Pimps of false hope and salvation by materialism July 12, 2009
Posted by tkcollier in Religion.Tags: Christianity, Evangelism, Religion
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Prosperity’s slap-happy belief system evolved from a spiritual imperative to accumulate wealth found in the end-times view known as postmillennialism. It holds that God promises 1,000 years of Christian dominion will precede his return; thus, wealth accumulation is a tool of evangelism, and a materialism arms race is the harbinger of Armageddon (a good thing in the Christian view). Today’s Prosperity movement has shed postmillennialism’s eschatological literal-mindedness, recasting it at times in rosier phraseology, like optimillennialism, best said with Osteen’s aw-shucks smile, but not abandoning the groundwork it laid for the unencumbered pursuit of success of “Prosperity Theology”
via How will Prosperity Gospel ride out the hard economic times? – By Clint Rainey – Slate Magazine.
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