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Of course they also simultaneously believe that:
1 - it's a very difficult life to lead - being forgiven for all of your sins literally just for asking, rather than having to earn it from the people you wronged, is hard. Having to actually earn forgiveness from the community around you, and the people you hurt, is easy! So they are much stronger than the godless heathens around them.
2 - the knowledge that they are God's chosen who get to go to heaven - that they are the favoured children of an impossibly powerful deity - makes them humble. Because they believe that a being so much greater than them exists. The godless heathens don't, so they think they are the best in the universe and are arrogant.
It's an impressive feat of cognitive dissonance but it does help explain how they're convinced by neoliberal capitalism.