For far too long, most white Christian institutions in America have found a particularly lucrative market niche by offering what is mostly — as Marx claimed — an anesthetizing opiate, or in words more familiar to us, an overprescribed anti-depressant for the pain of existing under capitalism and bloodthirsty self-interest. What is heaven if not one more T. Rowe Price commercial featuring boomers captaining schooners in the middle of the workday? And what is #blessed if not one more Waco dream kitchen prayerfully wrapped in shiplap?
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