“Do not swallow anything Satan is trying to ram down your throat. Jesus comes first.” Joel Osteen
If you ever happen to find yourself in a conversation with a group of Evangelical Christians you will more than likely find yourself lost in the language they use. It is hard to define. Godbonics? Jesusarian? Dumbcrapish? But whatever it is, to an outsider it comes off as existential pseudo intellectual gobbledygook.
I also find it much akin to Dr Phil who serves us great daily lessons that most all of us knew by the time were eight. Such great pieces of knowledge like it would be better if you quit going to titty bars every night and spent more time with your wife. Or, you should stop shooting up meth and get a job. Or, you weigh over 500 pounds now and you should go on a diet.
Last time I found myself stuck in car full of them it was explained to me that Bible story of Nebuchadnezzar somehow proves absolutely that the Bible is both historically and literally true. I had no idea what how they arrived at even that though the explained it over and over again in that special language of theirs’. They get so wrapped up in the language of faith that quite often the less ignorant ear finds it the most batpoop crazy crap you ever heard in your life. It’s the brand. Michele Bachmann. Louie Gohmert.
Joel Osteen runs the largest single church in America. Some years back he bought the old Compaq Center where the Houston Rockets once played. The arena seats 15,000 which Osteen fills three times each Sunday. Attendance of 43,000.
Take the money out of religion and that will be the end of it.