Protestant Reformation and Our Grammar of needing to work to have value

The Protestant Reformation is fundamental to our understanding of ourselves/nWe still carry the grammar of the Protestant Reformation in our heads despite being products of secularization/nThere is a hunger for unearned positive regard as a mark of uniqueness/nThe scientific revolution, corporate capitalism, and the Protestant Reformation are mutually reinforcing and causing tremendous anxiety/nIndividualism is a central theme