Canadians’ acceptance and indeed pride in their more egalitarian society contrast with Americans’ acceptance of having an underclass,” wrote Blair P., of Palm Desert, Calif. “It’s an Ayn Rand philosophy.This hints at something that may lie beneath the weird non-biblical theology of 'leadership' that emanates from US conservative protestantism. That is, that there are 'them' and 'us' in US society. Some people born to be an underclass, and the clever ones born to 'lead'. An aristocracy as repugnant as any in Europe and the Roman church (with its fond memories of the Roman Empire).
But the Holy Spirit teaches us differently, and opposes such hierarchy as much as the early church lived out this (in a good sense) anarchism where slaves and owners were together the people of God.
In fact, the NT has little time for the powerful, and much time for the poor, the oppressed and the disadvantaged.
