I'm not a member of the Church of Oprah. I don't watch her show; read books she recommends; and I'm not voting for Barack Obama.
The barf alert wasn’t really needed. Jeezo-peezo.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Oprah attend the same church that Obama attends?? They both have been getting the “word” from the good Rev. Wright for who knows how long.
I have not heard it personally, but Oprah has a radio talk show on one of the satalite radio stations with her friend Gail, and every now and then a racist remark gets out. Not sure is this is everyday, but I believe it’s not just a one time issue. She’s the one who brought Obama to the public eye, any agenda here? Hmmmmmmmm?
The blind leading the blind.
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"If Oprah were a white male, she would not be in the position she is today..."
I can say one thing for her, she has good advice on underclothes, but that's not a salvational issue!
Oprah is neither my ‘spiritual leader’ nor my pastor. Having said that, I must say, YOUR comment is rather piggish.
In his 1994-2024 predictions for that era, he said,
“...there will be a religious awakening, and important changes will take place in the spiritual and church system. There will be increased interest in areas to do with the mind and in spiritual healing and psychic development in a religious sense. Miracles will be commonplace, and religious healings in churches will be raised to a new level. New religious leaders will come forth – perhaps as many as three: One is likely to be other than white, and one will be a woman. Science and music will be very much a part of the new religious revival...
At the time of the publication of this book, everywhere I looked I saw bumper stickers that said, “I Found It”. This was a sign of the conservative religious revival that had begun in 1971 as a reaction to the Sexual Revolution. True believers told me that the Second Great Awakening was just around the corner.
However, when the Great Awakening occurred, it took place in the Islamic world, not in the Christian world. And al-Quaida pretty much poisoned the well for a conservative religious revival in the West. Polling shows that ordinary people now fear religious true believers, no matter what religion they espouse.
Osten’s prediction was that the Second Great Awakening would originate from a New Age direction. This would mean that the coming religious revival would originate not in the Bible but from such things as astrology, crystals and music therapy. In other words, it would be a revival of Gnosticism.
My gut instinct is that Osten got this one right. Oprah Winfrey is the woman predicted by him 32 years ago. She is one of the new religious leaders, along with Eckhardt Tolle. And once Barrack Obama loses and leaves politics, I expect him to become the black religious leader predicted.
It’s all about emotion, pissant! Logic and reason be hanged!
Okra ( yes I typed it right ) has power, money, media control, and a cult following. Sound to me like a false prophet.
Doprah is proof that the idiot market is still highly profitable.
Why anyone listens to this woman is beyond me.
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.
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.
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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?