Don't Judge Us Just Because We Are Hypocrites

[Solitary]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-muckraking-magazine-creates-a-stir-among-evangelical-christians/ar-AA74KBg?ocid=U147DHP

In October, Mark Driscoll, the evangelical pastor and best-selling author, resigned from Mars Hill, his Seattle megachurch. This month, Mars Hill announced that it was dissolving its network of 13 satellite churches.

In the aftermath of his fall, Mr. Driscoll, who was known for his autocratic management style, his quashing of dissent and his unusually frank talk about how Christian wives can please their husbands in bed, had himself to blame. In resigning, Mr. Driscoll admitted his failings, citing his “past pride, anger and a domineering spirit.”

But Mr. Driscoll cannot take all the credit for his own downfall. For one thing, any faithful Christian would give Satan his due, for leading Mr. Driscoll astray. Then there is the role played by World, an evangelical Christian newsmagazine that broke one of the most damaging stories about Mr. Driscoll. In March, World reported that $210,000 in Mars Hill church funds had gone to a marketing firm that promised to get “Real Marriage,” a book written by Mr. Driscoll and his wife, on best-seller lists.

World was not the only outlet to take on Mr. Driscoll. The blogger Warren Throckmorton, in particular, persistently chronicled concerns about Mars Hill for the website Patheos. But the story about best-seller lists was also not the first scoop for World, and Mr. Driscoll was not the first conservative Christian leader that the magazine had taken on.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

It's definitely the boogieman under his bed doing it..

[stromboli]

Look into any religion and you will find a Mark Driscoll; in fact, many of them. The first xtian church I attended after Mormonism was referred to as "Crowder's castle" because the pastor was a martinet who basically built his little kingdom on earth. Just a little further away was one referred to as "the glass cathedral" built by another pastor. Joel Osteen, the Crystal Cathedral that went belly up, and so on. Children of pastors become pastors for a reason. Easy bucks, tax advantages, you name it. Religion is a scam, period.

[Berati]

Religion is a scam, period.

Many are but some spread through other methods IMO.
Christianity is definitely a scam. It claims everyone is born with an illness and the only cure is Jesus.

The quran is far more of an instruction book on how to conduct an insurgency in the 7th century.

Both are bad and have led to bad things, but each in their own separate bad ways. What all religions have in common is faith that does not aloow the beliefs to be questioned.

[Munch]

How often do you read stories where priests, bishops or vicors raped children, but always claim the devil made them do it or how it was the children's fault for enticing them.