Money Loving Evangelicals

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We know that McCain is going to be counting on Evangelicals to help finance his campaign, and they obviously have plenty of money to do so. Take a look at this article I copied from a website.

Lifestyles Of The Rich And “Religious”
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
I think I’m going to have to do a weekly Evangelical, mega church, prosperity preaching feature. It just gets more and more outrageous in Evangelical, “mega church land”. The Wittenburg Door publication interviewed Pastor Erfolg Reussi of the Grande Church in Atlanta, Ga. regarding the “ultra mega church” that they’ve built. Their facility is a stadium-style worship center that seats 35,000.

Size is not the only thing that distinguishes Grande Church. Included in their elaborate and luxurious facility are “luxury sky-boxes”. You know, the kind that sports stadiums offer with all the “bells and whistles”. Of course, these luxury boxes are not accessible or available for the common, “run of the mill” person. That’s right, discrimination is alive and well at Grande Church. In fact, in the interview, Pastor Reussi actually referred to the people who have the honor of occupying these luxury boxes, as being “discriminating people”. I’m sure he didn’t mean for his statement to sound the way it did, but it was, in fact, a statement of truth.

Owners of these luxury boxes are escorted in and out of the worship services through a private passageway to a secure parking garage. Their boxes have reflective glass so they can have the best seats in the house watching the services, but the ordinary, “common folk” can not see into their private and luxurious lairs. After all, why should these “valuable worshippers” get soiled by mingling with the poor? When communion is served it is brought to their private boxes, and these honored worshippers can even bring their own “special wine” if they wish. Some of these boxes have even been soundproofed so they don’t have to listen to the singing of the “blue collar” crowd below. In fact, they are offered their own semi-professional, three or four person praise team to sing with them in each of their own private boxes.

What’s inside these luxury boxes for the “rich and religious”? Each one is a private room with plush, comfortable seating, separate climate control, refrigerator, sink, microwave, one or more large-screen TVs and a private bathroom. Who gets to occupy these special suites? Pastor Reussi says that they are to thank and honor those who have made their grand mega church possible.

When asked how much it costs for someone to get a luxury box, Pastor Reussi said it is not determined by cost, but is a “thank you gift” for extremely generous givers. When asked how large of a donation it would take to qualify for this “thank you gift”, he said that if a person has to ask, then the regular seating area would be better for them.

Wow! Are you thinking what I’m thinking? What hypocrisy, selfishness and greed in the name of religion. This is not what Jesus would do. Obviously Grande Church is ignorant of , or does not care, what the Bible says about not showing favoritism or partiality; moreover, that it states in the book of James that favoring the rich over the poor is sin. I suggest, as is pictured in The Wittenburg Door’s article, that Pastor Reussi”s church take down the “cross” from their church and replace it with a dollar sign.

There's also a new article just posted on this website yesterday about the biggest mega church in America, as well as others in the "pseudo Christianity" archives that will blow your mind. The website is: http://www.rightwingexposed.com