Word: preacher
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...preacher railed against secular humanism and the Big Bang theory to choruses of "Amen" from the congregation. I squirmed in my seat, mortified by the thought that our group would return to Harvard remembering the church service as evidence that all West Virginians are gullible and naive. I hoped that my classmates would remember the piety, the charity, the resourcefulness, the selflessness and the perseverence that were evident in the community where we stayed...
...wished that the preacher would shut up before he embarassed me any further...
Especially ironic is the book's indictment of another celebrity, Jimmy Swaggart, the Louisiana preacher who has specialized in charging rival preachers with heresy. The book faults Swaggart -- who continues to broadcast despite his public disgrace after frequenting a New Orleans prostitute -- for confusing Christianity's classical definition of the Trinity. Swaggart is slammed for asserting that the unity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is limited "strictly to their being one in purpose, design and desire" and neglecting the traditional Christian teaching that the Trinity is also of one "substance." Sounding more like a Mormon than a Bible...
Most Prurient Preachers. Holy Hypocrisy! America's first televangelist Jim Bakker paid some $265,000 to cover up a sexual misadventure. Later he was convicted of misspending millions of followers' dollars. Rival preacher Jimmy Swaggart called the Bakker scandal a cancer. That was before Swaggart was photographed visiting a prostitute named Debra Murphree. According to Murphree, he was "kind of perverted . . . I wouldn't want him around my children...