162. Benjamin Friedman — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
The Michael Shermer Show
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Why Do 81 % of White Evangelicals Voted for Trump?
Many evangelical groups are what are called pre millennialist. This means that they believe the second comin, and therefore the end of the world as we know it will occur. They have this kind of protestant orientation that leads them not to be in favor of social programmes financed by taxes that are not voluntary. So these groups tend to resist the idea of trying to improve the world. You mentio, and this is a long standing thing among american pre millennialists you mentioned before, for example, dwight moody. Moodi was absolutely opposed to any kind of social programmes to try to make the world better. His views were supposed to save souls and get people ready for the return
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