You've seen this haven't you? They whisper...really loud...and try to convince you that they are being compassionate...sometimes they choke on some tears too. Then they start talking in a plain voice out of the blue, as if they were never choked up at all?
2006-07-11 16:42:48 · 11 answers · asked by ehneged 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
whoah, back off the dispensational theology.
2006-07-11 16:53:58 · update #1
It's a Stage show for money..........I LOVE GOD with all my Heart Soul and Mind..................But God's name has a price tag on it.
2006-07-11 16:46:55 · answer #1 · answered by snuggels102 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is taught in seminaries in the mid level classes. It is beyond the basic repetitive dogma. Your interpretation of compassionate is correct but the other part is the sincerity move. They do the whisper and include the sincerity emphasis and pause. That makes it sound really important. These techniques are used just before they ask you to put your hands on the TV to be saved. While your hands are on the top of the TV set, the hands reach out of the set and into the pockets to fleece the flock. The name of the class is "Skeer em and fleece em". It is a very effective technique used in many religions but is particularly common with Southern Baptists and the likes of Fallwell and Robertson.
2006-07-11 23:52:35 · answer #2 · answered by valcus43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its all for show. In all my 48 years I have only known 1 televangelist who I found to be really sincere and that was/is Billy Graham. The rest all do what they can for the cameras and for the almighty dollar. Jim Bakker ripping off his own church, Oral Roberts picking up hookers, Jerry Falwell condemning everyone and anything that doesn't agree with him and so on and so forth.
2006-07-11 23:47:49 · answer #3 · answered by Carlos C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because that's the sound that "hot air" makes when being released!
Relax, I'm a Christian, but I've got a grudge against people like Hagee, Olsteen, and the likes of them. They make the Christian faith become all about you, plus they are constantly spewing decontextualized Bible quotes to support their Word of Faith theology or "God is a gumball machine waiting to give you everything you want!" Gospel and dispensationalist eschatology.
2006-07-11 23:50:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Avoid televangelists.
2006-07-11 23:48:05 · answer #5 · answered by Juliart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG you mean that's not real? LOL They speak in a cheesy voice because they are cheesy .
2006-07-11 23:49:36 · answer #6 · answered by jim d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called acting. They aren't very good by thesbian standards, but they're good enough to get old ladies to keep sending them their life savings.
2006-07-11 23:46:27 · answer #7 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all an act, don't be taken in by cheap theatrics.
2006-07-11 23:45:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are fools taking advantage of the kind hearted
god has spoken
2006-07-11 23:47:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian, and I don't trust them! BEWARE!!!
2006-07-11 23:47:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋