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The love toward the unbelievers!
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RE: The love toward the unbelievers!
Statler W. said quote: "Actually I think you’ll find it is the more conservative groups that despise the prosperity gospel movement…."

Great!! After decades and decades of horrible abuse and the export of the bullshit to third world countries (which has been going on for decades also) someone is saying something about this! I'd say this is too little too late.

I have heard preacher after preacher call their congregation to action. To knock on doors to spread the word about Jesus, protest a nudie bar (this happened in Pennsylvania) and tell you how to vote (they give you little voter cards to help you). I have never heard any one of them call their congregation to protest a prosperity doctrine preacher. They don't name names, they don't ask people to write letters, they don't give people signs to put on their front lawn or t-shirts to wear. Hell most of them don't even preach against the prosperity doctrine.

Do you know why? Because most of these preachers are half way there themselves. Even the fairly liberal Methodist church I used to attend is starting to lean this way. People say that churches are hurting because of the bad economy. I say that doesn't justify preaching even a little bit of the prosperity doctrine. If you have to do dirty things to people to survive financially, I say die as a church. Or do the unspeakable thing....live withing your means. Sell your assets and meet in a park, warehouse (I just fixed a typo I made that read "whorehouse". lol) , rented building, private houses...I don't know get creative.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise

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The love toward the unbelievers! - by Napoléon - November 1, 2011 at 9:44 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 1, 2011 at 10:25 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by 5thHorseman - November 2, 2011 at 3:07 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by thesummerqueen - November 2, 2011 at 1:03 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Cinjin - November 2, 2011 at 1:19 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Rayaan - November 2, 2011 at 1:32 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Minimalist - November 2, 2011 at 2:37 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Phaedra - November 2, 2011 at 3:17 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 2, 2011 at 11:19 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Kayenneh - November 2, 2011 at 4:50 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Doubting Thomas - November 2, 2011 at 11:33 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by LastPoet - November 2, 2011 at 11:55 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Napoléon - November 2, 2011 at 1:24 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 2, 2011 at 5:16 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 2, 2011 at 2:58 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by downbeatplumb - November 2, 2011 at 3:06 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 2, 2011 at 3:46 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by tackattack - November 5, 2011 at 10:44 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 6, 2011 at 12:35 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Doubting Thomas - November 2, 2011 at 3:23 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Doubting Thomas - November 2, 2011 at 5:20 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 2, 2011 at 5:38 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Doubting Thomas - November 2, 2011 at 5:45 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 2, 2011 at 5:49 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Napoléon - November 2, 2011 at 7:11 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 2, 2011 at 7:16 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Napoléon - November 2, 2011 at 7:22 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 2, 2011 at 7:29 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Napoléon - November 2, 2011 at 7:31 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Zen Badger - November 3, 2011 at 9:12 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by The Grand Nudger - November 3, 2011 at 9:16 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 3, 2011 at 10:27 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Napoléon - November 3, 2011 at 11:55 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Doubting Thomas - November 3, 2011 at 2:54 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 3, 2011 at 3:01 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Napoléon - November 3, 2011 at 9:36 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Doubting Thomas - November 3, 2011 at 3:26 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 3, 2011 at 3:39 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Doubting Thomas - November 3, 2011 at 4:14 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 3, 2011 at 6:28 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 3, 2011 at 8:39 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Doubting Thomas - November 4, 2011 at 1:27 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 4, 2011 at 5:13 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 4, 2011 at 6:01 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 4, 2011 at 7:28 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Napoléon - November 5, 2011 at 5:26 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by DeistPaladin - November 4, 2011 at 5:28 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 5, 2011 at 1:43 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Ziploc Surprise - November 7, 2011 at 11:09 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by tackattack - November 7, 2011 at 11:24 pm
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Minimalist - November 8, 2011 at 1:32 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by KichigaiNeko - November 8, 2011 at 1:54 am
RE: The love toward the unbelievers! - by Statler Waldorf - November 8, 2011 at 7:05 pm

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