Originally Posted by editec

Are you familiar with the Puritan concept of "the Elect"?

That smug religious rationalization for "Them what has gets more, and them what hain't, won't" has never left this nation's collective consciousness.

Hell, you can still hear that "elect" philosophy resonating in the jaundiced musings of this board's libertarians and (mostly) angry White Boys who like to imagine that "I made it all on my own without no help from nobody"

What I am suggesting is that American never turned away from its religious core values, because our most cheished religious core value is basically THE apology for exploitive capitalism, and power and control oppression by economic means.

The question really is,

Will America ever turn toward its oft stated in noble words, but seldom manifested in noble actions, core primative Christian values of faith hope and charity?

My answer the above is this...