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Paul's ... no-work-no-eat doctrine was directed by him only against the poor. All around him were the rich, virginally innocent of toil, and yet who were gorged to the gullet.

— Bouck White The Call of the Carpenter (1914)

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The Roman Empire was a world-wide confederation of aristocracies for the perpetuation of human servitude.

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Much of the New Testament is the narrative of the coalescence of the native princes with the Roman invader.

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Paul entered upon the path of intellectual sterility when he substituted a delirious mysticism and orgy, for the social enthusiasms which alone should intoxicate the spirit.

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Native oligarchies, living under Rome's protectorate, were moons depending upon their central sun for light.

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Jerusalem was the home of the country's aristocracy. Like the local aristocracies in all the other countries of the world, these had lined up with the Romans — were federated with the invader.

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