She should cancel the fucking check. “Oh, $1200 isn’t enough? Let me take my ass down the road to
BumfuckBoondocks Baptist Church then.”I don’t understand the outrage. It’s a church. They are ALL predatory scams. I wouldn’t expect anything less.
Proof god is a capitalist and should die by the revolution
…and should’ve died by our hands millenia ago.
FTFY
How dumb is the average murican that there are so damn many of those unbelievably silly “megachurches”?
How can anyone go there and believe any of this shit? Not that any faith would make any sense, but this of all things?
You guys need to protect your, well, intellectually strongly challenged people from these disgusting predators. That’s what a civilized nation does.
We haven’t been a civilized nation in quite a long while now. This country has the average emotional control and intelligence of a 14 year old. Those of us with half a clue and any self awareness are badly outnumbered. Idiocracy is here. Wall us in and check on us in 50 years.
I’m sorry you’re awake enough to see all this,in the midst of it, and be like wtf…
When I grew up I learned about the murican dream, how cool it might be to live there. Now, 30yrs later I would not consider moving there if someone paid me 300k a year just to fondle my balls there.
Your Carlin had it right (may he rip). “You gotta be asleep to believe it”.
And yeah, Idiocracy is live now. Worldwide. You guys are just the speartip of it
*4 year old
The true powers of religion, controlling people and taking their money for your own enrichment. People need to wake up!
He went after a parishoner for “only” donating $1,235 when he wanted $2,000.
His excuse is he asked for those donating $2,000 or more to come up first, she came up but without the $2K.
Their Facebook page states they get $150,000 in donations every year.
Also, tithe is supposed to be a percentage of your income, not a flat amount. Most Christians will say 10% of your annual income goes to the church as tithe. Asking for a flat amount unfairly burdens the poorer parishioners, in the same way that flat rate taxes unfairly burden the poor.
If you need money so badly, I’m sure your god will provide it to you. Just keep praying.
This is unironically the type of preaching that megachurch pastors use to incentivize people to donate. It’s called prosperity gospel. Basically, it’s the belief that God rewards his most devout followers with material wealth. So if you’re not rich, it’s because you’re not a good enough follower and need to keep donating. It’s what pastors like Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland use, to get their followers to buy them new private jets.
I say this without a hint of irony; What in God’s name is wrong with him??
Greed mixed with a lack of empathy.
Land of the insane.
Well, what else would you expect from a church?
A bigger scam and more rape
Yep, it’s disgusting how predatory churches can be. These pastors live opulent lifestyles without a single concern for the often poor, elderly, or otherwise vulnerable, people paying for it.
Nobody deserves to be taken advantage of like this just because they’re looking for some kind of meaning in life or a community to be a part of. That’s a basic human desire. Fuck anyone that would exploit that.
Religion is poison
People involved are either charlatans, idiots, or (frequently) both
I think you are being generous
