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We're Presbyterian here. We had one big mill, destroyed that and now are looking at building lots of little mini-mills for profiteering and fun. I suppose we could build a mega-church to replace the mill, but that's not where the jobs are and we need jobs more than we need churches. We have a ton of churches. Hell, we have a ton of empty churches. It's looking like we'll have a ton of empty mega-malls as the economy cools and slows. Maybe they'll turn the malls into churches. The credit card infrastructure is in place there. Out this way, we were bringing in Mexican pesos by the truckload to make copper products. We are looking at growth in copper manufacturing well into the future. Brass is looking good too.

"I find it mind boggling. We do not shoot paper at the enemy." Admiral Joseph Metcalf

I understand the "mega churchs" all take all credit cards...in your name, but as the preachers say, in the name of God.

I watched her video. She seems like an interesting person but the idea of a God who Controls you is strange. Also when talking about life after death she described heaven as one big party. People who are locked into the body based position will tend to view a good time as "party time". If one is seriuos about transcendence and moves into the higher mind, and then to the understanding of the Self as Consciousness, would not talk about a big rumpus with God for eternity. The communication of yourself is always made from where you are now.

Pastor Osteen is the gal who decked the airline stewardess??

For her next sermon, some sobering facts:

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant/carpenter/ simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a mamzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus). Analyses of Jesus’ life by many contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen, On Faith panelists) via the NT and related documents have concluded that only about 30% of Jesus' sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic. The rest being embellishments (e.g. miracles)/hallucinations made/had by the NT authors to impress various Christian, Jewish and Pagan sects.

The 30% of the NT that is "authentic Jesus" like everything in life was borrowed/plagiarized and/or improved from those who came before. In Jesus' case, it was the ways and sayings of the Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, OT, John the Baptizer and possibly the ways and sayings of traveling Greek Cynics. www. earlychristianwritings.com/theories.html

For added "pizzazz", Catholic/Christian theologians divided god the singularity into three persons and invented atonement as an added guilt trip for the "pew people" to go along with this trinity of overseers. By doing so, they made god the padre into god the "filicider".

Current crises:

Pedophiliac priests, atonement theology and original sin!!!!

3. Luther, Calvin, Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley et al, founders of Christian-based religions, also suffered from the belief in/hallucinations of "pretty wingie thingie" visits and "prophecies" for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immaculate conceptions).

Current crises:

Adulterous preachers, "propheteering/ profiteering" evangelicals (e.g. the Osteens) and atonement theology. .