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It's called, "It is better to give than to receive" syndrome. Christians feel better when they give their money to someone who asks for help even when it's obvious they're filthy with green.
How do you think Paul/Jan Crouch and thousands of other televangelists built their palatial mansions and Caribbean hideaway villas? By screaming they're rich?
A refreshing change from bible-thumpers promising eternal hellfire.
If I was a Christian, I'd understand the appeal.
Like I said, Jews, 80 years old, and non-Christian friends adore him.
I was very surprised when I found out.
And I thought God blesses and then preachers remind us of His blessings
so we get outta the dumps and be happy already and accept our inheritance...
it's a bummer that it's believed in the Christian faith Jesus died for ''us'', yet most are
so unhappy and still
struggling with health, finances, food and shelter, and anxiety....when he taught how to have
no worries and rely on the Father.
What a slap in the face to have done so much and still people don't grab the brass ring*,
the gift
freely given to them, offered to them, shown to them, taught to them.
Little ramble there....
* I have, btw, and am exceedingly happy constantly...I actually have practiced what
Jesus taught for 8 years now and I'm a different person! Ask my friends of close to 40 years,
they can't believe it..hahaha.
A refreshing change from bible-thumpers promising eternal hellfire.
If I was a Christian, I'd understand the appeal.
Yes, but I don't know of a single televangelist who threatens viewers with hell anymore....that is, of course, unless they're not tithing to the televangelist's "non-profit" [READ: "profit"] ministry. All that Bible thumping and hellfire went out with Jimmy Swaggert after he was thrown off the air for consorting with prostitutes and possession of pornography under his car seat.
Threatening parishioners with hell is bad for business; it chases them out of church, and a parishioner not in church is a parishioner who cannot drop a nickel into the plate. Joel Osteen knows who butters his bread: the 30,000 who attend his service every week who go there to make believe God loves them if they just pitch a few hundred into the offering basket when it's passed around. That's good business acumen.
Yes, but I don't know of a single televangelist who threatens viewers with hell anymore....that is, of course, unless they're not tithing to the televangelist's "non-profit" [READ: "profit"] ministry. All that Bible thumping and hellfire went out with Jimmy Swaggert after he was thrown off the air for consorting with prostitutes and possession of pornography under his car seat.
Jimmy Swaggert is going strong with his Sonlight network. Grooming his goofy kid Donnie to take over and they have the grandson getting the music part of it down.
So even hookers and horn dog magazines can't kill these guys. Jim Bakker has a show. that Milfy Paula White who hooked up with Bennie Hinn is still going, and Bennie is still healing folks and then shoving them down.
Jimmy Swaggert is going strong with his Sonlight network. Grooming his goofy kid Donnie to take over and they have the grandson getting the music part of it down.
So even hookers and horn dog magazines can't kill these guys. Jim Bakker has a show. that Milfy Paula White who hooked up with Bennie Hinn is still going, and Bennie is still healing folks and then shoving them down.
We need to get Viz a TV ministry.
Yes, I've seen good ol' boy Donnie doing his "dog and pony" routine, falling off the piano bench and shaking like he's having an epileptic seizure. Of course he's just being "slain in the Spirit".
PT Barnum famously said, "There's one born every minute". If he'd ever seen Donnie's routine he'd have said "There's one born again every second."
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Jimmy Swaggert is going strong with his Sonlight network. Grooming his goofy kid Donnie to take over and they have the grandson getting the music part of it down.
So even hookers and horn dog magazines can't kill these guys. Jim Bakker has a show. that Milfy Paula White who hooked up with Bennie Hinn is still going, and Bennie is still healing folks and then shoving them down.
We need to get Viz a TV ministry.
Didn't know who that was, but, do have to agree you did an apt description.
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