Word: prothero
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...doing good, hard-core Prosperity doctrine, still extremely popular in the hands of pastors like Atlanta megachurch minister Creflo Dollar, reads those Bible verses as a spiritual contract. God will pay back a multiple (often a hundredfold) on offerings by the congregation. "Poor people like Prosperity," says Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University. "They hear it as aspirant. They hear, 'You can make it too--buy a car, get a job, get wealthy.' It can function as a form of liberation." It can also be exploitative. Outsiders, observes Milmon Harrison of the University of California...
...many positive things resulting from the war in Iraq? In various parts of the nation, life now is vastly improved over what it was like under Saddam Hussein. You go out of your way to publish negative photographs and editorials. Your articles are so slanted, it's ridiculous. David Prothero Irwin, Pennsylvania...
...many positive things resulting from the war in Iraq? In various parts of the nation, life now is vastly improved over what it was like under Saddam Hussein. You go out of your way to publish negative photographs and editorials. Your articles are so slanted, it's ridiculous. David Prothero Irwin, Pennsylvania, U.S. Your account of the alleged massacre and ensuing cover-up at Haditha was the latest appalling example of the plague this war has become. Like the Vietnam War, it seems to taint the reputation and humanity of all it touches and belies what's left...
...DAVID PROTHERO Irwin...
...18th century, when "Americans tended not to linger on the agony of Jesus. It was more 'friend of my soul, he walks with me and talks with me.'" That phenomenon, which has only accelerated, afflicts conservative Christianity as much as those in mainline churches, says American Jesus author Prothero. "If you asked Evangelicals in a Gallup poll if they had given up on the hard theology, they would say no. But in terms of day-to-day experience, atonement is not a lived reality...