“When the Lord's Prayer is prayed with insight it becomes a petition for the abolition of capitalism and the supplanting of the existing economic order with a society which is consistent with the religion of Jesus.”

— Kirby Page

Individualism and Socialism (1933)

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American clergyman 1890–1957

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