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How Christianity Became Anti-Christ

Christianity has largely become anti-Christ, ironically enough, and it did so by following in the footsteps of Judas Iscariot, selling "the body of Christ" for a purse of silver coins, and turning the garden of Eden into a potter's field.  Those purse strings have become the hangman's noose.

If one of the apostles of Christ were transported in time to 21st century America, they would no doubt be at a loss to understand how the religion of a penniless pauper, who died defending the poor from the persecutions of the rich, became a religion for the rich to persecute the poor; from a religion of Lazarus that proclaimed it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, to a religion of the rich man's table, the crumbs of which would "trickle down" to the poor like manna from heaven. 

This worship of an economic religion has transformed Christianity from a religion of salvation through sacrifice, to one that seeks to usher in Christ's return through colonization and the sword;  from the spiritual religion of a monotheist who preached that selflessness was the highest virtue, to an economic religion that extolled the "virtue of selfishness" preached by an avowed atheist; and from one that condemned "the love of money" as "the root of all evil," to one that everywhere worshiped "the profit motive" as the "invisible hand" of God, who's Midas touch transformed the 7 deadly sins into 7 of the most profitable sources of revenue of all time!

We see this in the ever growing number of Christian preachers who proclaim the "prosperity gospel," which amounts to worshiping the golden calf of Goldman Sachs as the one true God, to the fact that so many "Conservative Christians" voted for Donald Trump, a man who has more money than Damien Thorne.  We have gone from rooting for Bob Cratchit and George Bailey, in other words, to celebrating the thrift of Ebeneezer Scrooge and Mr. Potter, and in the process turned America from Bedford Falls into Pottersville.
And we have done it all with the innocence of a Christmas Carol, and the belief that it's a wonderful life, at least for us anyway. But that life must be protected, and therefore denied, to any and all who seem to threaten it. 

A large number Christians and Catholics, for example, not only support a ban on immigration that turns away refugees like so many Inn keepers turned away the "Holy Family," and specifically from those nations the U.S. has treated the same way Herod the Great treated the young male children of Bethlehem (and for essentially the same reason),  but did so by voting for a man who is as anti-Christ as perhaps any president has ever been, while at the same time accusing their own pope of being the "Antichrist" for daring to defend the poor and refusing to cast the first stone at homosexuals by exclaiming "Who am I to judge?"

It is as if those Conservative Christians feel it is their duty to "judge" others, lest they be judged at the end of time as deserving of hell by their "God" for failing to adequately do so. Then again, perhaps this is just an example of history repeating itself, since Christians voting for Trump and opposing the pope is essentially no different than the hue and cry of "free Barabbas" and "Crucify him!"

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