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I am a Baptist, and I do not believe or follow any of the people you mentioned. My church is an Independent Baptist Church, believing that the minister serves the deacons, and the deacons serve the congregation, which is the church. I do understand what you are saying, and I do agree with you about the hypocrisy. The men you mentioned are not church leaders to me.
In fact, I think that some of them, if not most of them, use the guise of Christianity to advance their own agenda of power and glory.
As for me, I have historically only listened to a couple of people, my parents, my siblings and now my wife. I do not believe in these men. I believe in God, but not in some of his self-proclaimed "profits".
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If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost,
forgive some sinner, and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H.L. Mencken
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