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	Podcast:		Let's Talk About It
	Episode:		Is It a Sin to Be Poor? Arguments and Issues About the Prosperity Gospel
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
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	Publish Date:		2009-11-13 16:00:00
	Description:		In his book Prosperity, published during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Unity co-founder Charles Fillmore wrote: "We cannot be very happy if we are poor, and nobody needs to be poor. It is a sin to be poor." Unity ministers have been defending that remark for more than 70 years. Today the "Prosperity Gospel" has gone mainstream. Televangelist Joel Osteen regularly assures his audiences that God wants them to be happy and prosperous. Yet, surprisingly, some of Rev. Osteen's harshest critics are not members of the Religious Right but progressive theologians, liberal Christian thinkers who question the morality of asking for personal wealth in a world where so much hunger and economic oppression persists. This week Rev. Dr. Robert Martin of Saint Paul School of Theology will join Rev. Dr. Thomas Shepherd's panel of distinguished guests to consider the controversial "Prosperity Gospel" in 21st-century Christian thought.
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