Ethelred Unraed's Journal: Ethelred's thoughts on televangelism

Turns out, to my shock and horror, The Hour of Power is on the boob tube in Germany as well.

Well, one advantage less to living in Germany.

See, where I grew up in Virginia -- as my brother puts it, in the buckle of the Bible Belt -- on Sundays there was nothing else on TV except televangelists of various stripes. 700 Club, PTL, Hour of Power, you name it -- every channel had some quasi-pious mucketymuck asking for money.

Well, there was one other thing that was on TV on Sundays. Pro rasslin'. Which, come to think of it, may be morally better to watch, because at least them rasslers ain't claimin' to be honest about it all.

Shocked.

[Talinom]

I'm surprised they haven't combined them both. "Sinner's Smackdown" would pit the "Loudmouths for the Lord" against the "Satanic Sinners" on a weekly (or weakly) basis.

It would have all of the soap opera drama that the WWF (whoops, WWE who got their butts kicked by a bunch of pandas) has except in a spiritual manner. New guys are introduced usually wearing all gray and become lighter or darker as time goes on. If a person is fired they "went to Heaven" or have "forsaken the Lord and went to Hell."

Ther

OTOH

[NeMon'ess]

The boob tube lives up to its name better in Germany.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

Sad thing is, it took me a moment to figure out what you meant. ;-)

Guess I have been in Germany too long. I don't even bat an eye anymore when I see stuff like this [wikipedia.org] while channel-surfing. (That one's practically a staple on late-night weekend TV in Germany.)

Then again, German TV's such shit that I don't even channel-surf anymore.* Mostly reruns of badly-dubbed American TV and/or ripoffs of American or British TV show formats on the private channels, and self-important political blah-blah or dreary natur

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[TechnoLust]

Fix your damn link... what kind of web designer doesn't verify his links?!?!? ;-)

These guys [sat1.de] look... zany.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

Fix your damn link... what kind of web designer doesn't verify his links?!?!? ;-)

Hmm...odd. Slashcode ate the umlauted "a" in the link. *sigh*

Put in an "ä" between the "m" and "d" in "mdchen" and the link will work. (If need be copy the ä in this sentence and paste it in.) Though to be honest there's not much to see on Wikipedia, other than a brief description of what Schulmädchen-Report is. (The name literally means "Schoolgirl Report". Should give you a hint as to the content.)

These

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[TechnoLust]

Wikipedia says it's pronographamy. I can't watch it.

Hilarity.

[Some Woman]

When Some Guy lived in MN and didn't have cable, I noted, while flipping through channels, that he had no fewer than 6 God channels. The best was the guy on the Catholic channel who looked like Dracula, except in fuschia. He lair even looked ominous. I don't remember what he was talking about, but I think we're all going to purgatory.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

The (Catholic) German Conference of Bishops has their own cable TV channel now [kirche.tv]. It is also, I gather (since I don't have it on cable), dreary and dull. And that's what the Roman Catholics I know say about it.

There is also a channel called BibleTV [bibeltv.de], which I also have not yet actually seen, but if their schedule is to used as much of a guide, it looks like a pretty good sleep aid rather than any source of entertainment (intentional or otherwise). Then again, most Christians I've run into over here tend to be

Pick-Pocket-Preachers [AKA: Tent Revivalist]

[OldHawk777]

I remember the origins of televangelist, back before the television was co-opted from the devil to become the instrument of televangelist seeking money, fame, cocaine, and little boys and girls. The news plays the catholic priest for ratings, but I know the baptist, jews, muslims, mormons ... others' dogma teachers/preachers are just as interested in children as any politician in Washington DC. I mean just look how well public education and political campaigns are funded in the USA, and the kids dieing in A

Telewhat?

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Hmm. Why then doesn't Bob almighty grant the televangelists airtime from His Endless Bandwidth ?

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