Religion
Related: About this forumJesus Wants Me to Have This Jet
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/14/jesus-wants-me-to-have-this-jet.htmlPastor Creflo Dollar has spoken to God, and God wants him to buy a $65 million private jet. His congregation, thus far, has obliged his every whim.
Olivia Nuzzi
NOT JUST A CLEVER NAME
03.14.15
God wants Pastor Creflo Dollar to have a $65 million private jet, according to paid spokesman for God, Pastor Creflo Dollar.
On Friday, Dollars website unveiled Project G650, an airplane project that he claims has something to do with Understanding Grace and Empowering Change.
You may be wondering, What could this mysterious, holy airplane project be? Probably something related to charity, you must think, like air-dropping food into famine-ravaged countries, or flying sick children to doctors, or lifting two of every animal out of a flood.
Not quite.
more at link
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)If you are stupid enough to send money to a televangelist for a new jet, what can I possibly say that will reach you?
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)safeinOhio
(32,746 posts)a donkey?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)That IS where all those dollars are going right? To deliver food and necessities to disadvantaged people worldwide?
No? Color me surprised...
cbayer
(146,218 posts)skepticscott
(13,029 posts)(a delusion that is defended frequently on this board, by people like the OP) that "god" is telling you to do something, you can get people to go along with things that would be considered crazy, bigoted or downright horrible in any other circumstances. That's the poison of religion and "faith", no matter how benign or even beneficial some people try to paint it as.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Otherwise he'd be in for a shitty time for his bullshit.
pinto
(106,886 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Look at you, holding out hope that he might do something charitable. That if he did things like that, it could pay for the wealth he's scammed and siphoned away from his church members.
Look at this vile shit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
THAT is what this man is about.
pinto
(106,886 posts)I have a pretty good idea what prosperity theology is about.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)This man is of the 'prosperity gospel', and which is really just the old karma trick to keep the poor, poor and rich, rich, and nobody should complain about it. That his wealth is a reward for his righteousness and that he has a duty to flaunt it to show people what the rewards of such 'righteousness' are. That if only everyone else, particularly all those poor sinners, would only be righteous like him, they will eventually be rewarded too.
It's a social control scam, and the karma trick is the template.
Everyone that pretends that karma is a real thing? You feed and power his scam by lending his claims cover. Congrats. Hope you're all happy about it.
Funny, some people who seemed to be all warm and friendly toward karma seem to be down on Mr. Dollar here. Odd. Thought you believed in some element of it? No? If there was a force like that in the universe, Mr. Dollar would have perished long ago, and 'prosperity gospel' wouldn't exist.
But instead, because people lend it credence, we've got a new caste system forming right here in America. Thanks for that.