Strip club king goes to church looking for votes

The ST. Petersburg Times ^ | July 17, 2006 | KEVIN GRAHAM

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

What kind of church is that to invite a strip club owner?

This coming from a not so holy roller.

[I still care]

You know all those churches you see on the TBN type networks, where psyching up is the name of the game?

It's got a lot of people, and I am sure there are some true Christians in it, but when I saw Paula White shaking her leg out in front of the pulpit, pointing at it and screaming, "That's the Holy Spirit!" - words fail me.

[Armando Guerra]

Here is another story about Randy and his wife pitching health supplements. They are "prosperity preachers" who are not ashamed to live in a multi-million dollar mansion in the ritzy part of Tampa. He drives a Bentley and she drives a Mercedes. I believe they are considered to have the fastest growing congregation in the country.

http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB235AO6NE.html

[FRONTLINER]

False prophets ?

[stephenjohnbanker]

""Joe Redner is not a practicing politician. I like that about him," :

He might be a drug dealer tho. Many strippers use drugs.

"He's a man of integrity. He's never lied to me."

What about a meth dealer who tells you the truth?

[wizr]

What kind of church?

It was also televised. Sounds to me like the Church of the Almighty Dollar.

[Kenny Bunkport]

The Church of What's Happenin' Now.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

Sounds like they are "health and wealth" type preachers..am I correct?

[ozzymandus]

Wow. Lots of really "tolerant" Christians here, aren't there?

[MEGoody]

Without Walls International Church

Sounds Unitarian to me. No wonder they'd allow a strip club owner to speak there.

[moonman]

Paula White pastored Michael Jackson and Daryl Strawberry.

[N. Theknow]

Went to church for all the thong reasons.

[MEGoody]

Lots of really "tolerant" Christians here, aren't there?

Show me where in the bible it says Christians are to tolerate sin?

I won't hold my breath, because it's not there.

[Shimmer128]

Tolerance becomes crime when applied to evil. Thomas Mann

May I add "becomes a sin and crime" when applied to evil.
You have a problem with that?

[ozzymandus]

I have a problem with belligerent self-righteous bible-beaters who ask questions like "You have a problem with that?"

I also remember something about "casting the first stone", but that was just Jesus, who probably isn't enough of an authority on Christianity for you.

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Bishop White is actually a bastor, busy perverting the purpose and function of a Christian church.

[demsux]

Revoke the church's tax exempt status.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Remembering a verse in the bible isn't very helpful.

We aren't condemning the man to death, or seeking to punish him.

But christians are to discern good from evil, to espouse the good and reject the evil, to flee temptation. We aren't saying the state should force TBN off the air, we are just saying their message is not christianity, their approach is evil, and calling them a "christian church" is an affront to real christians everywhere.

We "tolerate" them just fine, because we don't seek to destroy them. We don't "accept" them or their message, which is an entirely DIFFERENT thing than "tolerating", which as South Park so correctly described, means to "put up with something you find reprehensible".

[Dante3]

This sound more like a fake church, one of those scams set up to get tax exemption, etc.

[Tax-chick]

What about a meth dealer who tells you the truth?

Well, isn't that better than a self-righteous, judgmental hypocrite? (ahem)