SPEAKING IN TONGUES - in spite of questionable proof that it's real, many churches encourage it's practice as part of their main church service. For some reason, churches that practice that have a high incidence of pastors practicing sexual misconduct. A letter by one who takes offense by my last statement
STEEPLES - they are simply an assimilated pagan artifact (likely phallic symbols) - yet churches feel compelled to pay great money to maintain them even though many churches burn from the lightening strikes and many paralyzed people who tried to maintain them. The only value I can think is to remind people which way is up.
THE EARTH IS FLAT OR ONLY 6000 YEARS OLD, many fundamentalist ministers with no scientific training insist that sunday school classes try to indoctrinate kids on these lines - leaving many to throw out all the teachings when they find out that young earth evidence is faked. Young earth 'scientists' easily defeat unprepared biologists in open debates but get totally trounced when debated people familiar with their poorly substantiated claims. It's sad that many young people are given phony science along with their faith. I've known a number of young Christians who just end up throwing it all away when they figure out that the earth has obviously been around a while. Check out responses to young earth theory
FOLLOWING MIRACLE WORKERS. Many of the devout in churches want to see more tangible evidence of gods power. The people who claim to demonstrate it in large auditoriums seem to be hoaxers who get rich. Luckily religious grifters seem to be fading in power (maybe having a lot of them in jail has jaded the faithful)
"SATAN IS BEHIND EVERY TREE" for a while there were speakers going around claiming that satanists were everywhere kidnapping children having human sacrifices etc. There's turned about to be little evidence for such scare tactics. -some of these people have merged with false memory promoters and conspiracy theorists. As of May 97, I just heard that some born againers now consider Walt Disney cartoons to be laced with phallic images and pro satanic messages. - this is absurd! Disney cartoons are as family as you can get. Actually some kooks think Disney Stories warn of the end times Some of these paranoid types may as well just become Amish. here's a cute list of Beast stuff: A collection of Numbers of the Beast
"MAKE MONEY SCAMS" -there are all kinds of people in churches pushing multi-level marketing scams. I saw a "Christian" Ponzi scam out of Florida where people send cash in mail and receive "gifts" back. Of course the New ERA scam hurt many people. One of the biggest christian scams in more ignorant circles is the Dennis Lee free energy cult. people who believe that claimed convert to christianity, Dennis Lee has been inspired by God to design a free energy machine have invested $10,000 each to become distributors. Dennis also believes the US government is conspiring to kill and suppress inventors of wonderful amazing machines. For more information, see: Dennis Lee's amazing energy claims Dennis has several times gotten Christian media to help him (the media then fails to make retractions when discovering they were in error)
"PHONY ARCHEOLOGY" there's a bunch of distributors of newsletters talking of fake Noah's ark artifacts, since-debunked support for the shroud of Turin, bogus (ashes of the red heifer) discoveries in Israel, etc. Christian book stores have a number of these fringe books.
1920's STYLE MUSIC This is a young vs old issue. Most church hymns use a music style which was considered risqué and worldly a few generations back. They consider any modern musical style to be evil. Of course if you look out in most of the churches that pay strict loyalty to anything old, you will just see a sea of gray hair. the more happening growing churches have given up the drab chant style music for guitars and drums.
DISNEY IS EVIL! The newest fear fad seems to be looking for filth in America's quintessential family entertainment: Disney. If you look at enough Disney images - you can interpret weird stuff. Fine, I can show you pornographic images in the Sunday school information. Sure, some of the pictures made by Mirimax which happens to be owned by Disney aren't family fare and Disney has gotten as cut throat as most big companies. I accept that they can't kick gays out of the park. I've always expected that a high percentage of artists, song writers and designers are homos - what's new? I just don't want to see a bunch of paranoid witch-hunt fear mongering in the church making Christians greater outcasts (hey how many people do the evil-avoiding Amish help into the kingdom ?) and forcing children to pay an unnecessary price for their faith. Why don't we tell our kids, "don't play basketball - Dennis Rodman plays it", "can't eat candy - could be trick or treat candy" "sleep on the floor - people do evil in beds" "you can't have toys - some look like demons" "all you can do is stand in the corner and quiver in fear" good information on the disney boycott
Pat Robertson Yes, sorry to break it to you, but Pat may be better than Swaggert or Jim Baker - but he's still a hypocritical self-promoting peice of scum. He has been involved in a number of different scams including paying $150,000 to con man Dennis Lee and then refusing to come clean about it. He also made 100's of millions selling out his entire TV network to filth-promotor Rupert Murdoch. Most Christians lacked the guts to report this openly. Pat Robertson's Fringe Quotes Pat Robertson's Scams Pat's nutty book More Kooky rants by Pat
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