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It's a strong value in most of the protestant west.

• rq1 5y ago
  It’s at least as old as Abrahamic religions.
  • pessimizer 5y ago
    I'm not sure that's true. A lot of Abrahamic religion is about prioritizing prayer over work. Over the physical world in general.
    • InitialLastName 5y ago
      The original Abrahamic religion includes a day where you are expressly prohibited from doing anything that even remotely looks like work _every week_.
    • rq1 5y ago
      The earthy suffering to test your faith is all over the texts and their ethics.
  • PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
    Catholicism, however, changed the focus away from judgement based on what you did towards judgement based on what you believe. I don't know too much about Orthodox Christianity, but I have some vague sense that it is even more focused on belief (and piety) than on the notion of good work being the path to heaven.