Reply #14: I find Billy Graham the least offensive of these practitioners also. [View All]

[Cleita]

If you get a chance. Watch "Carnivale" on HBO if you get it or I'm sure it will be repackaged for regular cable after it finishes its run. The main character is a minister who is really a demon who runs those tent revival meetings. He's trying to build a temple to God, but really his agenda is more nefarious.

The thing that struck me was that the character has a gift of words and can deliver these mind blowing sermons, which pull all the gullible into his web so to speak. He also has a radio show that he preaches on like Rev. Graham used to. I don't know where the writers got the words but I think they plagiarized much of it from real radio sermons of the past that they have been able to use.

Also, my father, a non-catholic, once told me how much he hated accompanying me to church on occasions when school programs demanded it. He was bored to death with the droning Latin of the priests. He said give me a good preacher in a tent revival meeting anytime. At least it's not boring.