 BobbyRutan says: Talented writer and editor for the New Yorker. He has written for Atlantic Monthly, Discover Magazine, New York Academy of Sciences ..etc. Check out his book on Southern Culture - " Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts." This article is a fun read. More: Their damning discoveries have led to prosecutions and to exposés on "PrimeTime Live," on "Dateline NBC." Trinity's admirers think of the foundation as the conscience of evangelical Christianity. Its targets call it a godless, penniless, and deeply annoying cult. "The televangelist I worked for feared Ole—he wanted to do him physical harm," one of Anthony's informants told me. "These guys think he's Satan incarnate." The opinion is not a new one. When Anthony was six years old, the family's Lutheran minister, in St. Peter, Minnesota, asked his mother not to bring him to catechism class anymore. "He told her I was an evil child," "I was disruptive and asked too many questions." Oops - the articles author is Burkhard Bilger. Google him for other varied and interesting articles. cranky old pepe(grand daddy) ....is very upset .....ooooooooooooooooo There's much more to the article than that. "There's much more to the article than that. " Yeah, like the fact that Ole Anthony is operating a Bible-based cult in Dallas, Texas. Have you read the article by the Dallas Observer, The Cult of Ole"? or read the book, I Can't Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult? Check it out at http://www.dallascult.com I'm not defending Ole Anthony or his church, just as I wouldn't defend televangelism. I have met the author and like his writing. His stories for the New Yorker are generally about (as he described it) larger than life people. People doing something on a level different than others. His stories have included line cooks in Vegas that cook hundreds of thousands of egg dishes a year, spider raising venom harvesters, the shrinking of Americans while other countries with superior health care are growing on average,.......... interesting and well written material. It's still an interesting story. By their thrash ye shall know them, dumpster diving for thrown away receipts that bring down giant televangelists. Biggest Religious Secret in Dallas, Texas The biggest religious secret in Dallas, Texas is that the individual whom the local media see as the “crusader against religious fraud,” especially the kind represented by the televangelists, is himself the leader of a Bible-based cult. Indeed, more than just the local media seem enamored with the Trinity Foundation and its charismatic leader, Ole Anthony. Anthony has now captured the attention of Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. The Trinity Foundation, a self-proclaimed watchdog of televangelists, burst on to the national scene in the early 90s when it provided the investigative documents and videos for ABC's PrimeTime Live and Dianne Sawyer in... Wendy, I acknowledge all that. As I mentioned before, it is still an interesting story and largest part of my motivation was to display the author of the article's writing ability. All of the characters in this article are cultists, the televangelists and Ole Anthony. All of them |
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