A SPIRITUAL TRAGEDY

Rev. Anthony Carter's blog "Non Nobis Domine" has an interesting entry called "Faith and Foreclosures", in which Rev. Carter makes a observation that the increasing foreclosure rates in the Atlanta-area (at last researched is 49% higher than a year ago) could be linked to the wide amount of mega churches and popular preachers that are in the city. Now Rev. Carter does not definitely state that the two are linked, but, in reading the article, it does make you wonder whether the impacts of the Dollars, Longs, and Bynums (to name a few) and the prosperity messages they promote to their congregations has any connection, given that Atlanta has the most megachurches per capita in the nation.

Equally, after reading this article, I wonder what are the foreclosure numbers here in South Florida and in other places (such as Dallas and Houston, TX) that also house very popular megachurches. If Rev. Carter has discovered a truth here, then this is a spiritual tragedy at its essence. It's bad enough to preach this false gospel and swindel people out of the little money they have promising them material "blessings" from God. But to cause children to be out on the street, men and women to live in their cars, and cause the homeless rate to skyrocket--all in the name of Jesus--is distasteful in the highest degree.

If you want to read Rev. Carter's blog entry, click on the blog name above and tell me what you think!!!