It’s easier to walk through the eye of a needle than convince religious people they’re being scammed.
We have put our best scientists to work to genetically engineer a microscopically small camel!
Too much work, we’ll just fucking lie about what it means in the first place
We are a nation by scammers, of scammers, and for scammers.
Turns out a lot of the New Atheists - your Christopher Hitchenses and Richard Dawkinses and your Sam Harri - were actually totally cool with a right-wing dominionist government, so long as that government killed Muslims. The Randian Objectivists promised rationality, but only ever delivered new flavors of bigotry. The Neoliberal Egalitarians promised a clean separation of Church and State, right up until they looked at the poll numbers and discovered you could pick up 2-pts in Maine by punching a Transgender person. The Liberal Unitarians and squishy Agnostics keep showing up to pay $120/ticket to see abused dancers perform Shen Yun and send billion dollar checks to genocidal Zionists abroad.
Like, religion sucks yadda yadda. But I don’t see that secular dividend. Would the world be a better place if Televangelist Private Jets were owned by more Home Shopping Network con-artists, instead?
At least home shopping network cons would pay taxes
I’ll believe that when I see the receipts.
No shit. It’s solely about the money.
Only a business puts they take 10% of your income in their on boarding contract. That alone tells you most organized religions are a scam. Denominations are just franchises at this point just like McDonald’s.
Tax-free, too!
Even for the gullible people giving money to these parasites it’s also solely about money. The only reason they give is because they believe in the prosperity gospel. Which is a belief that if a person is charitable that God will reward them with financial success.
100% this. I had a neighbor who was caring for their elderly, bed-ridden mother. She was almost entirely blind, diabetes took her foot, and had the TV on the televangelist 24/7 channel. Yet she would sneak and get the phone and send televangelists all her money. They tried to hide the phone, she would manage to mail them checks. She set up recurring debits from her bank. Crackheads are less determined. They were in such a bad place their gas got shut off because all her money was going to these people. Family was crazy about it, and had no way to stop it with the bank.
South Park made fun of that in 1999 with the episode “Starvin’ Marvin in Space”.
In that episode a Christian televangelists network raise the money for an entire spaceship with lasers and deflector shields and all (a lot of Star Trek/Wars references).
Interview with Kenneth Copeland about why he flies on Private Jets (it’ll make your blood boil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LtF34MrsfIIt’s rare that you can actually see him try to suppress the demon within him.
I have this thought every single time I see him. If a conspiracy theory nut presented evidence that someone is really a demon wearing a human-suit, I’d probably hand-wave them away… Unless they were talking about Kenneth Copeland. He’s probably the only instance where I’d be inclined to believe the conspiracy theorist.
That is some creature wearing an Edgar Suit and calling itself Kenneth Copeland.
I was going to look for this link to post here if it wasn’t already.
Timestamp 3:15 is just before the mask falls off.
He’s doing a pretty good impression of a deamon.
A waste of space and oxygen, those televangelists are.
INB4 someone broad-brushes this to be about… ahh, fuck, I’m too late.
Naw, he’s right
What actual service are these people providing? What good is being done for society such that it justifies private jet money? How are they different than a con man sharking cards?
Not sure if you’re asking rhetorically, because I’ll be damned if I know. It is the epitome of self-serving.
“god told me we must buy this plane.”
we accept visa, checks, cash or crypto
Some own multiple
Just like Jesus wanted!
OMG LEMMY HAS VIDEO SUPPORT?
No it is still hosted elsewhere? Jerboa plays it nicely
Yep. I’m a Christian, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t.
You expect them to ride a regular plane filled with demons?
Sam and Dean did it and they turned out fine! Uh, sort of.
But how many times did Sam die during the flight?
“He made that airplane so cheap for me”
Yeah but it still cost him more than most of our yearly wage
Easily more than most of our lifetime wages specially if you account for operational costs.
Don’t forget to put five in the plate nanna. It’s going to a good cause…
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I would argue violence/force is very christian. There’s a reason it took over Europe, and in later centuries it sought the rest of the world.
Before I open the link, I bet this is the interview where the demon inside Kenneth Copeland was close to getting out and killing the reporter.
