Actually a pretty good point. I am personally appalled by the apparent increasing influence of prosperity theology.
Through all of this, it never occurred to me that I would ever have to worry about a particular set of religious values being forced upon me.
He never does get around to demonstrating how any such values are being forced on him.
I agree with you on the prosperity theology but that fact alone proves the writer wrong because he paints conservatives with a wide brush that doesn’t fit you or I.
That said, the writer needs to take a look at many of his fellow liberals who are also practitioners of prosperity theology.
He paints it with too broad a brush.
Yes there is the whole eye of the needle thing...but there is also Proverbs 13:22.
The irony of the eye of the needle is Jesus was talking about the very rich elites and pharisees that parade around like they have some sort of entitlement to heaven. Think ....Pelosi is a great example. The man in Matthew 19 who claimed he had followed all that was ordered. What does giving up all he has to follow Jesus mean?