The following question, I have raised
in an international forum: -

How would you react to Church Heads participating in Commercial Evangelists' money-spinning carnivals?

More on the above question! I am a regular viewer of Commercial Evangelists' soap operas telecast through different channels all over the world where they claim of Holy Spirit’s intervention, divine healing and go on misinterpreting Bible to suit their interests. What I find most disgusting is the presence of ecclesiastical community, mostly Bishops, sharing the podium, nodding, singing and gesturing in appreciation of misplaced Evangelism. Judas Iscariot betrayed Christ for 30 silvers by kissing him. Here the Evangelists are warmly kissed betraying and tarnishing the image of Jesus Christ and Christianity either for a TV-Screen presence or for some tangible returns. The pathetic fact is that the presence of church-heads gives respectability and credibility to the Commercial Evangelists that help them in their collection drive and their building personal assets all over the world. Is this not a deplorable conduct that is hostile to Christianity and the faith of true Christians?

Out of the several answers I have
received, voters chose the one below
as the Best Answer:

If God has intended that man should learn His religion from a book, the Bible, surely God would have given that book to man. Christ would have given that book to man. Did He do it? He did not. Christ sent His Apostles throughout the whole universe and said, "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." Christ did not say, "Sit down and write Bibles and scatter them over the earth, and let every man read his Bible and judge for himself." If Christ had said that, there would never have been a Christianity on the earth at all, but a Babylon and confusion instead, and never one Church, the union of one body. Hence, Christ never said to His Apostles, "Go and write Bibles and distribute them, and let everyone judge for himself." That injunction was reserved for the Sixteenth Century, and we have seen the result of it. Ever since the Sixteenth Century there have been springing up religion upon religion, and churches upon churches, all fighting and quarreling with one another, and all because of the private interpretation of the Bible. Christ sent His Apostles with authority to teach all nations, and never gave them any command of writing the Bible. And the Apostles went forth and preached everywhere, and planted the Church of God throughout the earth, but never thought of writing Up to that time the whole world for three hundred years did not know what the Bible was. Hence, they could not take the Bible for their guide, for they did not know what constituted the Bible. Would our Divine Saviour, if He intended man to learn his religion from a book, have left the Christian world for three hundred years without that book? Most assuredly not. It is Divine Faith alone by which we give honor and glory to God, by which we adore His infinite wisdom and veracity. That adoration and worship is necessary for salvation. We must have Faith in order to be saved, and we must have Divine Faith, not human faith. Human faith will not save a man, but only Divine Faith. What is Divine Faith? It is to believe, upon the authority of God, the truths that God has revealed, that is Divine Faith. To believe all that God has taught upon the authority of God, and to believe without doubting, without hesitation. For the moment you begin to doubt or hesitate, that moment you begin to mistrust the authority of God, and, therefore, insult God by doubting His word. Divine Faith, therefore, is to believe without doubting and without hesitating. Human faith is belief upon the authority of men, on human authority. But Divine Faith is to believe without doubting, without hesitating, whatsoever God has revealed upon the authority of God, upon the Word of God.


Source(s):Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J. (1815 - 1890)

This answer is also pasted in my other web sites namely:

http://theworldchildrendigest.blogspot.com
http://theknowledgedigest.blogspot.com
http://thedefendersoffaithmovement.blogspot.com
http://thesundaydigest.blogspot.com
http://thehomedigestinternational.blogspot.com
http://thestudentsdigestinternational.blogspot.com
http://thedebatersforum.blogspot.com
http://thesalesdigest.blogspot.com
http://theworldwomensdigest.blogspot.com

http://thewebfriendsinternational.blogspot.com

God & Reality

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of the atoms, I will no more believe than the accidental jumbling of the alphabet should fall into a most ingenious treatise on Philosophy.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

As long as there will be an unknown there will be a God.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
The divine madness was subdivided into four kinds, prophetic, creative, poetic, erotic.
The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at Him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.
Called or Not Called, God is Present
God is, by definition, ultimate reality. And one cannot argue whether ultimate reality really exists. One can only ask what ultimate reality is like.
The earth, the sun and stars, the universe itself; and the charming variety of the seasons, demonstrate the existence of Divinity.
At the core of our being we manifest God, and we become all that we love in God. This is what is meant by "The Living God is a Man".
The religious, who, of course, ascribe the origins of grace to God, believe it to be literally God's love, have through the ages had the same difficulty locating God. There are within theology two lengthy and opposing traditions in this regard: one, the doctrine of Emanance, which holds that grace emanates down from an external God to men; the other the doctrine of Immanence, which holds that grace immanates out from the God within the center of man's being.
There is no dichotomy between spirit and flesh, no split between Godhead and the world. Spiritual union is found in life, within nature, passion, sensuality - through being fully human, fully one's self.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one: One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call. He is the first, he is the last. He is outward, he is inward.
I don't know about God. The only things I know are what I see, feel and smell.
What if you slept; and what if in your sleep you dreamed; and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower; and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Oh, what then? - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A challenge raised on a T V Programme.

Kind Attention: Programme Editor:

May I in all humility and with utmost respect towards you, submit that through giving a platform to Commercial Evangelists you are abusing God and Christianity, and facilitate fleecing of money from the ignorant, illiterate and the poor languishing in worldly miseries. In your today's morning programme the Holy Spirit reveals to the Evangelist several names and presents Jesus Christ in action. Ask him (1) whether he dares to name a single Muslim or a Jew, (2) Why Holy Spirit is partial only to tolerant Hindus and faithful Christians (3) why he does not mark the 'cross' like Christians of certain denominations? I challenge him to reveal his response. You will never get an answer from him. At the fag end, shamelessly he begs for money in a newly invented fraud like 'Family Blessings Scheme'. Sir, may I remind you that you are getting only a pittance of the evil earnings from the poor and ultimately you share equally its cancerous consequences. Please see today's cassette and if you believe that you are doing a great social service with no intention to earn, continue the programme. Alternately please be prepared to receive God's most severe and deterrent punishment on you. If, what I am saying is wrong, let the punishment fall on me and I am prepared to face the same punishment from Him. Professional Ethics and Character should never be sacrificed for the sake of money. Did you buy the God's plan for 2007 with a heavenly donation of Rs.250/- widely advertised through you? Even, at this stage you can escape God's punishment by corrective actions from your end. Otherwise none can save you from the fall you will be inviting yourself. I am not a fanatic Christian, but I believe in a God that is neither Christian nor others, but universal. If you wish to study further and the contradictions in Commercial Evangelism, please visit my website http://thedefendersoffaithmovement.blogspot.com/.

My clarifications on the questions I raised: -

1. He will not dare to name either a Muslim or a Jew attributing it to Holy Ghost, because if he did so it will result in a revolt from those religions and he will never be able to stand against it.

2. What he presents as the Holy Spirit's revelation is the sadistic imagination of a sick mind.

3. He does not mark the 'cross' on him because many divisions of Christianity do not observe it and to such divisions marking the 'cross' is an affront to their faith. If he marks the 'cross' men in colourful robes will not attend and the Evangelist will lose his credibility to that extent

Text of letters presented against Christianity tarnishing

TEXT OF A LETTER WRITTEN
TO WORLD’S LARGEST COMMERCIAL

EVANGELICAL T V

I write this in all humility. Commercial Evangelists presenting God as an orderly, misinterpreting Bible to suit their evil designs; creating mass hysteria and epileptic seizures through 'jump and jerk' dances with dancing eye-brows; parading the so-called 'healed' to boost credibility along with modern-day Judas Iscariots in holy robes; seasonal prayers for students to pass through examinations; holy spirit revealing only Hindus and Christians at random respecting TV time allotment and not a single Muslim or Jew in distress; bringing in Hollywood clippings to show Jesus Christ being nailed down; presenting the portrait of God as a wrinkled and freckled lanky white person with an emaciated look; claiming status by a professional Evangelist father and son duo as Prophets and showing a highly priced cassette as containing God's Plan for 2007; healing of Aids, Cancer and other terminal diseases with tearless wailing prayers; shameless begging for money to spread Christianity all over the word and possessing huge personal assets all over the world; bringing in sweet innocent children to slog hard that betrays their never ending greed for money; claims of spending a few hours with Jesus Christ in heaven and earth - these are some of the antics presented by evil commercial Evangelists with the sole intention to cheat and fleece the ignorant, illiterate and innocent believers. Some TV channels provide a stage for this most condemnable, heinous and devilish soap operas. It is a matter of great agony and pain that some of these TV Channels are managed by educated and intelligent persons who by virtue of God gifted talents do realise that all these claims are fictitious, devilish and the creation of a fraudulent mindset. It is my firm conviction that God is patiently watching these earthly jokes played on Him and His true believers and one day He will disable cruelly once for all the vicious masterminds playing behind/before the screen. He will surely leave innocent and hapless employees who have no say in the molestation of Jesus Christ and Christianity.

Mathew Thomas

TEXT OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO
SOME CHURCH PERSONNEL

I write this, invoking the blessings of my Lord Jesus Christ and my late father who was a devoted priest in His service. My mental pain and agony goes beyond bound when I see the presence of our Holy Fathers, Priests, Brothers and Nuns in Christ share the podium or the assembly where youthful bulls who establish their own churches, self-consecrated Bishops and evil Evangelists address meetings where they make false claims, utter sadistic lies, perform acrobatics and trance in miracle healing. Those who cure Aids, Cancer and all other terminal diseases die their hair, cannot restore the hair they have lost and resort to eyebrow dancing and face rotating gestures while praying - actually it is preying on the innocence and ignorance of the poor and those without real faith. One prominent Evangelist had a serious heart surgery done at a Madras Hospital by an eminent Heart Surgeon, who remained in the hospital throughout being afraid of a backlash if something untoward had happened to the 'Crowd Healer'. No Surgeon would ever do it for others. The Evangelist owns a hospital of his own - for what, if he could cure the afflicted through prayers? He sells several tons of his own brands of anointed oil and applies on the faithful, with shuddering hands. He had several times taken treatment in large hospitals abroad. Another Evangelistic pair of bulls who were community rejects has a professional approach. First they target surrounding towns and entice the people to the main carnival in district head quarters. One Evangelist closes his eyes and all on a sudden the Holy Spirit enters into him and then he narrates the action of our Lord Jesus Christ in His healing job. I challenge him to utter a single name of a Muslim or a Jew who was named by the Holy Spirit. That will be the end of his mock-show. Are we not gullible and knave when we believe that our Lord Jesus Christ removes all old organs and replace it with brand new ones? Is this not playing a joke on our Lord? He claims that he had several stints with our Lord in this very earth either for initiating him to the Evangelist job or for consoling him when he went in trouble. The Bible says of our Lord appearing only four times after His resurrection. In 20th century he appeared before two, first it was before Benny Hinns another commercial TV Evangelist to be followed by this Indian Evangelist! The same person initiates the innocent children of his family loading them with lies and washing their brains and tools them to satisfy his greed for money. Did Jesus Christ have a child disciple? Can healing powers be inherited? My wife died of cancer in 1992 in spite of the assurance given by India's topmost professional Evangelist and even five minutes before her death my second daughter came to me and told me that she would not die because God will act through this Evangelist Blessings Broker. Can those who participate in these day-time robbery dramas ask these Evangelists who will outbid even Bill Gates of Microsoft in wealth to establish a public trust managed by socially responsible Christian Bishops instead of building up personal assets all over the world. I feel sad and ashamed when I see the trailer presentation of some Bishops on a stage, including a pastor-turned, self consecrated land-lord Bishop for a second with an assurance of their participation in another carnival to take place during the third week of this month. My sadness is heightened because one of the Bishop presented in the show was one I had utmost respect and I had adored him when we both were young. I am helpless and that is why I seek the help of all people who is concerned about the crisis Christianity faces currently and the image of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is time that we open our eyes wide and remove-off the evils that slights our Lord who is portrayed as a layman accompanying the Evangelists incognito and acting on the Master Evangelists' instructions. If you are not convinced of my statements ask for a questionnaire I have with me and try to answer it. I am proud that I love my God and I wish that Christianity grew in the field of love, brotherhood, tolerance, devotion and charity. I request all the Church personnel in His service either to be bold and reject invitations to be present in Christianity bash events and also prohibit all the church members from attending it as they are used only as tools to increase the credibility of the false masked men with evil designs, or face God's rage showering on them. Let us accept the truth that ‘Judas for 30 silvers’ is still amongst us and let all of us arise up against them.

Mathew Thomas

World-wide response to a question I placed in an international Questions Forum

MY QUESTION: - Does it make sense that God answers only tearful prayers? Evangelists make us believe so. Is God that cruel?

I am a little sadistic. I get maximum entertainment viewing blessings-brokers parading the healed to add to their credibility, claiming that God answered their prayers through tearful prayers. When they pray, they cry, - no tears please - and distort their faces and features and raise their hands copying Jesus Christ in His prayers. Is our God that cruel that He makes us cry? Evangelists say that Satan sow diseases and Christ runs after and heals the victim - only after registering their tearful prayers. Why Jesus Christ allows Satan to do this evil? We believe we were His creations and does He not have a duty and responsibility to look after our welfare, as we did not choose this life we possess? Our earthly fathers take this responsibility far more seriously and are to be emulated by Heavenly-beings. I believe in the Ultimate that is our God and I am unable to digest this senseless nonsense? The image of God is tarnished by His own creations and they indulge in faith abuses.

ANSWERS TO MY QUESTION: -

• TV Evangelists are all on the Forbes 400 list of richest men in America. They are really good at what they do to get on TV. They are super rich and have multimillion-dollar mansions and whole fleets of jets and cars and servants and they are the highest paid movie stars on record. So they say what causes you to send money! They are all about the money and do very little good with the money except get rich. Have gold faucets and the Bakers had air-conditioned doghouse. They build hospitals and colleges but they are not free. They to make them money and remember it are all tax-free. They try to sound respectable by being against something we all are, like abortion or Gay's but there is very few of the viewing public that is that or does that. So it doesn't really hurt their contributions. They are for big business and the Republican Party, who is also for big business. They say, be good but carefully stay away from what good means. Like adultery or lies or fornication. Knowing most of the viewing public is doing those things. They are the modern day snake oil salesmen, but hardly authorities on what God does
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• God answers all prayer to those who believe
  
  Jesus never told his followers to act like idiots, or say stupid things...
  
  If someone is sorry for his sins, doing their best, and needs help.... God will answer the prayers.... they do not have to cry on TV for god to hear them...
  
  God hears the sincere prayers of those who are His... He dose not hear the prayers of the non-believers who have not come to Him in The Way He prescribes... and he dose not hear the in-sincere prayers of the believers either.... God dose not answer every prayer with an affirmative.
  
  Evangelists are money grubbing, hair spray using, liars, and cheaters, embezzlers who will take every cent from the naive and gullible.
  
  How could a creation reveal anything but a "tarnished" vision of its creator? A pot can hardly reveal the slight curve on the potters fingers let alone imagine the make of intentions of its creator outside of its own being. For us to truly know God we can, but believe to know. God by definition being perfection and the all to obvious assumption that humans are flawed means again we cant truly "know" in perfection what is perfect.
  Tearful prayers are a sad outcome of our society. When things are going good we take care of ourselves, when it is tough we do not want to deal and pass down the burden to a simple idea of someone who listens and takes away our pain that we so rightfully deserve. So my advice, when you encounter pain cleave onto it learning to love it for what it is for through pain come true pleasure.
  
  God answers prayers if we believe and if it is His will, God Bless You!
  
  

World-wide stand on Commercial Evangelism

The following question I asked in ‘Yahoo Answers’

for browsers to respond: -

Don't you think that Commercial Evangelists live by lies and falsehood and are parasitic to Christianity?

“To laugh out loud at my old age, I see Television channels telecasting ‘Commercial Evangelical Soaps’ wherein self-anointed blessings brokers through hysterical gestures, dancing eyebrows and jerking faces blare out lies and falsehood walking up and down while cameras focus on nodding heads, raising hands and crying faces. Some with dyed hair and bald plates claim of healing terminal diseases like cancer, aids etc., and parade the healed to build up credibility already boosted by the presence of modern Judas Iscariots in colourful holy robes listening attentively and singing along. In India there are a number of professional Evangelists who live by fleecing the poor, innocent and ignorant believers. One Evangelist had the company of Lord Jesus Christ for full three hours when he was 27 years of age. At his command Jesus Christ repair worn-out organs, replace some with brand new ones and plant babies in barren wombs. They go scot-free as none dare question these professional evangelists.”

I received instantly the following responses, and more are likely to follow which along with this I will put in my web site ‘http://defenders-of-faith-movement.blogspot.com/.

Ø Of course...

Ø As long as there are fools, there will be someone to take advantage of them.

Ø A true evangelist is one that tells u the good things of the religion instead of harping u on the other religion being bad and criticising it

Ø Of course they are! Televangelists generally end up on TV being arrested as Con men/women

Ø Perhaps they ARE Christianity, and the whole thing is parasitic?

Ø Some are fakes and some are not. The ones that are will get there's from God personally! The real ones I can say are Billy Graham J. Vernon Mc Gee, Chuck Smith, Chuck Missler, Mike MacIntosh, Franklin Graham, Even Dr. Gene Scott who seemed phony but was actually a wonderful teacher. My opinion is anyone on TBN is probably suspect except Hal Lindsay and Jack Van Impee.

Ø You must watch them a lot to know so much. I prefer to turn them off! If everyone did, problem solved. May God Bless you.

Ø I am Christian and I agree with you. These parasitic sham artists are horrible people. They are truly anti-religious atheists or they would not be so bold. Please understand I am not saying all atheists advocate such bad behavior. I am simply saying that if these people sincerely believed in God, they would not make a mockery of religion and do it for profit. They are just too lazy and dishonest to get a job

Ø I was recently enlightened by the whole turn of events by my partner who was rather eager to entertain me with a documentary of these Evangelists residing in the USA, practicing Christian Voo Doo on children and infants in an obscene fashion! I am a Christian myself, however, I do not believe that the Bible and Gods word should be executed in the manner I witnessed in the documentary The God Delusion. It was not only extremely disturbing and manipulating for non-believers; it truly portrayed the Christian faith as being more like a sadistic cult, than a faith of purity and innocence. In saying this, I find that these Evangelists, are sadly twisting the Christian faith into what I would believe some sort of dictatorship, which lacks all the spiritual and godly depth that Christianity truly stands for. Religiously speaking the Bible by no means states that we are to behave in the fashion of these so-called Christians. The kingdom of God is within you and it is truly a selfless state that true Christianity evolves in. Propaganda, manipulation, militancy and a misleading existence of truth, thrives among this circle of Evangelists and I consider that to be not only dangerous for the society we live in (as we are so easily affected by media and society), but also detrimental to the youth of today not being able to identify with themselves "who they truly are" and develop their own sense of being. All in all, you cannot question their antics, as eventually the repercussions I believe, politically, will have devastating effects on the world we live in. It simply cannot continue at this level

Ø This is a big business supported by our political leaders. These so called men and women of God own billions of dollars of property, television stations and even diamond mines in other countries. Praise the lord

Ø It's like tax-free legalized fraud.

Ø Who does the most damage? They or George Bush? Well, what do you expect when you live in a nation of idiots who spend their lives pissing their pants in ignorant fear? P.T.Barnum said it best-"there's a ****** born every minute".

Ø I definitely think they are frauds. If they were working for God, and were doing well, they wouldn't have to ask for money because God would bring it to them. Anyone who has to ask for money in God's name I think the same thing about. It's like tithing. Ever go to a church where they make a big deal about tithing? Before they do the offering they will have a big prayer about it, and make a big deal out if it....If you're doing God work, stick a locked box on the altar or in the back somewhere, in a place where it is seen well, and let the people give freely, on their own without coercion from Pastors and the like.
Ø Remember when Oral Roberts said God had told him that unless people sent him $8 million he would die?

Ø Well God spoke to me as I was reading your question, and if the true believers out there do not send me $80 million, he is going to kill off all the evangelists, and make their followers memorize your question

Ø They're nut jobs and they're part of the reason some atheists/agnostics are hostile towards Christians. They are agents of intolerance. They radicalize anyone susceptible to their treachery. Of course they live by lies and falsehoods; but at least even many Christians can use logic, and see through their nonsense.

Ø Many televangelists do mislead people. For many, it IS all a show and an act. They rehearse ahead of time how they are going to zoom in with the camera for maximum effect. Sure, this happens. Still, God sees all, and HE will judge these folks for daring to mislead others in HIS name for their own profit. The purpose of television ministry however, is to reach a broad range of people, and to reach those who would otherwise not set foot in the Church. This can be a very good thing, and many homebound Christians look forward to church services on television. You can't judge all of them as a whole. You have to use a spirit of discernment to figure out who is genuinely serving God and who is serving himself (or herself). Billy Graham and Franklin Graham are famous for their crusades that fill stadiums and are broadcast on television. The message is simple, there are no dramatic productions, and there is just the simple message of Christ's love for us. There is worship and praise music, but most people who go to and watch these services WANT to hear this music. God is worthy of this praise.

Ø To answer your question, yes, these wolves in sheep's clothing are out there. The Bible even talks about people such as these who mislead others. The Bible tells of how God will judge them even more harshly for their acts. They are not representative however, of all televangelists who are merely trying to spread the Word of God to a vast audience, as their convictions call them to do.

Ø Jesus Christ never converted anybody into Christianity because he was a Jew and he himself said: I have not come to abolish the religion of Moses. Then who has authorised the people to proclaim the religion of Christianity & convert people. Because Jesus has said not to snatch the bread from the Jews and throw to the gentiles. That means apart from Jews who are original Christians other are following just a myth called Christianity. The biggest benefit reapers are the so- called fathers/sisters/mothers/brother... And you name anybody by any relation.

Ø They do Christianity a horrible disservice. They spout bigoted drivel and make ludicrous claims and even host huge weekend revivals in order to teach small children how to counter evolution thereby depriving those children and Christianity in general of a pool of intelligent, thoughtful people to help religious doctrine assimilate and reconcile with continued scientific exploration. When most of us non-Christians go off about fondues the evangelists usually rank up there in the discussion along with some other rather loud members of other denominations. The truth is, the in-your-face smokers who constantly demand their smoking rights push non-smokers into legislation, its the same with the in-your-face you'll-all-go-to-hell folks that get religion pushed out of places. I have no problem with people that think and practice differently, I respect their love for their God and the like but when they start pushing me, my children and others into doing it their way then I get ruffled as do many people of all faiths.

Ø Who are you to judge? All the thousands of people sitting and listening, do they not understand the meaning of the words. Why do they sit and listen. Each and every one has one sublime quality, which is called faith. They believe. If you believe, then you will receive. I am not a spiritualist. But I do know that what does not affect you, you have no need to criticize or find fault. As an example: Say you have a kidney pain. You go to the doctor who gives you a prescription. Take the following tablets. By mistake you buy Vitamin C tablets, which you ingest. The next day despite your kidney pain will be healed only because you took the tablet with faith in the doctor. The same way, you can expect in your own terms that due to faith all these healings take place. I am only using this example as my argument. I definitely do believe in God and I also do believe the evangelists are doing a very good job in keeping so many people in faith and not confused with life.

Ø I don't "Follow" any of them however there ARE a very few that actually do help in disaster relief and community projects.

Ø I can't stand all the clapping from the blank stony faces of their members... they are ignorant people and they are following complete liars! Have you seen the new 'miracle water'? A new cure-all for everything. But if they are getting away with it so much, doesn't it mean that someone high up is approving.

Ø I think this is the true evil today. It's obvious that they are professionals and they have snaked their way onto the screens by dishonest media deals. The people, who put them on air, publish their books, market their merchandise and holy wares - they should all be arrested for fraud and prevented from spreading their nonsense. But as for their followers, they are desperate and ignorant people. They don't deserve anything else.

Ø Although I am a Christian there are several Evangelists and others that feed off the people. It is shames that they could do things like this but as in all things I guess that we believers have our bad apples too. It embarrasses the good Christians and it angers us to know there are people like that but we do have to put up with such as you say and I agree of worldly devilish Satan.

Ø It is best to look at an individual's ministry and see if they are robbing and lying to the masses but bad examples of Christianity are usually more prominent, hurtful and long lasting to a public view on TV evangelism and Christianity as a whole.

Ø I am biased by being a Christian, but I do believe that there are some preachers on TV or otherwise who try and use the pulpit for financial gain instead of honestly trying to minister for the sake of saving/teaching. But there are some TV evangelist who really try to minister for the sake of ministering. It may be possible that there may be some ministers who may have honestly tried to preach according to Biblical concepts and fight a particular sin in their personal life that has basically been a lifelong battle (this is usually a stronghold sin). Then again a particular evangelist might practice sin because they don't really believe in God/ His help or they haven't experienced God's help with stopping sin.

Ø Overall there are also different styles of preaching. Traditionally African-American churches are credited with using a style that uses more dramatic gestures to preach but color or culture doesn't mean that all black churches are showy or that all white churches are reserved. Regardless many people call themselves Christians but it is either 1.) Just a title 2.) A honest belief about their' self without a lifestyle that supports that title 3.) Some one who has chosen what they want to believe or not believe based on what they know about the subject 4.) A person really trying to live a lifestyle based on what the bible says.

Ø My personal experience has led me to churches of different worship styles, congregations, races and colors. I am currently at a black church where it is believed that there is power given from above and so the laying of hands is used to repel sickness and other ailments. I believe I have seen various ailments healed but I know that that my experience isn't an end all convincer of truth.

Ø Money is preached on a lot and I do find myself praying a lot about the issue of whether my church's ministry is really trying to live by God's standard or not but I also know that lifestyle spiritual warfare and other biblical principles are taught. My church also reaches out to the homeless by providing food baskets, clothing and weekly hot food. They also provide computers so that people can find jobs and at Christmas toys are provided.

DaVinci Code

This text of my letter was published in the New Indian Express

I am a Senior Citizen, a Christian by birth being the son of a Christian priest and live the life of a true Christian respecting all religions around me. Judaism, Islam and Christianity were religions that none would dare question against its teachings. But during the last few decades Christianity slipped low and down from its high pedestal and Jesus Christ and His noble teachings were misrepresented by his accredited followers all over the world to suit their vested interests and church heads go on looking the other way. During the last few decades, novels, stage shows and visual media had portrayed Christ in negative and ugly ways to make a fast buck. The Da Vinci Code is no exception and the Christians themselves are solely to be blamed for this nasty situation. Sunday is a day of rest, meditation and thanks giving prayers. But to me it is the best amusement day of the week for laughing out loud on seeing the hysterical prayers of commercial Evangelists of different denominations. This being the current situation, the evil presentation of Christ through The Da Vinci Code does less harm to Christianity than these self-seeking fraudulent commercial Evangelists parasitical to Christianity”. - Mathew Thomas

Can You Answer these questions?

“The Text of a letter E – mailed to some TV channels engaged in promoting ugly commercial Evangelism.”

Please copy this and send it to your friends and true Christians so that they understand the assault of evil forces on Jesus Christ & Christianity. Please join the Defenders of Faith Movement.

E-mail address: - tomatsenator@gmail.com


Sirs:

If you stick to certain professional ethics you are bound to answer my questions listed below: -

You administer a mass media, a product of scientific advancement. The preamble of our constitution stipulates the growth of a scientific temper and those who violate this preamble can be questioned by a court and brought to book. Do you respect this part of the constitution?

An Indian citizen enjoys the right to practice his religion with honour. But none can hurt the feelings of those who practice their religions with devotion by telecasting lies and falsehood on basic tenets of religion uttered by those who commercialise religions for sharing the pittance out of the bounties earned with their abetment.

I can understand three languages namely English, Malayalam and Tamil. In these languages either in its original form or dubbed or translated, you have presented with commercial intentions pictures of God, Jesus Christ and stealthy actions of Holy Spirit, backed by Hollywood film clippings. One among you has shown the nailing of Jesus Christ on to the cross that can transmit horror to the heart of true Christians. Jesus was also shown in yellow hues in the screen. Did you see God and if not what is your source of the picture of a lanky, emaciated, tired and weak-looking God wearing clothes made in earth? God is common to Islam, Judaism and Christianity and in Islam it is prohibited to present pictures of the God. This is my understanding and you know very well how a cartoon of the Prophet created worldwide violence recently.

You have transmitted the claim of an Evangelist that he was visited by Jesus Christ when he was twenty-seven years' old and He was with him for full three hours. Millions viewed it and were aghast over it. The history says that none of the Saints and Popes except St. Peter had ever seen Him after the resurrection. Only three or four times and that too within a few days after His resurrection He appeared before others. Jesus Christ lived in the first half of the century and for twenty centuries thereafter till date He did not appear before anyone. If you believe that my statement is incorrect please correct me with evidence. My conclusion is that you are hand in glove with Evangelists in spreading the blasphemy and to bestow credibility to evil forces.

You present Evangelists closing their eyes for prayers and the Evangelists are aroused by the Holy Spirit to reveal at random Hindus and Christians who are in deep distress. This way you present the Holy Spirit as an unholy element because so far not a single Jew or Muslim was shown to the Evangelist by the Holy Spirit. Is it because you give only 30 minutes time to the Evangelists within which Holy Spirit cannot reveal all the people for the Evangelists to pray for them? Did you ever ask these Evangelists why this sort of variance in faith happens? My answer is that if a Muslim or a Jew is presented as such it will evoke violence all over. Besides by this you present the action of Holy Spirit in dark shade!

One among you presented a couple on the screen and the Evangelist gave a testimony of the woman saying to the viewers that she collapsed in a foreign airport and Jesus Christ descended down and took her along with Him and after sometime returned her to the earth to join the earthly frame. Do you think that any true Christian of honour will tolerate this profanity? This is the ultimate abuse your telecast can cast on Jesus Christ and Christianity and you have to answer to the rage on Christianity you had committed.

One among you carried forward a claim of an Evangelist that Jesus Christ has repaired the fetus in the womb of a woman and in another devilish show you have shown the born child from the repaired womb along with its happy parents. There was no surgery involved and that leaves the entrance to the womb a single one. Having telecast this you have to explain to all the Christians all over the world how Christ's hands reached the womb. In the past you claimed that Jesus plants babies in the barren wombs and replace worn out organs with brand new organs. Do you know that one among the Evangelists you promote had a heart surgery at Vijaya Hospital, Chennai, 26. He had an arthritis problem that was attended to by Doctors. Since Jesus Christ acts as his slave and go on curing Aids and Cancers why did he waste his money earned out of sin in collaboration with unethical promoters and establish a hospital under his management?

A statement was made through you that God has appointed the father and son duo as prophets early this year. Had I understood the claim correctly you know what will be the consequences for this irresponsible act because it hurts the basics of both Islam and Judaism? It can flare up as a communal clash between Jews and Muslims on one side and Christians on the other side and you do not know how serious it would come if this statement comes to their notice. The Bible has both Old and New Testaments. Old Testament relates to both Judaism and Islam. New Testament relates to Jesus Christ. The Qur'an - Final Testament - mentions 27 prophets and the Bible mentions 26 prophets and both are common. The last two were Jesus Christ and Prophet Muhammad. The holy books do not mention any prophets other than these and to link the line of Tamilnadu Evangelists to those holy figures will create an unprecedented uproar that will shake the nation. You should never forget that these speeches are sold as CDs and none can deny the claim.

You believe that seasonal exam-related prayers with dance and song sequences and hysterical and epileptic seizures will please God and all those thousands who assemble and join in prayers and pay through their noses to join umpteen plans and clubs will win gold medals. What you are committing as an abettor is a great sin for which your institution may not suffer, but those individuals who realize that they are doing wrong and still indulge in it will receive severe punishment from God.

The evil Evangelists prepare soaps accompanied by soft music, commercials and serials and you faithfully present it before people although you realize that you are in collaboration with a perpetrator of fraud, played on poor, innocent and ignorant people looking for a way out of worldly miseries. Do not you feel guilty that these Evangelists building up personal assets all over the world use your screen to beg for money from time to time on one pretext or other? Did you ever look at those sweet children who were forced into Evangelism looking emaciated with sunken eyes due to hard work?

I want you to reply to this mail as early as possible proving that I am wrong on my assumptions lest I intend to proceed against you in all ways that remain open to me. I will post these letters to the President of India, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, the Minister for Information and Broad Casting, the Vatican and all the heads of various religious heads besides posting it in several web sites and you will solely be responsible for any adverse reactions or results. If the reply is delayed I propose to send you a registered notice soon copying this mail.

Once again I request you to follow basic business ethics and never sacrifice your character and principles to gain monetary benefits. You can also proceed against me for defamation if you desire so, because I have solid evidence with me for what all I have stated. You may be a mighty organization, but I feel pity on you. Let God judge between us and severely punish the guilty. - Thomas

"OUR CREED"

OUR CREED IN A NUTSHELL

The Defenders of Faith Movement is a noble forum started to promote

and sustain true faith in the religions to which our members belong to, exposing vicious blessings-brokers who heinously exploit the ignorance of the masses and fleece them off to build huge personal assets all over the world in collaboration with men in holy robes

abetting the crime shamelessly.

The Defenders of Faith Movement intend to motivate the

intelligentsia to fight against those parasites eating away the vitals of the religions gradually making those noble religions

suspect in the minds of its believers.

The Defenders of Faith Movement respect all religions alike

and exhorts all its members to profit by following its

teachings and are high above the
narrow barriers of region, religion, class and community.

The eyes of Gods see only His creations and not

distinguish any of them by a religion.

The Defenders of Faith Movement do not expect any financial

gain through any type of collection and its

motto is “Service before Self”. Its membership
is open to all without any charge what so ever. Any member can agree or disagree with his friend/friends in the Movement.

The Defenders of Faith Movement expect all its members

to contribute their experiences or knowledge

through articles that do not hurt the
faith of its members or who go through the contents.

The Defenders of Faith Movement will bring out highly
intelligent articles, sayings and wordings of world class

gained through its sister Movements that can

contribute as fodders to thinking and analytic minds.

The Defenders of Faith Movement desire

and work for the intellectual gain,
peace of mind and happiness among its members.

GOD BLESS THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN LOVE, TOLERANCE,
CHARITY AND BROTHERHOOD and let us uphold this slogan
as our guideline in this earthly life.

PRAYERS AND BEST WISHES

Mathew Thomas

Christianity in Peril - Save Christianity

BELIEVE IN CHRIST BUT NOT IN FALSE FAKE PROPHETS

We are born in a faith and it is our duty to love and be loyal to that FAITH. The life has become fast and has turned self-centred. We believe that going to the Church and attending the mass take care of our spiritual needs and obligations. This is far from true. Even our Spiritual heads are compromising on character, principles and true faith. Between churches fights are going strong and divinity is being replaced by materialistic glory. Most sickening scenario is the emergence of satanic and evil Evangelists who exploit the faith of the people deeply immersed in worldly miseries and fleece them off their meagre earnings in the name of God with the active connivance of some ignorant spiritual leaders in colourful robes aiming for fame through TV shows. To identify these Evangelists, please carefully watch the show. First look at their face and their smile for a few seconds and you will see evil writ large on their faces. I watch these devils on various "Channel pimps" of no character and grieve for our Lord Jesus Christ and our faith - the Christianity. They cry - no tears, they jump and dance shaking the stage, they raise their hands as Jesus Christ did, they bring witnesses and parade them in shows along with some strayed religious heads, they close their eyes for prayers so that they can see Holy Spirit in revealing acts, they ask God to heal through voice modulation, they make the show spicy adding dance and songs, they bring in women folk to cater to female needs, they make sweet children with sunken eyes - developed through heavy work load - to slog hard and make them utter lies and falsehood using them as tools to satisy their perverse intentions, they present God on the screen with Hollywood film clippings with the ulterior motive of molesting faith, they add soft music as background to get into the heart of the viewers and ultimately without an iota of shame, beg for cash to spread the message of God all over the World to build up personal assets in India and abroad. Their greed of money never ends and they turn traitors to Christ and baitors of Christianity which we do not understand. If you love Jesus Christ and repose faith in Christianity, please do not pay a Paise to these evil cheaters working hand in glove with some spiritual leaders, who probably is sharing the loot. If you do that it is a sin of the first order. The first thing we should do is to to stop all donations that serve as the life line and make them impotent in evangelic action. If some spiritual leaders are promoting them either for gain or fame ask them to desist from it and if the advice goes unheeded, vigorously fight against it. Your needs are met by your Prayers and never through blessings brokers who ever they are. The head of a Professional Evangelist Family had major surgeries in Chennai and medical treatment abroad. Is it not a big joke that he heals Aids, Cancers and effect anatomic changes through prayers. Can he restore lost teeth, amputated organs and restore lost hairs through his prayers. Why some them in their advanced age dye their hair? I believe in prayers. Suddenly I became deaf on my left ear. I went to one leading Doctor and another major Hospital and they adviced me that my hearing power was permanently lost. I returned to my home in disrtess, disappointment and dejection. Then I prayed to God to restore my hearing. All on a sudden I got the lost power back. To heal yourself you do not have to go a blessing broker. Through prayer from a clean heart you will get your prayers answered, but there are limitations and there we have to submit ourselves to the will of God. Thomas

Text of a mail sent to selected Spiritual heads

A Message from Defenders of Faith Movement

Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

How long one can tolerate and suffer blasphemy? If we love God is it not our duty to defend Jesus Christ and the Christianity we believe in from Satanic Evil Commercial Televangelists who cash on the misplaced faith and sufferings of their brethren? At 75 what I am doing now is the maximum I can, and unless all of us who believe in God rise up and fight against this parasitical menace, I warn you that we will face doom with lost generations. In this morning 6.30 Surya Evangelic Commercial Show, the member of a Professional Evangelical Family claimed that God does heal with a selfish intention to corner all glory for Him alone. He did so in many instances like the resurrection of Lazarus too. There were so many funny and ignorant statements in the show and I felt pity on not only the Evangelist for his ignorance, but those who hear too, but are ignorant of the Bible. The most reverend Evangelist also said that once you are healed God expects you to go and declare as a credible witness in public spiritual carnivals graced with the presence of so-called spiritual leaders . On the other side I request you to fight against molesting Jesus Christ and His words by Televangelists. I request you to spread the contents of this message as more and more people are likely to develop this fantasy of meeting Christ and His apostles both in earth and heaven, Holy Spirit getting into their heads, replacing organs in human anatomy with brand new ones, planting babies in the wombs or repairing retarded fetus, curing aids, cancers and other terminal diseases and God appointing two new prophets honoring the Indian State of Tamilnadu. These types of claims are either fantasies of a sick mind or a challenge to your intellectual capability. Shed fear, stand upright and charge forward to fight the evil forces that tarnish Christianity and slight our Lord. Prayers

Presenting Jesus Christ and Christianity in black

The height of the intellect is distinguishing between the real and the impossible, and submission to what is beyond one's power-Ibn Gabirol, "Mibhar Hal'eninim".

What is presented below is the painful expression of a true Christian who live in brotherhood with all men irrespective of religion, region and language. I am 74, born to a Christian priest with a broad outlook who preached love, brotherhood, charity and compassion amongst his herd; the editor and publisher of a magazine respected by the intelligentsia and a former regional marketing head of an international institution of world fame. I now live totally shattered amongst lost values every where. Jesus Christ is presented as a slave by living Judas Iscariots in holy robes, not for 30 silvers but for good returns in gold standard. The image of Christianity is tarnished from inside by its own men in command and the poor is exploited and deprived of their little earnings. The agony is that we all are standing silently as a witness and most of us never dare challenge these charlatans, being afraid of a backlash on you. Can any one answer these questions I put forward with evidence partly available with me and partly with money minded commercial channels minus basic character and professional ethics who telecast program abusing Christ and Christianity by presenting evidence that challenges human intellect? If you cannot answer please do something to stem the rot. Before that let me identify myself to you.

Do you believe that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has visited an Indian Evangelist when he was 27 and remained with him for full three hours. To testify this I have this CD in my possession. Another person He visited was the internationally known faith Baron Benny Hinn. Jesus Christ has visited India to meet our Evangelist several times. He returned the visit and went to heaven and was with two of His apostles. I have down-loaded his conversation with Benny Hinn on this visit. If you wish I shall send this to you by E-mail. But none dare ask him what His appearance was, His complexion, the dress He was wearing, His height, the language He communicated with and whether He resembled his worldly living representatives who expand on all sides including physical measurements, wealth and luxury. Had he given an illustration, some poor computer artists could have made a graphic picture of Jesus Christ which the Evangelist could have bought and sold along with tones of anointing-oils, calendars, diaries and other literary trash.

A holy telecast aired on 11th January Thursday at 6.30 A. M., through an atheist-family managed Channel presented a couple to tell us that the lady traveling with her husband collapsed at an airport - it appears to be in U K - and suddenly Jesus Christ descended and carried her to heaven and had spent a few hours with her and she was sent back to the relief of her husband to merge with her earthly frame. I saw this sadistic presentation in the 'Jump, Jerk and Pop-Dance Twin-Bulls Feast show' of a duo aired on that TV. The most agonising fact is that these beasts of feasts are based in Kottayam, the home of Malayala Manorma and the town once graced by the presence of the late K. M. Mammen Mappillai. The Twin-Bulls-show is going on strongly and if you wish to see another Laurel & Hardy Laugh Show, please do not miss their comic actions and stage shaking hysteria . What will a non-believer think of how the woman spent her time with Jesus Christ? What is your answer?

In another TV program aired by another TV, one youthful Indian Commercial Evangelist with closed eyes is exclusively shown by the Holy Spirit of Jesus repairing the fetus in the womb of a woman. We can't see it because we are born in sin with flesh and blood. The beneficiary along with her husband was paraded as a testimonial on the TV screen. Since He did no surgery to normalise the fetus the entrance to the womb can only be one and how insulting and injurious it could be to all of us, His true followers. Previously He was described as placing fresh babies in barren wombs and replacing worn out organs with brand new ones. Now it was upgraded to heavenly manual surgery. What is your answer?

More things for you to learn afresh: Satan goes out and sows diseases of all types on all types of people confined only to Hindus and Christians. Then the afflicted rush to Evangelist's operas and the Evangelist - I am mentioning only one - with dyed exterior on a bald plate, prays for their recovery with tearless wailings resembling and resounding to yester-actor later M R Radha's "Rakthakanneer"- dancing eyebrows, jerking body, shuddering fingers and rotating face. God always stands nearby as his orderly and acts according to his command. Tell me who is the master and who is the slave? This Evangelist had two surgeries - perhaps our Lord Jesus Christ was busy with Benny Hinn at that time - and the heart surgery was done at Vijaya Hospital, Chennai, 26. Another was to cure arthritis and I do not know the hospital name. Poor fellow! He cured aids and cancer several times, but he could not cure himself. His Commercially run University has a hospital near to it. Why a hospital if he can cure all diseases?

Our Holy Spirit is concerned only about Christians and the Hindus. The Holy Spirit does not name a single person who belongs to Islam and Judaism. The Holy Spirit knows that to have a company the Evangelists should live and should not be a fatal victim to the anger of Muslims and Jews once they are bought in the commercial Soap Show. Do you believe in this revelation? Is it not an ugly presentation of Holy Spirit, one in the Trinity?

No prayer was heard by Jesus Christ between 1st and 4th February night since Jesus Christ was on a visit to Cochin to pay obeisance to the Twin Bulls, preyng and feasting heavenly on the gullible and picking their pockets in God's name. The presence of Jesus Christ is declared by one among the Bulls in a Surya TV show. I see this regular Thursday tamasha and laugh to my ribs and then cry out for the poor who are fleeced cashing on their innocence.

Do you know that in January this year our God - shown in the TV Screen with a lengthy frame, but looking weak and tired, wrinkled and freckled - appointed two more prophets after several centuries in the line of Moses and others in Old testament, and John, Samuel and Jesus in the new Testament and we should rejoice that this great honour came to India. It was a father and son duo projected by most T Vs. How shameful it is! Does not this statement question your intelligence? You have heard of yellow papers, but have you ever seen a God projected in golden yellow?

If you wish to have a good laugh on funny antics see Vijay TV every day at 6, morning and Surya TV at 6.30 and 7.00 on Thursdays and 6 to 7 on Sundays, Asianet on Friday 6.30 and Raj Tv on Sunday at 8.30 night. On DaVinci code I wrote a strong letter and the New Indian Express boldly published it.

As parents we have a responsibility to bring up our children imparting values of life. Our children should enjoy their childhood in play, studies and recreation. See Vijay TV morning show and you see emaciated-looking sweet children telling lies and practicing falsehood at the instance of their parents whose greed of money even death can't snatch away. What a paradoxical situation! Even the women folk in the family are not spared.
You will be surprised how a Christian can write like this. I write this because I am a true Christian in the service of His creations.

The Malayalam Press once graced by the illustrious names such as K. P. Keshava Menon, K M Mammen Mappilai, K Sukumaran, E. K. Nayanar etc are silent on the exploitation of the people cheating them utterling lies and falsehood. I am not an atheist. My intention is to keep the image of all divine celebrities intact and expose the evil amongst men who live by lies and falsehood. It is sad that some literate church heads too share the podium with evil Evangelistsm possibly for a pittance of the vulgar earnings of commercial evangelists. I have no complaints against the News Papers as I have not found them compromising professional ethics for cash ub this context. My complaint against them is their silence on the activities of these charlatans. I want them to be courageous enough to expose this fraud committed on God and the believers. I have written to the Channels, Bishops, the Judges, the Ministry of Broadcasting and Publications and many Christian organisations. If you love God and have faith in Him and respect all religions and hate the exploitation of the suffering masses, in the name of God, kindly take up this cause in all sincerity.

Mathew Thomas