Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

I only follow the teachings of heavy-handed black and white Super Bowl commercials funded by guys who buy stolen antiquities.

 

Riding your Hobby horse again, I see.

 

churchy bigotry

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/06/religious-bigotry-lgbtq-homophobia/

 

This part feels a little weird to me.

Why the need to gay-splain to people who are gay?

 

Hillsong is the biggest megachurch in Australia, and also churns out praise and worship songs the way McDonald’s does Big Macs. If you go to a contemporary church service anywhere in the states, it is even money you’ll hear at least one song that originated with them.

Hillsong accused of money laundering and tax evasion by Australian MP under parliamentary privilege

 

This involves more than religion -- a lot of politics -- but it's a good explainer about what's going on in Israel lately. I'm trying to get caught up on the situation after being aghast at what I saw in TV reports about it today.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-03-27/ty-article/.premium/what-is-happening-in-israel-what-is-netanyahu-doing-and-why-are-israelis-protesting/00000187-239c-d7c4-ab8f-ffbecd6a00

I have to say, it sounds like Trump would love this, and he and Netanyahu would probably get along well.

 

I somehow thought this all came out years ago -- around the same time as the other allegations of inappropriate behavior against Hillsong church founder Brian Houston.

You talk about ruining what would have been a good legacy. Yeah, Hillsong groups churn out the hit worship songs. That church could give any mainstream music superstar more than a run for their money when it comes to comparisons. Just so good...one song after another, and each one better than the other.

 

This book except may have convinced me to plunk down a few bucks.

I was a teenage evangelical missionary

 

“Bishop, I have a reporter from 60 Minutes on the phone.”

Hi LDS Church, time for your turn in the box.

Mormon who left Wall St. to work for charity blows whistle on what he says is his church's "clandestine hedge fund"

The weakness here is that it’s one source with no pile of paperwork backing it up … but the SEC seems to think there’s fire behind the smoke.

 

I thought this news was older. The page stated he filed the whistleblower claim in 2019.

Maybe I'm just confusing it with a storyline on the Perry Mason remake

 

It was yesterday’s edition of 60 Minutes.

 

I know that. I just have a feeling I already read about it. The 'for the first time ' language maybe first time for his account of the crimes.