[AVNative]

The Door Magazine, alas, though it has an internet site at www.thedoormagazine.com, does not load all its articles onto its site. Not to fear, though. . . I spotted this lil' jewel on page 39 and - voila! - you now get a small part of my snail mail subscription for essentially nada. (OK, so I plugged The Door - what else was I supposed to do?) (wry grin)

Hope this provides an appropriate humor break, and yet on deeper levels, offers more than mere humor. Political animals of all stripes practice many if not all of these things, I fear. Televangelists and used car salesmen, move over! Looks like you have company. . .

[ConservativeMan55]

Bump!

[AVNative]

ping

[bethelgrad]

The Door's pretty funny. Our seminary subscribes to it so I get to read a hard copy for free. Only problem is you can only take the parody so far before it all gets old hat.

[dix]

Sorry, but I am taking this with a huge grain of salt. Not because I am a televangelist, but I have been a salesman for thirty years, and those bullet points need a little work.

[punster]

Here's another good one:

The Jewish man comes to see the rabbi. He is really frantic, he wails, "Rabbi! Rabbi! I don't know what my son is going to become. He doesn't seem to be interested in anything!"

The rabbi listens to the man's tale of woe. Finally, he says, "When you go home tonight, put a Torah, a hundred dollar bill, and a bottle of whiskey on the table. Observe what your son does. If your son picks up the Torah, he will become a noted rabbi. If your son picks up the hundred dollar bill, he will become a successful financier. If he picks up the bottle of whiskey, your son will become a drunken bum."

The Jewish man is very happy, because he now has a way to determine what his son will do with his life.

However, a week later, he returns to see the rabbi again. This time, he is even more frantic than before. He wails, "Rabbi! Rabbi! I don't know what I am going to do, I still don't know what my son will become. He came home. He picked up the Torah, he picked up the hundred dollar bill, and he picked up the bottle of whiskey. What does that mean?"

The rabbi gets a very sad look and his face, and sadly tells the Jewish man, "I am deeply sorry, but your son will become a television evangelist."

[BibChr]

My favorite Door article ever was titled (I've a terrible memory for numbers) "How to Spend Twenty Million Dollars."

On the left column, it had a bunch of things — start a missionary seminary, fund __ missionaries, build a hospital, and on and on and on. Each had an amount. Grand total: twenty million dollars.

The right column had only one entry: Build a big glass church. Grand total: twenty million dollars.

It was a very on-target sendup of Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral. (I call it, less charitably, "The Glass Abomination.")

Dan