Reasons for the financial collapse: subprime mortgages, over-speculation, bad financial instruments, and of course, Jesus. Wait. What? The feature article in The Atlantic this month is Hanna Rosin’s “Did Christianity Cause the Crisis”. It makes a case that the prosperity gospel was another factor in our economic meltdown. In particular, she suggests its message encouraged people to agree [...]
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