I looked at your attachment, but it is very long and I have too many irons in the fire right now to read it all. Maybe in a few days.

But I did notice mention of author Rick Warren, who doesn't look like a preacher, but sometimes sounds like one. (What does a preacher look like?) His highly reguarded book has been rather successful and I'm sure the money is still pouring in. Maybe he will use it the way preachers should use windfall funds.

But I sometimes wonder about preachers who spend a lot of time on TV and writing books. I wonder about their lifestyle and who is paying for it. Are they poor, desperate people who feel like they have nowhere else to turn?

So many so-called "television ministries" are just fleecing the suckers for profit. I like preachers who remain in the same small church year after year, drive a 5-year-old Ford, preach on Sunday, and visit the old and sick during the week. The poorer his church*, the better I like him. When he begins to grow wealthy, I will probably scratch him off my list.

But that's just me.
Howard
*Church - the people, not the building.

> > On CNN just now they were talking about a new video game. The object of it is to kill Mexicans as they cross the border. The head of the company says it has been quite successful. I think they said you get extra points if the Mexican is a pregnant woman.
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> > It had very crude graphics, like maybe the programmer wasn't highly skilled, or was using a 20th Century computer.
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> > There was more about games where you kill black people and another one where you kill anybody who isn't white. I think this stuff is a bit beyond freedom of expression.
> > Howard
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> Not that I make a habit of ressurecting old threads, but this seems relevant - Left Behind: Eternal Force.
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> "Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life."