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recently prosperity gospel in evangelical churches too

• rikthevik 1y ago
  Robert Heinlein really nailed it in the 50s with the Fosterite Church of the New Revelation in Stranger in a Strange Land. Totally prescient vision of what Christianity + America was going to produce. https://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/01/15/a_triumph_of_science_fiction_prophecy.html https://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/01/15/a_triu...
• exceptione 1y ago
  Prosperity gospel is one mind-bending example of how you can turn one theme into the opposite. The bad thing is that this has been exported to the African continent too. I vaguely remember that in Asian countries this is big too.
• throw_m239339 1y ago
  They can all converts to Islam. Not much changes since the 7th century. It allows wealth, polygamy and slavery. Now the Jacobin wont dare do some kind of exegesis... it would be deemed blasphemy.
  • StopDisinfo910 1y ago
    “By Allah, it is not poverty that I fear for you, rather what I fear for you is that worldly riches may be given to you as it was given to those who came before you, and you will compete to attain (more of) it with one another as those before competed with one another, and you will be destroyed as they were destroyed.” (Bukhari & Muslim) Feel free to seek out what the sharia has to say about usury (strictly forbidden) and what Islam considers a good way to use wealth (hint: giving to the poor, building orphanages, madrasa and mosques, doing pilgrimages). You will be hard pressed to find a monotheist religion which really likes the rich to be honest. I’m not going to give you about an explanation about all the way Islam has changed and become multiples since the 7th century because that would require a book length essay rather than a paragraph but you get my point.