Fuckin' Today show - doing a segment on women and religion, and it's all charlatans: Osteen, Dollar

[Rabrrrrrr]

they aren't dealing with any legitimate Christian woman pastors, nor with any legitimate Christian churches.

Fucking media.

Yeah, the media are "liberal". Fuck that.

I know REAL woman pastors - many of them - who actually have real struggles with work, family, and money. Dollar's wife and Osteen's wife have no struggles - they're loaded with money, they have a church that is more scam than religious institution, the preaching is easy because it's all fluff and feel-good ignorant fluffery puffery and huffery. They're dilettantes and scam artists.

Why does the media give so much attention to the charlatans of Christianity?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Because programs like this flatter both:

1. The self-ordained free-lance fundamentalists who make up their perversions of Christianity as they go along and count on the religious (and other) illiteracy of the American people to make them rich

2. The knee-jerk religion haters who can say, "See? I told you they were all charlatans."

It's all part of the plot to polarize America.

See, highlighting real women clergy like Critters2 or Rev. Cheesehead, struggling in small rural parishes and preaching love and compassion wouldn't please either of these groups.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Of course, the most cynical answer is the correct one.

Sad, isn't it?

[Schema Thing]

3. Isn't Christianity charlatanism?

:evilgrin: :popcorn:

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. No.

But sadly, religion - as well as a great many other human endeavors - always attract charlatans who are able to dupe people.

[av8rdave]

5. You gotta love a "pastor" who tells you that God wants you to be rich

I don't understand all this fuss about Conservapedia wanting to rewrite the Bible. Why go to all that work? Just do what the charlatans have for many years and make crap up.

[KamaAina]

6. At least I learned something from that segment

The most aptly named man in show business, Creflo Dollar :P , is married to an ex-prostitute. Named Taffy. Seriesly.