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Yesterday's Behind the Bastards was on How Christianity Got Eaten By Capitalism which fills in some of the colors on why Christians don't go for Beatitudes or camels and needles.
During the Great Depression preachers and minister we left-wing like Marx (typically)
Enter James W. Fifield Jr. ( on Wikipedia ) co-founder of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, in substantial debt in 1937 for having built a massive chapel (essentially the first megachurch). He found he could make a killing appealing to rich people and telling them by his interpretation they can shit on the poor all they want. Fifield became The Apostle to Millionaires.
Part two of the BtB rolls out tomorrow.