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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
I'm glad you can find such humor in another man's troubles. That's mighty big of you, Stu.
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This man is former head of the National Association of Evangelicals.
He is exposed as a fraud. A drug taking, vegemite drilling promiscuous, adulturous, lustful, perverted hyprocrite.
In my mind his ability to be sincere in his beliefs is irrelevant to his personal peccadillos.
What I find interesting- and this is purely a speculation- is had the male prostitute not -for whatever reason- outed him- would this confession had been forthcoming? And if not, would Mr Haggard very likely be at his televised pulpit next Sunday handing out gods instruction to the faithful? Probably.
You might be interested in this, Jeff. Good article.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15566391/site/newsweek
By Sam Harris
Newsweek
Nov. 13, 2006 issue -
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of life and the greater antiquity of the Earth, more than half the American population believes that the entire cosmos was created 6,000 years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue. Those with the power to elect presidents and congressmen—and many who themselves get elected—believe that dinosaurs lived two by two upon Noah's Ark, that light from distant galaxies was created en route to the Earth and that the first members of our species were fashioned out of dirt and divine breath, in a garden with a talking snake, by the hand of an invisible God.
This is embarrassing. But add to this comedy of false certainties the fact that 44 percent of Americans are confident that Jesus will return to Earth sometime in the next 50 years, and you will glimpse the terrible liability of this sort of thinking. Given the most common interpretation of Biblical prophecy, it is not an exaggeration to say that nearly half the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. It should be clear that this faith-based nihilism provides its adherents with absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization—economically, environmentally or geopolitically. Some of these people are lunatics, of course, but they are not the lunatic fringe. We are talking about the explicit views of Christian ministers who have congregations numbering in the tens of thousands. These are some of the most influential, politically connected and well-funded people in our society.