re: #148 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

This sort of thing is what confuses the dumb bigots. Their own personal identites are based around what they can accumulate, then show off to others. So they emulate and worship those they consider their econoic betters. The same people maniplate the social bigots among them, making them believe everyone else on earth is coming to take away their precious trinkets.

This is the residual Calvinism in our society: we are still sold on the notion that wealth is an outward sign of inner grace.

Therefore, a CEO who earns 300 times what his employees earn is 300 times more gracious in the eyes of God.