To: MarkBsnr
If that were even remotely true, how do you explain Swaggart and Baker and Roberts and Osteen and Hagee and.... Easy, they are selling what people want to hear. Their theology is often more about "What God can do for you in this world!". It is more pop culture than actually religion.
274 posted on
08/10/2009 6:10:29 PM PDT by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: redgolum
***If that were even remotely true, how do you explain Swaggart and Baker and Roberts and Osteen and Hagee and....
Easy, they are selling what people want to hear. Their theology is often more about “What God can do for you in this world!”. It is more pop culture than actually religion.***
Ever been to a new wave Christianity meeting? The swaying and cheering and the enrapted crowd and the other mob aspects do not differentiate them with any great distance from such as Santaria or the early Nazi meetings.
278 posted on
08/10/2009 6:20:53 PM PDT by
MarkBsnr
( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
To: redgolum; PugetSoundSoldier; MarkBsnr; kosta50
Their theology is often more about "What God can do for you in this world!". It is more pop culture than actually religion.
yes, but they DO fulfil a need. This IS a failing on the part of us conservatives. We should NOT water down or "liberalise" our theology to suit the flavour of the moment. We should state proudly -- we've been this way since 33 AD and we intend to remain this way, in accordance with God's plan
300 posted on
08/11/2009 6:36:17 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delendae sunt + Jindal 2K12)
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