Kid Preacher (UPC) on Today and Fox and Friends

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Originally Posted by deltaguitar

The child is the grandson of the Mississippi District superintendent, Donald Tipton. He pastors in Grenada, Mississippi.

Good folks over all. I went to college with one of his sons.

I think they just did something to be cute and it kind of got out of hand. I don't think that they actually believe the child is preaching but maybe they do.

These are the same folks that rejoiced over Borat's "conversion" - are they not?

I would tend to agree about it being cute. The child has a gift for mimicry. That's cute when most kinds do something similar: emulating their parents or someone they see frequently. When my oldest was one or two years old he used to "preach" along with me. He seemed to think it was pretty amazing that his Dad's voice was coming out of those speakers and he wanted join in with it.

If people are really being "brought to their feet" by this "preaching," then I think that we do have another "Borat-style phenomena" at work. UPC people are trained and coached to "get to their feet" like Nancy Pelosi every time Obama makes an "applause" line in a State of the Union speech.

And, when they "get lazy" (usually, when they get to feeling stupid about their ape-like behavior and start demanding real content in their sermons) they are scolded by evangelists and their pouting and "hurt" pastors. So the cycle starts all over again.

I watched the MSNBC tape and saw how the young boy was cued by the preacher (his father?) to assume positions across the platform. If the church is actually getting anything out of this, then the must have been schooled to accept pretty much anything that comes from their platform. No discernment, no checking the Scripture to see if these things be true... just enjoy it for whatever entertainment you can get out of it and keep quite about wanting any "meat."

It's not the kid that I have a problem with. It's the adults. And the fact that when an adult steps into the pulpit and acts like a 4-year-old we're all somehow supposed to like it.