In the past few centuries, personal financial success has - in different times and by various people - been attributed to:
- God’s grace
- Racial superiority
- Hard work
- Good genes
- God’s grace (again)
Poverty has, on the other hand, been blamed on:
- Immorality
- Racial inferiority
- Laziness
- Unfit genes
- Lack of faith in God
It should be glaringly obvious that the lie blaming poverty on the poor has nothing to do with religion, pseudoscience, empirical observation, actual science, or the pseudo-religions of the 21st century. Why else would evolutionists and creationists, believers and unbelievers, converge on the same doctrine? Why would they contradict each other on every other detail, but agree only on venerating the rich and scorning the poor?
Worship of wealth doesn't emerge from pragmatism, theory, science, or religious faith. It comes from the wealthy themselves.
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