Today's Tennessean included Ray Waddle's (http://raywaddle.com) weekly faith and values column, focussing today on religion and the local church's declining social influence.
...Plenty of people boil down the financial mess to a failure of personal responsibility, a lack of transparency, a dearth of discipline, combined with lust for easy profit. That sounds like spiritual language, and a spiritual problem.
Yet there is little sign that religious congregations, with few exceptions, have done anything to challenge a culture that worships free-market ideology and ostentatious consumerism, a secular orientation that contradicts every religious insight into flawed humanity.
The full article is here: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090131/NEWS06/901310331/1023
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