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Originally posted by pimplink
I strongly think that the use of visual markers like income is a hold over from America's Protestant beginnings. These were the same people that believed that if one was rich...one was divinely 'blessed' If one was poor, one had moral failings.
Same psychosocial mechanism in play re assigning moral blame for being 'fat'
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I can understand dogmatic fundimentalists assigning a state of moral turpritude to obese people... they run afowl of that whole 'gluttony' sin thang.
Though, I find it highly ironic that the same people would beatify the rich when the accumulation of wealth is both one of those deadly sins (greed) AND has the Gen-u-wine Jesus Seal o' Doom(tm) with his words: "Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." (Matthew 19:24)
The massive dichotomies between ideals and actions like this are what make me recoil when most people start talking about religion.