Maybe We Should Blame God for the Subprime Mess. “[The Prosperity gospel's] central promise — that God will ‘make a way’ for poor people to enjoy the better things in life — had developed an additional, dangerous expression during the subprime-lending boom. Walton says that this encouraged congregants who got dicey mortgages to believe ‘God caused the bank to ignore my credit score and blessed me with my first house… You would think that the current economic conditions would undercut their theology.’” Related: God, without the fuss and Sarcastic Lutheran on the prosperity gospel