re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Calvinism lives on in America. Those who are rich are the elect, their wealth is an outward expression of inner grace.
It has been used to turn poor people on other even poorer people since the 18th century.
It is, simply put, the most heinous & insidious heresy of protestantism and continues to manifest itself in different ways like the whole prosperity gospel evil.