Money Makers
One of my students commented that he went to a televangelist’s webpage to see if he could get some tapes of her sermons. When he got there, he was disappointed to find out that the minimum “gift” acceptable to take advantage of her ministry to him was $25. I told him that it is unfortunate that this particular woman’s “ministry” IS a media industry ministry. That’s the point. To access what she has to offer from God, you have to go to where she’s at or pay to receive them. Unfortunately, television ministry (like campaign advertising) isn’t given to people for free; they have to pay for them. At some level, most of those expenses are paid from “product” sales. It’s sad that that’s the way it is and that they have to be so gimmicky, but with a world of paid television . . . what else is one to do. What scares me most is that they use homosexuals as their way to make more money. What has happened to the “religious right” and conservatives is that once communism fell, they didn’t have a fundraising mechanism anymore. You can’t keep writing books and selling audiotapes about the pending assault on America by the commies if there ARE NO commies. So, at the same time communism was falling and they were looking for a new enemy, the gay rights and women’s rights movements were swinging into their view and feminists/homosexuals became the new “enemy” aimed at destroying America. The money started coming in as they told people to support this new war. Expect all of it to get worse now that, with the last election, they REALLY won the war . . they own the presidency, the legislature, and soon will own the judiciary. People don’t give money if they think the war has already won. That’s why we’ve gotten all of this recent over-the-top fear mongering about “liberals trying to destroy CHRISTmas”. They need something to put on their “send us money, buy our books” commercials. These little petty things (and the other strides that gays are going to try to make over the next couple of years) are all they have left. Sigh.