July 02, 2008

The dangers of blind faith: Is City Harvest Church encouraging fraud?

e-hung said:

Does the CHC approve of Hinn's transgressions? Indeed, the manner in which Hinn conducts his "sermons" are very similar - if not identical - to the way CHC conducts its own. Is it deliberately supporting him in committing them?

These are legitimate and important questions that an objective person would ask, based on the facts gathered so far. But when I posted them up on the wall on the event's Facebook page, the post was swiftly deleted. It may be just one small action, but the very act of censorship speaks volumes. Is there no room for questioning in the church, only obedience?

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on July 02//7:37pm and published by tinkertailor, Agagooga :: 29739 reads | trackback (1)
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Everything gets along better without God.

There are still a few of us whose "infantile need for security," drive us to look for answers in the clouds. We put our faith in superstition or magic or luck or gods, hoping against hope that we will find some revealed knowledge from beyond this world. We who need such reassurances are to be pitied, but not imitated. Devotion to God or gods has been thoroughly discredited, and society cannot progress if it remains mired in the muck of ancient history. We need to dig out, move on, and build a new faith for a postmodern age.

What is needed is a secular faith, a religion that empowers the spread of social democracy, a religion that elevates humanity and embraces justice, equality, brotherhood and peace, a religion that is not content to bide its time for some future reward in some mythical heaven, but is energized by the possibility that we can build a better world.

The writer calls his particular version of this secular religion "romantic polytheism," a religious faith in which our gods are the lofty values of liberty, fraternity, equality and justice. "The deeper meaning of democracy," he says, "is that we are alone in the universe and have only one another as reference points for truth and meaning."

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 12 April, 2009 - 2:51am

Yeh I'm sure that's why the commies sent millions of ppl to the gulags.

Posted by aaronkwok* on 12 April, 2009 - 10:43am
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