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Then again, almost every American religion sooner or later becomes a Gospel of Wealth. (...) Christmas morning is the American Sabbath, and it runs, ideally, all year round. The astonishing thing, (...) is that this gospel of prosperity is the one American faith that will never fail, even when its promises seem ruined. Elsewhere among the Western democracies, the bursting of the last bubble has led to doubts about the system that blows them. Here the people who seem likely to inherit power are those who want to blow still bigger ones, who believe in the bubble even after it has burst, and who hold its perfection as a faith so gleaming and secure and unbreakable that it might once have been written down somewhere by angels, on solid-gold plates. No fim de contas, mais tarde ou mais cedo, quase todas religiões americanas transformam-se num Evangelho da Prosperidade. A manhã de Natal é o Sábado Americano, e idealmente, duraria o ano todo. O surpreendente é que este evangelho da ...