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What Would Jesus Do?
(lemmy.world)
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Nothing was surrendered. The right fought for decades to get it. Go back a century and a huge chunk of pastors either describe themselves as socialist or lean towards it. The first attempts at the Prosperity Gospel were laughed off as being obviously self serving. It wasn't until the 70s that they found a formula that worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyHd6wEC4IE
Never been too keen on BtB - the "Great Man" fallacy cuts both ways. Maybe I'll give it a try.
I despise the "prosperity" grifters as much as anyone - but let's not pretend that establishment religion was any kind of left before they arrived on the scene. The Catholic church was literally the face of right-wing ideology for centuries (and still has the hidden gold reserves to prove it), and WASP ideology is still one of the driving forces behind white supremacism to this day.
I know what you're trying to say - this is the part where establishment Christianity went explicitly capitalist - but the fact that establishment Christianity was perfectly servile to the status quo before made this inevitable no matter how many people laughed it off initially.