RE: Still struggling.
February 26, 2016 at 5:13 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2016 at 5:14 am by Fake Messiah.)
(February 25, 2016 at 2:13 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Actually, most of the popular televangelists now are those who preach prosperity gospel. Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, etc. Their mannerisms are much more like a used car salesman than anything else - dead behind the eyes fake smiles, flamboyant energetic gestures, lots of welcoming body language as opposed to threatening body language. And it makes sense. They're literally trying to not only sell their faith, but books, DVDs, pay-per-minute phone prayers, etc.
Perhaps, but take a look at this sermon by some asshole Pastor Steven Anderson, where he defends slavery because the Bible condones it.
You can skip to 8m 40s: "Are there situations where god indicated for people to beat their servants? Absolutely! But you know that it's all right! I agree with all of it. Because the Bible is God's word."
https://youtu.be/EwMtryNZKKY
Which explains why this preacher is beating this woman under the crucifix:
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
