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The cable network known for such programming fare as\u00a0Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too,<\/em>\u00a0My Big Fat Revenge<\/em>,\u00a0Girls Behaving Badly<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Too Young to Marry?<\/em>\u00a0premiered a new \u201creality\u201d show last Wednesday that has some Christians upset at how it presents their faith.<\/span><\/div>\n
Okay, so\u00a0The Oxygen Network<\/a>, created in 1998 and co-founded by Oprah Winfrey \u2014 though now owned by NBCUniversal \u2014 isn\u2019t exactly PBS, or even HBO. There is not much on the channel likely to inspire the devoted following and highbrow analysis of, say,\u00a0The Wire<\/em>,\u00a0Breaking Bad<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Downton Abbey<\/em>. But the latest Oxygen series,\u00a0Preachers of L.A<\/em><\/a>., seems to tell viewers that the real aim of Christianity is to make as much money as possible \u2014 and then flaunt it like a hip-hop star.\n

The series follows the daily antics of six Los Angeles-based Christian ministers who practice the \u201cProsperity Gospel,\u201d the idea that getting rich is a holy act. The best known current advocate of the Prosperity gospel is televangelist Joel Osteen. But the preachers on the Oxygen show take the doctrine that you can, in fact, serve both God and mammon to a new extreme.<\/p>\n

\u201cP. Diddy, Jay Z. They\u2019re not the only ones who should be driving Ferraris and living in nice houses,\u201d said Ron GIbson, one of the preachers featured in the show.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n

In case the unthinkable happened and you missed the show\u2019s premiere last week, we\u2019ve got you covered. View the episode here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The cable network known for such programming fare as\u00a0Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too,\u00a0My Big Fat Revenge,\u00a0Girls Behaving Badly\u00a0and\u00a0Too Young to Marry?\u00a0premiered a new \u201creality\u201d show last Wednesday that has some Christians upset at how it presents their faith. Okay, so\u00a0The Oxygen Network, created in 1998 and co-founded by Oprah Winfrey \u2014 though now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBiblical Bling: New Reality Show "Preachers Of L.A." 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