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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: Parts on September 11, 2007, 05:47:11 AM
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I just saw an add for a faith healer on local television with testimonials and they gave the church address and everything. Lately I have been seeing and hearing more of this junk what is going on. It's not like I live in the Bible belt I live in New England. Is this becoming more common elsewhere too?
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I have seen a church advertisement on the tv, it showed all these young people having a good time, looked like a party. Showed a bunch of people walking along all happy then they walk up to the door of a modern looking church. I thought it was funny because it tried to make out that it was a trendy thing to do, to go to church.
On Western Australian tv.
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I just saw an add for a faith healer on local television with testimonials and they gave the church address and everything. Lately I have been seeing and hearing more of this junk what is going on. It's not like I live in the Bible belt I live in New England. Is this becoming more common elsewhere too?
When I lived in Maine, one of the things that I noticed was that the holy rollers were trying to lure disaffected/ disenchanted Catholics into their churches. -- New Englanders on the other hand are for the most part more enlightened than that.
Also in the south, even though there are a lot of people who go to church regularly, a surprising number of people avoid the holy roller types. --For the record, when I lived in Charlotte, NC, faith healer Benny Hinn put in an appearance at the Charlotte Colesium, which was only a few miles away from the Gas station/ convenience store where I was working third shift. After the event let out, a lot of people who were there came in to the stor to buy gas, snacks, and what have you. One girl who apparently had been 'healed' by Benny Hinn approached the cash register to pay for her stuff, and then went into a massive siezure, and wound up being dragged out by her relatives.
Also, the Reverand, preacher what have you who runs a local chain of Thrift stores, a Drug/ alcohol rehabilitation program and a homeless shelter rides around in a Hummer H2. --Jesus $ave$ :wanker:
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"Place your hands on the TV and pray with me now and you shall be healed!!!"
It's becoming more common everywhere. :P
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One girl who apparently had been 'healed' by Benny Hinn approached the cash register to pay for her stuff, and then went into a massive siezure, and wound up being dragged out by her relatives.
That is awful. :(
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Also, the Reverand, preacher what have you who runs a local chain of Thrift stores, a Drug/ alcohol rehabilitation program and a homeless shelter rides around in a Hummer H2. --Jesus $ave$ Wanker
We have one of those around here too he reminds me of Jim Jones
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I see a lot of those Preacher/infomercials on cable tv. Especially in the early am and the wee hours of the night, when they can buy cheap time.
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It's not as bad as Jehovah's Witnesses knocking at your your door every Sunday afternoon..............
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Eat them, and they stop coming.
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I'm moving to a suburban neighborhood in two weeks. I have never actually had to deal with them, living on the southern most point of the island because it's a bitch to get there. I will give them a piece of my mind if they come at my door.
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I'm moving to a suburban neighborhood in two weeks. I have never actually had to deal with them, living on the southern most point of the island because it's a bitch to get there. I will give them a piece of my mind if they come at my door.
You could say that you are busy right now and ask for their address so that you can go to their house later on and tell them what you think of religion. ;)
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I'm moving to a suburban neighborhood in two weeks. I have never actually had to deal with them, living on the southern most point of the island because it's a bitch to get there. I will give them a piece of my mind if they come at my door.
Theoretically, they keep a "do not call" list...if you ask them not to come back, they shouldn't. If they do come back after that, I'm fond of letting them see and hear my large (but utterly harmless) German Shepherd charging at the door. ;) (I have a friend who's JW. We get along great as long as we don't talk religion :P)
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I'm moving to a suburban neighborhood in two weeks. I have never actually had to deal with them, living on the southern most point of the island because it's a bitch to get there. I will give them a piece of my mind if they come at my door.
When they come to your door, preach the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to them. ;) ;D
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I'm moving to a suburban neighborhood in two weeks. I have never actually had to deal with them, living on the southern most point of the island because it's a bitch to get there. I will give them a piece of my mind if they come at my door.
When they come to your door, preach the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to them. ;) ;D
They don't like me at all. Last time I offered to print them up a tract of MY religious beliefs for when they came again. they didn't come. :laugh:
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"Hey I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses my father is suffering heart complications and he needs an angioplasty or he will die but he's not getting one cause God will save him!"
Thats howI kind of portray these people.
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"Hey I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses my father is suffering heart complications and he needs an angioplasty or he will die but he's not getting one cause God will save him!"
Thats howI kind of portray these people.
One of my brothers friends sister died because all they could find for a contact was her wacko JW ex husband she was in emergency surgery and he told them no transfusions her family found out after she died :grrr:
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"Hey I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses my father is suffering heart complications and he needs an angioplasty or he will die but he's not getting one cause God will save him!"
Thats howI kind of portray these people.
One of my brothers friends sister died because all they could find for a contact was her wacko JW ex husband she was in emergency surgery and he told them no transfusions her family found out after she died :grrr:
I saw a Jehovah's Witness on some medical TV show who died after he was involved in an automobile accident because his Jehovah's Witness wife refused to let him have a blood transfusion even though he had lost a substantial amount of blood. I was outraged, but not as outraged as I am for your brother's friend's sister. I tell the Jehovah's Witnesses who come to my door that I would never become one of them because my daughter would be dead if she had not gotten transfusions from about twenty people.
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"Hey I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses my father is suffering heart complications and he needs an angioplasty or he will die but he's not getting one cause God will save him!"
Thats howI kind of portray these people.
One of my brothers friends sister died because all they could find for a contact was her wacko JW ex husband she was in emergency surgery and he told them no transfusions her family found out after she died :grrr:
I saw a Jehovah's Witness on some medical TV show who died after he was involved in an automobile accident because his Jehovah's Witness wife refused to let him have a blood transfusion even though he had lost a substantial amount of blood. I was outraged, but not as outraged as I am for your brother's friend's sister. I tell the Jehovah's Witnesses who come to my door that I would never become one of them because my daughter would be dead if she had not gotten transfusions from about twenty people.
The real sad thing is that it was a simple thing and she would have been fine if she had gotten a transfusion her family was beyond mad surprised her ex is still alive
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There may be things more important than
death. Even of one's child. Given that they
believe that their child would be damned
for the treatment, I can't blame them.