Hi everyone, it's Sky. Just a quick note before today's show. This is a special podcast that we

co-produced with our friends over at the Love Thy Neighborhood podcast. If you're unfamiliar with

their show, I really recommend going over to Love Thy Neighborhood.org and checking it out. They

have excellent episodes on all kinds of issues and how they intersect with the Christian faith.

This episode, which we worked on together, is about something I wrote about years ago, which I called

the Evangelical Industrial Complex, or the way that economics impacts the way so much of the American

Evangelical Church operates. It's something we've touched on repeatedly on the Holy Post, but I

think this in-depth look at it will help you a lot. So enjoy this special episode of The Holy Post,

and I'll be back next week with Phil and Christian for another episode of Commentary,

an interview and maybe some occasional butt news.

So in January 1961, President Eisenhower gave his final speech to the nation,

and a large part of that speech almost half actually was about war.

We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars

among great nations, three of these involved our own country. So after World War II, America created

a new industry, an arms industry that would permanently manufacture weapons and tanks and

necessary materials for war, which came in handy because we then fought in the Korean war and

then in the Cold War. And Eisenhower recognized the necessity of being able to supply ourselves

for conflict. We have been compelled to create a permanent armament industry, a vast proportion.

But Eisenhower, he also recognized something else that an industry employing thousands of Americans

that was dependent on war, that could have really negative consequences, that this had the potential

to become something that could disrupt the very fabric of our society. We recognize the

imperative need for this development, yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications.

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