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[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Not "hundreds of years", don't let them make you think it's old. The idea that "God wants you to be wealthy and healthy and being poor and sick is because you displeased God" only really goes back to the start of the last century, and gained a lot of traction with the Jesus People type revivals in the 70s, when faith healing became a serious mainstream thing in the US. The larger portion of devout US Christians were largely fairly apolitical to left-leaning until about the 50s.

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I think it does have some roots from back in the puritan settler days where hard work was a virtue.

this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
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