{"id":9318,"date":"2008-10-30T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/credit_crunch_is_gods_punishment_for_nations_consumed_with_materialism_says\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T17:30:26","slug":"credit_crunch_is_gods_punishment_for_nations_consumed_with_materialism_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9318","title":{"rendered":"Credit crunch is &#39;God&#39;s punishment&#39; for nations &#39;consumed with materialism&#39;, says Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Lewes, the Rt Rev Wallace Benn, has written in a church newsletter that materialism has a &#8220;stranglehold over our lives&#8221; and that some good may therefore emerge from the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In the November 2008 newsletter the bishop said: &#8220;I believe that God ultimately has allowed this crisis for good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our nation, like all the western nations, has become consumed with materialism. It has a stranglehold on our lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have found our security in &#8216;securities&#8217; and have failed to grasp that nothing is permanent other than God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/financetopics\/financialcrisis\/3273711\/Credit-crunch-is-Gods-punishment-for-nations-consumed-with-materialism-says-Bishop.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Lewes, the Rt Rev Wallace Benn, has written in a church newsletter that materialism has a &#8220;stranglehold over our lives&#8221; and that some good may therefore emerge from the crisis. In the November 2008 newsletter the bishop<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9318\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,40,74,389,635,149,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-economy","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}