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A Christianity that takes care of the rich, the strong, the governing class, and neglects the poor, and ignorant, and the unrefined, as the antitype of Christ.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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This quote critiques a form of Christianity that favors the wealthy and powerful while neglecting the poor and vulnerable.
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The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.
It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.
If the power of producing effects is the criterion of value, the few will always be the most valuable, and the mass relatively, subordinate, and the weak and lowest will be left helplessly worthless.
And the theory of man is always the starting point of all other theories, systems, and Governments which divide the world.