Talking about religion AGAIN dave? yes, yes i am! Today im talking about GOD TV. i used to have an addiction to GOD TV. i used to stay up till about 4 am watching it. Not because i liked it obviously...because i just couldnt believe what i was seeing. It has to be possibly one of the most evil channels ever made. I know what your thinking: "evil!? how can you say its evil! its spreading the word of god!" Well look, if your a Christian thats fine but this channel really doesnt sit well with me.
One of the first programs i saw on it was "the frost debate" where a pannel talk about Christian issues. It has to be one of the strangest "debates" i have ever seen. I would have thought that if they really wanted a debate they would at least have some non chritstians there but it was just 4 christians! ok i know what your thinking, its a Christian show they dont want any heathens on it, thats fine but in that case i really would have thought they would have a few different types of Christians on...or even just some with different viewpoints!? nooope! it was pretty much just 4 men discussing what needs to be changed in the church...and they all kept agreeing with each other. Not really a DEBATE is it?
This annoyed me mildly but it wasnt untill the next piece of quality programming came on that i was enraged. It was one of those shows where you are encouraged to give money to the channel. It was called "Missions week" and as far as i can tell it seems to be missions week...every week. CLEVER! Anyway its basically one huge telethon where if you donate some money to the church you get your name read out. "thank you so much to Kathy from Peckham who has given us £34,000. God is going to fix that terminal cancer for you! i can feel it!" I am sure Kathy is not very wealthy and is obviously very down if she like me is watching God Tv at 4 am ... also I am sure poor Kathy is dead by now. This kind of love of money really makes me sick especially from so called "Christians" they make out that money is a great thing because "it can be used to build churches and help spread the word of god" only snag is i failed to find out while watching 3 hours of missions week just exactly where that money was going. Did you know there is a famous bible story in which Jesus himself is so enraged about money that he kicks over loads of market stools and tells off market traders. Thats right kicks the stools over! prince of peace aye? Im an athiest and i think i am actually a better Christian than these telemarketer preachers!
One other thing i hate on God TV though are the "healing sessions" they have where they play cheesy organ music and have an over enthusiastic repressed paedophile kick peoples crutches away and tell them to dance and tell the blind they will wake up in the morning with 20/20 vision because "GOD HAS BLESSED YOU MY CHILD!" Like comedians they all seem to have an odd warm up act too. It actually is a form of comedy because it seems to get the audience riled and laughing and in the mood to be exploited. They dont really have jokes per say but they more or less just like to take the mickey out of "those silly atheists!" They like to talk about us as the unsaved and also like to pretend that it doesnt bother them. Thats funny because i could have sworn i have been told numerous times that im destined to hell for my non religious ways.
If there is a heaven i am going to laugh my arse off when all these Christians dont get let in and are sent to hell for their money focused living...and hopefully i would just end up in pergatory for eternity...given i dont kill anyone soon.
lostjohnny
There is much power in faith as normal though this is spoiled by the ignorance of the faithful, which turns to fear, which become anger. And as a little green dude once said, "Anger Leads to The Dark Side"!