Nathan Apffel
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
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And so what the government saw was religious organizations are helping in the spot that capitalism leaves behind.
And so what I mean by that is as capitalism raises the net worth or GDP of a nation, there is a group that's always left behind.
And so that is where Christianity thrives with the needy and the helpless and the elderly and the orphaned and the widowed and the marginalized.
And so at the time in 1913, churches, your life was pretty small.
Your world was about an 80 mile radius, right?
You wouldn't be going past 80 miles because we didn't have cars really, and we didn't have technology.
And so your local community was your world.
So we wanted to better our local community.
I wanted to better the park down the street because I wanted all our kids to be safe.
So it's this idea of social capital.
So we wanted to build social capital in our local communities.
And the government, the US government, rightly so, said, hey, let's carve out this sector for organizations that are helping in their local communities that we can't as a federal government and state government go do.
Awesome.
And so there was about 12,000 organizations at the time that got this exemption.
And so what did they do?
They worked in their local communities.
They had food pantries and homeless shelters and they did beautiful things.
Well, as technology develops, we have radio, TV, internet.
Now these nonprofits start looking out because there's more money to be had outside the local community.
right so this is no one person's fault but as you start looking and you're saying hey there's 5 000 people in my town well with radio we can reach 50 000. with tv we can reach 500 000. with the internet we can reach you know 5 billion so instead of your vision as a non-profit being about the local community now it goes global and now it becomes how much money can we scrape off the table and our mission and our marketing angle is these these helpless people
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