The other sacred obsession in the American superpower is security. We guarantee our prosperity by a demonic devotion to the capacity to unleash hyper-violence upon our enemies. It’s why the maintenance of a multi-trillion-dollar war machine appears perfectly reasonable rather than ludicrously insane. You can’t claim to trust in God and spend trillions on weapons. Jesus put it bluntly when he said, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”[8] And centuries before Christ, the psalmist said, “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our
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