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Most unnerving for Osteen's critics is the suspicion that they are fighting not just one idiosyncratic misreading of the gospel but something more daunting: the latest lurch in Protestantism's ongoing descent into full-blown American materialism. After the eclipse of Calvinist Puritanism, whose respect for money was counterbalanced by a horror of worldliness, much of Protestantism quietly adopted the idea that "you don't have to give up the American Dream. You just see it as a sign of God's blessing," says Edith Blumhofer, director of Wheaton College's Center for the Study of American Evangelicals. Indeed...
...from North America to Europe to Malaysia, are proponents of radical Islam. As long as radical Muslims target non-Muslims at random, what else should they expect? The targeting that government authorities engage in is designed to prevent bombings and random murder. So, yes, you are being viewed with suspicion. And you will continue to be until radical Muslims stop targeting us, because human life is valuable to us. Brondi Ben-Yosef Ness Ziona, Israel Fidel's Brother in Arms Raul Castro is a ruthless man who is responsible for the death of many Cubans [Aug. 21]. Your portrait describes...
...some respects, Asian philanthropists have to work outside the system. They often get little government encouragement. Significant tax incentives for philanthropy don't exist in the region, and in some countries the rich who do give are as likely to be looked upon with suspicion as gratitude. The relationship is especially fraught in China, where even before the communist era, private giving had to be done in conjunction with the authorities. "Those who acted outside the state, as the Rockefellers did [in the U.S.], could have been seen as potentially dangerous, undermining the power of the government," says Vivienne Shue...
...bakery, it turns out, was merely closed for remodeling. But a general sense of suspicion still hangs in the air, and Tehran probably can't ignore it. To the outside world, the Iranian government projects an image of national resolve as it defies U.N. Security Council demands to stop enriching uranium. But the regime's ability to withstand international pressure may depend on how forgiving Iranians are about the sluggish economy. The rate of inflation is at least 19%, and unemployment has edged up to 15%. At a press conference last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fended off criticism...
...attacks may, however, have had a greater impact on social and political attitudes: They led 39% of respondents to view with suspicion "people who looked like they were of Middle Eastern origin," and they left 68% feeling more patriotic. Five years later, the number of respondents suspicious of people deemed to be from the Middle East had actually grown to 43%. Religious attitudes were mostly unchanged in the wake of the attacks - only 23% reported feeling more religious after the attacks, compared with 76% who answered in the negative - but five years later, 39% say their faith has intensified...