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Paul, God's CEO?

By The Daily Dish
Mar 16 2009, 7:25 AM ET

From Robert Wright's article on God and globalization:

It may sound implausible that a doctrine of true, pure, boundless love could emerge from the strategic imperatives of entrepreneurship, even when the enterprise is a religion. And, actually, it is implausible. What emerged with early Christianity isn’t really what many Christians like to believe: a God of “universal” love. The core appeal of the early church, remember, was that “brotherly love” was a form of familial love. And familial love is discerningit is directed inwardly, not outwardly; toward kin, not toward everyone.



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