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To a Laurel & Hardy, Charlie Chaplin Comic Show I choose Televangelists’ Comic Show! How about you?
To a Laurel & Hardy, Charlie Chaplin Comic Show I choose Televangelists’ Comic Show! How about you?
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When they parade witnesses and monitor their statements with promptings, wail without tears, telling convincing lies, misinterpret and quote from Holy Bible, distort their faces with their eyebrows dancing, jumping and walking up and down, claim that they cured Aids, Cancer etc., through prayer brokering, assert that students jumped from zero to hundreds in examinations by becoming partners in their private empire building programmes, I laugh out loud and at the next moment cry at the naivety and ignorance of my brethren. Just try one comic show for a change and answer how right or wrong I am!
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You are SOOO right. I am a Christian solid as a rock and I watch those shows and alternately laugh out loud and want to throw my shoe through the screen. I think that they are mostly servants of Satan. They have so twisted a message of tolerance and kindness. They sow only anger and disgust and are a rotten representative of the messenger of peace, satisfaction and serenity.
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1. It is a pity that here in Spain we don’t have those shows...they are so funny, I like when people start shouting and raising their arms...it is so crazy! and one always wonders is the public in those circuses paid???
2. Agree with you 100%. I'm still anxiously waiting to see an evangelist prance around, exaggerating his speech far more worse than Capt. Kirk that an emergency medical attendant with an oxygen tank will have to strut besides him
3. You are describing politicians, liberals, athei's., scientist, evolutionist and an whole cadre of left leaning humanistic host.
4. Television entertainment programs mention God more often than they did in the mid-1990s but tend to depict organized religion negatively, a study released Thursday said. The Parents Television Council watched every hour of prime-time on the broadcast networks during the 2003-04 season and logged 2,344 treatments of religion. They judged 22 percent of the mentions positive, 24 percent negative and the rest neutral.
The conservative group's last study, released in 1997, found far fewer mentions of the topic — an average of once per hour compared to three times per hour last season.
But any mention of a religious institution or member of the clergy was at least twice as likely to be negative than positive, the council said.
"Ninety percent of the American people believes in God," said Brent Bozell, the council's president. "It is an important issue to most people. Hollywood is attacking the very thing that they consider important in their own lives. Perhaps Hollywood ought to be changing its world view."
Negative examples varied widely: from comic Jimmy Kimmel joking on the American Music Awards that winners should resist thanking God, to a Catholic priest admitting on "The Practice" that he had had sex with a woman who was later murdered.
Well-publicized scandals about pedophile priests made Catholics particularly vulnerable, the council found.
"Catholicism is in the bulls-eye of the entertainment medium," Bozell said.
His group singled out NBC, saying its mentions of religion were nearly 10 times more likely to be negative than positive. "Law & Order" episodes, which tend to have stories, ripped from the headlines, helped skew those numbers, the group said.
Bozell noted, however, that one of the negative NBC examples the PTC cited — Karen on "Will & Grace" quipping, "let's go buy that historic church and turn it into a gay bar" — reflected as poorly on the character as on religion.
An NBC spokeswoman, Shannon Jacobs, said the network hadn't seen the study but rejected its conclusion. NBC's programming reflects the diversity of its audience, she said.
"It is never our intention to appear, nor do we accept the notion that we are, anti-religious," she said.
Among the positive examples, the PTC cites a "JAG" episode where a character prays to God to say hello to her dead mother, and an "American Dreams" episode where an actor playing a medical student says a surgery is partially in God's hands.
Bozell said he's not suggesting that all television programming "ought to be about St. Teresa" or even be all positive about religion, but that Hollywood should keep in mind the overall picture it presents to viewers. Parents Television Council: PTC
5. Most of television religion is of the devil. Preachers preach a Jesus that says, 'come and get it", instead of the real Jesus that said to "take up your cross and DENY yourselves'. They talk a lot more about the abundant life for right here and now, instead of eternal life, and I don't even remember the last time a preacher on TV or radio preached a sermon on hell, oh it might offend the viewers or listeners. All these big shot televangelists, and I won't mention any names, with rings on every finger, private jets, thousand dollar suits, alligator shoes, driving around in Rolls Royces, living in mansions, and an air conditioner for their dog house, being driven around in limos, while at the same time asking the viewers to send them money as a seed. You don't see them denying themselves. They do not represent Jesus Christ at all. Most of what is on so called Christian TV caters to the flesh, and in fact, I quit watching "Christian" television. Most of those televangelists live deliciously, "whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." {Philippians 3:19}. Most of them use a perversion of God's word {NIV, NASB,RSV etc,} instead of the Authorized KJV. I had heard some of them say that God wants us to be rich, while Jesus said, "woe unto the rich", and "blessed be ye poor". It is dangerous to watch so called Christian TV programs. If Jesus Christ Himself was to preach on some so called Christian TV program, not that He would ever consent to be on it, but if He did, He wouldn't be allowed back on, and if my pastor who is the Godliest man I know was to preach on TV, that program would lose viewers. Most of tv "Christianity" is "Hollywood Christianity".
6. What about televangelists and evangelic bible-thumpers? What about the Pat Buchanans, the Jerry Falwells, and the Jim Bakers and Pat Robertsons, the Hare Krishnas and the Oral Roberts, and all the other fallen angels of deceit? Are not some of them at this very moment bailing out and parachuting toward an upcoming Third-Party fiasco? Will not some of them eventually arrive back in their pews and pulpits ranting and raving to their captive throngs, while wearing coats of many colors and sheepskins on their bare arms--hiding what they really are--myth-Sayers and seers of the cloth--wearing very dark glasses--observing straight ahead while using only blind hindsight and ancient doctrines? Do they not typify the defeated Christian Coalition--the Cultists of the far right?
7. Thy God: Again? Aw man… Okay, no, don’t pick at it! No, no… NO! Alright, calm down, no more tears God. Who’s a big deity? You are!Alright, now put your elbow on something to steady your arm… good… now go in slow. Don’t look at it! You’ll flinch if you look at it!
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You are SOOO right. I am a Christian solid as a rock and I watch those shows and alternately laugh out loud and want to throw my shoe through the screen. I think that they are mostly servants of Satan. They have so twisted a message of tolerance and kindness. They sow only anger and disgust and are a rotten representative of the messenger of peace, satisfaction and serenity.
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1. It is a pity that here in Spain we don’t have those shows...they are so funny, I like when people start shouting and raising their arms...it is so crazy! and one always wonders is the public in those circuses paid???
2. Agree with you 100%. I'm still anxiously waiting to see an evangelist prance around, exaggerating his speech far more worse than Capt. Kirk that an emergency medical attendant with an oxygen tank will have to strut besides him
3. You are describing politicians, liberals, athei's., scientist, evolutionist and an whole cadre of left leaning humanistic host.
4. Television entertainment programs mention God more often than they did in the mid-1990s but tend to depict organized religion negatively, a study released Thursday said. The Parents Television Council watched every hour of prime-time on the broadcast networks during the 2003-04 season and logged 2,344 treatments of religion. They judged 22 percent of the mentions positive, 24 percent negative and the rest neutral.
The conservative group's last study, released in 1997, found far fewer mentions of the topic — an average of once per hour compared to three times per hour last season.
But any mention of a religious institution or member of the clergy was at least twice as likely to be negative than positive, the council said.
"Ninety percent of the American people believes in God," said Brent Bozell, the council's president. "It is an important issue to most people. Hollywood is attacking the very thing that they consider important in their own lives. Perhaps Hollywood ought to be changing its world view."
Negative examples varied widely: from comic Jimmy Kimmel joking on the American Music Awards that winners should resist thanking God, to a Catholic priest admitting on "The Practice" that he had had sex with a woman who was later murdered.
Well-publicized scandals about pedophile priests made Catholics particularly vulnerable, the council found.
"Catholicism is in the bulls-eye of the entertainment medium," Bozell said.
His group singled out NBC, saying its mentions of religion were nearly 10 times more likely to be negative than positive. "Law & Order" episodes, which tend to have stories, ripped from the headlines, helped skew those numbers, the group said.
Bozell noted, however, that one of the negative NBC examples the PTC cited — Karen on "Will & Grace" quipping, "let's go buy that historic church and turn it into a gay bar" — reflected as poorly on the character as on religion.
An NBC spokeswoman, Shannon Jacobs, said the network hadn't seen the study but rejected its conclusion. NBC's programming reflects the diversity of its audience, she said.
"It is never our intention to appear, nor do we accept the notion that we are, anti-religious," she said.
Among the positive examples, the PTC cites a "JAG" episode where a character prays to God to say hello to her dead mother, and an "American Dreams" episode where an actor playing a medical student says a surgery is partially in God's hands.
Bozell said he's not suggesting that all television programming "ought to be about St. Teresa" or even be all positive about religion, but that Hollywood should keep in mind the overall picture it presents to viewers. Parents Television Council: PTC
5. Most of television religion is of the devil. Preachers preach a Jesus that says, 'come and get it", instead of the real Jesus that said to "take up your cross and DENY yourselves'. They talk a lot more about the abundant life for right here and now, instead of eternal life, and I don't even remember the last time a preacher on TV or radio preached a sermon on hell, oh it might offend the viewers or listeners. All these big shot televangelists, and I won't mention any names, with rings on every finger, private jets, thousand dollar suits, alligator shoes, driving around in Rolls Royces, living in mansions, and an air conditioner for their dog house, being driven around in limos, while at the same time asking the viewers to send them money as a seed. You don't see them denying themselves. They do not represent Jesus Christ at all. Most of what is on so called Christian TV caters to the flesh, and in fact, I quit watching "Christian" television. Most of those televangelists live deliciously, "whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." {Philippians 3:19}. Most of them use a perversion of God's word {NIV, NASB,RSV etc,} instead of the Authorized KJV. I had heard some of them say that God wants us to be rich, while Jesus said, "woe unto the rich", and "blessed be ye poor". It is dangerous to watch so called Christian TV programs. If Jesus Christ Himself was to preach on some so called Christian TV program, not that He would ever consent to be on it, but if He did, He wouldn't be allowed back on, and if my pastor who is the Godliest man I know was to preach on TV, that program would lose viewers. Most of tv "Christianity" is "Hollywood Christianity".
6. What about televangelists and evangelic bible-thumpers? What about the Pat Buchanans, the Jerry Falwells, and the Jim Bakers and Pat Robertsons, the Hare Krishnas and the Oral Roberts, and all the other fallen angels of deceit? Are not some of them at this very moment bailing out and parachuting toward an upcoming Third-Party fiasco? Will not some of them eventually arrive back in their pews and pulpits ranting and raving to their captive throngs, while wearing coats of many colors and sheepskins on their bare arms--hiding what they really are--myth-Sayers and seers of the cloth--wearing very dark glasses--observing straight ahead while using only blind hindsight and ancient doctrines? Do they not typify the defeated Christian Coalition--the Cultists of the far right?
7. Thy God: Again? Aw man… Okay, no, don’t pick at it! No, no… NO! Alright, calm down, no more tears God. Who’s a big deity? You are!Alright, now put your elbow on something to steady your arm… good… now go in slow. Don’t look at it! You’ll flinch if you look at it!
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