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Is it a career advantage to be a Protestant?

Arran Cameron
I was discussing things online with an American engineer who mentioned that engineers in the US tend not to be particularly religious but it's an advantage to be a Protestant if you want to rise to a senior position or go into management. A general trend exists that in lower to middle ranking positions in industry religion is immaterial but above middle positions there is a correlation between seniority and Protestant commitment. That doesn't mean that chief engineers or corporate bosses are holier than thou or even attend church regularly, or more regularly than junior engineers, but they possess a strong knowledge of the Bible and the tenets of Protestantism. They are also admirers of John Calvin and his ideals.


Does a similar phenomenon exist in Britain?
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    Choose your dictionary or choose your clause, my copy of the OED has "pre-conceived opinion, bias, (against or in favour of), person or thing" as its leading clause. Prejudice might be the condensed group knowledge about something, a useful thing when information is limited and decision time is short. Do you walk on the side of the road with the old men standing outside the building or on the side with the young men gathered around their scooters? Well it might be a gathering of the Lambretta Owners' Club, totally absorbed with a fuel blockage problem, versus a final fling by old lags doing a 'Hatton Garden', to whom a bit of collateral murdering of a potential witness will make little difference to any prison time their billion pound heist might bring, your call.


    As to dogma, well there are some rather nasty 'modern' ones going around at the moment, an example being total rejection of 'prejudice', "Well I'm prejudiced towards this candidate because he looks like me, so I will choose the other one who doesn't". And the reason? Well there is no rational one. Many of these modern dogmas can result in people being 'no-platformed' or losing their jobs so the problem isn't trivial. My MP came up with this once: "I will not tolerate intolerance". The dogmatic application of these modern 'critical thinking' (!!!) mantras often sees them biting their own tails; the harm to real individuals is just collateral damage on the way to their 'Utopian' hell.
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    Choose your dictionary or choose your clause, my copy of the OED has "pre-conceived opinion, bias, (against or in favour of), person or thing" as its leading clause. Prejudice might be the condensed group knowledge about something, a useful thing when information is limited and decision time is short. Do you walk on the side of the road with the old men standing outside the building or on the side with the young men gathered around their scooters? Well it might be a gathering of the Lambretta Owners' Club, totally absorbed with a fuel blockage problem, versus a final fling by old lags doing a 'Hatton Garden', to whom a bit of collateral murdering of a potential witness will make little difference to any prison time their billion pound heist might bring, your call.


    As to dogma, well there are some rather nasty 'modern' ones going around at the moment, an example being total rejection of 'prejudice', "Well I'm prejudiced towards this candidate because he looks like me, so I will choose the other one who doesn't". And the reason? Well there is no rational one. Many of these modern dogmas can result in people being 'no-platformed' or losing their jobs so the problem isn't trivial. My MP came up with this once: "I will not tolerate intolerance". The dogmatic application of these modern 'critical thinking' (!!!) mantras often sees them biting their own tails; the harm to real individuals is just collateral damage on the way to their 'Utopian' hell.
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