🇨🇳 Public humiliation of a man whose views did not align with those of the Chinese Communist Party during the cultural revolution of the 1960s. The cultural revolution sought to purge all capitalist and traditionalist elements from Chinese society and resulted in the persecution and deaths of millions.

This week I'm looking at the evidence for the idea of the Protestant work ethic. I found a very robust correlation between the percentage of a nation that was Protestant and their GDP/capita (as the graph depicts). However, I think the sociologists' explanation falls short and instead supply my own. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the theory and the empirical evidence. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-protestantism

Imagine believing this. lol Next week's blog post will be addressing CRT as inspired by the unfortunate events of last week in regards to the Southern Baptist Convention.

Liberals within many Christian denominations (the SBC in particular) have attempted to bring CRT into the church while stipulating that, because they're only using it as an "analytical tool," it's completely harmless. This is deceit pure and simple, and we need to be on guard against it. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory

Hopefully Hungary leaves the EU as well. I figured other nations would start leaving after the UK did.

Calvinism has been one of the most potent social and political forces in Western history. In this article, I explore why, by look at Calvinism's relationship to nationalities, constitutions, and sphere sovereignty through the lens provided by Abraham Kuyper's classic Lectures on Calvinism. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/calvinism-and-politics

How best to describe Calvinism's relationship to art? Perhaps, "It's complicated!" In all seriousness, I would argue the relationship between the two is generally misunderstood and too often underappreciated. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/calvinism-and-art

Christian use of images in worship has long been controversial, including in the early church. Contrary to what many believe, however, the early church tended to reject images, and they didn't become common facets of worship till the 4th century. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/the-history-of-images-in-the-church

15 July 1099: Capture of Jerusalem by Crusader forces during the First Crusade. Illustration from a 14th century manunoscript.

The handful of disagreements between Catholics and Protestants on justification can be distilled into several questions: the nature of justification (substantive v. forensic), the action of justification (infusion v. imputation), the instrument of justification (faith v. baptism). https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/justification-key-questions

Many Roman Catholics believe that Luther invented the doctrine of sola fide and coined the term in his translation of the Bible into German. However, nothing could be further from the truth. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/did-luther-invent-sola-fide

By almost any metric, the United States government has been growing quite rapidly ever since its formation. Not only has this trend accelerated dramatically over the past few decades, it’s hit warp speed with the covid control. This has prompted many Christians to critically contemplate exactly where the limits of the civil magistrate end. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/when-can-christians-disobey-the-government