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Published on June 17, 2007 By SanChonino In Religion
I have sat here, watching a televangelist on TV.

There is nothing holy, Christlike, or Godly in his talk. For an hour now, he has spoken about “sowing a thousand dollar seed” and that if the 300 people that God has chosen will give their 1000 dollars, they will be made millionaires. Of course, they have to put a disclaimer on the bottom that says “Miracles are blessings of God and Inspiration Ministries cannot guarantee miracles.” Except that's not what the guy is saying – he's promising up and down, that you will be a millionaire if you but donate 1000 dollars to this hack.

He speaks of donating money from your business to God, and that he will give you prosperity on the simple basis of your giving this scumbag 1000 dollars. And he continues to praise the name of Jesus in the name of money.

He sounds nothing like a minister of God; rather, he sounds like a priest of Mammon.

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one”. (Romans 3:10) But some are much more wicked than others. Televangelists by and large make me feel icky. They make me feel slimy.

Mike Murdock. There is nothing – I repeat, nothing of the Spirit of the Lord in you. There is nothing of the Holy Spirit in your preaching, or anything holy. Your obsession with money is most distressing.

With the exception of Billy Graham, televangelists are just twisted. Get off the TV. You are only spreading divisiveness, bile, and wickedness.

Hallelujah. Shut up.

Comments
on Jun 17, 2007
Magically, two appeared. I only pushed "post" once.

I guess it's proof that I'm sowing seeds.
on Jun 17, 2007
Magically, two appeared. I only pushed "post" once.


I think it's a miracle. Did you send in $1000?
on Jun 17, 2007
Did you send in $1000?


Maybe if I post 1000 articles, God will give me the miracle of becoming a million-article-aire!
on Jun 17, 2007
If you send in $1000, you'll get a copy of my book, How to Get People to Send You $1000 for a Book.

It's the same thing, it's basically saying, send me this money and you'll get rich. The name 'God' only comes into it because he knows that the kind of people that will send $1000 to a scumbag making promises he wants GOD to keep for him, don't have the ability to make $1million themselves. Because they keep sending it to him.

Not all televanglists are bad, but if they are trying to appeal to your greed, which is a sin, to get you to send them money, chances are they're just trying to get your money.
on Jun 17, 2007
Yeah that guy is kind of silly. It's much easier to get money a dollar at a time from more people. But who would ever do that?
on Jun 17, 2007

Funnily enough, I was having a conversation about this earlier today.  I had driven by a new mega-church that's going up near here (ANOTHER one) and I made the comment that I really, honestly believe that if god and christ are/were real, they'd be sickened by some of the things that are going on in their 'name' - mega-churches and tele-evangelists being but two of them.

That evil old bastard Pat Robertson needs to go away too.  He makes my skin crawl - if I had to name one person who I thought epitomized evil and wickedness, I'd name him. 

It's disgraceful and disgusting, all of it.

on Jun 17, 2007
Those tickets to Heaven don't come cheap. Didn't you know that SC?
on Jun 17, 2007
Hey SC

I'm with ya on this one!! I do like Billy Graham tho.

Those tickets to Heaven don't come cheap.


Maybe it's the Protestant version of indulgences?
on Jun 17, 2007
Okay, for $1000, I can show you how to write your own pop song. This has more chance of making you a million dollars than sending money to dodgy televangelists does.

What a crock... Thankfully, Australia doesn't allow this sort of 'religion' on television here.
on Jun 20, 2007
I totally agree with you. My friends and I watch the "Jesus" channel whenever comedy central is showing re-runs. Always good for a laugh