The Washington Post had an interesting article about a Pentecostal fundamentalist minister who is doing his best to pervert faith and religion. Key quotes…..
“Rob Foster was 16 when his family unraveled.
He had told his parents that he wanted to leave Calvary Temple, the Pentecostal church in Sterling the family had attended for decades. But church leaders were blunt with his parents: Throw your son out of the house, or you will be excommunicated. And so that December two years ago, Gary and Marsha Foster told Rob that he had to leave. They would not see him or talk to him.”
“In 2002, three weeks after the death of his wife, Scott, who was then 55, stood before the congregation and announced that the Bible instructed him as a high priest to take a virgin bride from the faithful. A week later, he did — a pretty 20-year-old who a couple of years earlier had been a star basketball player on the church high school team.”
“With the free hand given to him by congregants, Scott launched a ministry in the early 1990s that dovetailed with a favorite hobby: expensive cars.
He bought Corvettes, Ferraris, dragsters, souped-up motorcycles and trucks, many of which are on view on the ministry Web site. The site describes the racing ministry, named Finish the Race, as “an automotive outreach.”
Read the whole thing. Fast cars, hot young chick, church paid expense account and total control over all decisions made in the church. This guy is checking off all the boxes needed for full cult status. Somehow, the people involved just do not see it. The sex thing is a dead give away IMHO. These “men of God” just happen to end up with much younger, better looking women. Just coincidence I guess, or maybe the Christian corollary to the Muslim 70 virgins. Being a Christian, you get yours here on earth, one reason why Muslims were wrong to reject the Crusaders attempts at proselytizing. (I wonder why this never works with a female minister taking a much younger, hotter male partner?) At any rate, if he announces plans to move the church to someplace in South America, I hope those people catch on before it’s too late.
Steve
Hey at least he’s allowing his followers to live the good life vicariously.
This guy is expecting his followers to get more bang from the same old buck.
http://www.fellowshipchurch.com/index.php?setcampus=grapevine
Sex sells. And churches need to be sold. If you doubt me look around at the names of the new churches around your home. Most of them could be a restaurant for gawd’s sake, pun intended.