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Jesus damned the rich: it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Jesus told the rich man to sell all his possessions and give the money to the poor. Trump and his evangelical followers confuse Jesus with Paul, who invented the gospel of prosperity, telling his flock that if they gave to his collection, God would enrich them both financially and spiritually. Pauls resurrected Christ often contradicted the teachings of Jesus. Like Trump and his followers, Christianity has opted for Pauls teachings, and he is revered almost as much as his resurrected Christ.\n\nNew Testament scholars are people of faithblind faith. We include a case study of one of the worlds most famous scholars, who touts his lofty principles. Yet on Pauls behalf, he repeatedly sacrifices both his principles and his reason. For example, he asserts that Paul was always an observant Jew. But Paul ate pork from swine sacrificed to pagan gods, and called the Bible a curse that was worth dung. Paul violated the most fundamental tenets of Judaism, not to mention the Apostolic Decree. Yet this scholar is far less faith-based than his colleagues.\n\nWhen facts conflict with faith, professional Christians either convert them or consign them to purgatory. For example, Paul repeatedly complained of his poverty. But when he reached Rome, he purchased housing that only the elite could afford. This fact is beyond dispute, so it is suppressed. Paul said he slaved night and day to support himself. But artisans like Paul earned a subsistence wage, and could not possibly have earned enough to pay for Pauls costly mission. This basic fact of economic life is almost always suppressed. Some well-known scholars, like Bruce Chilton, even assert that tent-makers like Paul got rich from their labors. 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