How does a preacher's kid grow up to be a professional LIAR?

[Stinky The Clown]

Sure to make a daddy proud.

[Atman]

1. Isn't preaching professional lying in the first place?

I mean, c'mon...daddy spews bullshit from the pulpit, but she gets paid good money for it.

[Adrahil]

9. Yeah.... that. NT

[2naSalit]

19. +1

[Binkie The Clown]

25. Lying for money, no less. n/t

[tblue37]

2. The apple didn't fall far from the tree. nt

[Canoe52]

14. Darn, you beat me to it!

[JHB]

3. For all too many, that's precisely why...

Either experience from circumventing daddy... or from emulating him.

[TheBlackAdder]

41. I was just going to say, "You're shitting me, right?" to the OP. That's exactly why she is one.

[virtualobserver]

4. have you heard Daddy speak?

She learned her craft at his feet.

[WoonTars]

5. Easy when your preacher daddy is an apologist for a child molester

...and your brother likes to torture animals...

Lying is the only thing that family knows how to do well....

[maxsolomon]

6. This Atheist is not going to answer.

But I'm sure one will.

[JHB]

7. See #3

[gademocrat7]

8. Spawn of Satan.

[Lint Head]

10. Because.....Daddy.

[nolabear]

11. There are an awful to of preachers who are themselves.

I won't say they're all lying about the existence of a deity and its rules for living; I really think most of them believe in what they espouse. But the willful deception of congregants in all religions is so frequent as to be fodder for all kinds of reportage and fiction.

And frankly Huckabee strikes me as the kind of "preacher" who finds the profession politically useful, not spiritually fulfilling. Why shouldn't she be the same?

[beam me up scottie]

12. Why would we think preachers are above lying in their profession?

[VOX]

13. Preachers are the biggest liars around.

They are selling something you already have. Or don't need. Either way, there's nothing to buy.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

15. More importantly, why are most preacher's liars?

And thieves, con men, cheaters, etc.

[NCjack]

16. Still working hard for Daddy's sparse praise. Maybe, someday, it will happen. nt

[njhoneybadger]

17. Lying is how they "Advance Gods Kingdom"

[TheBlackAdder]

42. If, by "Advancing God's Kingdom" you mean gain power, control others, get notoriety, fleece people

[Greybnk48]

18. She was raised by a professional liar n/t

[GeorgeGist]

20. Some preachers, like her dad, are professional LIARS

[Raster]

34. I'll see your "some" and raise you a "many"

[LunaSea]

21. Ever seen the documentary "Marjoe"?

Full length feature-
http://documentaryheaven.com/the-story-of-marjoe/
Or
https://archive.org/details/Marjoe.1972.Legendado

[malaise]

22. Aren't the Fuckabees and the Duggars good friends?

Please - they're scumbags

[politicat]

23. Oh, man, you haven't known many PKs, have you?

I spent a year of my undergrad at a denomination-affiliated college in a highly attractive place that gave full rides to any minister's kid with a 3.25 high school GPA, so almost a third of my class were PKs. Drinking? Weed? Boinking each other's brains out? Raising hell? If you can think it of a way for a kid raised in the public eye to rebel, the PKs had elevated it to an art form and published a zine. I left that school in part because it was expensive, but also because it was impossible to study. It was more peaceful to attend a 40K person state land-grant with a rep as a party school.

And this is Hucksterbee we're talking about, who has been bearing false witness and making a spectacle of his piety for decades. She was raised by a hypocrite to be a hypocrite.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. My college also had scholarships for PKs, so there were a lot of them.

The denomination affiliation wasn't evangelical or fundamentalist (it was Presbyterian), but the PKs still seemed to be determined to rebel or something, because they were the biggest party animals on campus. I recall one in particular who was stoned all the time. They also had a pretty high flunk-out rate, which can't have pleased their preacher dads.

[k8conant]

32. I was a PK at a Presbyterian college...

and I only resembled the wild, weedy, boozing, partying part of these descriptions.

I did manage to graduate with a 3.49 GPA and go on to get an M.A. in French at Wayne State.

[Raster]

33. Thank you!

Hucksterbee...

[WinkyDink]

43. I married one, a great man and solid tithing Democrat. Most ethical person I've

ever met.

[erpowers]

24. Son of A Preacher Man

The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes he was, he was, ooh, yes he was.

[COLGATE4]

26. The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree...

[elleng]

27. THAT 'preacher?' EASY!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. She's as bad as the rest of them.

And her eyes are weird.

[NBachers]

30. This is the exact first time I've seen her, and already I'm weary of seeing her lying countenance.

Another jabbering gasbag being shoved into our bruised psyche.

[Raster]

31. The rotten apple doesn't fall far from the rotten tree...

...Sorry, many of the preachers and "men of god" that I was familiar with were noxious, duplicitous, lying scumbags, and some of their children were just as bad or worse.

[Nevernose]

35. I went to Mike Huckabee's church as a kid

They didn't seem all that crazy then, or at least not any crazier than all the other Southern Baptists.

Oh, wait. Baptists. Now that I think about it, a whole lot makes more sense.

(And I was never a believer. I actually stopped believing in Jesus before I doubted Santa. But there's social reasons, even as a child)

[Rhiannon12866]

45. Wow! That must have been quite an experience...

He seems to be more affable than most of the other Republicans - but that doesn't mean his real views aren't just as extreme.

[Cha]

36. Easy.. the preacher is a pro LIAR

[spanone]

37. she's a nasty person.

[GulfCoast66]

38. Trick question?

Because they were born to it?

A lifetimes example?

Too bad she was not the stereotypical Preachers daughter!!

[Skittles]

39. because they grow up listening to lies?

[arthritisR_US]

40. Because the preacher is a liar and loves his snake oil. nt

[WinkyDink]

44. IMO, it's more relevant that she grew up a REPUBLICAN'S daughter.