Why do TV Evangelists insult our intelligence  with distortions, half-truths, outright lies and scare tactics?
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Because it makes them millions and millions of dollars!
760813
I think there are a few things going on here.  Some of these people, indeed maybe all, deep down are haunted by the idea maybe there IS  a God they will be responsible to and are bitter about the whole thing and want to badger us.  Some of them want to expose the woeful lack of knowledge many Christians have to defend their faith (which is very logical and sensible and many extremely intelligent people embrace it)  We must remember, the cross is an offense to people.  Those of the world killed Christ and the world will always hate us.  These people will hate our uninformed anwers and they will hate our informed will reasoned answers.  They are a waste of time.  I believe this is what Jesus referred to when He said not to cast your pearls before swine.  Our time is too short.  Save time for the true seekers.  They are not too hard to find.  Also, study to show thyself approved so you can give a good defense for our faith, not just scripture but how it makes sense in our world and state of existence as a whole.
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Sometimes, when folks learn a new truth, they get real excited about going out and sharing it with others. Unfortunately some of them will ruin their credibility (and God's) by being kinda pushy about it. \nIt's kinda like giving a child a new toy. If you leave them alone with it for too long they become dangerous with it.
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Far to often I probly fall prey to these strawmen.  It is sometimes hard to tell the blind faithful apart from the fakes.  To bad there is not some sort of christian detector.\n\nThe worst part is when either the blind or the fakes get into the media.  Then they realy bring down how the world looks at your religion.
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no, it is because most us have no clue as to what is happening in our own country let alone our world, we are not unlike the citizen's in the soviet union in 1920-30's era,regarding media manipulation,Mr.Stalin demonstrated the powerfully effective tool that mainstream media propaganda is in manipulating complicit or apathetic behavior,as well as ignorance ,of the masses.Our mainstream media is owned by a few if that many corporations,our mainstream media is saturated with bs and corporate interests,when everyone else, including other non democratic countries around the world ,was watching the genocide of the poor african americans during Hurricane Katrina and cringing in their homes as they saw the poor crying to be saved,instead, being past up and left to die ,so that the rich could be saved only,and all the newspapers from australia to cuba ,talked about these events,not one of these images,stories,have appeared in mainstream media,even now books by cnn ,the large tv network ,"we bring you the world",will manage to include some less than favorable view that can be dismissed in their all inclusive book but not the reality every country ,but the united states is aware of,how pathetic is it,when some looney ass homophobe televangelist,Christian leader Pat Robertson calls the president by majority vote, of Valenzuela,a dictator, then commits the ultimate violation of the patriot act against him on national U.S. television,by calling for his assassination and promoting death and destruction in the name of God and all that is good and American,and we do not even know what is going on in our own backyard,while Mr. frikkin dictator of the year, is discussing on Valenzuelan national television,on his daily or weekly show ,with the people of his country ,how they were going to help the poor people in Louisiana,after they witnessed,what we never have,worse than that,anyone can call in and they do from wherever in the country and call in their concerns and contribute to the discussion by speaking to their dictator on national television directly,and Cindy Sheean or whatever her name was,camped out and called for days just wanting to ask her senate appointed president,a euphemism for dictator,one question,and she died waiting,I forgot what his lame ass excuse was,refusing to even act like he believes for one second he is accountable to the American voters,even if Mr. Chavez is indeed a dictator,he has the decency to lube it up before he sticks it to his people,for the rest of us articulate enough to read,write,and think for ourselves rather than being spoonfed a new reality,the illusion of freedom is being lifted away before our eyes,and there is no way Mr. Bush can take credit with all that is wrong,he did not invent this,he inherited it ,the foundation of corruption he stands on was not erected over night ,it has been there and started escalating with Clinton's policies, again no surprise ,both major parties are just one whore, trying to win a popularity contest for the lobbyists of the corporations ,who own democracy now.\nwhen you look at our reality in this context,we behave just as the soviet citizens did,manipulated by fear and hatred against terrorism and other demonized nations,cowering from our own shadow,blind to the reality that our military defense budget is the biggest that it has ever been and our oil companies profits are also the biggest they have ever been,and our gas prices are the highest they have ever been,our heads are so far up our cowardly patriotic asses,we do not know the we the united states has more military bases around the world than the world has countries,at least the ones we recognize, and we are still trying build a few more bases,us poor scared souls,somehow do not see what the whole world sees,in the word's of eminem,almost anyway,"you don't wanna fu%K with"George or try to convert your oil barrel prices to the Euro,"cause", George "will f@ckin k
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no they just cant handle the fact that they ARENT right...they have this bubbling fire in them when they ask their on-sided question..but when they get the answers they dont like...they freak and ignore the truth...theyre dumb..dont even worry about it =0)
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We get it, it amazes me that the Evangelists don't get it. \nVery good question, wouldn't you love to see someone ask them?
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Americans have become stupid because of 5 decades of TV hypnosis
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There agenda is just like "Brain" ...."What are we going to do tonight Brain"..."The same thing we do EVERY night Pinky...Try to take over the world!"...Tyrants are greedy and have no care for the people "beneath" them, as long as we do as we are told. They are manipulative con-men, that lie, kill, and twist perception.
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because they're gullible.
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Calling someone names who offends you is just a way of admitting that you are less intelligent then that person.  This seems to be the common attack lately of the intellectually lazy and morally corrupt.  No matter how crackpot their idea, they claim that because it came from them they have some sort of divine right to be correct all the time.  Just ignore them, they will go away when they see something shiny or decide to be offended by the next thing that talk radio tells them to be offended by.
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People who jump to conclusions without knowing all the facts.
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Good point. That's all they do. Brainwashing people specially young and naive. and they always use a form of religion to do that. Don't forget religion could be very dangerous.
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They are annoying because they believe they are right and have an obligation to "save you" from your own ignorance. They want to spread their delusional message. They tend to hate science because they see it as a threat. More enlightened believers (and that's almost a contradiction in terms) tend to have very sound value systems and are humane and caring people. You just don't find that many in the USA. I think it must be correlated with low intelligence and a closed mind.
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Start with the fact that really front edge bright and well-educated people don't do this. Nice uneducated ones don't either. Take those two groups away, and what you have is the base of yahoo answers political boards.\n\nThe reason some people do it, the mean ones, is to feel better. It's release to call someone an idiot on a big loudspeaker from behind a curtain where you'll never be seen or called to account for your comments. It's exactly like prank calls or vandalism. Messing with people by remote control.\n\nThe reason a lot of other people do it -- call them middle brow users -- is because once you pigeonhole and demonize a group with a stereotype, they are in a tidy box, and you don't have to bother with trying to see things from their point of view anymore.  Instead, you just kneejerk "oh, it's the Nabobs", and you're done with it. It's intellectual laziness. But sometimes the way a middlebrow goes about it is superficially clever, and indicative of the fact they aren't 100% dummies, at very least. They have some sort of language skills and ability to entertain, if not great insight. If you think about it, that's what a lot of radio talk """pundits""" have too: superficial verbal agility, with no real insight.\n\nBut whoever does it, it's not useful, and ultimately damaging to the public dialog on issues.
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To answer your question, yes you should beware of them.  Everyone should beware the tools.  The insidious part is that they have so totally infiltrated these mediums that their falsehoods are being accepted as fact and spread as gospel when it is not just political propaganda, but false at that!
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Man you are coming with some good questions!! People that keep their minds in little small boxes are scared to see the big truth. They are comfortable in their little box, full of narrow mindness and ignoarance. You are absolutely right my freind, when you tell people something that goes against what they have learned or even better, things that they don't know, they get so offended and take it personal!! How can people love to be in denial!??! Doesn't it remind you of the narrowed minded people that were told that the Earth was round and the public killed them!?!?