Sydney Sweeney does an ad for jeans, media throws a hissy fit

[IcaroRibeiro]

Angelus said:

Chrkeller said:

Wrong.  Self sustained pride is part of their culture.  We shouldn't be bashing culture because it doesn't fit within our personal beliefs.

They are not part of the "dumb" group, because they aren't dumb.  Calling people dumb really isn't appropriate and doesn't add to the discussion.

Aren't these people generally pretty devout Christians? Pretty sure pride is a sin, no? THE sin, even.

The funny thing is originaly catholics were against wealth accumulation. All people should had only the basic means to live comfortably lifes. High profits are sinful, and charity is a THEOLOGICAL VIRTUE

Protestantism was widespreaded to overrun many catholic beliefs, in a attempt to give cultural and theological legitimacy to the newly created bourgeoisie. Max Webber described the relationship between capitalist values and protestants (mainly calvinist) values

It's a no-brainer a originally catholic country like Brazil had a religious catholic segment that massively voted for left last century (which is an anachronism since socialism is atheist in nature), while now we have a massive neo pentecostal protestant segment voting for the right