Marjoe Gortner quotes
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“If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.”
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“It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.”
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“It was my duty to give them the best show possible. Say you've got a timid little preacher in North Carolina or somewhere. He'll bring in visiting evangelists to keep his church going. We'd come in and hit the crowd up and we were superstars. It's the charisma of the evangelist that the audience believes in and comes to see.”
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“As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain time in the evening. I let everything build up to that moment when they're all in ecstasy. The crowd builds up and you have to watch it that you don't stop it. You start off saying you've heard that tonight's going to be a great night; then you begin the whole pitch and keep it rolling.”
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“I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.”
-- Marjoe Gortner
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“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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Source : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.
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“Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.”
Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
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“What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.”
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“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”
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