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Posted on 03/19/2013 11:40:11 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Angie Schuller Wyatt has issues. The granddaughter of Robert Schuller, the retired televangelist, the former pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, doesn’t like religion, doesn’t like socially conservative men and doesn’t much like her family.
She says so in her new, provocatively titled book, “God and Boobs: Balancing Faith and Sexuality,” which, she complains, the small-minded Christian publishing community “refused to publish.”
That’s because, the authoress asserts, hers “is the book about God that religious people don’t want you to read.”
And why so?
Well, says she, “Some argue it’s anti-God because of a cover that displays a woman’s bare back and the word boobs.” But her soft-core book cover is not the problem, she says. It’s the “religious opposition to a woman’s sexuality.”
That opposition comes primarily from men, says Wyatt. That includes the “prominent religious men” she knows, some of whom she asked to endorse her book, and none of whom were willing to do so.
It also includes her grandfather, father and brother, whom she disses as the “holy trinity in my family.” Though Wyatt counts herself “heir to this masculine dynasty,” she declares, “I’m of another fabric.”
And not just because she’s not named Robert, like her grandpa, dad and bro. But, she says, stating the obvious, “I also have boobs.”
A certified “spiritual director” (whatever that is), Wyatt says her “passion for serving God was met by a desire to be a sexy, strong and self-aware woman” (whatever that means).
She wants to “have faith and femininity.” To “feel sensual without shame.” To “break free from religious constraints.”
Reading between the lines, it seems to me that the author of “God and Boobs” thinks it perfectly acceptable in the eyes of God for a woman of faith to express her femininity by dressing like a pole dancer.
Like the scantily clad model on her book cover who, in an interview with Wyatt (which doesn’t appear in the book), professes to be a Christ follower in real life.
Wyatt also suggests there is nothing shameful in a woman’s sensuality. And I agree with her provided that those sensual feelings are not manifested in sexual promiscuity by unmarried women or adultery by married women.
And when Wyatt complains of religious constraints, it appears to me she is repudiating the Scripture advising that “women adorn themselves in modest apparel … which is proper for women professing Godliness, with good works.”
Women who break free, as the authoress urges, do so by selling their bodies (and their souls) to the ruler of this fallen world. We know them by their unGodly works – strippers, massage parlor girls, escorts, street walkers, porn actresses and, yes, even nearly nude models on book covers.
These women may think themselves “free.” But they really are in spiritual bondage.
Doesnt begin to compare with Catholic Church indulgences.
I don't get the desire to put her down with insults, though.
If what she says makes you think up ways to call her a whore, isn't that sort of proving her point? Certainly it's not refuting it.
Ditto for the interdenominational salvoes.
If you really think she's taken the wrong path, shouldn't you be praying for her and leave out the attacks?
Family Trust? Who do you think controls the purse-strings?
So that’s a “no” on providing a link to back up the accusation?
Oh C’mmon, indulgences date back to the early Church and the Acts of the Apostles. Sure, there were abuses that were a product of the culture then as there is now but monies went to construct Churches not the pockets and treasuries of personal family fortunes like the Schullers, Olsteens, and Grahams.
This is plain silly and shallow. What do you say to a grieving family? that their loved one is in hell? Everyone knows God forgives the repentant sinner even while taking his last breath like the thief on the right. Funeral prayers are just that, the hope that the deceased repented and begged for forgiveness in the hour of his death. Salvation comes through belief in Christ and his teachings handed down by the apostles and their successors with the Mass being the perfect prayer.
http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/celeb/televangelists/billy-graham-net-worth/
I am sorry, but then again you asked for it.
When someone says a man or woman’s “sexuality” I hear “gay”.
You implied Billy Graham was a huckster only interested in filling his bank account. As evidence you post a link showing that he’s rich. Are you sure you’re on the right website? To you rich = greedy charlatan? It doesn’t matter that the man has written dozens of best sellers? Or are Christians not allowed to be rich?
Getting rich off charitable organizations, and getting rich off selling books are two different things. Of course the line blurs when one is tied to the other. We have seen this with the Schullers and Osteens as well. It’s a standard marketing ploy very much like the “Get Well” info-commercials. You have someone speaking about diet and nutrition etc and then this is soon followed by a diet book. At bottom, these are all shallow preachers with “low-intellect” masses following them. You won’t find any Noble Laureates, renowned authors like GK Chesterton, sculptors, painters, artists, inventors, philosophers, scientists, great lawyers, doctors, theologians, saints, martyrs, and statesmen attach to their sophomoric teaching of scripture. If these “preachers’ deny the central truths of the Eucharist, the Catholic Mass, and the sacraments, all the rest is pure froth in a collection basket.
Now I see the problem. Thank you for clarifying.
Every catholic funeral I’ve been to, the priest talks about the newly deceased person is looking down on us from heaven. How the hell would he know? Many of these priests didn’t even know the deceased person. Comforting words definitely.
You get that kind of stuff at every funeral where the deceased has some kind of connection to a Christian church of some sort.
That's kind of a hot button for me. A lot of things get said at funerals that we really don't have warrant to say.
Leave Billy Graham out of that mix.
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