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simont ([personal profile] simont) wrote in [personal profile] ghoti_mhic_uait 2014-10-22 10:26 am (UTC)

I find it hard to imagine how you tie up rapacious capitalism and the gospel.

It's always dangerous to speculate about the thought processes of people very unlike oneself, but I can't help wondering if American religious-right types at least might tend to deal with this by having a strong Cold War type instinct to Avoid Thinking Commie Thoughts, which could insulate the two belief-clusters from ever quite coming into contact with each other – any question of the form 'really, how are these two things remotely compatible?' gets squelched early, before you start to think it might need actually answering.

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