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Columbus’ writings show the conquest and colonization of the Western Hemisphere were inseparable from efforts to spread Christianity. Catholic Iberians, English Anglicans and Puritans, and French Huguenots all latched onto that same idea.

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“When you read his manifesto, he hates Christians,” Trump told Fox News. “He hates Christians, a hatred.” But that’s not what the manifesto says. If anything, it appears that Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus Christ might have provoked Allen.

Today, while the Trump administration continues to unveil new attacks on what the Bible calls, “the least of these,” it’s important to remember the prophetic tradition of faith leaders of the past as well as the heroic moral organizing happening now.

"Consider this exchange, you who can think of it; The King becomes a subject, The Lord appears as a vassal and is for the human race – o sweet word in every ear – born for our comfort and salvation."

In this sick reality of ours, poverty is clearly anything but a marginal experience — and yet, as in the last election, it’s repeatedly minimalized and dismissed in our nation’s politics.

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