Whatever the guy who blabbed lied about, to fail that lie detector test, it doesn't seem to have precluded this New Church thingy from declaring their own investigation showing him to have acted with "Sexual Immorality". Not just Immorality, in which Meth might be the cause, and there ain't no sin in a massage per se, so we have to figure the accuser added something beyond truth to his story but nevertheless had enough truth to fry this guy in his own pan. OK.
Now, must admit I had never heard of this chap before this event. Montana is not exactly deep in revival country, and the Puget Sound even less so, and so my once familiar understanding of the evangelical set has dwindled down to a happy near nothingness. So I have to ask, how important, powerful, etc..., was this guy? Is he sort of like how Swaggart was a decade and a half ago? Was he a player in the public scene [as opposed to the private obscene]? Should this concern me more than simply, as it does now, as just another of the many indicators of the sorry lack of fibre of contemporary christianity?
Saturday, November 04, 2006
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Don't know, AA. I never heard of the guy before, either. Question, though. How come all these evangelical honchos look like Rock Hudson or something? My mental image of a priest is someone with a long beard, not the type of guy that seems to pop up in the evalengical set.
You guys had your frauds too, AI.
Frankly, I always thought there was something kinda sissy about Jesus' sayings. Didn't Nietzsche say something like this? In Tex-Mex it's pretty natural.
At least, Rasputin was shagging the Russian Queen, as the song goes. Sounds more on the up and up to me.
He was also selling her snake oil by the tun.
What snake oil, and what tun? I'm a loss with this history lesson, JJ. Maybe you're thinking of snake?
At any rate, Rasputin, the mad monk, was clearly an abberation. Of course, in any sufficiently large group of people, however you pick them, you'll find some weirdos or worse. The point is whether one can discern a pattern there, not whether one can focus on a juicy exception to the rule. If you get lost with this line of reasoning, JJ, ask AA for a lesson in Stats 101. Powwww!
I think when you give churchmen political power you have an aberration when they act rationally.
As to Rasputin, he screwed up the Romanovs by claiming that his special Jesus powers could cure hemophilia.
So far, medical science has not backed him up though his XYN may have proven an attraction for the czarina outstripping his medical prowess.
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