The Church Basement Roadshow

The Church Basement Roadshow

Mark Silk Unloads

posted by Tony Jones | 7:39am Monday June 30, 2008

One of my new favorite blogs, is “Spiritual Politics” by Mark Silk, professor of religion and public life at Trinity College. Last week, he unloaded on a particular televangelist. Guess which one:

Of all the vile, fake, lying-ass, money-grubbing shyster scumbags on the face of this planet, there is perhaps none more loathsome than [NAME REDACTED], a human haircut with plastic baseball-size teeth who has made a fortune selling the appalling only-in-America idea that terrestrial greed is actually a form of Christian devotion.

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[UPDATE: It wasn't the relatively objective Prof. Silk who uttered the quote, but Rolling Stone's Matt Taibi. Mark sets me straight.]



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Anonymous

posted June 30, 2008 at 8:45 am


To be fair, I was in Uganda last summer and was talking to a 25-year old woman from there who told me that “the biggest reason she wanted to come to America was to go to [NAME REDACTED's] church.” Honestly, I was shocked. I’ve been known to go on a few Mark Silk-like rants and the comment caught me completely off guard–I actually still don’t know what to do with it.
The plastic baseball-size line in there is pretty funny, though…
I’m so excited for what you are doing all over the country!



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Mark Silk

posted June 30, 2008 at 9:56 am


Thanks for the shout out, guys, but because of formatting around the photo, you’ve given me credit for words written by Mike Taibbi. It’s not that I disagree, but credit where credit it due.



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Christopher Johnson

posted June 30, 2008 at 10:52 am


I hate to be unchristian about any others but I am not sure how we should respond to the stuff Osteen is spreading. However it is not just the progressive Christians that are picking up on this, Matt Taibbi ripped Osteen open in Rolling Stone (#1055) too. In fact I think Matt may have actually grasped the gospel better than Osteen does.



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Rodger Sellers

posted June 30, 2008 at 1:34 pm


Completely aside from the issue of this post: I have to tell you guys how much I SO hate the ads that pop up on this blog! Feels a bit commercial, ya know? (Which maybe is a bit tangentially connected to this particular post?)



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Sindar Tuhasi

posted June 30, 2008 at 8:20 pm


Yes it is difficult. We have many different views and many differing opinions. How do we all get together?



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