I’m watching a segment on MSNBC about televangelists and the damage they do to the cause of the gospel. The talking heads are giving the guy who is taking the televangelists to task a pretty hard time. Their point seems to be that he is blowing the greedy televangelist stereotype out of proportion.
Obviously not every preacher on TV is corrupt, but I’m reminded of something Neil Postman said in “Amusing Ourselves to Death” about how the gospel may be incompatible with television. His point was that the message was incongruent with the medium. I’ll have to look at the book tomorrow and refresh myself on why he thought this to be the case.
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