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Mar 2022
1h 16m

Part One: How The Rich Ate Christianity

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We sit down with Dan and Jordan from knowledge fight to discuss the plot to make Christianity capitalist.

FOOTNOTES:

  1. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/sep-keyword/garet-garrett/
  2. https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america
  3. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/corporate-america-invented-religious-right-conservative-roosevelt-princeton-117030/
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=a74LEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT112&lpg=PT112&dq=rights+wing+the+preamble+of+the+declaration+of+independence+espouse&source=bl&ots=gNYWDAheSo&sig=ACfU3U3l-yr508beoh_e9FeK_pZbioyrqg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpzPP7r_T1AhVpJTQIHf6DCBsQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=rights%20wing%20the%20preamble%20of%20the%20declaration%20of%20independence%20espouse&f=false
  5.  https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/13361/Celestini_Carmen.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
  6. https://sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40488759
  7. https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/24/archives/rev-dr-fifield-exminister-here-plymouth-church-pastor-in-brooklyn.html
  8.  https://sojo.net/articles/when-american-christians-were-socialists
  9. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/2297/D_Bowler_Catherine_a_201005.pdf
  10. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/new-thought-roots-prosperity-gospel/
  11. https://newrepublic.com/article/121564/gods-and-profits-how-capitalism-and-christianity-aligned-america

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