[Photo from pjmiller]Rod Parsley is perhaps the most insane, wacko, ignorant, biblically-illiterate, and corrupt of the far right wingnut TV preachers in the U.S. today. He's a mix of Jonathan Edwards and Osama bin Laden.
He's also a very dangerous theocrat who is working hard to bring his particular brand of religion to Washington and make it the law of the land.
And he hates Muslims. Well, he probably wouldn't say that. He'd say he hates their religion. He speaks of the "historic" conflict between Christianity and Islam. And the Christians better win!
Unfortunately this goofball still has an audience and, incredibly, some people still believe him and still think he's a man of goodwill. Thus, the ultra-right fundamentalist, Pentecostal, theocratic journal, Charisma, gave him space to write a silly little Bible study on the story of Jacob deceiving Esau of his birthright.
This story, of course, has nothing to do with what Parsley's says next, which is this:
"You were bought with a price -- the precious blood of Christ. Nothing in you or that you have is for sale. You and everything about you belongs to Jesus."
Yup, bloody old Yahveh will surely burn you forever in hell but because he loves you so much he will accept Jesus' blood sacrifice to mollify his justifiable anger at your many sins and that is, according to Parsley, your "inheritance," just like Esau's inheritance from his father, Isaac.
So, says Parsley, don't let the devil take away your inheritance. The devil is trying to get you birthright!
"He will tell you it is all right to keep your tithe, all right to keep your offering and satisfy the lusts of the flesh and of this world. ..." Blah, blah, blah.
The key words, key to every TV evangelist are right there: "tithe" and "offering." Heh. Heh. What a slime! Parsley's worried that you won't give him any more money and he'll have to give up his mansion and his fancy cars and even fancier cars, 'cause his phony ministry will plummet to hell where it belongs!
When it comes to Rod Parsley and every other TV evangelist it is always and only about money!
You can read Sarah Posner's most excellent and detailed article about this fraud here. Another take, cracking the Parsley nut, from a fundamentalist "Christian" perspective, is here.
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