Re: [asa] The Hebrew for the Making of Man

At 03:22 AM 2/4/2008, Iain Strachan wrote:

>"You ain't seen nothing yet! On a business trip to the Indianapolis
>last week, I tuned in on my hotel TV to a channel called "Rejoice
>TV", where a suited preacher called Dr. Neal Jackson ...had got a
>mathematician to work out that there would have been 32 billion
>people born in the world since Adam. Then, taking some figures
>(from Ezekiel I think?) about the dimensions of Heaven, he figured
>out that if as many as half of humankind made it to heaven that
>they'd each have 210 square miles in God's mansion (with ceilings a
>mile high); a whole lotta real estate. I am not kidding - I
>actually saw this. That was followed by another preacher, I forget
>the name, preaching about "prosperity gospel", who seemed to have
>his congregation whipped up into some kind of frenzy, doing bunny
>hops across the floor and proclaiming "I'm never going to be in
>debt again!!". At this point I was sufficiently turned off to turn
>it off. Christianity in Britain seems a whole different religion as
>far as I can see. ~ Iain

@ It appears as if you can't see very far. No mature Christian in
America (or anywhere else) would think of tuning into any of the
"Liars for Jesus" aka "Grifter TV" for spiritual edification.

And talking about TV "grifters" (liars for Jesus experts when it
comes to shearing dumb sheep), you ain't seen nothing yet! Floods,
plagues, pestillence, divine vengence, judgement, guilt -- it's not a
huge leap from fire and brimstone to environmentalism:

"Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen" ~ Rev. Sir John Houghton

I tuned in to a tax-payer funded, "Public Radio" program where a
female from the group-think cloistered culture, by the name of Ms.
Tippett, was interviewing a suited preacher called Reverend Richard
Cizik who was talking about his conversion to .... get this: "the
science of climate change" after he got a scientist -- and also a
"Reverend" (from The Royal Society) -- who had worked out (with his
computer models) that, climate change is a weapon, and like
terrorism, knows no boundaries. It can strike anywhere in any form --
a heat wave in one place, a drought or a storm surge in another" and
that humankind has a 50/50 chance of surviving the 21st century
unless the US provides enough "love offerings" to stop that from
happening. And this proselytizer in impressive flowing robes also
told him that if anyone would dare go against the scientific
consensus on climate change he would be dismissed as a denier; a
heretic, and a worker for the Devil, ExxonMobil.

I am not kidding - I actually heard this on public radio. And that
was followed by another preacher, I forget the name, preaching about
"aversion therapy", who seemed to have his congregation whipped up
into some kind of frenzy after he showed them a movie entitled
"Clockwork Green" - (which had distressing images of the projected
ravages of "global warming"). I could hear him leading his
congregation in a frenzied chant, "I'm never going to destroy the
planet again!!"

At this point I was sufficiently turned off to turn it
off. Christianity on public radio seems a whole different religion
as far as I can see.

~ Janice ... who feels impelled by the Spirit to give an even bigger
love offerin' :) :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1964460/posts?page=5#5

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Received on Mon Feb 4 10:33:31 2008