Divine Retribution Again: Is The Current Economic Crisis God s Punishment?

For many centuries the faithful believed, and some still take it to be true that certain instances of suffering are God s punishment for the sins committed. The current economic crisis has raised once more the idea of divine retribution for human immoralities. Certain politicians, clerics among others from different religious traditions argue that the latest economic crisis is God s punishment for the financial wrongdoings. Is the notion of divine retribution making its come back? Has this idea a strong religious foundation? How far this argument coherent? These are some of the questions to be sought answer in this paper in the context of the current economic crisis with references to Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions.