Dr. Robert Schuller has announced today that he's retiring and (I think) his son's going to take over the Crystal Cathedral.

Now Schuller should find a retired Rabbi and Priest to play golf with.

Dr. Robert Schuller has announced today that he's retiring and (I think) his son's going to take over the Crystal Cathedral.

Now Schuller should find a retired Rabbi and Priest to play golf with.

Nice of him spending all that money on a crystal cathedral while others are starving around the world.

He'd get much more popular with a crystal meth palace!
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Wonder what his retirement package looks like.

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Nice of him spending all that money on a crystal cathedral while others are starving around the world.


It's not like Jesus ever mentioned feeding the poor.  He repeatedly stated that exorbitant shrines should be built to God, spare no expense. 

After all, his father was a carpenter and could use the work.

It's not like Jesus ever mentioned feeding the poor.  He repeatedly stated that exorbitant shrines should be built to God, spare no expense. 

After all, his father was a carpenter and could use the work.

Precisely ... ;)
;D

Nice of him spending all that money on a crystal cathedral while others are starving around the world.


The poor will always be with us.

The poor will always be with us.


I suggest extermination camps.
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I suggest extermination camps.
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Send 'em to Cleveland...we could use some people after LeButthead left us!

The poor will always be with us.


Don't laugh.

Electronic Dream Factory, So, What of Tomorrow.

(starting at 2:40ish) "Some people, you know, have made some kind of vow of poverty.  Some people say 'Well, maybe if I prosper too much, I won't love the Lord'.  I don't know about you, but I can love the Lord a lot better when I have money to pay my bills and meet my needs."

(Sample source quiz: who the hell was that?!  The band was Canadian, for what it's worth, if the sampled preacher happened to have been local to southern Ontario.)

The song dates back to 1990, so the sampled preacher must date back further than that.  Way before the "prosperity Gospel" BS took over mainstream Christianity.  I'm all for greed, but I'm for the Gord Gekko style of greed:  be greedy, but be honest about being greedy.  The difference between the televangelists and me is that they'll be surprised when they burn.

Hey poor!
Hey poor!
You don't have to be poor anymore!
Jesus is here!
Jesus is here!

--Front 242
sampled televangelist

Hey poor!
Hey poor!
You don't have to be poor anymore!
Jesus is here!
Jesus is here!

--Front 242
sampled televangelist


Son of a bitch.  You made me google it, because the preacher in the EDF track really does sound like Ernest Angley (as sampled, at least according to this guy, in Front 242's Welcome to Paradise), doesn't it?  (How the hell is it that I never put those two together in 20+ years of nerding out to this stuff?  Wish this stuff had been archived by the fundies - because for all we know, it could have been sampled from the same damn (heh!) sermon.)

Given the late-80s/early-90s (read: pre-Internet) timing of the two tracks, I'm willing to call that a positive identification.  If I hadn't already karma'd you, karma for nailing something I've wondered on-and-off for 20 years, because that might also be the link between Angeley and Swaggart, and link Swaggart (and/or Angley, possibly both) as candidate(s) for the preacher(s) in Tackhead's 1986 epic Mind at the End of the Tether).

Son of a bitch.  You made me google it, because the preacher in the EDF track really does sound like Ernest Angley (as sampled, at least according to this guy, in Front 242's Welcome to Paradise), doesn't it?  (How the hell is it that I never put those two together in 20+ years of nerding out to this stuff?  Wish this stuff had been archived by the fundies - because for all we know, it could have been sampled from the same damn (heh!) sermon.)

Given the late-80s/early-90s (read: pre-Internet) timing of the two tracks, I'm willing to call that a positive identification.  If I hadn't already karma'd you, karma for nailing something I've wondered on-and-off for 20 years, because that might also be the link between Angeley and Swaggart, and link Swaggart (and/or Angley, possibly both) as candidate(s) for the preacher(s) in Tackhead's 1986 epic Mind at the End of the Tether).


Tackhead was awesome as was the Shamen's "Jesus Loves Amerika"! 

The dangerous thing about sampling Southern preachers is Southern preachers are fun to listen to, so the impressionable youth starts to seek out Southern preachermen.  I used to tune in to AM 1100 out of Wheeling, and those guys were wailing! "Oh mah gawd, lawdy, lawdy, lawdy, get Holy!  Get spir-i-tyewl  Get Hollllahhh!!!"

They had one preacher on there who liked to scream about how the Catholic church is the "whore of Babylon." 

Do you find it hard to talk through the bed sheet, Rev. Whatshisfug? 
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Son of a bitch.  You made me google it, because the preacher in the EDF track really does sound like Ernest Angley...

I can do one hell of a Rev. Angely impression. And his legacy will live on my Reverend character for my show "Bertstown" (From the healing to the wig...and he'll have some usage of Oral Roderts and Robert Schuller).