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Part One: How The Rich Ate Christianity

Behind the Bastards

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Pagan Statism

Pagan statism is the term you will hear a lot. It is the first cultural marxism, m it's directly in that line of lineage to like pagan statismor to where we are now. The specific way fyfield justified christian capitalism was to argue that god had imbued people with certain rights and responsibilities. We had the right to private pok property, the freedom of choice, including the choice to be poor. So if the government were to take private property from the rich and give it to the poor, that is a violation of god's law. He then has a duty to defend against this. You're not being political by being a capitalist church.

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