• For Christ's sake

"The Family is an international network of evangelical elites, in government, military and business, dating back 70 years, organised around this one central idea which was that Christianity for 2000 years got it wrong," Sharlet says."Christianity, in theory anyway, was about the poor, the weak, the suffering, the down and out; and [yet] the idea of the founder of this network was that God was more interested in those whom he called the up and out - the wealthy, the powerful, those with status. [They rely] on this very literal reading of a verse from Paul's letter to the Romans: 'The powers that be are ordained of God'. They take that very literally. If you have power that's because God wants you to have power."