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July 27, 2007

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Mel C. Thompson

The shocking thing about Evangelical Conservative megachruches is not the wealth of the leaders. I don't oppose wealth. What I do oppose is the turning a bling eye to the greed culture of megachurches that is rationaized by a few weak verses, over and against the vast amount, the tidal wave, virutally, of scriptures saying the poor must be cared for. My experience of Evangelicals, after having been one, is that just like in every religion, there's a few good people, the vast majority are utterly materialistic and have wholesale abandoned the gospel of charity taught in the gospels. Instead they turn to that totally-clung-to, isolated verse of, "If we did not work, we did not eat." Verses like that are very rare, and that one was said in the context of himself and his co-missionaries. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fake rationalization that 90% of Evangelicals, when rationalizing their shocking narcissism and greed, recite that verse to justify their doing nothing for the poor.

I've lived in nine or ten counties in my life. And in all of them, basically the Evangelicals specialize in doctrinal bickering and their own exclusive salvations, and then, if they do charity work, they do it on the cheap overseas, and then let their neighbors starve without health care under the rationalization that those people "Don't work so they shouldn't eat." Truly, what a vast fraud the megachurch version of Christianity is.

Everywhere I see very conspicuous signs of Mormon charity, Catholic Charity, even Buddhist and Hindu and Muslim charity. And no, forcing your religion on people is not a charity, that's just you serving your own sect.

Evangelicals, with their money and power, and boy aren't they great at amassing it, could completely turn the tide and bring decent social services and medicine to a county just starving, starving, starving for it. But they won't. You should see these Republican Megachurch Christians in their hummers. What a vast fraud.

Sorry, you failed. I used to be an Evangelical, and, in the end, the doctrine obsession ruined it all. We ended up giving the world doctrines when it needed food. If Jesus comes back, truly, the Megachurches should be in for the very prime end of his wrath.

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