How does Shinto (Japanese traditional religion) think about working? Reading “Kojiki,” the oldest religious book in Shinto, we can find that Amaterasuoomikami, the greatest goddess in Shinto, weaved by herself. Shinto gods work by themselv…

Protestantism teaches that people can find the light of God during working. The idea of “Working is very important” makes Protestants hard workers. And it has been giving them industrial and business prosperity. “Die Protestantische Ethik …

Adam and Eve ate an apple which was forbidden to eat by God. So they had to go out of Garden of Eden and work. “To work is the punishment” is the traditional idea in Christianity. Therefore noblemen didn’t have to work.