Max Weber thought that was peculiarly Protestant.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.