Upton Sinclair, ed. (18781968). The Cry for Justice: An
Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. The
Annexing of Christianity (From The Call of the Carpenter) By
Bouck White (American Congregational clergyman, 18741951;
imprisoned for protesting in a church against the Colorado
massacres) THE ANNEXING process was started by a Roman citizen
named Saul. Formerly a Jew, he deserted his nationality and with
it his former name, and called himself thereafter Paul. Paul was
undeniably sincere. He believed that in reinterpreting the
Christian faith so as to make it acceptable to the Romans he was
doing that faith a service. His make-up was imperial rather than
democratic. Both by birth and training he was unfitted to enter
into the working-class consciousness of Galileans. He was in
culture a Hellenist, in religion a Pharisee, in citizenship a
Roman. From the first strain, Hellenism, he received a bias in
the direction of philosophy rather than economics; from the
second, his Pharisaism, he received a bia