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Churches on fire - Phaedrus - 03-19-2020

Man sets churches ablaze because he's still poor despite preaching of prosperity


RE: Churches on fire - Reltzik - 03-19-2020

.... am I supposed to make the obligatory comment that arson is bad and you shouldn't do it, or the obligatory comment that using faith and gullibility to scam poor people out of what little money they have is bad and you shouldn't do it?


RE: Churches on fire - Minimalist - 03-19-2020

Churches have a long, sordid history of burning heretics.

Turnabout is fair play.


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RE: Churches on fire - Gawdzilla Sama - 03-19-2020

(03-19-2020, 02:20 PM)Reltzik Wrote: .... am I supposed to make the obligatory comment that arson is bad and you shouldn't do it, or the obligatory comment that using faith and gullibility to scam poor people out of what little money they have is bad and you shouldn't do it?

Yes.


RE: Churches on fire - Chas - 03-19-2020

(03-19-2020, 01:33 PM)Phaedrus Wrote: Man sets churches ablaze because he's still poor despite preaching of prosperity

Good for him, they deserve it.   Deadpan Coffee Drinker

The only prosperity those preachers care about is their own.  May they burn in hell.


RE: Churches on fire - Gawdzilla Sama - 03-19-2020

There should be a class action lawsuit against "prosperity preachers".


RE: Churches on fire - Reltzik - 03-20-2020

(03-19-2020, 11:30 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: There should be a class action lawsuit against "prosperity preachers".

Class actions don't work that way, but yes.  Yes there should.


RE: Churches on fire - Gawdzilla Sama - 03-20-2020

(03-20-2020, 12:30 AM)Reltzik Wrote:
(03-19-2020, 11:30 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: There should be a class action lawsuit against "prosperity preachers".

Class actions don't work that way, but yes.  Yes there should.

Stealing money from people is an industry called "prosperity ministries".


RE: Churches on fire - SYZ - 03-20-2020

This was a recent church fire in Melbourne, Australia...

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Looks very cosy.      Dance


RE: Churches on fire - Gawdzilla Sama - 03-20-2020

♫Churches on fire,
For Rock & Roll!♫


RE: Churches on fire - jerry mcmasters - 03-20-2020

Churches have been incredibly useful during the coronavirus crisis. Closing their doors and cancelling services. Billions of dollars to your churches, synagogues, and mosques well spent, it's almost as if the money would have been better used donated to local hospitals and shelters.


RE: Churches on fire - SYZ - 03-20-2020

(03-20-2020, 01:33 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Churches have been incredibly useful during the coronavirus crisis.  Closing their doors and cancelling services.  Billions of dollars to your churches, synagogues, and mosques well spent, it's almost as if the money would have been better used donated to local hospitals and shelters.

LOL... yes, buildings all over the world that are supposed to be places of safety and sanctuary due
to the powers of an omnipotent god are suddenly rendered not so by a tiny, invisible organism that
was apparently created by that same god.    Do not the theists see something wrong with this?


RE: Churches on fire - Gawdzilla Sama - 03-20-2020

(03-20-2020, 01:33 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Churches have been incredibly useful during the coronavirus crisis.  Closing their doors and cancelling services.  Billions of dollars to your churches, synagogues, and mosques well spent, it's almost as if the money would have been better used donated to local hospitals and shelters.
Saw an electronic sign outside a church today.

WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
SERVICES ARE CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

ROFL2


RE: Churches on fire - Alan V - 03-20-2020

(03-20-2020, 01:33 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Churches have been incredibly useful during the coronavirus crisis.  Closing their doors and cancelling services.  Billions of dollars to your churches, synagogues, and mosques well spent, it's almost as if the money would have been better used donated to local hospitals and shelters.

My wife recently commented that if the hospitals needed space to house those infected, they could commandeer all the empty Catholic churches around here.


RE: Churches on fire - Gawdzilla Sama - 03-20-2020

(03-20-2020, 03:11 PM)Alan V Wrote:
(03-20-2020, 01:33 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Churches have been incredibly useful during the coronavirus crisis.  Closing their doors and cancelling services.  Billions of dollars to your churches, synagogues, and mosques well spent, it's almost as if the money would have been better used donated to local hospitals and shelters.

My wife recently commented that if the hospitals needed space to house those infected, they could commandeer all the empty Catholic churches around here.

The churches would charge too much for succor and care, as ever.


RE: Churches on fire - Dānu - 03-20-2020

(03-20-2020, 03:11 PM)Alan V Wrote:
(03-20-2020, 01:33 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Churches have been incredibly useful during the coronavirus crisis.  Closing their doors and cancelling services.  Billions of dollars to your churches, synagogues, and mosques well spent, it's almost as if the money would have been better used donated to local hospitals and shelters.

My wife recently commented that if the hospitals needed space to house those infected, they could commandeer all the empty Catholic churches around here.

At least they'd be doing some good and justifying their tax exemption.


RE: Churches on fire - Fireball - 03-20-2020

(03-20-2020, 08:51 AM)SYZ Wrote: This was a recent church fire in Melbourne, Australia...

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Looks very cosy.      Dance

It's burning like hell.  Angel


RE: Churches on fire - no one - 03-20-2020

It's their own damn fault. They obviously didn't pray hard enough.


RE: Churches on fire - Gawdzilla Sama - 03-20-2020

(03-20-2020, 08:09 PM)no one Wrote: It's their own damn fault. They obviously didn't pray hard enough.

They interpreted the New Testament wrong. We are the only ones who got it right.


RE: Churches on fire - mordant - 03-23-2020

These prosperity gospel / "name it and claim it" preachers are always playing with fire because they attract mentally unstable people and the desperate. Occasionally, it backfires like this.