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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:05:06 -0700
From:         DRAKE@ASUCHM.LA.ASU.EDU
Subject:      Warnke and the "Contemporary Christian" scene
X-To:         christia@asuvm.inre.asu.edu

               Dear Christia,

               Someone recently sent to christia the addrerss of an FTP
         site that contained the articles from cornerstone on Mike
         Warnke.  I sent this information to my brother, and he got them
         and sent them to me.

               I highly recomend these articles to those who are
         wondering about Warnke.  I was stunned by what they had to say.
         They talked to his family and friends of years past, as well as
         got things such as his military record and divorce decrees, and
         analysed his books and records.  I believe what they have to
         say, maily because they have so many witnesses to his life, and
         what really happened.

               	The long and the short of it is, he is morally
         questionable and fraudulent in his testimony.  Even though I
         don't really know the details of any of the prominent
         christians who have fallen recently, I'd say they probably can't
         compare to Mike Warnke.

               It was all very disheartening.

               My brother Ron expressed my feeling well, especially
         about the contemporary christian scene:



>               Have you read the Warnke article yet?  Pretty hefty
>         reading (the main article is 2600+ lines - which is 44 pages
>         printed).  It was a very well documented  investigation.  I
>         feel disillusioned.  Not necessarilay about Mike Warnke,
>         although I'm dissapointed about his being a fraud, but with the
>         "Comtemparay Christian" (now referred to as CC) scene in
>         general.
>
>               CC publishers, CC recording companies, CC artists, CC
>         comedians, et al.  It's just more of that let's make a buck,
>         and end justifies the means attitude that's proliferated itself
>         into Christian society.  Just more validation of my distaste
>         for the word "Christian" as an adjective (christian music,
>         christian cooking, christian house cleaning).
>
>               The publisher should have done this investigations when
>         he wrote Satan Seller. Word records should have said something
>         about his lifestyle.  All those people in Nashville should have
>         been more accountable to each other.  It's enough to make one a
>         cynic (more than already).  I had a feeling about these
>         industries  which this article confirms, but I never thought it
>         was to this degree.
>                            			  Ron

               (The degree meaning that our CC music scene, at least when
         Mike was getting started in the '70s and '80s, was into the
         money/sex/drug scene as well.)

               Disheartened, but not disillusioned (too much of a cynic
         for that),

               Mark
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