Love as a Weapon / Spiritual Warfare

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Right, but I hope you would agree that this financial control is still better than being in a society more than 1/5 of the population were slaves and were seen as property in the eyes of the law.

Sure, it's better. But at the end of the day we had an opportunity some 150 years ago to put an end to both actual and virtual slavery. We settled on a compromise. And here we are, a century-and-a-half later still patting ourselves on the back for a "job well done." Meanwhile the Federal Reserve rolls out yet another round of "quantitative easing." Meanwhile, people are going to see "Lincoln" at the theaters, reinforcing their obliviousness to other dynamics which were going on during the Civil War. Meanwhile, laws oppressing the fundamental right of women to make their own decisions about what they choose to do with their bodies continue to get passed. And the list goes on...