Check out Hanna Rosin’s “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?“ It’s an interesting article in The Atlantic about the so-called “prosperity gospel” and how it’s focus on material gain and financial risk-taking may have led to America’s current economic troubles.
This reminds me of the game The Sims. If you want your Sim to be less depressed about him meaningless life confined inside your computer, buy him a new flat screen TV. Consumerism is a quick fix for our emotional needs. I don’t think Christianity is to blame for this, but they certainly take advantage of it.
Wow, how dishonest an article can you write? She may have well picked a snake charming sect of Christianity to write about. No church I have ever attended, now or in the past, preaches this “prosperity gospel” nonsense.
There are not enough “prosperity gospel” believers out there to affect a local farmer’s market, much less the housing market.