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Archae

(46,262 posts)
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 05:20 PM Sep 2017

Why isn't this crook back in jail?

He should be! For fraud!

Those Who Don’t Spend All Their Money On Jim Bakker’s Food Buckets Will Answer To God

While hawking his survival food buckets on his television program today, prepper pastor Jim Bakker encouraged the wealthy to buy a million dollars worth of his products because their money will soon be worthless when the End Times begin and the financial system collapses.

Guest John Shorey told viewers to stock up on Bakker’s food buckets and not to worry about running out because God will miraculously refill them as needed.

“When you empty a bucket of food,” Shorey said, “trust God to refill it.”

When Shorey told those who “have the means to buy 100 buckets of food” to “buy 100 buckets of food” and give them to local churches, Bakker chimed in to urge millionaires to buy as much food as they can afford.

“Do a million dollars worth of food, I’m serious,” Bakker said. “If they’re rich, their money is going [away] anyway, John. It’s not going to be worth anything. The crash is coming, so why not sow it into the Lord?”

“Do a million dollars worth of food, I’m serious,” Bakker said. “If they’re rich, their money is going [away] anyway, John. It’s not going to be worth anything. The crash is coming, so why not sow it into the Lord?”

Shorey agreed, adding that those who don’t use all their money to buy as much food as they can will have to answer to God.
“The Bible says that our riches will be a witness against us,” Shorey said. “When the time comes that you’ve left money in the bank that could have been used to help people, to help feed people and all you did is you just kept all your riches for yourself, it will be a witness against you. You will stand before God and he will say, ‘Why didn’t you do more to help the needy?'”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/those-who-dont-spend-all-their-money-on-jim-bakkers-food-buckets-will-answer-to-god/

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Why isn't this crook back in jail? (Original Post) Archae Sep 2017 OP
The essence of pure sleaze! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2017 #1
When you empty a bucket of food, trust God to refill it irisblue Sep 2017 #2
fake christians Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #3
Saint Paul was the original Christian grifter Major Nikon Sep 2017 #11
I am a Warm Deist. Blue_true Sep 2017 #15
in these times it is hard to find a true Christian Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #20
yes he was Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #21
Grifters be grifting. And why shouldn't they just buy empty buckets and "trust god to fill them"? PoliticAverse Sep 2017 #4
Yup,got to be a Griftin. Wellstone ruled Sep 2017 #5
He didn't say fill them with what. Blue_true Sep 2017 #16
What is in a "food bucket"? Cracklin Charlie Sep 2017 #6
Mostly it's just freeze-dried food. Archae Sep 2017 #7
It's the same dehydrated shit you can get from Walmart for half the price jmowreader Sep 2017 #10
Excuse me? Cracklin Charlie Sep 2017 #12
He buys the stuff from a food manufacturer. It is, fortunately, hymnal-free jmowreader Sep 2017 #18
NPR did a story reviewing them back in 2015... PoliticAverse Sep 2017 #19
Worthless Money Mollyann Sep 2017 #8
BOOOOMMMMM! nt Blue_true Sep 2017 #17
He's a member of the God Squad DFW Sep 2017 #9
If Baker and Shorey think you should buy buckets and give them to churches blueinredohio Sep 2017 #13
Ok, this is from the Onion, right? Did the steal RWW's url? Blue_true Sep 2017 #14

Major Nikon

(36,814 posts)
11. Saint Paul was the original Christian grifter
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 06:57 PM
Sep 2017

...and without him there would never have been such a thing as Christianity.

Bakker is just as real as anyone else who professes to be a Christian. It's not as if the whole thing isn't one big confidence trick.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
15. I am a Warm Deist.
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 09:06 PM
Sep 2017

But I believe that there are honest, true believer Christians that have nothing to do with the bad kind. My brother is an ordained Minister, my SIL is a devout Christian, a niece is a devout Christian. Every one of them are charitable and would have nothing to do with a person like Bakker or any of the tv preachers.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
20. in these times it is hard to find a true Christian
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 07:43 PM
Sep 2017

perhaps they need to tell their stories so others can strive for more

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Yup,got to be a Griftin.
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 05:41 PM
Sep 2017

Jimmy has a scam going just like his Political Choice,Donnie Dipstick. Buy the same bucket at Costco for hundred and six dollars,at least when your done,you have a six gallon pail not a five gallon Jimmy Bucket.

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
10. It's the same dehydrated shit you can get from Walmart for half the price
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 06:42 PM
Sep 2017

Bakker buys his food from the processor Augason Farms. In my area, every store sells it for less than Jim Bakker is charging.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
12. Excuse me?
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 08:45 PM
Sep 2017

But are you describing "food"?

Because it doesn't really sound like food. I am suddenly very curious about the contents of this bucket.

Bakker...it's probably ground up hymnals, and copies of his old books. Grifters gonna grift.

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
18. He buys the stuff from a food manufacturer. It is, fortunately, hymnal-free
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 11:08 PM
Sep 2017

His "Tasty Pantry Deluxe Plus" (which is neither tasty nor a pantry, nor especially deluxe - can we get his ass for false advertising?) contains (all numbers are servings):

50 maple brown sugar oatmeal
24 buttermilk pancakes
16 honey wheat bread
12 black bean burger
8 pizza crust
4 creamy stroganoff
4 fettucine alfredo
4 italiano marinara
15 elbow macaroni
32 creamy chicken rice
16 spanish rice
8 cheesy broccoli rice
20 white rice
16 instant potatoes
8 hearty vegetable chicken soup
16 creamy potato soup
10 chocolate pudding
20 powdered milk
15 cheese powder
60 honey powder
8 pizza sauce
8 pizza cheese topping

This will cost you $175.

And then there is his "Time of Trouble Tasty Pantry Deluxe Plus" which, for $3700, comes with 28 of the bucket listed above. It will supposedly last you seven years. Add one axe, two pots, three pounds of gold and four dozen guns, and you've got everything you need to be a prepper.

This, my young friends, is the essential difference between a Doomsday Prepper and us. A prepper will curl up into an itty-bitty ball with a rifle barrel sticking out of it and try to eke out the most desperate of existences. We here will work our asses off to restore the essential systems a functioning society needs. But somehow or another, I think the preppers long for an end to comfortable society. They WANT shit to be fucked up and for themselves to be miserable, because only through misery will you ever earn your way into heaven.

DFW

(54,057 posts)
9. He's a member of the God Squad
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 06:38 PM
Sep 2017

They all have a get-out-of-jail-early card tattooed on their left buttock, and it has a bar code that's machine readable.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
13. If Baker and Shorey think you should buy buckets and give them to churches
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 08:56 PM
Sep 2017

Why don't they donate them to those churches?

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
14. Ok, this is from the Onion, right? Did the steal RWW's url?
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 09:01 PM
Sep 2017

People that go for that are damned fools.

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