Ethics

Satan Attacks Rod Parsley

By Ed Brayton

George Carlin famously joked about how God, according to the televangelists, always needs money - "He's all knowing, all powerful and all wise, but somehow he can't hold on to money." He could also have pointed out that the televangelists -- who are, as Rick Overton once declared, the pro wrestlers of religion -- always blame it on Satan when there isn't enough of the green stuff flowing in. The Columbus Dispatch reports on Rod Parsley's desperate plea for donations:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).