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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 12:27 AM
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Mammon is a Pervert: "Free Market Theology" What is this?
http://www.harpers.org/SoldiersOfChrist.html

Jeff Sharlet's article is a very fun read, an excellent piece of writing, lots of information and detail. Here's one: " . . . Here in the World Prayer Center is a print of The Vessel, a tall, vertical panel of two nude, ample-breasted, white female angels team-pouring an urn of honey onto the shaved head of a naked, olive-skinned man below. The honey drips down over his slab-like pecs and his six-pack abs into the eponymous vessel, which he holds in front of his crotch. But the vessel can't handle that much honey, so the sweetness oozes over the edges and spills down yet another level, presumably, onto our heads, drenching us in golden, godly love. . . ."
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rwenos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 12:31 AM
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1. Perversion is the Word
Thanks for the link, by the way. Makes chilling reading. Puts together evangelical Protestant doctrine and laissez-faire economics. Must be like cocaine to true believers -- because it tells them it's OKAY TO SCREW EVERYONE TO GET RICH!

Beware of false prophets, who inwardly are ravenous wolves.
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