The American Frank

EWTN Vs TBN?

My reply to the email I reproduce in full below:

Art, first of all, thank you for your email. Just a handful of people bother to send in their thoughts. Everyone has the right to agree or disagree, but if we don’t exercise that right, it means nothing to us.

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‘TBN’s program has more substance than EWTN’s form of religiousity.’

Art, I’m interested in how you define ‘substance’ and ‘form’ and ‘religiousity’ because these are the important words in your important sentence. I can’t tell you I agree or disagree unless I know where you’re coming from.

And you will have to give me at least one example of TBN’s substance vs EWTN’s form. Literally, of course, if you compare substance and form, substance wins.

(2)
‘The worth of any religious church is on transformed lives from being religious to being Godly. Many are religious in form but ungodly in their heart.’

Art, so do you have any data on the number of those lives transformed by TBN and of those by EWTN? And how many are ungodly in their heart? You will have to define for me ‘lives transformed’ and ‘ungodly in their heart’ so I can discuss with you more intelligently.

Frank

Apt image from David Chilstrom who captions it ‘Belmont Street Fair 06-1′ (flickr.com/) - I surfed for ‘Belmont’ and there are too many Belmonts in the US, and David doesn’t tell me where. It shows the Virgin Mary in one corner, the adoration of whom is one of the issues against Catholics.

On 9/10/06, Harvest Christian School International wrote:

Dear Mr. Hilario,

I will not argue with the figures but TBN influences me a lot because the preaching of the Word of God is more real than EWTN’s traditional religious rituals. TBN’s program has more substance than EWTN’s form of religiousity.

The worth of any religious church is on transformed lives from being religious to being Godly. Many are religious in form but ungodly in their heart.

Thanks.

Art Tangal