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>One part of ‘American life’ is the intense Puritan/Calvinist streak that holds that suffering is necessary for redemption: using mere science to make people fe
by gozur88 10y ago
>One part of ‘American life’ is the intense Puritan/Calvinist streak that holds that suffering is necessary for redemption: using mere science to make people feel better is evil.
I've been living in the US for five decades, and I've never, ever run into someone who articulated that belief.
- dwaltrip 10y agoThe Bible tells that after the Fall, when Adam and Eve ate the apple in the garden of Eden, man is now destined to forever work for survival (such as tilling the earth for food) as part of our punishment. This has large implications for social policy, universal basic income, etc. It isn't usually directly stated, but I have heard it a few times. To be fair, I'm not cetain how influential this idea is in overall Christian thought.