So, as I was searching through channels, I came across this televagelist guy. Now, televangelists are known to be strong headed, but this guy was bringing in historical characters.

He quoted some part of the Phillipians, which basically stated that everyone should bow down to Jesus.

What really got me pissed was this guy was rattling off names of creators of religions, including: Daoism, Confucianism (which is more of a way to live), Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism, and I think he threw in a native African religion. The creators of these religions, with the exception of two, were before the birth of Christianity, yet he presents it as it has dominated over any other religion for an eternity.

He also criticized Freud for being an atheist, and everybody, including the speaker, started to laugh. I would think he implied that he was also making fun of his ways, which seems to be the basis of modern psychology.

Considering that all of these founders of the religions were intelligent (with the exception of Mormonism, for that seems to be the butt of a lot of religious jokes), do you think this guy was strong-headed, ignorant/stupid, or both.

Everything a televangelist is you summed up in the last paragraph.

quote:Originally posted by Sgt. Lag:

Considering that all of these founders of the religions were intelligent (with the exception of Mormonism, for that seems to be the butt of a lot of religious jokes), do you think this guy was strong-headed, ignorant/stupid, or both.

FYI Mormonism isn't the name of the religion anyway, I doubt he even knows enough about it to criticise it.

I'd say he is both, ignorant and strong-headed. Most of those guys are.

quote:Originally posted by chubbyman25:

[QUOTE]I'd say he is both, ignorant and strong-headed. Most of those guys are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism

I'm confused. What's the name of it?

Okay, Freud though that sneezes were nose orgasms, m'kay......... 'Nuff said.

Maybe he should have laid off the cocaine because he apparently had some sort of morbid fascination with the olfactory system.

quote:Originally posted by Sgt. Lag:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism

I'm confused. What's the name of it?

It says in that article, though that article doesn't explain it very well. The name of the church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, usually just called the LDS church because of the long name. All of the other churches mentioned, such as the Community of Christ, are groups that broke off of the LDS church because they didn't like parts of it or whatever. Mormonism is just a nickname that people use.

The wikipedia articles on this religion are largely inaccurate, as I've been reading through them.