Brad S. Gregory
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“Conflating prosperity with providence and opting for acquisitiveness as the lesser of two evils until greed was rechristened as benign self-interest, modern Christians have in effect been engaged in a centuries-long attempt to prove Jesus wrong. “You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” Yes we can. Or so most participants in world history’s most insatiably consumerist society, the United States, continue implicitly to claim through their actions, considering the number of self-identified American Christians in the early twenty-first century who seem bent on acquiring ever more and better stuff, including those who espouse the “prosperity Gospel” within American religious hyperpluralism.190 Tocqueville’s summary description of Americans in the early 1830s has proven a prophetic understatement: “people want to do as well as possible in this world without giving up their chances in the next.”
― The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
― The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
“Not only have past processes made us what we are-"modern" or "postmodern" selves, rather than "medieval" or "early modern" selves-but by explaining them we both account for and implicitly justify present realities.”
― The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
― The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
“general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right,”
― The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
― The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
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