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God Wants You To Be Rich (2021)

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The Redeem and Lift Effect in American Religion

In the minds of parishioners, it doesn't matter if the preacher is sincere or not. What matters to them is whether God is good and God has set up the rules by which they too could have those good things. The sort of constant in American religion is this kind of anxiety about your destiny. We're forced to believe in invisible causality in this economy.

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