Thank you for this timely article. If one of the militant media atheists created a religious bogeyman or woman to advance their cause it would be one of those you named.  They are perfect for demonstrating the faults of organized religion.

The prosperity folks require their fans only to bring human emotion to their services, and leave dogma and reason at the arena door. It hurts me to say, Elder Tammeus, but the decline of your church's influence and my own denomination in the "mainline" opened up a vacuum. Into that space stepped the evangelicals, with a sub-set consisting of "tent show" types who traded in that outdated Elmer Gantry scene for nice clean mega-churches or rented arenas.  Then along comes a secular mass media ignorant of faith, and for whom only two types of Christians exist. RC with camera friendly ceremonial, and evangelicals with performer personalities who preach. All other Christians might as well not exist, in media land.