The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, with apologies to Max Weber

This story from The Washington Post and reprinted by their partners at MSNBC strikes me as a signal that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the evangelical revolution in the Republican party: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10874194/ . And perhaps it is the ultimate reversal in Max Weber's theory about how Calvinist Protestantism (now found largely in Evangelical circles) accidentally laid the groundwork for capitalism. Capitalism now appears to be accidentally undoing some of the very descendants of these Calvinists. Ralph Reed is in trouble. If his squeaky clean image is tarnished in the Abramoff scandal, then I can't see how the notoriously dirty Tom DeLay can escape. The major blindness in evangelicalism today--money, greed, corporate exploitation all baptized with the gospel of health, wealth, and success--may be the fatal trap that snares the Puritans. It appears to be more lethal than their sexual hypocrisy.