Um, okay, I usually try and give people the benefit of the doubt. Why? I'm not G-d, I cannot judge them.
There are people thinking that
Oprah doesn't even know there is a higher power.
I just found this speech and could sense that her pray long ago was sincere. Whatever she is today, G-d knows. He sees, He'll bring her to where she needs to be...just like all of you..and me...and everybody else in the world. I find no personal strength in bashing
Oprah. We live in a world full of good and bad, riches and poverty and a whole lot of pain. I can sense that this issue is very dear to your heart.
In another thread, I will send in a conservative Jewish response to the Law of Attraction based upon the Torah (bible). I didn't want to hijack this one. But this is definitely addressed.
What I don't get is why people think that
Oprah has to represent the Black church or that she has to be christian. She's an individual and that free choice is given to every person. I don't judge others as horrible who do not belong to my faith...the catholic faith.
This pronouncement can never trump the sincere prayer of a younger
Oprah to the G-d of the Universe. Perhaps that is the deception, that her success would be the result of Riegler (I'm not sure if Riegler at the point realized how important a Black Oprah was at that very point..
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...she's a johnny-come-lately in that sense). She was already damned wealthy.
Um, if I attempt to tell another person their sincere prayer to G-d was a farce, G-d will tell me to get out of the way and tend to my own spirituality. But I do know what you're saying. I'm not naive in the slightest sense of the spiritual meaning....although I know that many here think so. The deception of today is no different than that in the Garden of Eden. It's always been there. How I personally live is the key.
I can understand being a warrior a la Jean D'Arc, but I think we're to be compassionate as well. Again, I don't do
Oprah, I don't watch her show...only hear tidbits here and there...but I certainly don't subscribe to her, Creflo Dollar, Popoff, and a host of others out there purporting the "gospel" truth. Deceivers are everywhere. I'm going to work on my own life and it's faults and errors.
Unless she comes out screaming that certain ethnic groups should be killed or something...or some other type of obvious evil...I'm just going to know inside that I don't believe in her spiritual philosophy. I won't draw strength from "hating" her.
I sincerely do not think that people here are trying to defend something they know is "evil." Not everybody will see things the same way, whether the scriptures are quoted or not. I'm not saying there are no absolutes. There are...however, it's in the interpretation, the culture, etc. How many denominations and differences are here? Perhaps they took something and turned it around for good, taking out the ugly and putting it firmly in G-d's hands? I don't know and I cannot myself proclaim to know what another thinks deep in his heart. That is not my right to judge. Be careful, surely, but it's like meat offered to g-ds, to eat or not to eat. If it bothers you spiritually, then don't do it. I don't think 1Star's church was wrong...but then again, I wasn't there.
This does seem like your forte and that you are very passionate about it.
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BTW, I just researched vision boards. There are some promoting them that use an element of New Age...whereas for others, it seems like some kind of teenage collage board...posting up what you dream about. Nothing wrong with that. It's the
other additional that is anti-scriptures. I'll post that spinoff now.