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I recently watched a short clip of Family Feud with Steve Harvey.

The question he was asking contestants to answer was “What event changed Steve Harvey’s look on life?” Or something like that.

The answers included getting married, with the answer card including, once it was turned over, the qualifier, “(for the third time).” (Harvey was not amused.)

Another was shaving his head.

But one that struck me as particularly interesting was an answer that a contestant offered that was not up on the board. That contestant answered “the decision to become one with God.”

While this answer was not up on the board it was revealing nevertheless, not only because of who the “God” is that Steve Harvey was said to have become “One with,” but more importantly, by what name Steve Harvey calls that “God.”

The God that Steve Harvey “became one with,” along with everyone from Anthony Robbins to Joel Osteen to Donald Trump, is actually the “invisible hand” of Capitalism itself, while the name he gives that “invisible hand” is Jesus, at least for as long as it’s favorable lights shines down upon him.

He just has to be sure to not let those lights burn out for failure to pay the devil his due.

Because Christ was only as good as Dr. Jekyll, as Capitalism is as rapacious as Mr. Hyde.
And the only difference between most Christians and most atheists is that, while the former are just as addicted to their theism as the latter are to the golden calf of their economics, they are both addicted to worshipping the very same thing, only they do so by different names.

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