“Economic conservatives,” Kevin Phillips notes, “often warm to sects in which a preoccupation with personal salvation turns lower-income persons away from distracting visions of economic and social reform.”

— Robert S. McElvaine Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America (2008)

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