(November 17, 2013 at 12:06 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Hours after the storm hit the Philippines, the Rev. Amadero Alvero was on the streets, sprinkling holy water over the dead and praying for them. By late afternoon, the 44-year-priest had blessed about 50 corpses in the remains of this shattered city.
It's important for the church to be out there at these times because they have to convince the sheep to put the church in their wills and to ensure their 10% of any insurance moneys coming forth. It is quite well calculated.
The Billy Graham crusade held a "revival" in Ascension (SP?), Lima, Peru during a horrible time of starvation and poverty in the '80. I was enraged enough to fight when so much of the service was the constant reiteration of the "widow's mite" story, followed by extensive passings of the donation plate. The crusade had brought the most sophisticated sound system and generators worth at least a million dollars to go extract a few inti from the poor, starving, ignorant people. It was a grand stand seat to a horribly evil con.
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