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Gee almost like Christianity is a bad model for how to run a society.
I mean, yes, but the founding idiots were mostly Unitarian, transcendentalist, deists, or some mixture of contradictory beliefs. And these beliefs were not even a reason or justification as to why they did anything. James Madison is especially clear that his goals are to protect the landed class.
I think organized Christianity was still the water they were all swimming in, though, and it doesn't seem coincidental that it was popular with both the late Roman empire and the kings of the middle ages as an ideological scaffold for a stratified class system.
Acts 4:32-35
Idk this sounds pretty cool to me
Yeah, but then there's passages about how to treat your slaves.
Almost as if there's no consistency in a book originally passed down through word of mouth and then elaborated on by a couple dozen authors.
And then they all lived happily ever after. The End.
Boy I sure am glad that the Church never changed from this communist model!
Just 20 centuries of nonstop good vibes and sharing!