Posted on 11/13/2009 7:55:16 AM PST by Biggirl
Is Christianity the new whipping kid?
Ok … now they’re just sounding stupid. The media. Specifically, the Atlantic. From the Morning Joe, author Hanna Rosin tries to link the housing crisis with Mega church preaching …
“Just go out and seize that house, the money will come … and this kind of intersected with the housing crisis.”
I have not read the article, not sure I need to, but at least in this interview she quantifies nothing, as in the number of foreclosures vs the number of people who attend these churches. We sort of. Her proof is the location of the highest number of foreclosures coincides with the location of the mega churches.
Make sure you get to the where CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo takes a whack at her theory. I am not going to give it away. It comes at 1:30.
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Ya know, I think a lot of families are going to have interesting conversations around the Thanksgiving table.
Barney Franks, Chris Dodd, and others involved are Christians? Go figure.....
It seems as if “The Atlantic” is at the epicenter of the new madness. I haven’t read anything in it for decades, but it used to be a literary magazine.
What happened? It reads like the Obama Communist Rag.
It truly is puzzling to me how this administration can elevate Islam and do all they can to protect it. Yet Christianity isn’t quite special enough in their minds to protect. In fact, my Catholic Church, and even our Boy Scout troop were audited for the first time in memory this past year. The Catholic church in D.C. is being targeted for not allowing same sex marriages. Here’s an idea, Why doesn’t the government get Islam to grant same sex marriages? How come that has not happened? Huh?
Trust me, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are Christians in name only. They know the Bible about as well as they know the Constitution.
Amen to what you have said. When I had heard President Obama’s speech during the special memorial service a few days ago, at least the bits and pieces of it, he says NO RELIGION condones violence. He forgets that Islam blesses and commands violence against non-Muslims via the Koran and the Hiadiths. In other words talks from both sides of the mouth!
The prosperity gospel is not Christianity. It is a modern-day meld between hedonism and pseudo-Christianity. It teaches that if you are faithful, God will reward you with riches. So to prove that you are faithful, you display wealth to your fellow believers.
She said nothing in this interview that a bible-believing Christian would disagree with.
....However.... the notion that Barney Frank is somehow a “christian” is one that is easily dismissed.
Typical anti-Christian humbug: find a sect that calls itself Christian and misbehaves in some way, then blame Christianity for the misbehavior.
I have no doubt that folks who fell prey to the heretical ‘prosperity Gospel’ teachings that afflict many protestant ‘megachurches’, were more likely than the populace at large to take out unsustainable mortgages—trusting God would provide. (He did: He provided a lesson in not getting attached to the things of this world, which is passing away.)
But as an Orthodox Christian (and I have little doubt that my separated brethren among the Latins, non-Chalcedonians, protestant denominations that still hold to the theological stances of their 16th century founders all agree with me on this) the ‘prosperity Gospel’ is not Christianity, but a departure from Christianity.
And, the notion that the greater likelihood of ‘prosperity Gospel’ heretics to have gotten into unsustainable mortgages is the cause of the banking crisis is risibly absurd.
In the heydey of the housing bubble, I lived next to a Pentecostal who flipped houses.
All of her house conquests were posted on a wall and she gave them spiritual names.
She also was rambling on about karma one day (I recognized it as such, but she was speaking of the concept as being from the Bible).
At any rate, she and her poor family are a few hundred thousand underwater now and her kids had to be pulled out of their Christian school.
Folks, be sure not to overreact against Muslims.
Folks, be sure to overreact against Christians.
Not my family; they are liberal tools, and I make it a point to say little or nothing that would stoke the fires of their ignorance. They are past the dialog phase.
They would rather a person of color break into their house and kill them than fight back and be called a racist. It's that bad.
The only option for me was to move to Texas so I would be free to pursue the goal of being an unemasculated male.
“Her proof is the location of the highest number of foreclosures coincides
with the location of the mega churches.”
If these were mega-churches espousing “the prosperity gospel”,
this is not a totally bankrupt theory. And at the same time, it
surely is a tunnel-vision view...plenty of agnostics and atheists probably
bit on that lovely, but rotten, apple of subprime loans.
After Bill Clinton threatened banks (we won’t let you expand nationally,
we’ll make your life hell) to make home loans to people that were
unlikely to repay...folks steeped in “the prosperity gospel” probably
thought this was the answer to their prayers.
These PC-left infiltrate any decent magazine, use it brand appeal or credibility to push their political agenda. Magazine's original topic, literature, science, or religion, are just rendered as a mere cover to lure gullible readers. They turn all magazines into zombies. Actually they do the same to all humanity/social science program in colleges, too.
These leftie nuts are creating cultural wasteland. They are the plague on mankind.
That is such a sad story. It is really disappointing when a believer buys into the silly notion of "God wants you rich." It is true that God does bless the believing community with a few wealthy, but generous souls. However the danger of believing that God wants ALL Christians to be loaded with money is that those people with whom God has entrusted with the gift of poverty are viewed as somehow "unspiritual" and are relegated to the back seats (metaphorically speaking) of the churches.
Another danger is that in an effort to appear wealthy, and thus "spiritual," many believers go deep into debt in order to afford the clothes, cars, houses that make them appear "blessed."
Rosin's observations of this prosperity gospel are completely valid. And rather than accusing her of criticizing Christianity, we believers would do well to engage in a little self-examination here.
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