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...thinking. Adherents will reap rewards if they prove their faith to God by contributing heavily to their churches, remaining mentally and verbally upbeat and concentrating on divine promises of worldly bounty supposedly strewn throughout the Bible. Critics call it a thinly disguised pastor-enrichment scam. Other experts, like Walton, note that for all its faults, the theology can empower people who have been taught to see themselves as financially or even culturally useless to feel they are "worthy of having more and doing more and being more." In some cases the philosophy has matured with its practitioners, encouraging good financial...
...recent publicly posted testimony by a congregant at the Brownsville Assembly of God, near Pensacola, Fla., seems to confirm his intuition. Brownsville is not even a classic Prosperity congregation - it relies more on the anointing of its pastors than on Scriptural promises of God. But the believer's note to his minister illustrates how magical thinking can prevail even after the mortgage blade has dropped. "Last Sunday," it read, "You said if anyone needed a miracle to come up. So I did. I was receiving foreclosure papers, so I asked you to anoint a picture of my home...
...Oakland powers-that-be took note, and Haviland found himself among about 10 Vancouver teammates with an invitation to the Arizona Instructional League...
...Herald staffer left her a note in the photo lab that said "N--r go home." The paper's editors were so apologetic that they offered Ifill...
...Washington, adding that a recent statement by President George W. Bush has raised concerns over whether some provisions of critical importance to India - particularly those pertaining to fuel assurances - are legally binding or are merely "political commitments." Says Mansingh, "We will have to wait to see the Presidential note when President Bush signs the bill...