Remember my post or two on the prophetic community? Julia Duin says it’s quite, ummm, large:
I’ve been amazed at how this large Pentecostal chunk of American Christianity — and there are roughly 65 million Americans that belong to this group — is being ignored by much of the media. Trump’s spiritual advisor, the Rev. Paula White-Cain, is part of this segment, so it’s not an obscure bunch. [GetReligion]
Really? If true, ouch. That’s a lot of marks.
And, yeah, that’s condescending of me. As an agnostic, I should simply profess ignorance and let it go at that; historically speaking, though, there is no evidence that proclamations of prophecy have any connection to the Divine, if any, so far as I know. There’s been the lucky guess, which falls well within the scope of probability, and, of course, I have to wonder how many of the leading prophets in this movement actually forecast Obama would win, or Hillary Clinton would win. There would be no points given for getting the first right, and when Clinton lost, I’m sure it made the reputation of a lot of prophets who bet against the odds.
Always bet on your man is what it taught them.
It’s hard to be polite to them, given the history of mankind, and so I’ll own that remark above, without embarrassment, but with a bit of shame that I can so easily justify the remark. Not for myself, of course, but shame on all those marks.
