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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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