Blame The Economy On Christians Too
Posted by Jeffrey K Radt ("JRed") | Posted in America In Prophecy , Economic Signs , How Close Are We? , Moral Decline , New World Order , One World Government , Religious Persecution , Spiritual Deception , Synchro-Pop , Truth From The Fringe | Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009
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The other day 'Ultraguy' from New Wineskins had a powerful comment on the Psalm 109 commentary.
There was one excerpt in particular that stood out to me:
Now, regarding 'pot-shots' at Christians and a set-up for persecution, try THIS...Walking through an airport last week, my eye caught this month's (December's) Atlantic Monthly. On the cover, a giant wood cross with a real-estate sign hanging off of it (blasphemous enough), under the banner headline: "Did Christianity Cause the Crash". Once the recession gets worse (and it will), angry, resentful people whose god (Mammon) has gone away, will look for scape-goats. We're already being offered up to play that role.
The timing couldn't be more perfect (or a more telling harbinger of what's to come relatively soon). Right on the heels of all the pieces published here that are related to the 'We-Should-Hate-The-Christians-And-Blame-Them-For-All-Our-Problems Meme' I just read another financial column that suggested a similar link between Christianity and the sorry state of the national economy!
However, whereas the previous article suggests that we Christians are the reason for the current mortgage crisis, this next article takes a different approach.
Apparently, Satan is the great motivator. At least, that's the conclusion reached by the author of the piece since that's the actual headline of the news report.
Unreal.
Thanks for the plug, JRed. Re. that last article: welcome to my city.
Around here, God must be put in a little understandable box or he's fake and there are no mysteries a Harvard or MIT grad feels he or she can't plumb. Or, in the words of a friend I ran into today, Christianity is (for her, a liberal church attendee) a "cultural thing" not THE way, THE truth and THE life.
I found this quote telling:
"...religion has a measurable effect on developing economies - and the most powerful influence relates to how strongly people believe in hell.
That hell could matter to economic growth might seem surprising, since you can’t prove it exists..."
First off, did it ever occur to the writers that belief in hell might correlate with economic growth because God tends to bless those who take his word seriously, including the thing his Son warned about more than heaven while he was with us here?
Secondly, do they even realize that when they say "prove", they've cleverly (and perhaps unwittingly) snuck in and asserted the superiority/omniscience of an absolutist, secular framework for what constitutes proof that far exceeds what is used in courts of lwa? Or that they've dismissed out of hand (with no proof) the countless archaeological, scientific, historical, psychological, sociological, cryptographic, prophetic and other proofs for the veracity of scripture?
And thirdly, does anyone believe that these writers don't use the word "hell" from time to time when referring to, say, their boss, or a traffic jam, or their marriage, or our lovely Boston weather or some other aspect of their lives they're unable to resolve? Do they realize they're already headed there and tasting it NOW?
Has anyone been watching what is going on with "The Manhattan Declaration"?
First glance it sounded OK- Finally the Christians are uniting & taking a stand ! - But like many things- after you spend some time researching all of the implications & aspects involved it's not looking so great.
In fact it kind of looks like "a slight of hand" play from- you know who. Even some of the elect are falling for this unity proposition when presented in a different light & manner.
I found this to be a good commentary to consider:Our Regretful Inability to Become a Signatory
Re. Late Night Lisa's comment:
The real church (universal) will end either in small groups of committed believers in homes, where it began, or as a global monolith. I would put my money on the former.