Do any christians feel Pat Robertson, Benny Hinn, or Jerry Falwell make christians look bad?
491293
Yep - me too. The difference between the preacher at your local church and these guys is money and power. As Dante said, power corrupts & absolute power corrupts absolutely. So unfortunately, if a preacher has good intentions when he starts it is almost guaranteed that he will become corrupted by the money, power & fame of televangelism (with one exception - Billy Graham). But I don't worry too much about the people you named - people will believe what they want to believe. It's frustrating at times, but Jesus is the message. And the people who seek Him will find Him. That's why God uses the local church to save the lost & minister to the community. May God bless you & your friends.
80088
Robertson and Falwell are exactly what this country needs! Two men of the scripture, working together to save America from the Heathens.\n\nRemember how Jerry claimed that if he didn't get a million dollars the Lord was gonna call him home? Well, Jerry could use that same tactic and raise enough money to get our coffers back up to a surplus. Also, he would finally bring an end to the subversive teletubbies.\n\nAnd Robertson, well, he would know exactly who we should assassinate because he'd go after anyone who ruled a country and wasn't right with the lord! \n\nYes sir, these are the brightest stars American Christians have to point to as pillars of their faith. \n\nFor my money, throw in Swaggart as a special liaison with the House Ethics Committee and Jim Baker as Treasury Secretary, and THAT would be a winning government!
562941
Oh Goody, romantic Christianity rears it's ugly head.\n\n\nGod kept hitting me up side the head until I listened.
940896
Pat Robertson said, in his book  New World Order, that he could have won the Vietnam war if they'd have let him. Jerry Falwell said in a form letter he mailed out to widows on pensions, written on Bond paper, by the way, and only used one side of each of the dozen or so sheets,  that he had been given a plan by God to "fix" America, but that if his current fiscal responsibilities weren't met, i.e., if enough money didn't get contributed, then, "God's plan cannot be implemented."  God's hands are tied if his humongous, extravagant, wasteful and bigoted panhandlers can't coerce enough gullible deiphobes into paying off their mansions and astronomical stationery bills?  I want to go to Heaven just so I don't have to spend eterniy around Jerry Falwell!
954094
I have had a bad relationship with christians\n\nI was born Jewish\n\nOn the first day of school i ever had, a classmate told me i killed god.  I remember crying and running to my mother.  I didnt blame christianity for that though, i though the kid was just mean....\n\nbut when i got older i started seeing christians different.  I saw them as the embodiment of hate.  I mean, the whole basis of their bible is that anyone who isn't christian is a sinner and must be converted.  \n\nThroughout history, Christians have murdered millions in the name of Jesus:\n\n1. The slaughter of those who believed in roman gods when christianity took over rome.\n2. The massacre of jews in the dark ages\n3. The torture of jews in the inquisition\n4.  The brutal murders of jews and muslims in the crusades\n5.  The murder of 6 million jews in the holocaust\n6.  The bombing of abortions clinics.\n7.  the murder of homosexuals\n\nI am now an atheist and am very opposed to christian extremism
572710
It is sad to hear about these people who manipulate their followers in such evil ways. It reminds me of Jim Jones, a preacher who fed 900 followers poisoned Kool Aid. They are not Christians. They are doing the work of the devil.
974027
i feel that the two religions you have pointed out use scare tactics ,,,just as they have always done ,,,,,,making you feel like your worthless and that you will be in some sort of eternal hell if you do not believe LIKE tham ,,,,why people fall for this is beyond me .......i went to many churches as a young person and always left with a bad taste in my mouth ,,,,instead of teaching love ,tolerance ,compassion ,instead of teaching forgiveness all they seem to do is judge and go around in there own little world and think they are RIGHT.but do they live up to the ideals set down by Jesus ?????NO ! \nmuslims have there problems too and some of them [not all of course}actually are so filled with disdain for anyone outside their relgion well ,,,,,,you get the idea .,,,,,,\nthe desire to be RIGHT and then turn it around like they are doing you a favor by expounding there beliefs is pretty gruesome if you ask me ......\npound pound pound /brainwashing -------------------thank goodness i chose to keep an open mind and not go around insisiting people believe like me .........or making them feel sorry or afraid for the way they believe ------------------------------\ni am a spiritualist ,,i  do believe in a  higher spirit ,but my God loves and does not hate or judge ,,,,,,,,
683149
It is their foundation.  I sometimes wonder if arguing with someone about their core beliefs is moral.  if I ever convinced someone that they aren't going to Heaven, and the most powerful thing ever (God) doesn't love them, they would probably not feel good.  Of course, there are psychiatrists all over the world trying to convince people they are not God, or Jesus, or Napoleon, so I am immoral with company.
941087
Aw, they do it because they think it winds us up. I know it doesn't really, but they get taught that in Bible class as a way of making it look like Christianity keeps you cool. I say, listen to Pat Robertson, Ian Paisley or Rush Limbaugh for five minutes and tell yourself that Christians aren't popping a vein out of their necks with suppressed rage.
542079
Sad isn't it.  They aren't very serious about their Christianity are they?
819346
Not only have I received many death threats, but the most graphic told how I would have my throat slashed with a 12 inch knife. And yes, he professed to be a Christian, after calling me a demon, the anti-christ, and the leader of the R+S atheists.\n\nI don't hold his lunacy against Christians though. He's just a troll.
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Charles Stanley...Billy Graham...Pat Robertson
849905
LOL! I feel bad for laughing...I believe in God, heaven, the Bible, etc,i would call myself more spiritual than religious-Sometimes i think people maybe go a little too far trying to push their beliefs onto someone else...but i think for the most part, it's people who want to tell other people about God..I'm all for anyone who's intentions are to spread the word, tell how they found peace and happiness, or to educate- It's the condemning and persecuting done by the "believer" that disgusts & disappoints me, looking down on other people is not what it's all about..It's supposed to be "about" the exact opposite, anyhoo, i'll quit rambling now..Point is, apparently someone has taught them how to use a computer- maybe God himself did, haha
1183356
hmmm.  the most money hungry people i've observed are all morbidly obese, middle aged , bald, psychopathic white republican "christian" males.  the most obvious among them being: jerry falwell( a total disgrace, also, to the leo sun sign, since he's an abject coward), dennis hastert, rush limpbow, and dick cheney, to name just the very tip of the iceberg.
157883
No.  If they did, there wouldn't be the fights over it as evidenced here.  Yahoo Answers is just a small portion of why I don't think they get along.  Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are other reasons.
346258
Look, I feel attacked for my beliefs, too, but being in our position is very difficult. We need to be good, loving, turn-the-other-cheek, WWJD people while fighting evil. And the fact that Christianity and Conservatism has been hijacked by those who would do their own evil will above the good of this country and her citizens, doesn't help much either...we're in bad company...even though there are many good people who are both Christian and Conservative.\n\nOne problem is that many people say that Jesus was tolerant. He was tolerant of people that broke God's laws because they didn't know any better. That is how he brought so many to believe in him....he showed them compassion....but he never said "You have been saved, now go back to the life you were living." He said, "You have been saved, now go and sin no more." He also never spoke against any of the Jewish laws forbidding sins such as adultery, homosexuality, stealing, prostitution, etc...he never said any of that was okay, just that if they were willing to turn away from their sins, they could be forgiven. Most people that like to say Jesus was a liberal don't think of those two points.\n\nAlso, Jesus would never say that abortion is okay. There's just NO WAY that would have happened.\n\nHe would have been for the death penalty IF we could find an executioner whose life was without sin.\n\nLiberals want to hijack Jesus for their vision of "tolerance" but not look at the laws that Jesus himself abided by...the laws that his FATHER made.\n\nLastly, it's just too convenient and easy for these liberals to cast stones and try to place blame and find fault then it would be to really address the issues that conservatives feel are most important.\n\nYou're not alone! God Bless!
581642
Right now I think Fred Phelps qualifies.  When a nutjob like Jerry Falwell calls another preacher a "loon", you know there have to be some serious issues.