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Dionysus-in-Chief: A Deeper Dive into Trickster
Randy Fertel Randy Fertel

Dionysus-in-Chief: A Deeper Dive into Trickster

“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.” So said Donald J. Trump to his Chief of Staff John Kelly. If reelected, he may not find such generals at the Pentagon. But he has them lined up to staff the Oval Office and much of the federal government, many of them Trump-pardoned convicted felons, a plan laid out in Project 2025.

This time the velociraptors will know how to turn the door handles.

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The War Between The Opportunity Economy and The Prosperity Gospel
Randy Fertel Randy Fertel

The War Between The Opportunity Economy and The Prosperity Gospel

The Prosperity Gospel is a fast-growing theologically conservative movement frequently associated with Pentecostalism, evangelicalism, and charismatic Christianity. Wanna know why evangelicals support Trump? Look to The Prosperity Gospel. Also known as the Health and Wealth Gospel, it promises believers the ability to transcend poverty and/or illness through devotion and positive confession. What Trump and the evangelicals share, their hands perpetually out, is the grift, the hustle.

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