Reply #10: oh booboo....I think I see what's wrong here.... [View All]

[pepperbear]

ok for the cheap seats

"It's an article about an issue that seems relevant in a culture so church-obsessed as ours."

it's the issue I am raving about, not the fact that they published it.

"It doesn't seem they take sides. what's the big deal here?"

I don't care if they take sides, I don't like THEIR side. I have that right.Uh I do have that right. why you're trying to turn this into some kind of quasi-free speech issue I have no idea. funny noone else posting in the thread is, so I guess your brain works differently. you come off like one those folks who just has to see the "other side" because you think it makes you more worldly and even keeled...nope. In this instance, falling for this malarkey would make you an ass hat (THAT IS, if you fell for it.

Oh and it's the perpetrators who espouse this way of thinking. Never said it was the article.


Did I say the problem was with the fact that it was published?

The cover is intended to grab the reader's attention. This one did a good job, I think. Did you even read the article?

Yes it does grab...but what if it had said something like...

FAITH AND MONEY or FAITH VS MONEY rather than does "god want you to be rich?" yep, attentionn grabbing, haughty, manipulaitve, and very tabloid considering the "evenness" of the article. That's just me, but catchy and attention grabbing are not always good things.

I have a problem with your entire premise. I don't care what time magazine writes. the hyperbole of "I don't even know why they give this kind of stuff the time of day" is legitimate, and I don't think for a minute that this isn't some kind of placation article. I don't need to put on a tin fucking hat to know that these guys want nothing More than to change us into the USJ.

These churches have press organizations too. if you can't se that it is just giving them publicity despite the "fair portrayal", well, here have a bridge.

Oh and yeah, I read the article. Still feel smug?

so basically you almost hijacked it, but ya didn't.

why so mean? because you're trying to embarrass me and make yourself look good. nothing constructive, nothignn wrthwhile, just bile.

bye.