Posted on 03/14/2008 10:36:58 AM PDT by pissant
Doprah is proof that the idiot market is still highly profitable.
Why anyone listens to this woman is beyond me.
I sure hope that she isn't. I have never liked Oprah & I sure don't like the church she & Obama go to. Praying for all of us. I can not imagine what is going to happen to this country if Obama gets in. Shaking my head again.
Pissant, I am female, but I can think. I can even use logic and reason as well as emotion.
Oprah sometimes has some entertaining shows. When she stays in that sphere, her show is OK. When she goes into spiritual things, she is so New Age, it makes me sick. And her shows about personal issues, esp. marriage are dangerous.
I have friends who have left their husbands because they just were not getting out of the relationship what they needed. Everyone of them who left for this reason watched Oprah regularly for years. None of them said they got the idea to leave from her, but that permeates her show.
She has perpetrated dozens of diets and exercise programs on her unquestioning admirers who have struggled with weight problems. But most of the diets failed, the exercise programs were debunked, and Oprah has never successfully managed her own weight. She dishes out advice on love, marriage, and raising children - but she has never married and has no children. She claims to be a moral person - but has had years of an on-going affair, enjoying all the pleasures of marriage, without ever taking the vows, thereby advocating that living "in sin" is okay.
She attempts to figure out social and emotional problems of others, but has no formal training - and often makes broad proclamations about peoples' behavior that she is not qualified to make. Her words and suppositions echo in the ears of thousands who feel she actually knows something about the complexity of mental or emotional sicknesses that cause addictive, immoral or criminal behaviors, when she does not.
Particularly, however, she is not qualified to be any kind of leader, especially a spiritual one. Now connected with a questionable new religious movement, she wants to influence her followers to accept that this new religion, based on a person's own resourcefulness, not on God's gifts or hand, is a concept that should replace prayer and worship of Our Father. From a recent article on FR, March 7, 2008 - The World's "Most Dangerous" Spiritual Guru: Oprah Begins 10-Week Online New Age Class
However, Keller, and a number of other Christian pastors have begun to actively warn Christians that Oprah and Eckhart's teachings are by no means compatible with Christianity. "Oprah is now trying to be the spiritual guru to this nation," said Keller in an appearance on Fox. "Sadly, she is being used as a tool of Satan to lead millions of souls to hell with her false teachings."
Another pastor, James A. Smith Sr., writing in the Florida Baptist Witness, criticized Oprah's "spirituality" for its emphasis on the power of the individual to define truth and reality, and to totally control one's own life. "What this fails to acknowledge is that man dos not define reality; man does not determine what truth is," wrote Smith. "The source of truth for our decisions and power is the one true God of all reality and He has communicated plenary propositional truths to us in the Bible and remarkably, uniquely in His incarnation in Jesus Christ.
"Oprah, as with other New Agers, is not in pursuit and in communion with God."
I would have more respect for her if she had practiced and promoted a religious sect that had stood the test of ages, and was truly a spiritual, moral, and humble person herself. But, like most of the glamour set, Oprah has succumbed to and is flaunting one of the newly concocted, "designer" type religions that are faulting many of the old beliefs and traditions in the guise of showing people the way to success and moral living.
Oprah, wake up...you have traveled many roads, you have observed and experienced much...but you are still a little girl in the way you get suckered into things that are different and intriguing. Different and intriguing isn't always better, or right. Oprah, you've jumped on the wrong wagon this time. It is presumptuous and dangerous for you to want to take others along for this ride when you have no idea and no proof where the wagon is going.
“Second Great Awakening would originate from a New Age direction.”
We are about 60% of the way through the Fourth great Awakening and the fifth has already begun, possibly brought on a bit early by 9/11. The fifth GA is turning out to be somewhat Charismatic.
The New age stuff will burn out fairly quickly as it has no place to go and a crystal shortage develops.HEheheheh...
I must admit I look forward to the first show after her pastor’s videos were shown... Then I woke up and realized, she’s probably gonna give the Obama’s a tearful hour, the next day the reverend himself, followed by the choir/new hip-hop pastor Otis/several glowing members, next day the great work in the community and in Africa... of course, etc.
Later available on disc via Harpo to support Trinity.
I am on a mission to help my wife stop watching oprah. She does not watch religiously every day but she is still a watcher. She even tried to get tickets to the show.
Can anyone please send me something really incriminating on oprah? I have tried google searches but haven’t really hit paydirt. I have the stuff about the new age religion but I need another good issue to make this happen.
I have been trying to find an article linking oprah to abortion or planned parenthood with no luck. It was obama’s baby murdering ways that finally broke my wife’s fascination with him.
Please send me any help you can find.
What will happen when she tells her followers to drink the cyanide flavored Kool-Aid?
LOL! but not really true. I watched a few of her shows back in 89 or ‘90. A few of my female high school students at the time were watching her show (it came on after General Hospital, lol) so I watched to see what they found so interesting.
I did watch her “bra” show a few years ago but other than that never watch. I’ve talked to a few women/moms, who always use Oprah as their reference point - she seems to have a huge following, though.
Good post. She did have a good show on bras once.
It does seem she has a huge following of those who are missing something in their lives, as she is. She’s so anti white, and now Christian, from some of the articles I’ve read about her, surprises me so many women who follow her can’t or won’t see that. I know a few women who watch her show daily but most cringe when “Oprah” is brought up in conversation.
Hi Brad - nice name, my brother’s name also!
Does your wife go to church? Please look at these sites:
http://www.watchman.org/oprah.htm (to see what Oprah believes - she is not a Christian)
And also: http://www.geocities.com/cobblestoneministries/2005_CRM/ShouldChristiansWatchOprah.html
These would be people who never go to Church and spend their lives watching vapid, empty television shows like Oprah.
Sorry Joebuck but the influence of Oprah and new age ‘Christianity’ can be found throughout the church.
Mel
Not mine. Speak for yourself.
Good for you!
Beliefnet.com is a liberal “Christian” site with articles praising “Rev” Wright.
I wonder what her thoughts on Michael Jackson would be...
Oprah is evil.
And, like any devil, she’ll gladly feed you nine truths just so she can get the opportunity to inculcate that one big evil.
Oprah is the current opiate of the masses.
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