It's easier to walk through the eye of a needle than convince religious people they're being scammed.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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We have put our best scientists to work to genetically engineer a microscopically small camel!
Too much work, we'll just fucking lie about what it means in the first place
We are a nation by scammers, of scammers, and for scammers.
Turns out a lot of the New Atheists - your Christopher Hitchenses and Richard Dawkinses and your Sam Harri - were actually totally cool with a right-wing dominionist government, so long as that government killed Muslims. The Randian Objectivists promised rationality, but only ever delivered new flavors of bigotry. The Neoliberal Egalitarians promised a clean separation of Church and State, right up until they looked at the poll numbers and discovered you could pick up 2-pts in Maine by punching a Transgender person. The Liberal Unitarians and squishy Agnostics keep showing up to pay $120/ticket to see abused dancers perform Shen Yun and send billion dollar checks to genocidal Zionists abroad.
Like, religion sucks yadda yadda. But I don't see that secular dividend. Would the world be a better place if Televangelist Private Jets were owned by more Home Shopping Network con-artists, instead?
At least home shopping network cons would pay taxes
I'll believe that when I see the receipts.
No shit. It's solely about the money.
Only a business puts they take 10% of your income in their on boarding contract. That alone tells you most organized religions are a scam. Denominations are just franchises at this point just like McDonald's.
Tax-free, too!
Even for the gullible people giving money to these parasites it’s also solely about money. The only reason they give is because they believe in the prosperity gospel. Which is a belief that if a person is charitable that God will reward them with financial success.
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South Park made fun of that in 1999 with the episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space".
In that episode a Christian Televangelists network raise the money for an entire spaceship with lasers and deflector shields and all (a lot of Star Trek/Wars references).
Interview with Kenneth Copeland about why he flies on Private Jets (it'll make your blood boil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LtF34MrsfI
It's rare that you can actually see him try to suppress the demon within him.
I have this thought every single time I see him. If a conspiracy theory nut presented evidence that someone is really a demon wearing a human-suit, I’d probably hand-wave them away… Unless they were talking about Kenneth Copeland. He’s probably the only instance where I’d be inclined to believe the conspiracy theorist.
That is some creature wearing an Edgar Suit and calling itself Kenneth Copeland.
I was going to look for this link to post here if it wasn't already.
Timestamp 3:15 is just before the mask falls off.
He's doing a pretty good impression of a deamon.
"god told me we must buy this plane."
^we^ ^accept^ ^visa,^ ^checks,^ ^cash^ ^or^ ^crypto^
Some own multiple
Just like Jesus wanted!
OMG LEMMY HAS VIDEO SUPPORT?
No it is still hosted elsewhere? Jerboa plays it nicely
Yep. I'm a Christian, and I'm pretty sure they aren't.
You expect them to ride a regular plane filled with demons?
Sam and Dean did it and they turned out fine! Uh, sort of.
But how many times did Sam die during the flight?
“He made that airplane so cheap for me”
Yeah but it still cost him more than most of our yearly wage
Easily more than most of our lifetime wages specially if you account for operational costs.
Don't forget to put five in the plate nanna. It's going to a good cause...
Before I open the link, I bet this is the interview where the demon inside Kenneth Copeland was close to getting out and killing the reporter.
I would argue violence/force is very christian. There's a reason it took over Europe, and in later centuries it sought the rest of the world.
Oh unpopular ones do too. No job makes more money for the particularly enterprising and soulless as preaching does here.
A bit off-topic, but how the fuck can anyone think someone like this is connected to god?
Religión is the predecessor of politics. Manipulative, self-serving, yet primitive, and surprisingly effective despite its crudeness.
There will always be people succeptible to this kind of grift, but people have also been calling out this BS for decades.
Well, I'm countin' my blessings 'Cause I've found true happiness 'Cause I'm gettin' richer Day by day
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This auto plays, and opens the video when tapped instead of pausing.
Had a quick look on settings and there wasn't a switch to have autoplay turned off.
Does anyone know where an autoplay or a pause switch is?
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Of course they do. When televangelists go to an airport, they rest their hands on their private jet and then confess their sins and express their gratitude for their good fortune through the words of Saint Reznor: "My whole existence is flawed. You bring me closer to god."
And then they have like... a totally wicked cocaine sex party in the air.
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