Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
What does each make of the resurgence of old-school Calvinism in the American South, in the context of these several threads?
It's not surprising. When the economy is good and you're the hyper-power, Joel Osteen squares with your world view. When everything goes tits up, it's comforting knowing you had no control.

I have always felt American protestants eschew traditional charity championed by the vicar of Rome (in theory) in favor of this bastardization of the just world theory.