{"id":6488,"date":"2008-10-30T08:39:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:30:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:30:46","slug":"credit-crisis-is-god-punishing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/10\/30\/credit-crisis-is-god-punishing-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit crisis &#8216;is God punishing us&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">Wednesday, October   29, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articlestandfirst\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">An Anglican bishop says the credit crunch is God&#8217;s way of punishing Britain for being too materialistic.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">The Rt Rev Wallace Benn, Bishop of Lewes, thinks the country is obsessed with cash, which has a &#8216;stranglehold&#8217; over our lives.<\/p>\n<p>The credit crisis has been caused by greed and <strong>&#8216;God has allowed it for good&#8217;<\/strong>, he writes in a newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>The Adam Smith Institute think-tank criticised the comments, saying: &#8216;Many people who have not worshipped materialism have seen their lives made poorer.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/article.html?Credit_crisis_is_God_punishing_us&amp;in_article_id=377358&amp;in_page_id=34&amp;in_a_source=\">METRO<\/span>, 28 October 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, October 29, 2008 An Anglican bishop says the credit crunch is God&#8217;s way of punishing Britain for being too materialistic. The Rt Rev Wallace Benn, Bishop of Lewes, thinks the country is obsessed with cash, which has a &#8216;stranglehold&#8217; over our lives. The credit crisis has been caused by greed and &#8216;God has allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":108034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[806],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-credit-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}