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So sorry, but in my estimation a person should speak or write for themselves.

If you want to be the hall monitor and keep subjects on topic, start your own board. Otherwise, if something is posted under Politics or any type of debate forum, it's open season and you need to either take the heat, or get out of the kitchen.

Bakker also claimed to be a Prophet. Copeland, Olsteen, Hinn, Robertson - all of these individuals claim to have a direct connection to The Almighty and that they actually speak FOR God, which is absurd, arrogant, and untrue. Christ, alone, spoke FOR God using His own directives. The Pope is not a prophet, nor does the Pope claim to be. The Pope's *job* is to balance ecclesiastical dogma and doctrines with the nuances of Christian theology. NO, the Papacy hasn't been squeaky clean since the Church's inception, but it is an imperative to understand that human beings are fallible and those errors in judgment and actions are an opportunity to get it right, repent, and lead by example. All of this business about prophets and Revelations? So what if someone is correct in their predictions, on occasion. I can predict that someone reading my response is fighting the urge to send me a private message, again. So what?

Life is not meant to be lived on the basis of predictions. Life is meant to be lived in the moment using whatever knowledge we have gleaned by our own experiences, and by God's guidance. I have heard the Word, and I also know that there are false prophets out there that tag people along, every day. From natural health care to spiritual guides, the world is full of these people. What I do may not resonate with what anyone else does, but the directives are there from Christ, himself.

Ask for your own board if you want to control the discussion.