You don’t think that the world is full of humor? Turn on your TV and watch any of the televangelists. For example Pat Robertson wanting to put out a contract on god forsaking foreigners (WWJK – Who Would Jesus Kill?), Oral Roberts telling us to send him our money or god will squash him like a bug (I would prefer a roach motel), Jimmy Swaggart shedding tears because he was caught with a prostitute, Ernest Ansley telling us to put our hands on the TV screen so that we can get the power of god (which can only be given by him, for a fee of course). Or any number of others that want to sell us prayer cloths or bottles of blessed holy water, books to tell us how to build our apocalypse shelters so we don’t get trampled by the horsemen, faith healing, enchanted talismans…. The list goes on and on. Now that’s funny; in a sick pathetic way, but funny none the less. I wish that I believed in hell because there has to be an especial hot corner reserved for these folks. One funny thing about these guys is that they really seem to believe what they are selling. Just like that Trudeau guy selling his book on natural cures that the pharmaceutical companies don’t want us to know about (those bastards). But enough of us believe so that they can all stay in business. Know what would be really funny? Quit sending them money. If god wants them to have Jags and Rolexes then he can shower them with manna from heaven. If I am right, they would pretty soon have to find a real job. I am laughing so hard that I’m crying.
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Televangelist are simply very charismatic, very skilled actors/actresses. Some choose "the ministry" because they know they have the skills needed to convince many to take all they have and send it to them. Some may start out with an interest in "spreading the gospel" but this is long gone when their is fame and fortune. How can one amass a fortune: automobiles, planes, houses and millions by manipulating it out of the neediest of us all and it still be about teaching God's love?
No.... The more charismatic and the more skilled the actor the more fame and fortune they will amass. But, really, how hard is it going to be to convince a bunch of needy people to send all they have when they already believe (or have THE faith, n. not vb. ;] ) that God is going to return it 10 fold for nothing in return?
So are televangelist created from people's propensity to want something for nothing or is it, as you have explored in some of your other writings, from a complete misunderstanding of what having faith means?
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