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| Mancow Muller, left, being baptized in the Jordan River by James MacDonald (Photo courtesy of Mancow Muller) |
But after the self-described "wild man of Chicago radio" Mancow Muller— since last month on WLS 890 AM — took issue with his former spiritual guide James MacDonald, founder of the Harvest Bible Chapel , it was the senior pastor of the mega-church who lost his job, officials of the 12,000 member church with seven locations in the Chicago area announced "with great sadness" Wednesday.
MacDonald had said he was taking an "indefinite sabbatical from all preaching and leadership” in mid-January.
“I am grieved that people I love have been hurt by me in ways they felt they could not express to me directly and have not been able to resolve,” he said in a statement.
"I'm upset that I was duped by a con man," said Muller, who wrote a 2,200 word condemnation in the Daily Herald at the end of January against the man who baptized him in the River Jordan. He said how once MacDonald "taught me forgiveness, trust, being authentic and taking a stand for what's right," but that Muller later came to see "an environment of thievery, and a smarmy actor out front, a guy who ... was brutal to everyone he thought was subservient."
On Tuesday, Muller referred to the largely conservative, largely Republican church as "the cult that's called Harvest" on his radio show, demanding it refund money to the faithful, and encouraged listeners to join a class action lawsuit that he said he was starting.
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All I can say about mancow and this Macdonald fellow is: birds of a feather... I occasionally listen to Rush because it cracks me up to hear him rant, but Muller? No redeeming value whatsoever. Radio charlatan
ReplyDeleteAt first, I took "bite" literally. I wouldn't put it past him.
ReplyDeleteFor benefit of any others whose life experience or imagination prevents them from deciphering the redaction "p—k" in the full column: according to christiandailyreporter.com, it's "prick". They give it as "pr*ck" but even I can spell it out from there.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, Harvest will go bankrupt & be forced to sell the Scottish Rite Cathedral they bought a few years ago from the Masons.
ReplyDeleteAlways wondered what happened to Mancow. Or why someone would call himself that.
ReplyDeleteTom
Mancow and evangelical megachurches.
ReplyDeletetwo things i care nothing about.
Currently reading Michael Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis who quotes:
ReplyDeleteHe who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
-Samuel Johnson
My wife has a few Bible-thumpers in her extended family, and we've attended a few weddings and funerals at megachurches. Overall, not a pleasant experience. Megachurches creep me out, and my wife feels the same way.
ReplyDeleteI have always found the morning radio gasbags to be obnoxious and annoying, and a very unpleasant way to greet the new day. Mostly, they are a lot of noise and unamusing hot air. Sound and fury that signifies nothing.
The morning radio smart-asses have always jangled my nerves, but maybe that's just me. I'm usually rather cranky when I awaken, so it's always been either classical music or jazz (smooth or cool) in the morning. If neither are available, there's only one alternative--radio silence. No sounds whatsoever, and no static at all. Some folks may choose morning TV over morning radio, but I've found that to be sheer torture.