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You really shouldn't be touching your own chode that much either.
'God wants you to be rich' makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
You really shouldn't be touching your own chode that much either.
That's nice to know Marcus.
Knowing that God will love me whether I'm rich or poor makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. So do newborn babies, little kittens and hot cocoa. Primadonnas who delay my flights because someone's chode was on their tray and can't figure out how a napkin works, causing me to miss my connecting flights, make me want to choke a .
So, this thread went from:
1. Rich gal allegedly has a hissy fit on a flight causing her removal
2. Questions as to why she wasn't charged
3. SW admitting she's a "diva" who can't control impulse shopping
4. Debate about Osteen's husband being a "false prophet"
5. Class warfare debate
6. Mookie wanting someone to play with his chode
This thread has a really wierd stream of consciousness thing going on.
Carry on.
Basically, I feel that 'ministries' like Osteen's and Hagee's do a disservice to the faith. Both preach a sensationalized version of Christianity and both have gotten wealthy off their ministries through broadcasts and associated products. At least Hagee does advance the notion that Christianity is not all peaches and cream.
Still, both give critics of the faith ample ammunition to castigate Christianity and they also create the potential for plenty to give up on the faith altogether after their experience with Osteen or Hagee's ministry.
I guess, but sometimes it itches.
How does mookie convert threads into chode topics??? Amazing....
who knew?
chode
dammit
now I have to start using some word totally out of context for yall to hijack
The female analog for the chode is much more useful because you can just pick them up by it and carry them around like a six-pack.
The graphic for this was unnecessary....
Knowing that God will love me whether I'm rich or poor makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. So do newborn babies, little kittens and hot cocoa. Primadonnas who delay my flights because someone's chode was on their tray and can't figure out how a napkin works, causing me to miss my connecting flights, make me want to choke a .
I always thought i was quite dedicated in my religion... spiritually set up for life.
buit now i am seriosly considering throwing it all out the window and worshiping you.
I am so glad that wasn't a video link.
I have never agreed more with MB than on this thread
ES and SW make very good points too
I don't understand how people who call themselves Christians don't take offense with people who: (i) became Pastors simply to make money, and (ii) preech a false Gospel, specially one that puts so much emphasis on money.
nevermind
just please notice exactly WHO is focused squarely on the MONEY in this thread.
dont judge me
Im just jealous of white people and their money
because their tahoes and hissyfits on airplanes are keeping me from my dreams
I have never agreed more with MB than on this thread
ES and SW make very good points too
I don't understand how people who call themselves Christians don't take offense with people who: (i) became Pastors simply to make money, and (ii) preech a false Gospel, specially one that puts so much emphasis on money.
Cause it's Marcus's logic that refuses to see that GOD can and will bless his children....
I pointed him to JOB and he ignored me...
I pointed him to King Solomon and he ignored me...
He just has chosen to ignore the rest of Osteen's messages.... wait he hasn't really sat through one... hmm I can sniff credibility issues here.... Marcus has vehemently stuck to his point "Osteen is a false prophet blah blah blah...." without giving one bit of evidence... and that is considered a good point??? it's an argument without basis in my book... his only argument is biased because it is based on only one of Osteen's central themes.
NOW having said that, I will reinstate what I said in an earlier post; that it is rather unfortunate that these large congregations exist in the first place... IT is much harder to work and contribute when there are so many members.... Some of them, like I mentioned in said post, attend those churches simply out of laziness.... it is much easier for them to recieve recieve recieve without giving or doing much... they hide among the masses. They are not accountable or responsible for anything... as a result those members remain spiritually stagnant.
My church, on the other hand, has about 130 members and everyone is responsible for a ministry (even some of the children)... again, churches are supposed to teach you spiritual accountability as well as responsibility... this is much more difficult when you are surrounded by 30,000 people and when your communication with the spiritual counselor (i.e. the pastor) is a rarity.
I don't condone the fact that some pastors earn millionaire salaries... but I'm not going to judge their church's prosperity either.... As far as I know they donate many millions of dollars to charitable organizations. And as a whole they are doing their part.
I don't condone of Osteen's wife's hissy fit either... but based on some of the interviews of passengers who witnessed the scandal (a later report) they claim the stewardess is the one who blew it out of proportion... the first report only stated what happenned and left much to the imagination...
Anyway smeagol this isn't a proplem confined to 'evangelicals'... I don't particularly agree with the superfluous excesses doned by vatican officials or the pope.... I mean c'mon... the Pope sits on a golden throne.... and wears vestiments threaded from silver fibers.
I know you've been trying to learn about evangelical Christianity... just don't toss us all on the same boat.
Victoria is not exactly the beacon of opportunity.
May I suggest Cuero.
weirdly enough.
Victoria has the most millionaires per capita of any other Texas city.
freaky.
ofcourse all you need is 1mil to count as a millionaire.. and not all cash either, it could be property.
Watching all the old-oil-money millionaires tooling around in their Tahoes has made mookie the man he is today.
uhhh...merry christmas, y'all...?
and there are alot of tahoes down there!
and expeditions, suburbans, excursions, etc etc.
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