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@SuperSnekFriend @Nou @SuperLutheran oh good then, so it wasn't the spirit of Protestantism. As I thought, most sociologist can't be trusted because they're viewing human from materialistic manner.
If I want to research more about the true spirit of Calvinism where should I start?
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@MK2boogaloo @SuperLutheran Jim's @Nou semi-joke answer is good. You will be going straight to the deep end if you start with Calvin's magnum opus, The Institutes of the Christian Religion. You will want to get a study guide for that as well.
You can also look up the Westminster and London Baptist Confessions, their context, and the men who created them, which widely influenced Calvinist thought in the Anglo-sphere.
For a lighter intro, there's very little better than the late, great Dr. R.C. Sproul (God rest his soul!):
youtube.com/watch?v=T5R9JmJTtOM&list=PL30acyfm60fXICLFyvTlD36Bh-ypGcrXe&index=1
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@MK2boogaloo @SuperLutheran Gotcha. I was referring to the concept. I didn't know there was a book with that title.
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@Nou @SuperLutheran yeah there is, ask @SuperSnekFriend if you want more info.
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@MK2boogaloo @Nou @SuperLutheran The phrase and concept comes from the German gatheist and "father of sociology", that useless academic field, Max Weber.
I have not read the whole The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which is Weber's main tome that promoted this idea that Calvinism through the Puritans promoted this hyper-focus on earthly work even at one's own expense of health and happiness. :jahy_pout:
The parts I have read of Weber's work seems to suggest that he does what other gaytheist and humanist do when interpreting theologians, let alone Scripture, that they do it rather poorly. He takes Luther and Calvin out of context and tries to force this asceticism on them they did not hold personally nor one can extract from their major works. And then there's the whole connection of material well-being and one's standing with God, even one's personal salvation, which the two giants and the Puritans would have been horrified if they knew what Weber claimed of their theologies to be saying. :jahy_headache:
A quick look between the American North and South quickly disperses this silliness as the same supposed "Work Ethic", as Weber defined it, did not permeate the Calvinist Southern Presbyterians and Baptists as it supposedly did the Puritan Yankees.
tl;dr There is no supernatual "Protestant Work Ethic". It's gay and a gaytheist concept made by the gaytheist founder of the faggy academic field of sociology.
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@MK2boogaloo @SuperLutheran Are Super's workouts a Calvinist book?
I... I'm genuinely not sure how to answer that friend.
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@Nou @SuperLutheran aren't you talking about Protestant Work Ethic earlier?
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@SuperLutheran >Shoulda poasted it but it skipped my mind unfortunately.
So much for that Protestant "work" ethic. Smh...
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@Nou @SuperLutheran it's a Calvinist book no?
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Yesterday's EVENING WORKOUT was literally just stretchin' for 40 minutes.
Shoulda poasted it but it skipped my mind unfortunately.
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