Most people who appeal to Christianity as a cure for Christian ideals taken to their logical conclusion as they are in the world today are middle-class emotional sadomasochists who want to be superior to labor.

Calvinism defined class according to stages in the human life cycle. Their social ideal was rendered mythical by capitalist relations, yet they still blamed the victim for not "achieving" autonomy, in almost the exact same language that conservatives use now.

What is actually going on with your smug invidious ageism is that people who have *property* become conservative, a cognitive bias known as the endowment effect.