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Channel-surfing can be hazardous to your health.....
Was flipping channels on the TV yesterday -- nothing remotely interesting on except the Weather Channel -- and came across the Come-to-Jeezus channel (aka Trinity Broadcasting Network), which was hawking a book linking Presdient Obama with the End Times. I think it was called New World Order Rising, or something like that. It was offered by Jack Van Impe Ministries.
I can do without high-powered televangelists. Instead of gently inviting people to their faith, they make it sound like it's a hard-sell. And that's what turns me off.
I'm not sure which is scarier -- the people who actually come up with this nonsense or those who gleefully eat it up with a spoon without question.
The civil libertarian in me says people have a right to express their religion. But a more logical part of me says, "It's not *what* one expresses, it's *how* one expresses it."
Unfortuantely, it's an old TV and I can't erase this channel from the memory bank. Grr argh.
I can do without high-powered televangelists. Instead of gently inviting people to their faith, they make it sound like it's a hard-sell. And that's what turns me off.
I'm not sure which is scarier -- the people who actually come up with this nonsense or those who gleefully eat it up with a spoon without question.
The civil libertarian in me says people have a right to express their religion. But a more logical part of me says, "It's not *what* one expresses, it's *how* one expresses it."
Unfortuantely, it's an old TV and I can't erase this channel from the memory bank. Grr argh.