Posted on 10/27/2013 3:03:34 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
First came “The Sisterhood,” a supposed Christian reality show, which debuted this past January on TLC network. It was advertised as “a candid look into the lives” of five Atlanta preachers’ wives who “aren’t your typical church ladies,” TLC teased.
Indeed, these pastors’ wives were very much in touch with their sexuality, as they explored such topics as pornography and masturbation. They also “kept it real” when talking about getting high, with one of the wives telling her fellow “first ladies” about her crack smoking. And they burnished their “street cred” by getting tatted up.
Then came “Preachers’ Daughters,” another supposed Christian reality show, which launched on Lifetime TV this past March. “God made the world in seven days,” said a promo. “Moses parted the Red Sea. But if these preachers can control their teen-age daughters, it would really be a miracle.”
That included Taylor, the rebellious teen-age daughter of a Lockport, Illinois pastor. She’d sneak out the house, make out with boys and yield to who knows to what other temptations. Indeed, she confessed, “My alter ego kind of wants to be a porn star.”
Now we have yet another supposed Christian reality show on cable – “Preachers of L.A.,” which premiered this month on Oxygen.
It offers “a rare glimpse into the lives of six high-profile pastors from Los Angeles,” who are “Living the God Life,” according to Oxygen, which apparently includes multi-million dollar homes, private jets, luxury cars, designer clothes and expensive jewelry.
“P. Diddy, Jay-Z. They’re not the only ones who should be driving Ferraris and living in nice houses,” says Bishop Ron Gibson, pastor of Life Church of God in Christ in Riverside, California (not L.A.), purveyor of the so-called “prosperity gospel.”
Then there’s Minister Deitrick Haddon, who pastored a Detroit church before moving to L.A. to further his career as a gospel singer. In 2012, Haddon parted ways with his wife of nearly 15 years, Damita, amid rumors of adultery, which were confirmed when the pastor’s mistress gave birth to their love child.
“I met this young woman, Dominique, and I fell in love with her,” Minister Dietrick explained on the first episode of “Preachers of L.A.”
When he found out he had gotten his mistress pregnant, the pastor remembers thinking, “Oh my God, my career is over.” He knew, he said, “it was going to look scandalous because I have a young lady pregnant out of wedlock when my divorce is not final.”
Yet, that didn’t stop Minister Dietrick from performing a “comeback” concert on Oxygen’s surreal Christian reality show.
And none of Hadden’s fellow “Pastors of L.A.” was more willing to overlook his lust of the eyes, lust of flesh and pride of life than Pastor Jay Haizlip, spiritual leader of the Sanctuary Church in Huntington Beach, California (not L.A.), who enjoyed the concert with his wife Christy.
“I loved how they were just crunking up there,” said Christy, getting her groove on. “It was just phenomenal.”
We’ll have to wait until a future episode to see what Pastor Jay and wife Christy think of Minister Dietrich’s nude “selfie,” which was released last week by yet another woman of ill repute who enabled the minister’s serial adultery.
Meanwhile, Pastor Jay’s ministry has issues of its own. In a recent episode of “Preachers of L.A.,” he’s approached by a former church member, April, who has undergone a sex change operation since he last saw her.
Pastor Jay didn’t want to tell her straight up that she has committed an abomination in the eyes of God and that she should pray for forgiveness. So, instead, he asks the transsexual how he can help. And the former April responds, “You can call me David,” to which Pastor Jay, no stand up man of God, all too willingly acquiesced.
The execs at TLC, Lifetime and Oxygen who green-lighted, respectively, “The Sisterhood,” “Preachers’ Daughters” and “Preachers’ of L.A.” are insidious, maintaining that the intention they had in airing those reality shows – which most Christ followers almost certainly would find outrageous – was only to entertain their viewers.
But their real motive is to mock Christianity by portraying as somehow representative of the faith high-living preachers, oversexed, drug-abusing, tatted up preachers’ wives, hell-raising preachers’ kids, and gender-confused church members.
Why don’t they get Jesse Jackson on that reality show.
In reality he has had at least one illegitimate baby we know of , his son is in jail and the other runs a Budweiser dealership.
I think the “preaching” profession has included people like this for a long long time. The big thing these shows point out, because the people on them are real and do have verifiable histories, is that the Jimmy Swaggarts and the Jim Bakers aren’t really that rare, that indeed there are a lot of “preachers” in it for the cash and the groupies. Rather than blaming the TV network for showing them blame the congregations for supporting them. These guys can’t exist without the constant influx of cash from suckers.
1) I drink a beer once in a while (though not enough to get drunk).
2) I don’t like smoking cigarettes (never have) and may be sin for some to do so (this would be a conscience issue not an outright sin as listed in the Bible).
3). About 6-10,000 Years.
By Grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is a Gift of God!
God Bless!
The TV network sought these kinds of people out on purpose, it was planned to be like this.
But they existed BEFORE the networks sought them out. Blaming the network is closing the barn door too late. If you don’t want people to know people like this hide behind the cross the smart solution is to NOT LET THEM, not to complain some network is giving them air time.
The proper response to this is to give them both barrels of their own medicine. Let it slip out to Muslim forums outside of the US that TLC is airing the following:
“The Muslim Sisterhood,” a supposed Muslim reality show, debuted this past January on TLC network. It was advertised as “a candid look into the lives” of five Muslim wives who “are your typical Muslim ladies,” said TLC. Indeed, these Muslim wives were very much in touch with their sexuality, as they explored such topics as pornography and masturbation. They also “kept it real” when talking about getting drunk and wearing naughty outfits in public, with one of the wives telling her fellow “burka babes” about her crack smoking.”
Of course, outside the US nobody sees TLC, so it might elicit the same response as the Mohammed cartoons.
Yes, it would be hilarious to see the “Muslim rage guy” carrying a sign that said “DEATH TO TLC”.
I guess you do not understand the complaint.
If these people did not exist the network would have invented them. The network is run by anti-Christian bigots.
I understand the complaint fine, what you’re failing to understand is that Christianity need to do a better job of policing itself.
The fact of the matter is the network don’t HAVE to invent them. Because they exist. Your complaint only has validity if these people WERE invented. But they aren’t so the complaint is foolish.
your complaint should be that these guys:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bishop+ron+gibson&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
keep having followers. Until the networks actually do invent these types of people the problem is with the Christian community, not the TV networks.
What a joke.
These people have always existed and will always exist until the end of time.
Could anyone seeing any Studio/channel ‘green lighting’ a show like ‘Hollywood Atheists’ or ‘San Francisco Political LIARS”? How about ‘Dangerous Muslim Fathers (Brothers, Cousins, Uncles and Family) of the World”?
Christians are easy to mock, just hold up a stereotype and laugh at it!
It’s not a joke, it’s sad and pathetic that Christians not only accept these scumbags but are the vital ingredient in allowing them to exist. If you accept them then you’re the joke, allowing filth and idiots to change the face your faith presents to the world.
Accept them?
The same way I accept athiests and other deviants
I don’t
You seem to have accepted them pretty well. You even think it’s wrong to put these charlatans in TV where they will be exposed and maybe finally lose support. Heck that’s past accept, you DEFEND them.
You are insane
Not at all. If somebody is insane it’s you. Notice how first came onto this thread insisting it was all lies, these guys weren’t real:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3084276/posts?page=15#15
I guess you never heard of acting. You think everything on TV is real?
And then in just a few short posts you’ve not only admitted these guys are real, but there’s a long history of them:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3084276/posts?page=29#29
These people have always existed and will always exist until the end of time.
And yet somehow you insist the network is evil for exposing people you now ADMIT are frauds. That is you defending them. Sorry but the facts are in, you are defending scumbags, but you’ll never admit it. You lost, bye.
I said it was possibly all lies.
A lot of “reality shows” are full-out frauds
I said don’t believe everything you see on TV, ever heard of actors?
That was not specific to this program.
I doubt most of these shows are even real
I agree. I used to think these reality shows were real but I’ve heard enough to conclude they’re all fake. Cheaper to make than Soap Operas like General Hospital.
I kinda hope Sarah Palin’s reality show was real tho.
It’s not called Hellywood for nothing! ;o)
I have NO desire to watch that crap.
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