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Lumifer comments on Open thread, Sept. 1-7, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Well, all of Christianity is certainly committed to the just-world idea "in the long term" -- see the Last Judgement.
Yes, but the section I was responding to was this:
And in ordinary Christianity, there isn't much 'competing to show off your success', since it will show up later. In Prosperity Theology there is much more emphasis on miraculous financial rewards in the present day.
Ah, I see. By the way, didn't Prosperity Theology have a predecessor somewhere around Reformation? I have a vague memory that some offshoot of Calvinism was explicitly treating wealth and worldly success as signs of God's favor and so were an indicator of being predestined to be saved...
I'm not familiar with it, nor is it mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but it's a plausible story.