448. American Dominion

Yeah, you know, I get into this in end-time politics.

Evangelicalism in the 1800s and early 1900s was very significant in the development of the movement called the social gospel.

And this is what ultimately FDR turned into what people have called the welfare state.

So social security, public education.

Workers' rights.

All of these things are products of the social gospel.

And this is where we start to see the agitation of the fundamentalist movement.

It was very much against the social gospel from its beginnings.

We

see this with Paul Wills organizing going back to the 1950s.

He's preaching against the social gospel in every way.

And so I think a lot of what we're looking at with conservative evangelicalism, they can have all kinds of different theological creeds, but still be united over opposition to the social gospel.

And that's because it's very much an economic movement.

You know, this is

not that I say that in the beginning of end time politics, fundamentalism was always an economic movement that wears theological clothes.

Um, Yeah.

And it's just like in the 70s and 80s.

And even today, you can't be an evangelical or at least the right kind of evangelical unless you're opposed to abortion.

You know, there's that litmus test, and it's like the bigger litmus test of whether you're the right kind of evangelical is if you are opposed to the social gospel.

We might not call it the social gospel.

We might call it the welfare state.

We might call it communism.

We might call it socialism.

Call it whatever you want.

Call it DEI.

Yeah, you know, I get into this in end-time politics.

Evangelicalism in the 1800s and early 1900s was very significant in the development of the movement called the social gospel.

And this is what ultimately FDR turned into what people have called the welfare state.

So social security, public education.

Workers' rights.

All of these things are products of the social gospel.

And this is where we start to see the agitation of the fundamentalist movement.

It was very much against the social gospel from its beginnings.

We

see this with Paul Wills organizing going back to the 1950s.

He's preaching against the social gospel in every way.

And so I think a lot of what we're looking at with conservative evangelicalism, they can have all kinds of different theological creeds, but still be united over opposition to the social gospel.

And that's because it's very much an economic movement.

You know, this is

not that I say that in the beginning of end time politics, fundamentalism was always an economic movement that wears theological clothes.

Um, Yeah.

And it's just like in the 70s and 80s.

And even today, you can't be an evangelical or at least the right kind of evangelical unless you're opposed to abortion.

You know, there's that litmus test, and it's like the bigger litmus test of whether you're the right kind of evangelical is if you are opposed to the social gospel.

We might not call it the social gospel.

We might call it the welfare state.

We might call it communism.

We might call it socialism.

Call it whatever you want.

Call it DEI.