"Economic conservatives," Kevin Phillips notes, "often warm to sects in which a preoccupation with personal salvation turns lower-income persons away… - Robert S. McElvaine

"Economic conservatives," Kevin Phillips notes, "often warm to sects in which a preoccupation with personal salvation turns lower-income persons away from distracting visions of economic and social reform."

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About Robert S. McElvaine

Robert S. McElvaine (born January 24, 1947) is professor of history and an author.

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Much as the Nazis created an “Aryan Jesus” because the real Semitic Jesus was not to their liking, the Lite Christians have created an American Jesus or a Muscular Jesus or a Consumerist Jesus because they don’t like the real nonviolent/turn-the-other-cheek/love-your-enemy/meek-shall-inherit-the-earth/easier-for-a-camel-to-go-through-the-eye-of-a-needle-than-for-a-rich-man-to-enter-heaven/drive-the-moneychangers-from-the-temple Jesus. They simply re-create Jesus in their own image.

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