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0 pointsarrobbiato1y ago0 comments

> I can't imagine taking The Atlantic seriously on anything.

Agreed - I stopped taking The Atlantic seriously after their 2009 cover story, "Did Christianity Cause the Crash?"[1] To ignore CDOs, the Glass-Steagal repeal, the co-option of the ratings agencies and the dissolution of lending standards, and instead blame the Great Recession on a few obnoxious megapastors is to completely discard the magazine's credibility.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/12/did-chr...

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FireBeyond1y ago

Really, you can't see a connection between people promoting ever supernatural rewards for being money and prosperity-driven and stoking that fire right alongside rampant capitalism and reckless decisions on how to protect our financial and economic wellbeing? Especially when even some very very bright people still believe in imaginary creatures in the sky and use that to shape and guide their decision process?

Maybe not "cause", but "contribute notably to".

mrangle1y ago

Yes, really. It's okay to not know anything about how the global economy works or its history: each decade defining the next. But it isn't okay to twist that ignorance to become focus on a scapegoat of convenience. Led by The Atlantic's wager on what you don't know, their hatreds, and their mission to distract.

arrobbiatoOP1y ago

You might argue that faith, in its various manifestations, is the root of all economic distortions and malaises. That being said, no, I don’t think that a subset of evangelical Christianity caused or meaningfully contributed to the 2009 crash, since there are abundant facts and analyses to the contrary. To believe otherwise would be, ironically, an act of faith.

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