Televangelism

Televangelism is an example of the manipulation of religion for selfish reasons such as fame, money, and power. It is also the fault of gullible followers that these dogmatic speakers are so “successful”. People today have made little progress and throughout history repeatedly use God as a resource, just like the Anglo-Saxons used God as a resource. Televangelists use their influence to collect fame and renown as well as unintended infamy in some cases. One of the most notorious televangelists, Oral Roberts, has written many books on self-help, maintaining righteousness, and more. On the cover of Oral Robert’s book “Miracles of Seed Faith” and many of his other books, there is a very large picture of him and his name is almost bigger than the…

Televangelism refers to the use of the television for preachers and ministers to communicate their religious views to the masses. Using this method, the televangelists can reach not only their local congregation of worshipers, but all who have access to the network in which the sermons are shown. In the history of the Christian faith, ministers have always wished to reach an audience on a grander level. However, televisions haven’t always been available. Now, with televisions, computers and…

This next section of chapter dives deeper into television as a medium. Commercials are something we are now accustom to, they have become an inconvenience more than anything, yet our by habits and ideals of what society is or should be is heavily influenced by them. They have even found a way to fit our political figures in to their 30 second time slots. Living in the Bible belt and in the state that produced Billy Graham televangelism is nothing new. Television offers a new medium for…

There are people out there in the world taking advantage of those who are desperate and weak, those who can’t decipher up from down, left from right, stuck so deep in a rut of misery, that those who practice institutionalization capitalize on that. This is where Televangelism comes to play. Televangelism is a dated but still booming mini-economy that plays on peoples hopes, similar to Fordism in Brave New World, and coaxes them into submission to sacrifice their money, privacy, and valuable…

history of fire-eating, stump-speaking, American political and social advocates is a long and rich one. One of the most famous was actually a US president–Andrew Jackson. After his loss in 1824 in what people called the “corrupt bargain” of an election, he and his followers began a vicious, mudslinging campaign against John Quincy Adams. This is not unlike some of Trump’s campaign strategies: only, instead of accusing his fellow Republicans of seeing a European full-service sex worker, he calls…

according to my survey only thirty-one percent of those loyal attendees will seek out a church to attend while at college. It was even more interesting to see that even less, twenty-one percent plan to be involved in any type of campus ministry. In my experience, I was raised in a Christian home in the late sixties through the mid eighties. I am a fourth generation Christian, meaning, my great grandparents, my grandparents, my parents, and myself were all Christians. My sister and brother each…