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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 12:36 PM
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see Religion Barons con the uneducated in a scam of all scams
Edited on Mon Feb-14-05 08:42 AM by Skinner
and they are as much a Baron as an Oil or Water Baron


http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1107989413916

Rapture awaits in the Florida Panhandle

-snip-

The whole coast from Panama City on the east to Pensacola on the west, apart from having the most beautiful beaches in the world, is the focus of some of the most intense conservative evangelical activity in the entire U.S. Superchurches, training schools, and all kinds of crusades abound.

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At first impression, the religious scene in this Bible Belt terrain is upbeat, vigorous, prospering in numbers, properties, and outspoken leadership. There is an agenda both spiritual and political as well as the people and money to make it happen. But, when you pay close attention to the message being driven home by every possible technical medium and skill, you meet some deeply disturbing, even frightening realities.

Let me illustrate by describing an all-day Saturday conference at one of the largest Protestant churches I have ever been in, The Village Baptist Church in Destin, Fla. The facilities there are gleaming, spacious, comfortable.

The theme of the day was Left Behind: A Conference on Biblical Prophecy about End Times, and it featured three of the leading voices in the U.S religious right today: Tim LaHaye, Gary Frazier, and Ed Hindson.

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the article ends with:

Frazier, Hindson and LaHaye all teach at Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. They have the ear of the President of the world's sole superpower.

A Pox on Racist Religious Con Men

america is being set up.

fighting back is a life saving option.
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two gun sid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 12:39 PM
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1. I wish the rapture would hurry up and happen.
I'm getting goddamn tired of sharing this earth with that crowd of two-bit grifter motherfuckers.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 12:43 PM
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2. lahaye lives in a multi million dollar house in california so
i guess he isn`t to worried about the end tme. his biggest problem is getting good cheap labor to keep his mansion clean and groomed and who is on the list for his latest party....
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 01:06 PM
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3. "History? We won't know. We'll all be dead."
George Bush's response to Bob Woodward's query of how history would judge his policies.
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Zorro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 01:09 PM
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4. Speaking of religious cons...
Why in the hell is Bible-thumpin' James Robison shilling for Trivita, which apparently is vitamin B-12 marked up at 10X its normal over-the-counter cost?

What's his percentage of the take? Isn't it somehow an abuse of his position as a "respected" hell-and-brimstone preacher to be such an advocate for a reportedly great hangover cure?

These hypocrites have no shame. No wonder they're all Republicans.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 01:18 PM
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5. niece had a 12 year old girl spend nite, she asked niece to go to
Edited on Sun Feb-13-05 01:21 PM by seabeyond
church. then she asked my family to go. i told her i couldnt. listening to her more in the evening, she brought up the mumsic being played, and seeing using music to manipulate youth now, and learned warrior. that drew my attention. she tried to take it back, but has to be respectful to adult and answer. she mumble yes her youth group called warrior

christian youth warriors

niece went this morning and i am dropping first one then the other at her house.

now they have her for lunch. i am waiting and wanting niece back.

they also have a youth program tonight they want niece to go to. drew the line there. can be from 5 to 9 on a school nite. that is all day with these people.

had another friend invite my 7 year old to a sunday youth christian thing. said no

they are going after youth

up the street i have a calvary blooming. watched for 6 months as this place developed. huge complex. a waco in middle of town? getting scary. they have had a black bus with flames and a dove burning, sit in front of this building. just recently put up calvary

look up calvary today in the dictionary. wow. place of jesus crucifixion. where a big cross is in open space

niece christian school., words i have been looking up last two weeks to get correct difinition. inquisition, crusade, dogma, heretic, dissident

yes
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 01:24 PM
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6. the catholic church used to say 'give me a child until he is 6 and he is

mine for life.'


you had better guard your child well from the religiously insane.
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