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Francis Schaeffer was documenting this 50 years ago.

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You also of course had works like the seminal:

“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” - Max Weber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism

published more than a hundred years ago.

It used to be on the reading list for any college graduate at least within the social sciences or economics..