A Challenging Read

This is a fourth generation posting...I read this at Rudy Carrasco's blog who read it at Jordon Cooper's blog who somehow found this article...it seems a survey has just been done in America seeking to discover who are the most unliked people in the nation. After the IRS and serial killers it appears that evangelical Christians are the most disliked people around...a must read

Comments

[daniel king]

Just read the article. You say it's a tough read. I guess I am twisted because I laughed my way through the entire thing. Sickning as it is. Of course, I also watch TBN just for comical entertainment. I had nothing to do last weekend while down in SpringFeild so I watched TBN for 4 hours - ok, I did fall asleep during a prayer that lasted like 30 min consisting of everything from healing our country and victory in war to praying that God would bless those who send in donnations.

I bet the individual who wrote that paper would think TBN was funny.

I've watched TBN with one of my jewish friends, we laugh just as hard watching it as we do watching Waiting For Guffman - both same genre, right?

Sometimes I really don't know if they are serious or not. I saw a Carman(you know the star of that box-office smash, "The Champion") video the other day. He is a victim of the Spanish Inquisision and is about to have his head cut off when he stands up and starts singing. He tells the obviously catholic dressed bishop that with the power of the spirit he will take down their regime. Then his cloths change from a prision outfit to a knights garb. I was thinking, is this for real - all I could do was laugh.

Anyway Carman throws his good book aside, or it might have been what transformed into the shord, and kills all the catholics - who like in any good protestant blood bath music video, change into demons. Carmen wins...gets em all

I was thinking, why didn't God think of that...If only Carman would have been so many lives would have been saved.

The finale scene of the video, Carmen wins the beautiful princess, but like all great things in this world, it was only a dream. It was takeing place in the head of a young girl daydreaming in a class that carmen was teaching.

I had a few hot teachers but, I must of not been that creative because the only day dreaming I ever did about them...ok... but, then again I am human.

The great thing about TBN is that after I feel convicted for watching it for entertainment purposes, I have the oppertunity usually ever hour to lay my hands on the screen and pray my salvation back. I have actually done this once but the sensations they said would come, didn't - unless you count the static electric that shocked my hand but that wasn't warm and gooey like they made it sound it would be.

I just opted for my old salvation and got on with my day - guilt and all.

But really, is the "christian evangelistic TV" thing for real? or is it sattire? If it is sattire making fun of highly evangelistic people, they carry it perfectly - comedy at it's finest.

One more thing, the word "evangelism" makes me think of the word "evangel" which happens to be a name of an Assembly of Gods University down in SpringFeild - the school my fiance went to.

There team banner or mascot is "Crusaders".

CRUSADERS! as in those people that killed many many many many many people. Those people who tore the name of Christ to shreds. Those people who, persuaded by a church that was persuaded by a government that was persuaded by a king that was persuaded by greed, killed people (Foucault has some great things to say about this) They Killed people and did it in the name of our Lord. This is their mascot! Crusader! Crusaders!

All that to say the letter was awesome! Sorry if I offended anyone, just overdramatizing my point. Let's be real.

-Daniel

[Eric]

I just read your post Daniel. Although, TBN or tv evangelism in general may not be something you think is good, I think that you need to change your perspective.

If it is helping someone somewhere, to understand or fall more in love with God, then isn't that worth one christians cynicism?

I know people that have told me tv envangelism helped them through rough times. That is worth critisizm, right?

May God bless you, please please please love all christians - without love we are nothing!

[Danielking]

Daniel here - I cannot spell. It's a disability. So, for all of you that think I am a moron because I cannot spell - you are absolutely right.