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Monday, February 15, 2016

The Gospel Of Wealth: Russell Conwell And Religion In The Era Of Industrialization

The Gospel of Wealth preached that inequality was good.
"I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich ... The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the community. Let me say here clearly ... ninety-eight out of one hundred of the rich men of America are honest. That is why they are rich. That is why they are trusted with money. That is why they carry on great enterprises and find plenty of people to work with them. It is because they are honest men. ... I sympathize with the poor, but the number of poor who are to be sympathized with is very small. To sympathize with a man whom God has punished for his sins ... is to do wrong. ... Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings...[21]"
Excerpted from Russell Conwell's Wikipedia entry

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