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Those Who Dont Spend All Their Money On Jim Bakkers 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 Bakkers 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, Im serious, Bakker said. If theyre rich, their money is going [away] anyway, John. Its 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, Im serious, Bakker said. If theyre rich, their money is going [away] anyway, John. Its not going to be worth anything. The crash is coming, so why not sow it into the Lord?
Shorey agreed, adding that those who dont 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 youve 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 didnt 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/
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)irisblue
(32,829 posts)says every food bank across the US.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)...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)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)perhaps they need to tell their stories so others can strive for more
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Air? Those buyers better read the fine print.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)And, it sounds like those guys are samplin' they own product!
Archae
(46,262 posts)A few people have tried Bakker's food, they said it's awful.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/03/456677535/apocalypse-chow-we-tried-televangelist-jim-bakkers-survival-food
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)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)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)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.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Apocalypse Chow: We Tried Televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food'
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/03/456677535/apocalypse-chow-we-tried-televangelist-jim-bakkers-survival-food
Mollyann
(107 posts)If all the money is going to be worthless, why aren't they just giving it away?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)DFW
(54,057 posts)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)Why don't they donate them to those churches?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)People that go for that are damned fools.