Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site floyd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb From: trb@floyd.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Who's Your favorite TV preacher? Message-ID: <1846@floyd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jul-83 16:32:09 EDT Article-I.D.: floyd.1846 Posted: Mon Jul 18 16:32:09 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 18-Jul-83 23:33:49 EDT References: <229@ihuxt.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ Lines: 41 Good question! I watch a good deal of tv. I watch most of my tv preachers while waiting for "Sunday Morning" and "Nova" to come on. Here's some comments on the Sunday morning spew: I find the clean-cut southern preachers utterly foul. At the top of this category go Jerry Falwell and the "you are loved" guy, whatever his name is (Oral Roberts?). "You too can own a piece of Liberty Mountain, in Lynchburg, VA." How appropriate. There's a pudgy little critter named Ernest Angely (I'm not kidding!) who wears leisure suits and has cheeks like a squirrel and a pitch like a huckster and he saves people ever week, praise the Lowered. He's a riot to watch, but he's not to be taken seriously. Theres a Long Island (NY) version named Gene Profeta, who is the "Saturday Night Fever" edition of the video preacher. Just as ridiculous as Angely but with an Italian New Yawkah bent, instead of the monotonous and tiring southern stuff. You might think that I just don't respect any of these guys, but you'd be wrong, as usual. There's one guy I really like, though I'm not about to convert to Goyism. His name is Frederick K. Price, he's a black preacher from somewhere out in California. He's quick witted and intelligent, and he tries to teach his congregation something, rather than just shoving Jesus down their throats. He doesn't have a hint of a holier-than-thou attitude. This isn't to say that he doesn't put anyone down, if he thinks that the mainstream church is full of baloney regarding some issue, he'll say it in that many words. You can immediately tell a bad preacher by how much he sweats. Profeta sweats like a dog, Angely is just about as bad. Mr. U.R. Loved is pretty bad. Falwell is more media oriented, and hardly sweats at all, which makes him especially dangerous. Frederick K. Price wouldn't sweat if he had to play racquetball while he preached. I really suggest that you check out Price. He's on in the NYC area before 9am, I forget which channel. I would think and hope that he would be on elsewhere as well. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491