God Wants You To Be Rich (2021)

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the New Testament, Jesus says it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. In the United States today, many Christians believe in something radically different. In what's known as the prosperity gospel, wealth is a sign of virtue and God's favor. The effects of this belief can be seen throughout American life from business to politics to social Policy.

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0:00.0	Listen!
0:06.1	I don't know, try not to get
0:18.6	I get free with
0:27.9	This is Norman Vincent Peel.
0:32.8	What I have in mind to do is to give a little discussion on this subject
0:39.8	how to make positive thinking work for you.
0:45.8	Norman Vincent Peel is a bit of a theological outlier.
0:48.8	Like a lot of these modern spiritual entrepreneurs, he kind of slandered around a bit.
0:54.8	Who went at the end of the 19th century and comes into the 20th,
0:58.8	he's beating all of these big automakers, oil people.
1:02.8	So he's right there in the middle of this sort of capitalists kind of thing.
1:06.8	What is positive thinking?
1:09.8	When he writes his book, The Power of Positive Thinking,
1:12.8	which you can still find probably in every use book store in the country.
1:16.8	He's like, if you think positively, you're going to get all of these things.
1:19.8	Life can be wonderful.
1:24.8	You want the moon?
1:25.8	Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it, pull it down.
1:29.8	The book is really just a series of success mantras.
1:32.8	You can, if you think you can.
1:36.8	Drawing from scripture.
1:37.8	God bless you and best wishes.
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