Boy howdy, do I like Against the Protestant Gnostics. From page 202: "In the United States, this parallel movement of spiritual individualism and economic individualism was aided by the popular understanding of Darwinism and its 'survival of the fittest' philosophy. 'This anti-social teaching,' [Martin] Marty explains, 'individualized the old Puritan-evangelical ideas about "election," ideas which were previously seen in the context of a covenanted community, and used them to justify personal economic competition.'"
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