[Alex Murphy]

....the prosperity gospel is strikingly similar to a pyramid scheme in at least three ways.

1. It’s based on the deceptive success of the guy at the top.... The people who fund the prosperity pastor’s success, in other words, are the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Of course it works for him. He’s at the top.

2. It’s a lie told to desperate people....“When you live in poverty” the missionary with Borthwick said, “you don't want to feel loved. You want God's power to make you prosper. . . . [T]hey have been taught [that] money is the way to release the power.”

3. It feeds our idolatry....We want the money, health, and esteem they offer—and we want it quick. We want to believe it can all happen with the flick of a “faith” switch in our brains. We want it desperately. I’ll never forget the time I challenged my friend’s health-and-wealth notions with the life of the apostle Paul. She replied, “Well, Paul didn’t have enough faith.”

That is a great picture!

[Gamecock]

Maybe I need to include that in a collection of YBPDLN pics.

[Sans-Culotte]

I drive past Lakewood every day. I’d like to see that picture as the background of their sign.

[Organic Panic]

It’s the LORD’S Rolls Royce!!!

If only people read the bible they wouldn’t fall for this nonsense.

[LS]

I will post this one time, will not discuss it, will not respond to posts, so I don't care what you say.

This guy is full of horsecrap. I know what I believe, I know what works, faith works.