way
> >to obtain love and approval.  But behind the Christian face arose
> >a new secret religion that actually directs the character of
> >modern society.
> 
> Actually, Martin Luther established a new form of Christianity that
> was based upon faith not works.  The Roman Church at the time was
> teaching that salvation was by works.  Martin Luther rebelled against
> that idea and taught that man is saved by grace through faith, not by
> works lest man could boast of his salvation through his works.
> Although Luther was a predestinarian, perhaps it was Calvin's doctrine
> of predestination that caused men to seek to prove that they were
> included among the saved by their industriousness.  However, you have
> to consider the Enlightenment, and, as Peter Gay, Yale enlightenment
> historian calls it, the rise of paganism, not a "new Christianity"
> that really made it possible for the "industrial religion" to take
> hold.
> 
> David Larkin
> dcl@primenet.com

THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ALT.SUSTAINABLE.AGRICULTURE AND 
PROVIDES NOTHING OTHER THAN "CLUTTER".
PLEASE FOCUS YOUR THRUST TO A SPECIFIC NEWGROUP AND LEAVE THIS NEWSGROUP
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE AN INTEREST IN "SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE".
THANK YOU



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