He sold snake oils too. Smart fellerI just happened to be reading about different religions and denominations of Christianity today, various Wiki entries on the subject, including
the ones on Pentecostalism which led me to some interesting things I didn't previously know. That sect was started late 1800's by a man named Charles Fox Parham from Kansas along with a black man, his student, William Seymour, the son of emancipated slaves. Parham was later involved in a scandal of allegations relating to him of sexual misconduct and being a homosexual which he and his followers denied and said he was framed by Wilbur Voliva, head of the Christian Catholic Church of Zion, Illinois. Voliva had complete control over the community of Zion with 6,000 followers and owned all the real estate and even dictated who married whom. Anyone from rival sects where ran out of town. He lived a lavish lifestyle off the backs of his followers and was worth $5 million by 1927 ($72 million today). This eventually alienated all his followers at the beginning of the great depression and led to his downfall.
Anyway, he was also a flat earther and it made me think of this thread.
From Wikipedia:
From 1914, Voliva gained nationwide notoriety by his vigorous advocacy of the flat earth doctrine. He offered a widely publicized $5000 challenge for anyone to disprove the flat earth theory. The church schools in Zion taught the flat earth doctrine. In 1923 Voliva became the first evangelical preacher in the world to own his own radio station, which could be heard as far away as Australia. His radio station broadcast his diatribes against round earth astronomy, and the evils of evolution. He was quoted about the sun as follows:
"The idea of a sun millions of miles in diameter and 91,000,000 miles away is silly. The sun is only 32 miles across and not more than 3,000 miles from the earth. It stands to reason it must be so. God made the sun to light the earth, and therefore must have placed it close to the task it was designed to do. What would you think of a man who built a house in Zion and put the lamp to light it in Kenosha, Wisconsin?"
He became increasingly focused on destroying the 'trinity of evils': modern astronomy, evolution and higher criticism, insisting on a strict interpretation of 24-hour days for creation and travelling to Dayton, Tennessee, to appear as a witness at the Scopes trial (he wasn't called). Voliva also predicted the end of the world would come in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1934 and 1935.
What a coincidence!?I just happened to be reading about different religions and denominations of Christianity today, various Wiki entries on the subject, including
the ones on Pentecostalism which led me to some interesting things I didn't previously know. That sect was started late 1800's by a man named Charles Fox Parham from Kansas along with a black man, his student, William Seymour, the son of emancipated slaves. Parham was later involved in a scandal of allegations relating to him of sexual misconduct and being a homosexual which he and his followers denied and said he was framed by Wilbur Voliva, head of the Christian Catholic Church of Zion, Illinois. Voliva had complete control over the community of Zion with 6,000 followers and owned all the real estate and even dictated who married whom. Anyone from rival sects where ran out of town. He lived a lavish lifestyle off the backs of his followers and was worth $5 million by 1927 ($72 million today). This eventually alienated all his followers at the beginning of the great depression and led to his downfall.
Anyway, he was also a flat earther and it made me think of this thread.
From Wikipedia:
From 1914, Voliva gained nationwide notoriety by his vigorous advocacy of the flat earth doctrine. He offered a widely publicized $5000 challenge for anyone to disprove the flat earth theory. The church schools in Zion taught the flat earth doctrine. In 1923 Voliva became the first evangelical preacher in the world to own his own radio station, which could be heard as far away as Australia. His radio station broadcast his diatribes against round earth astronomy, and the evils of evolution. He was quoted about the sun as follows:
"The idea of a sun millions of miles in diameter and 91,000,000 miles away is silly. The sun is only 32 miles across and not more than 3,000 miles from the earth. It stands to reason it must be so. God made the sun to light the earth, and therefore must have placed it close to the task it was designed to do. What would you think of a man who built a house in Zion and put the lamp to light it in Kenosha, Wisconsin?"
He became increasingly focused on destroying the 'trinity of evils': modern astronomy, evolution and higher criticism, insisting on a strict interpretation of 24-hour days for creation and travelling to Dayton, Tennessee, to appear as a witness at the Scopes trial (he wasn't called). Voliva also predicted the end of the world would come in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1934 and 1935.
Wrong feller.Hm, that's not on the wikipedia page. Wouldn't surprise me though.
But NASA is BS? hm.
.. you'd think so, wouldn't you! (I suspect they're also getting paid by Soros)even the most dedicated trolls have to crawl under the bridge and sleep occasionally
it's not my fault the ppl i am addressing have divided themselves into two threads, so head your own advice maybe oh originator of all this drivel.Don’t double post - especially drivel