fashion faux pas of televangelists

Through the wonders of the internet you can discover the fashion views of the early church fathers.  How great is that.  Unfortunately it doesn't bode well for some of our televangelist friends.  James Dobson, for example, sports a definite combover and I have suspicions about Ken Copeland's hair colour, yet Tertullian teaches:  This [male] sex of ours acknowledges to itself deceptive trickeries of form peculiarly its own. I am referring to things such as ... arranging the hair, and disguising its greyness by dyes.  Figure it probably applies to rinses too.  [btw I tried that spray-on hair once.  Spray paint for your head really.]   And Creflo, you who once, apparently in sincerity, said Jesus wore designer clothes, Clement of Alexandria would not approve of your haberdasher: Neither are we to provide for ourselves costly clothing.  Finally a warning to all of us natty dressers, from the Apostolic Constitutions: [To the men...] Do not adorn yourself in such a manner that you might entice another woman to you.... Do not further enhance the beauty that God and nature has bestowed on you. Rather, modestly diminish it before others. Therefore, do not permit the hair of your head to grow too long. Rather, cut it short.... Do not wear overly fine garments, either.... Nor should you put a gold ring on your fingers.  Fortunately for me I have been dressing in uninticing ways for decades.  Except perhaps every 10 years or so when plaid workshirts come back into style.

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