Houston Pastor convicted in $3.6M fraud case returns to Church after prison release. "It's such a blessing to have our visionary pastor back at church. We are so excited."

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• st3ph3n@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those dumb mother fuckers.

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  • PotatoLibre@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Religion is important, some people really need it they said.

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• SoupBrick@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And, chat, this is why blind faith in anything is a bad thing.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s only so much time in a day and so much “Do Your Own Research” anyone is going to have the background or the social connections to interrogate.

    If anything, the folks who tell themselves “I would never fall for this” are the most popular targets for affinity scams.

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    • SoupBrick@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Court documents alleged Caldwell, using his position at Houston’s Windsor Village Church, and a financial advisor sold $3.5 million in worthless pre-revolutionary Chinese bonds to the elderly and other vulnerable investors.

      This is why I put “blind” in bold. He was literally caught red handed defrauding the elderly. That is where the blindness of the congregation comes in. They choose to ignore the glaring breach of trust and allow him to retain his position of influence.

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• some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We should be treating religion like a mind virus that needs wiping out.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    BuT rElIgIoN iS GoOd

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These stupid motherfuckers give truckloads of money to bible thumping parasites instead of their own families and communities, then turn around and blame all their woes on immigrants, LGBTQ+, the left, the right, and even some made up shit like satan.

  PS: Also, can anyone explain to me why Satan if the bad guy in that fairytale? He stands up for equal rights for his brethren by starting some angel union or some shit and he a all his homies get eternal punishment for it. Then, instead of rebelling further, he spends all his time revealing and punishing the wicked. That sounds like a stand up guy to me.

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  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, translations are rough. More importantly, every story has to have a bad guy and the people who put together the Bible were not very creative. Other texts are way more fun with quality and variety of lore (good and bad).

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The bible should have had Space Marines in it.

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• lostoncalantha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m in the wrong field. Should have been a pastor.

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  • 2fm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Want to make a ton of money fast? Start a religion.

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stop giving out my secrets, L. Ron.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol. These people would draw and quarter Jesus if he came back to life and continued preaching his own teachings.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pharisees, pharisees everywhere

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• Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Once a sucker always a sucker.

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• DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Before leaving to prison, the pastor gathered all members of his church, whipped out his Neuralyzer and flashed the fuckers. He came back from a “vacation”. That’s it. No one knows.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If only. Instead, people really are this stupid and gullible.

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait till the good pastor discovers crypto.

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had a friend my first year in college who was black, gay, Republican and a fundamentalist christian. He gave most of what little money he had to the televangelists Jim and Tammy Fay Baker - and this was after the sex and financial shenanigans that brought down their empire were exposed. And it’s not like he didn’t believe the truth of the scandals. He did believe it and was still that fucking eager to give them his money anyway. I just can’t understand the people that support these frauds.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oof. Also Tammy Faye wound up awesome after she left Jim. She became a voice of progressive Christianity (most famously hugging a gay man with AIDS on TV in the height of the fear) and stopped her embezzlement.

    Jim on the other hand sells drums of survivalist food through his preaching to this day

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For many people, in-group is the only thing that matters.

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• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And this is at reason we have pedophiles in charge

  The normies deserve the rulers they get clearly

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