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A rant! Ok religious people so you think you're not about money!

This is getting ridiculous. You think people don't know you're about money when you constantly repeat your religious commercial messages all through the day, sometimes as much as every ten minutes on network TV?

A thirty second spot costs from §$30,000 to $200,000 USA just for one showing!

Where are you getting the money from? 🤷🏻‍♂️

And why isn't the money helping others?

Your wasting hundreds of millions of dollars by repeating your silly messages on commercial TV!

Sorry for the rant. End of rant!





§ Network commercial prices:

https://adage.com/article/media/tv-pricing-chart/315120
This isn't new by any means.

Forty years ago I got a letter from some yahoo in Philadelphia with some self-designated title like The Honorable Grand Poobah of God's Anointed." Something like that.

He sent me a paper prayer rug and the letter included the secret formula: "Pray on this special rug (paper). Then look through your money and choose your largest bill and send it back folded in the blessed prayer rug."

Obediently I sent him my electric bill.

I also included this scripture:

Matthew 21:13
New King James Version
13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”

i guess I was scrubbed from their mailing list.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard I bring it up because this could have been prevented. If it was handled first, state side. No one wished to touch the move. So the problem occured in Guyana.
@DeWayfarer No question it could’ve been prevented, but Jones convinced his followers that the concerns of the U.S. government were invasive and interfering with their religious freedom, and that’s how he got them to relocate. I don’t know what Guyanese law was like back then, but I’d be willing to bet it’s been updated a lot since Jonestown.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard I hope so.
DrWatson · 70-79, M
Those commercials have as much to do with religious faith as the Nigerian prince's emails have to do with royalty.
SageWanderer · 70-79, M
I’m still waiting!
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@SageWanderer I needed a laugh. Thank you! 😊
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I think these people who keeping on giving to mega churches and don’t have a clue about the TV preacher’s mansions, luxury vehicles, personal jets, air-conditioned dog houses, and other such frivolities have been cast under a spell by these slick-talkers. They use the Bible and pick & choose certain verses and use psychology to convince their flock that the way to heaven is to give and give and that prosperity will come their way when they do.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Lilnonames @cherokeepatti please keep this friendly.

This is not a political post.
Lilnonames · F
@DeWayfarer oh i didnt mean it that way and sorry ill delete it👍
MarineBob · 56-60, M
But don't dare think about removing their tax exempt status
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@MarineBob I think we need to start enforcing the law that's already on the books that says religions lose their tax exempt status when they start getting political.
MarineBob · 56-60, M
@LordShadowfire yes and that includes them being a polling place
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@MarineBob No, I don't think so. I just mean they don't need to be weighing in either way with a political opinion.
KimmyGary · F
It helps the pastor i saw one online pastor makes 875,000$a year
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@KimmyGary that to me is sick!
KimmyGary · F
@DeWayfarer yeah it was on the news he charges $5to log in and 10$ to listen every day
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@KimmyGary sorry if I don't reply. This is upsetting me too much!
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
Please don't lump all religious people together. I'm a supporter of Catholic Charities both financially and with volunteer hours. We do a lot of good work. ✝️
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@sarabee1995 this is a societal problem. And it's far more than just religion.

I can not condone one and while saying all the rest are wrong. They are all apart of the problem because they all allow it to happen!

It a societal thing.

We won WWII because we didn't allow the Germans nor the Japanese to win.

We were determined to win. We didn't say oh we can't overcome two different countries on either side of us. Let's only deal with one. Or even just give up!

The mentality is to not do anything about the greed. And no church is different than the rest of them. No charity is no different than the rest of them.

They are all based on the greed that caused the problems. Do away with the system. End of problem!

We don't give up on space fight just because we have a few crashes! Why that and not the social system?

To say that we are greedy is not the answer. That's giving up! That's allowing the controllers to control!

While I am against violence I will never give up trying to change the system. And they all have given up. Because the greed is in the very system they use.

I will not further the system via such greed. That's all it takes if enough try to do it.

Yes! Do help others.

But not through the condoned system of religion and charities that allow the problems to begin with. They are so much bigger because they all go along with the system. They use the system itself. In truth they are the system.

Now before you say, I am apart of the system. I am not an ORGANIZATION! I'm an individual that is trying to help others. Therefore I am not apart of that same system!

That is what is needed the most. INDIVIDUALS helping others. Not huge organizations. As individuals we are bigger than the rest!

And that's how you overcome ANY system! INDIVIDUAL'S helping others! Regardless of beliefs!

And yes I have done so! I often don't even know what others believe. You just do it! The homeless is EVERYWHERE! Drug addicts, prostitutes, and even gang members alike! You help them by yourself.

You don't discriminate! And that's is another thing that religion does! And it does it to further the system!

They don't help them because of what ever reasons they so chose! And so the system is furthered. The controllers on top win!

The organizations by the way are using the aristocratic methods in each of their organizations! Whose on top? One person controlling!

Individually you are in control of yourself! No one else controls you, but yourself.
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
@DeWayfarer Dude... I think you forgot to take your meds...

Most of your analogies here do not even remotely apply.

All I'm saying is that not all charities derive from criminal intent. There actually are some good people in the world who seek to help others.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@sarabee1995 sorry but I am definitely not a follower of this society. There have been better ones. Just never had the opportunity to develop because of this society got in the way.


EVERYTHING I mentioned applies and far more that I haven't mentioned!

And that's how I honestly feel.

Notice what I didn't say in this compared to your last statement!

That is one of the many differences that is allowable in this society.
Commercialisation of religion
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@mysteryespresso I will repeat! We are all crazy! 🤷🏻‍♂️

We are all Looney bins! Because most of us all agree! 🤷🏻‍♂️

And that's a conservative (<-anadvocate approach) line! 😆

Anadvocate: if you don't understand any given approach, then turn it around! Think!
@DeWayfarer still makes no sense
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@mysteryespresso you haven't tried. That type of thinking takes a long while to even do it properly.

Sometimes years.
Damn religious people.
SW-User
Whats even more cringey is the average person supporting them. Sending their money in for some of that sweet redemption I guess.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SW-User lonely widows included.
SW-User
@cherokeepatti Its sickening
Nanori · F
It begs the question; is it okay to use people's naivety to make them pay you willingly?
Should that be legal?
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Nanori sorry for the delay.

The cause of all this is the result of allowing networks to not be responsible for the advertising they put on the networks.

Now how are you going to prevent it, if the networks are not responsible? 🤷🏻‍♂️

The greed is because of the networks greed.
Some might be but not all.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Spoiledbrat they are getting the money somewhere. It's more than just a minority just to pay for that all day ten minutes a day, for days on end!
It’s definitely a racket, from the 700 Club to Creflo Dollar.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard there's this commercial that just doesn't seem to stop now one major network. Promoting their books!

It's been going on for days now every ten minutes!
Bignakedguy · 31-35, M
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Which religion?
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@LordShadowfire but where is the money coming from for these floods of commercials? 🤷🏻‍♂️
@LordShadowfire I always wonder why Parent denominations don’t seem to speak up when churches that self-identify commit "un-Christian" acts or espouse beliefs that go against the message of love.
For example, has American Baptist Churches USA ever spoken out against Westboro Baptist, or tried to stop them from identifying as Baptists ?
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@bijouxbroussard I know, right? You'd think they'd have a vested interest in making sure the child denominations behaved in a way that doesn't embarrass the parent denomination.

 
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