I'm almost like a crazy evangelical.

Max Weber thought that was peculiarly Protestant.

He's evangelical about it. He brings his cousins in now.

This attitude, the Protestant work ethic, still influences Americans today.

But it so happened he was speaking in a Protestant Church.

And today we have a kind of evangelical pessimism all around us.

Northern Ireland, Catholic, Protestant, children's choir and ended with Bono in Dublin

So, I spent time with evangelical Christians, and Hasidic Jews, and the Amish.

We know this because today the work ethic is no longer a Protestant, Western phenomenon.

I would not have believed, as the evangelical community has understood the desperate situation of global warming.

We saw scientific revolutions, the Protestant Reformation, constitutional democracies possible where they had not been possible before.

You can buy cuecas baratas, designer underwear that isn't really manufactured by a designer, and even pirated evangelical mixtapes.

Instead, what we got was Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Protestant Reformation, and, you know, the Thirty Years' War.

When the early Protestant immigrants came to this country, they brought the idea that work was the way to God and heaven.

From 1859, Protestant missionaries from America started to arrive, and the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches also became actively involved in missionary work.

And we thought, sustainability has grown into being this sort of neo Protestant idea that it has to hurt in order to do good.

Because if you really care about income inequality, you might want to talk to some evangelical Christian groups that are working on ways to promote marriage.

When you are brought up as a Catholic, you think that if you ever set foot in a Protestant Church, you'll be struck dead at the threshold.

But I'll tell you what happened to me in Ireland during the Troubles, 10 years ago, and I was working with some Catholic and Protestant kids on conflict resolution.

But it was interesting because I had some very preconceived notions about, for instance, evangelical Christianity, and I found that it's such a wide and varied movement that it is difficult to make generalizations about it.

Pietro was suspicious of formal art training, art history training, because he feared that it filled people up with jargon, and then they just classified things rather than looking at them, and he wanted to remind us that all art was once contemporary, and he wanted us to use our eyes, and he was especially evangelical about this message, because he was losing his sight.