How Is the Protestant Reformation Relevant to the Question of Why

question 31

Multiple Choice

How is the Protestant Reformation relevant to the question of why Westerners self-enhance so much?

• A)The Christian doctrine that all of God's creations should be respected requires that people respect themselves and come to view themselves in unrealistically positive terms.
• B)Because God loves everybody,it follows that people should also love themselves.
• C)Catholicism emphasizes confession,which involves a recognition of one's faults.The shift to Protestantism led Protestants to avoid thinking about their faults.
• D)People are motivated to believe that they are predestined to go to heaven,and this leads them to interpret their behavior in an unrealistically positive light.
• E)None of these statements are relevant.

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