[reagan_fanatic]

WORLD for two decades has reported stories around this country of compassionate evangelicals who must be dumb, because they've spent their lives in a racket that's yielded them almost no money. They've adopted hard-to-place children, built AIDs orphanages in Africa, helped addicts and alcoholics to turn their lives around, transformed the lives of teens who were heading into drugs and crime, and much besides.

A point that often gets overlooked in a world full of Benny Hinns and Jan Crouches. Most churches and most Pastors are hard working and frugal. My Church supports a number of missionaries around the world, has an active AIDS ministry and an active youth ministry that has helped hundreds of kids lost in drugs and sex to straighten out their lives. Most of these people would be classified as middle class - not rich.

Unfortunately, good deeds don't draw the amount of attention that the charlatans and crooks do, a fact that ignorant atheists like Hitchens use to their full advantage.

[Caleb1411]

Unfortunately, good deeds don't draw the amount of attention that the charlatans and crooks do, a fact that ignorant atheists like Hitchens use to their full advantage.

It's gotta be willful ignorance. As much evidence (you've cited but one of myriad examples) as there is and as bright and journalistically astute as Hitchens is, there's no excuse for his myopia.

[keats5]

“A point that often gets overlooked in a world full of Benny Hinns and Jan Crouches. Most churches and most Pastors are hard working and frugal”

Thank you.

The materialistic pastors stand out because they are unusual. Most live modest home lives.

[radioman]

Unfortunately, good deeds don't draw the amount of attention that the charlatans and crooks do,

If good Christians would just speak out against the charlatans and crooks this growing anti Christian sentiment wouldn't exist.
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