[SmithL]

Morfordite Alert

You have been warned!

[ZGuy]

This is a great strategy for that term paper or dissertation you're working on:

Start out by saying, "I haven't actually visited any of the places I'm going to be writing about . . ."

[thoughtomator]

Yet I wonder, has he ever been to a San Francisco gay bathhouse?

[headsonpikes]

After scanning Morford's ejaculations, I can only surmise that he would cheerfully, nay, ecstatically support the mega-churches, if only their architecture was not stadium like, but more .. well .. anus-themed.

Marky is one fixated lad. Sheesh!

[MinuteGal]

I confess my sin....I was warned and waded right in.

I was zotted with an ark full of dazzling adjectives and nouns, my headache knows no bounds.

Yea though I walk through this volley of deathless prose, I shall fear no evil, and may this nimrod and his staff dwell in the house of a slumlord forever.

Leni

[Not A Snowbird]

I have never been to a big creepy megachurch.

Yet he/she feels qualified to judge them.

[Not A Snowbird]

Frankly I'm astonished that he/she wrote a scathing article on megachurches and didn't ONCE mention Rick Warren. No even a veiled slap.

Rick must be losing his touch.

[NormB]

I love the way he writes in a mocking style,
EG. arm-raisin' godfearin' brainwashin'
So as to say that all Christians are ignorant rednecks.
You know, if I IMITATE an ethnic accent at work I could be disciplined or fired for discrimination,
but this guy can PRINT outright slander against a religious group and be praised for his forward thinking.

[darkangel82]

This has to be the most pathetic excuse for a newspaper column I have ever read. And he gets paid (probably more than I do) to write this trash?

[the OlLine Rebel]

"I have never been to World Changers in Georgia or New Birth Missionary Baptist in Texas or Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa or the Potter's House in Dallas or the Phoenix First Assembly of God, et al., all of which claim well over 15,000 regional followers (some 20,000 or even 30,000) and most of which operate much more like careening multitentacled corporations than humble homes of spiritual connection and love."



And I've never been to a GLAAD or PFLAG orgy or Fag Festival (aka Gay Pride Parade). Are they more like multi-tentacled (add the hyphen there, idiot) corporations than environments of spiritual connection and love?

[GovernmentShrinker]

And how is this different from major league sports franchises? Does Mr. Morford find those similarly creepy? If not, he needs to explain the difference, because I sure don't see any. Lots of people seem inclined to habitually whip themselves into a euphoric frenzy by gathering with a mindlessly hollering mob. I don't understand the attraction, but I do understand that it's the same phenomenon, regardless of the ostensible purpose of the gathering.

[conservativebabe]

trussell- fyi ping


I happen to enjoy Joel Osteen. His father brought that church up from nothing.

Somehow it's a bad thing that THAT many people want to go hear the word of God? I don't get it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

...and snatching up freshly published copies of "He Died for Your Crappy Little Sins so Put Down the Porn and Listen Up, Sicko,"

LOL! OK, Morford's a jerk, but that line did make me laugh...sounds like the title of the latest Jack Chick tract. ;)

[Clemenza]

Catholics have been building "megachurches" for over a thousand years, yet Morford all of a sudden just notices them? I guess she thinks that that tall building with the stain glass windows is a nightclub for heteros or something.