Everybody rightly makes fun of the pseudo-Christian preachers of a "prosperity gospel", when their message becomes too crude, short-termist and monetary - e.g. those US televangelists who state that if you contribute to their church, you will get a better paid jobs, or suchlike.
But the prosperity gospel in a "Lite" version is actually very common among Christians; I mean the belief that those who lead their lives in accordance with Christian beliefs and practices will survive and thrive in socio-economic ways.
For instance; proponents of PGL may state or imply that being Christian will help you to have a successful business, get the girl/s, be a "real" man, attract admiration from "real" men etc.
And the flip-side of Prosperity Gospel Lite are negative assumptions such as "get woke, go broke" and the assumption that leftist men are despised by the desirable girls. It is PGL to imply that conforming to the mainstream ideology usually leads to failure.
The major theme of justification for the PGL is that Christianity is the Truth, and that living in accordance with reality is likely to be more successful than a deluded existence of obedience to a false and virtual world.
At root, all this is false, because it is a roundabout way of asserting that Christianity is expedient.
It has never been true, except insofar as State Christianity was sometimes, in some places, sufficiently powerful, true and uncorrupt; that a life of faithful church-obedience could be a reliable route to worldly success.
But in our current overwhelmingly atheistic, materialistic, leftist world; the expedient path of worldly triumph leads away from Christianity - at least over the predictable short to medium-term.
Optimism about success in this world is one thing; being-Christian is another.
Christians need to be clear about what their religion actually is about, primarily and essentially; and that is our positive desire and intent to attain salvation: resurrected eternal life in Heaven.
Implications about this mortal existence flow backwards from this post-mortal intent.
There is no general reason why "being a Christian" would necessarily lead towards a "successful" (high status, wealthy, comfortable, pleasurable, healthy, pain-free) mortal life; and indeed there are plenty of reasons why it would not.
