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You are painting Christianity, even just modern American christianity, with a very very broad brush, but there is a connection between prosperity theology and p
by pasquinelli 10y ago
You are painting Christianity, even just modern American christianity, with a very very broad brush, but there is a connection between prosperity theology and predatory capitalism. But I think it's mostly that prosperity theology is the expression of predatory capitalism in the domain of religion.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> But I think it's mostly that prosperity theology is the expression of predatory capitalism in the domain of religion. Prosperity theology (in its original form of the Calvinist visible elect) is older than capitalism, so if anything I'd reverse those: capitalism (which is inherently predatory, as noted in the initial critiques in which the system was named) is an expression of prosperity theology in the domain of economics.
- Arizhel 10y agoYeah, I wish I could edit that post to specify American Christianity, and exclude Catholicism.