Reply #40: Okay, Dob Bole, I'm gonna need [View All]

[Devlzown]

your help here! If I remember correctly, there were these churches -- in Atlanta and Dallas and other large cities in the South. And they grew to gargantuan sizes and their pastors had gargantuan egos. And these pastors, like their churches, were wealthy and had certain political leanings. They must have looked at the popes in the Middle Ages for inspiration. They had a congregation of 20,000 people who believed what the pastor told them, but that wasn't enough. They needed temporal as well as spiritual power.........