Big, Beautiful and Brutal: How the New Bill Codifies the War on the Poor
Friday, 4 July 2025 () Nancy O'Brien Simpson The Gospel of Wealth: America’s Real Religion Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the United States was never ideologically a Christian nation. While Christian moralism was woven into the rhetoric of the founders and echoed through the centuries in public discourse, the lived faith of Jesus—centered on the poor, the meek, the outcast—is glaringly absent from our national ethos. Christ spoke of camels and needles and the perils of riches. America, on the other hand, worships success.
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