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or subjective. Garrard-Burnett says \u2018It is important not overlook the emphasis the NPCs place on miraculous cures to poverty. She underlines \u2018That is the way some pastors address the question of poverty, \u2018God wants you to be rich\u2019.134 According to Sik Hong spiritual warfare is strengthened \u2018by the crisis of modernity and with the post-modern proposals, where people feel unable to correct and to reformulate the modern model of life where social inequalities\u2019 persist and get worse\u2019 (2001: 110). Later the subject of the theology of the prosperity will be tackled.\u000A3. Bad state administration\u000AAs well as their belief in spiritual warfare, some lay people affirm that the State is responsible for poverty. Just a few of the interviewed NPL said that the corruption in the administration of the State also generates poverty. These indicated that the rural population do not always have \u2018political of support\u2019. There are people who do not have \u2018opportunities to progress\u2019, do not have \u2018jobs\u2019, the correct support is not given \u2018to the poor communities\u2019, and the country suffers from a \u2018deficient judicial system\u2019. This same tendency is reflected in the GSNPL. 23.6 per cent of the lay people surveyed gave the same answer. Only one informant refers poverty to structural problems based on sociological theory. He said that poverty comes from \u2018bad distribution of resources, because wealth is in the hands of too few people\u2019 (L3ICV).\u000AMost of NPL do not mention structural and geopolitical causes of the Guatemalan context. According to the analyses of the UNDP poverty results from a series of exclusions that have their origin in colonial times. These have to do with the exclusion of certain sectors from the labour market, access to land, education, and political exclusion (2000: 27-37). Among these exclusions, the lack of access to land and technological resources for rural people continues to be Guatemala\u2019s \u2018Achilles\u2019 heel\u2019. Sixty per cent of cultivable land\u000A 134 Garrard-Burnett \u2018Comment thesis chapter 5.\u2019 Garrard@mail.utexas.edu 24.09.07.\u000A283\u000A