{"id":368,"date":"2010-02-04T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/wp\/?p=368"},"modified":"2010-02-04T19:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:00:56","slug":"did-christianity-cause-the-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/02\/04\/did-christianity-cause-the-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Christianity Cause the Crash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Your Best Life Now, which has fueled a TV show that Osteen claims is now seen in 200 million homes worldwide, opens with a story of a man on vacation in Hawaii. He was \u201ca good man who had achieved a modest measure of success, but he was coasting along, thinking that he\u2019d already reached his limits.\u201d While sightseeing, he and his wife admired a gorgeous house on a hill. \u201cI can\u2019t even imagine living in a place like that,\u201d he said. For this bit of self-deprecation and modesty, Osteen pities the man: \u201cHis own thoughts and attitudes,\u201d he writes, \u201cwere condemning him to mediocrity,\u201d or what is known in the gospel as the \u201cdefeated life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200912\/rosin-prosperity-gospel\">Did Christianity Cause the Crash? &#8211; The Atlantic (December 2009)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Best Life Now, which has fueled a TV show that Osteen claims is now seen in 200 million homes worldwide, opens with a story of a man on vacation in Hawaii. He was \u201ca good man who had achieved a modest measure of success, but he was coasting along, thinking that he\u2019d already reached &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/02\/04\/did-christianity-cause-the-crash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did Christianity Cause the Crash?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,33,34,39,76,89,103,136],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-clergy","tag-communication","tag-community","tag-crap","tag-growth","tag-injustice","tag-megachurches","tag-seeker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}