Rick over at
Brutally Honest has an interesting discover... Christians are to blame for the current economic collapse.... you know... the name-it-claim-it brand of Christianity.

And... one doesn't have to look very closely to see the blatant racism in The Atlantic article as it's focus in on Black and Hispanic Christians being sucked into the "prosperity gospel" narrative.

Them dang-blasted Christians are at the root of our economic woes... I kid you not:

Atlantic_2009-12 Let the confusion end: The Atlantic has hit the news stands with a breaking revelation: It’s the Christians! To wit: Did Christianity Cause the Crash?

… recently, critics have begun to argue that the prosperity gospel, echoed in churches across the country, might have played a part in the economic collapse. In 2008, in the online magazine Religion Dispatches, Jonathan Walton, a professor of religious studies at the University of California at Riverside, warned:

narratives were common … Sermons declaring “It’s your season of overflow” supplanted messages ofeconomic sobriety and disinterested sacrifice. Yet as folks were testifying about “what God can do,” little attention was paid to a predatory subprime-mortgage industry, relaxed credit standards, or the dangers of using one’s home equity as an ATM.

In 2004, Walton was researching a book about black televangelists. “I would hear consistent testimonies about how ‘once I was renting and now God let me own my own home,’ or ‘I was afraid of the loan officer, but God directed him to ignore my bad credit and blessed me with my first home,’” he says. “This trope was so common in these churches that I just became immune to it. Only later did I connect it to this disaster.” ....

Of course a liberal congress that shoved banks into making sub-prime mortgages had noting to do with it...

xtnyoda, shalomed