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Christian boys into sexual sin. He also believed that women were the spiritual inferiors of men. Sinful men can be reformed, but, 'When woman goes wrong... there is little hope of ever reaching her...she can never be worth anything in his world...it were better for her to go immediately to the electric chair.'
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arguing that churches should financially support educational institutions and charities. Brewer wrote that "Our salvation does not depend upon our perfect adherence to the requirements of law. By making our salvation dependent upon our own perfection, we make void the grace of God" (qtd. in Allen
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Brewer was also an anti-feminist, attributing much of
America's 20th-century moral decline to the emancipation of women. He opined that women in positions of authority must 'constantly battle against the tendency to become masculine, coarse, and brazen.' He blamed liberated fallen women for
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Brewer was also a conspiracy theorist, claiming that 'The United States passed completely under the control of Roman
Catholics, Jews and Communists under the reign of Franklin D. Roosevelt.' Weakly defending against his suspicions that he might be a bigot, Brewer wrote, 'Not all Jews are
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Catholics are disloyal to our ideals, but all Communists are un-American and anti-American. The Jews are internationalists, the Catholics are subject to a foreign power, and the Catholic system is contrary to American ideals.' (Autobiography, p. 26 )
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Wallace took Moser's book for "denominational error on the gospel plan of salvation" (qtd. in Hicks) whereas Brewer sought to de-emphasize legalism and human works and to promote a theory of God-given "unmerited favor" (Hughes 186).
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was simply too great to ignore. Brewer therefore balanced his disengagement from the ways of the world with his active concerns for the
Christian identity of American politics. This balance characterized many of the
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Primary Principles: Being the Restoration Story Related and Re-Examined in a Manner Suited for a Textbook. Kansas City, Mo.: Old Paths Book Club, 1949.
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