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Response to TheBlackAdder (Reply #6)

keithbvadu2

(36,775 posts)
10. Pat Robertson, KC and their ilk are CBR - Cash Based Religion.
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 12:07 AM
Nov 2019

Pat Robertson, KC and their ilk are CBR - Cash Based Religion.

Judas was an early modern day conservative disciple.

Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ.

KC, Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker and their ilk get millions of dollars repeatedly for selling Christ.

Judas was a fool for doing a one-time sale.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
11. One day we will kick these televangelist grifter pieces of shit to the curb.
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 12:56 AM
Nov 2019

Hope that happens soon, they will get theirs.

Archae

(46,318 posts)
12. They won't get anything. Except more money.
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:50 AM
Nov 2019

Sorry to sound a bit cynical, but I've seen far too many of this crooks even go to JAIL, and they get out and go right back to fleecing the flocks.

Jim Bakker is a good example.

Even Jim Jones and Charles Manson STILL have followers!

Initech

(100,063 posts)
13. I'm watching the Righteous Gemstones right now.
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 02:35 AM
Nov 2019

The scene where they go into the back of the church and are talking about all the huge money donations they get, all I could think was "damn, I'm in the wrong profession."

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,490 posts)
15. Copeland and many others play on human need for an escape from reality....
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 04:42 AM
Nov 2019

and pain of human existence. That's universal across the globe.

As long as we have that need inherited in our DNA, charismatic psychopaths will seize the opportunity and say they know what some god or gods want and don't want, build a church or theocratic government and gladly take people's money and/or time in unlimited quantities.

dustyscamp

(2,224 posts)
16. When I was good young Catholic boy I used to tune in to Arnold Murray's sermons
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 05:16 AM
Nov 2019


Thankfully I'm not as religious and naive nowadays.
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