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” The rich and powerful of course treated their good fortune as a reward for -- and tangible evidence of -- virtue in past and present lives. ” This is very si
by jacobush 6y ago
” The rich and powerful of course treated their good fortune as a reward for -- and tangible evidence of -- virtue in past and present lives. ”
This is very similar to how “the Family” (of the congressional prayer breakfast) reasons. Except in their it’s because they are “the chosen”, not that they had past lives.
- arethuza 6y agoSounds like "Just-world" thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
- jacobush 6y agoClose, but not quite, IMHO. The people in the "Family" wants the rest of believe in the Just World Hypothesis, so we toil. They themselves are not bound by such considerations. Whatever they do, they are chosen, by God. That is why they have power. They are the representatives of God on Earth. It's not that they can do no wrong - they can. But if they do, they are still the chosen.