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?
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.
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.
Folks, be sure not to overreact against Muslims.
Folks, be sure to overreact against Christians.
“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.
I am shaking my head at the pathetic writing of Jim Vicevich, it is so absurd it almost totally overshadows the message.