Putting the values in moral values

An article in this week's New Yorker*, which unfortunately is not online, uses a profile of a renegade religious community in Dallas to provide some damning insights into the TV evangelism industry. And if you've wondered about Dubya's utterly blithe attitude to spiralling government debt (and by extension, the blithe attitude thereto of the 60 million people who voted for him), well, these TV evangelists have that little debt problem covered. Because when the sermon of one particular hugely popular preacher (George Pearsons, at the Ken Copeland ministry) is as its peak, he is saying:

"We thank you for the bills that are being supernaturally paid and the debts that are being supernaturally forgiven."

We knew that East Asian central banks were bizarrely keen to pile up US Treasury Bonds, but apparently God is as well.


*God Doesn’t Need Ole Anthony, by Burkhard Bilger