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Yes, very good post. I really like your research abilities with the computer. What is Nature’s God? It is the laws of God. Nature’s God was what Jesus’ religion was all about. The Jefferson bible has the deity god cut out, removed by Jefferson. The easiest way to understand Jesus’ religion is the word “god” meant “knowledge”, not deity. Jesus and Mary taught the religion of Knowledge. They basically taught the known wisdom. A lot of teachings came from the Greeks and Buddhas. This wisdom was how to live and think using the laws of the Nature’s God. Or simply put, to be a good person and get along with your neighbors.
It seems to me that the two most successful religions ever in the history of mankind were capitalists’ in structure and operation. Both successful religions, the RA and the reincarnation religions taught that greed was bad and evil. RA controlled the knowledge and is no longer around. The reincarnation is still around and shares its knowledge. But both religions had the problem that greed could control the government. And that’s what Jesus’ system all about, using the religious governing system setup by the Greeks with one more control added. Jesus was a politician as well as a priest. And he was basically trying to set up the system he was going to use to govern. If it wasn’t for ruling change in Rome, Jesus would have governed the people of Israel.
Jefferson and the founding fathers were looking at the do the same sort of thing. And like Jesus, wanted the best system for governing the people. They both backed religion. And they both wanted a religion with no deity. Paul never understood Jesus’ goals. Took Jesus’ teachings and used them, they became so popular in the northern territories that they were only second in size to the religion of The Learned. Problem was that Paul believed in deities and the old Jewish religions and never understood the Greek religions or thinking. The Learned religion is were Mary move their religion of Knowledge to. This Jesus stuff we are talking about was all destroyed by the Church and erased from history three-hundred years later. And it is just now being pieced back together. So, there is very little data on the subject.
Point being, the successful socialist countries are still using the backbone of the America system. And are basically around because of people’s dislike for greed. But greed goes wherever people go. And I think this socialist movement in America is fueling the Christian Movement. The Christians see the socialists as greedy. Wanting to steal from the labor of the poor. Which it true. That is how a caste system works. And no doubt, socialism is a caste system. The capitalist system in America right now is suffering from giving in to a growing caste system. And that is the driving force of the political battles going on today and the reason Trump is in office.