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You're right about the bad guys giving the good guys a bad name.
I failed to make clear that what the Bible indeed calls wolves in sheep's clothing don't just exist in the televangelist community - as in, the Ted Haggards and (to go further back) Jimmy Swaggarts and Jim Bakkers. What my husband saw was local leaders of the rank-and-file behaving somewhat similarly - people who refused to improve themselves enough to be able to help support their families adequately, for example, then turning around and telling others how to live. Ted Haggard simply provided a recent, screamingly obvious example, by engaging in sex with a male prostitute (in a subculture that officially disapproves of gay sex), then turning around and leading a megachurch, and the National Association of Evangelicals. The only reason he had to 'fess up to what he did is that he was outed by the male hooker. Had he not been outed, he would have gone on for years behaving like that, as the rank-and-file leaders my husband observed did.
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kidnykid
on December 22, 2006 at 11:40 AM
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Interesting post.
When you mentioned televangelists as disreputable, I thought of the old saying about wolves in sheep's clothing. In fact, ravening wolves. The old "put your hand on the radio to be healed, and send money," gives a bad name to honest religious.
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Pat_B
on December 22, 2006 at 11:26 AM
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