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Televangelists - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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LegendofDragoonLives
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How do people give money to these scumbags? Since when does the Bible talk about throwing money to these asswipes, when the complete opposite is written? On one hand I am disgusted at how horrible these people are, on the other hand how stupid and naive are the people throwing money away?
Charles Foster Kane
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They're scum.
My mother donated to pieces of shit like these a couple of times.
My mother donated to pieces of shit like these a couple of times.
speculawyer
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OK . . . tell me what I should write in my letter to accompany my donation to Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption. GO!
I assume it will eventually go to Medecin Sans Frontieres.
FortuneFaded
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Desperate people are desperate. Victim blaming shifts the blame from the scumbags.
PeskyToaster
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What's funny is that this is basically buying indulgences, a major reason for the formation of Protestantism.
If giving money seeds prosperity, then it's a two way street.
The congregation should ask for money from the televangelist. Now the televangelist will be the one to sow all that prosperity, which will ultimately aid their ministry and allow them to give even more money to their congregation in a fiscal perpetual motion machine.
The congregation should ask for money from the televangelist. Now the televangelist will be the one to sow all that prosperity, which will ultimately aid their ministry and allow them to give even more money to their congregation in a fiscal perpetual motion machine.
By what measure? He's multimillionaire who doesn't pay taxes. He's built his fortune on the stupidity of people who believe in mystical things.
entremet
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Does he even ask for money, though?
I'm not aware. Just curious.
He does the sell tons of books. I only saw a 60 minutes profile on him.
Osteen is just as bad as the rest of them.
Within the prodperity gospel you've got the completely shameless 'give me money now and God will favor you!' crowd, and the more subtle but still just as insidious "God wants you to be rich - and if you're rich, you should donate as much money as you can to his work!" crowd.
The way the second group make their money is speaking tours amongst other prosperity gospel churches. It's basically a big scam that allows them to point to their 'modest' church salary and act as if they aren't money hungry wolves in sheep's clothing.
So Joel Osteen will preach at Hillsong for heaps of money, and then a year later someone from Hillsong will go preach at Osteen's church for heaps of money. And round and round it goes.
Within the prodperity gospel you've got the completely shameless 'give me money now and God will favor you!' crowd, and the more subtle but still just as insidious "God wants you to be rich - and if you're rich, you should donate as much money as you can to his work!" crowd.
The way the second group make their money is speaking tours amongst other prosperity gospel churches. It's basically a big scam that allows them to point to their 'modest' church salary and act as if they aren't money hungry wolves in sheep's clothing.
So Joel Osteen will preach at Hillsong for heaps of money, and then a year later someone from Hillsong will go preach at Osteen's church for heaps of money. And round and round it goes.
Its not a hillarious show but its enjoyable. Honestly i just watch it in order to learn about aspects of the world that arn't normally on the news
FrenchMovieTheme
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i called that # he put up and i'm going to send like $5 to new york tomorrow. we'll see what happens!
Empyrean Heaven
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"Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption will not be able to accept donations from Church supporters from the states of Mississippi, Nevada, Pennsylvania, or South Carolina."
Why is this? Real televangelists don't have this problem!
Why is this? Real televangelists don't have this problem!
Gentleman Jack
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I assumed those states have more complicated tax structures in place for church donations, structures the more established televangelists are either protected from by grandfather clauses or that they have more sophisticated and expensive tools to circumvent.
I visited a large church in the Charlotte area that has been the subject of some controversy. When I was there some guy gets on stage and tells everyone how tired the minister is, how exhausting his job was, etc. Asked that if anyone had a beach house let his family stay there, or if you had Hornet or Panther tickets to donate them to him. I was like wtf is this shit, and googled him when I got home. This poor minister was living with his wife and 2 kids in a 10000 square foot home valued at over 2 million.
These guys are everywhere in religion.
These guys are everywhere in religion.
abolisher6812
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If only they did a Debbie Downer pan in at the end. Also maybe this will lead to a Leap Of Faith blu ray release.
Ryan242004
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He still teaches the prosperity gospel though, just in a more subtle way than those shown in the video.
Mechanized
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You want to see the devil? Look a televangelist in the eyes.
MDSVeritas
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Praise be, praise be.
So did I. Worth every second.
Hell I may call again just for fun.
He's been on fire this season. The voting rights episode, the interview with Snowden, the food wasting, now this.
Zeyphersan
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Will probably send like $10, on the off-chance the show sends something really awesome back
hawkshockey11
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I wish I had the money to open up a chain restaurant that is also registered as a church. Tax free and and I could make up a bullshit gospel about how eating our food is the pathway to the afterlife
The Heart Attack Grill operates on a similar premise.
I was hoping the segment would touch on Joel Osteen but it didn't. I can't quite place my finger on it, but there is something off putting about him and his wife. I am waiting for some kind of scandal to pop up from them.
The other problem with them is all I can see is Sarah and Steve Newlin from True Blood when I look at them.
I'll say this as someone who has met the Osteen family, they are actual nice people. They poured a good amount of money into the school I worked at a few years ago along with bringing a ton of volunteers.
CrunchyFrog
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Hah, that main guy that he rags on in the very beginning was totally the subject of the old farting preacher series. Great skit, kinda evokes the Colbert SuperPAC days. Great too that he can use the site as a means of donating to Doctors Without Borders.
Seriously though, even as a practicing Catholic I find televangelists absolutely deplorable. It's almost as predatory as Scientology. What a twisted interpretation of the theology.
Seriously though, even as a practicing Catholic I find televangelists absolutely deplorable. It's almost as predatory as Scientology. What a twisted interpretation of the theology.
CarpeDeezNutz
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What happened to my boy Benny Hinn?
I genuinely hope that your impression of them was true.
Their message is still toxic though.
Joel is pretty short but unlike the televangelists in the video he at least goes out and gets his hands dirty helping people.
QualityPixel
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Karl_Dilkington7
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Holy shit...just watched this. I'm sooooo donating now!
I only have $3 though. No big seed for me. 
That's because they have made hundreds of millions of dollars in tax free income fleecing the simple minded. They may be nice, but Christ himself would overturn their money changing table like a fat kid at a Gamestop magazine rack.
You should know better than that. The people that succumb to this indirectly hurt their families and those around them. It's a plague on the American people, especially the religiously insecure who can't manage to actually live out their faiths but turn to tithing to quell their god fearing guilts.
metalslimer
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My grandmother would donate money to these pieces of shit despite the debt she was in. And the sad thing is there is no way to convince many of these people that donate that they are sending money to crooks.
Zeyphersan
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Oh I know
Swaggart is the Ric Flair of TV evangelists. These other clowns aren't in the same league.
I'll..wait, it's the guy in your avatar, only older!
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Fuck televangelists.
Great segment. Oliver's doing God's will
Great segment. Oliver's doing God's will
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