Enlightenment thinkers jettisoned the ugly, exclusionary and magical parts of the religion that grew up bearing Christ’s name. Their goal was what Ellul called on the Church to do in Jesus and Marx: “On all levels and in every aspect of our society, the poor are rejected, mistreated, and forced more deeply into their poverty. Christianity should have taken up the cause of the poor; better yet, it should have identified with the poor. Instead, during almost the entire course of its history, the Church has served as a prop of the powerful and has been on the side of exploiters and states”
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