Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00301)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> I have noted
> that the evangelical Christian literature about things like the New 
Age
> Movement, neo-paganism, and, for that matter, Theosophy has become 
MUCH
> more accurate; they too have realized that if you need lies to 
bolster
> your arguments, then you don't have much of an argument to begin 
with.

It may be worth mentioning here that Christians attack people, not 
because they disagree or disapprove (although I am sure they do both) 
but because that is what makes those coins and bills fall into the 
alms plate.

Some years ago for I was channel surfing and happened to turn on Pat 
Robertson's salvation show. I have no recollection why I did not 
turn it off. His show has no appeal for me whatever. I was probably 
defrosting something in the microwave or something. Anyway, before I 
changed channels, Robertson put an advertisement on for what was made 
to appear to be a soft core porno film disguised as a documentary 
about homosexuals. That the FCC would let Robertson advertise porno 
films on his show amazed ne, and that it woud be advertised 
on "christian" television show notes for unusually pompous moralizing 
anazed me even more. Naturally I turned Robertson off as I always 
do. Keeping him and Jerry Falwell out of my consciousness is a form 
of mental hygiene I practice. Sometime later I subscribed to DETAILS 
magazine and there was an article therein by the man who started this 
whole thing.

I am giving this from memory, but the way he explained it, Falwell's 
revenues started drying up. Those guys live like kings so that was a 
disaster. You know when Swaggart's revenues started declining he had 
to give up some of his personal airplanes and his personal mansions 
and stay at home instead of visitng so many whores. So Falwell 
naturally wanted to find a way to boost revenies and someone came up 
with this anti-homo campaign of his. Falwell was the one who started 
it, Robertson saw it work and jumped on the bandwagon to increase his 
income as well, and the article confirmed that the video I saw 
advertised was pornographic. What was even more amazing was that at 
$29.95 a crack, Robertson could not keep them in stock. They were 
just literally flying off the shelves. The punch line of course was 
that the man hired to manage the campaign (the author of the article) 
was himself a homo who came out for the purpose of embarrassing 
Falwell.

One would think just being Falwell would be embarrassing enough.