Also known
as God of the Gaps. When you run into
something that you can’t explain you invoke a god.
In Logic it
is known as a Fallacy of Relevance.
Argumentum
ad Ignorantiam: Something
is so because it has not been proven it is not so.
There is a
huge percent of the population that believe a virgin can give birth, statues
can cry or bleed, a man can walk on water, Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood,
angles, heaven, hell, the devil, a god that is a human and intelligent design!
And there are those that find it easy and profitable to sell it to the punters
the Ol’Buzzard
Sheeple led to plucking.
ReplyDeleteYeah. He's a particularly slimy one.
ReplyDeleteBut you must admit Osteen's ministry must have a shitload of money to be able to set up such an elaborate arena-level stage, and to have so many talented and professional musicians and singers as part of his mega-ministry.
ReplyDeleteAdmit it! Those singers and musicians are first-rate professional, session musician caliber, some probably members of the Memphis Symphony.
And "Brother Osteen" is quite charismatic and a very talented orator.
OF COURSE there is an "agenda". After all, it IS being pitched to those who believer themselves among the "Saved in Christ" crowd.
But still ...looking at it from all sides now ....