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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/20/pay-to-pray-scam-washington-christian-prayer-center-online

“They had a child with a rare terminal illness,” said assistant attorney general Daniel Davies. “They were looking for hope anywhere they could get it. One of the places they turned to was the Christian Prayer Center.

“When they are going through incredibly difficult situations, often times people turn to prayer,” Davies continued. “They see a website touting that thousands of people will pray for you. They have a pastor, testimonials on the website of people whose prayers were answered.

“The pastor was a sham,” he said. “The testimonials were fictitious as well.”
#2
The prayer websites have been shut down, but court documents include screen shots of the fabricated testimonials that drew in tens of thousands of desperate people who wanted to be prayed for by “thousands of Christians” promised by Rogovy, an entreating army that did not exist.

“Our mission is to provide the strongest network of group prayer to Christians around the world,” Rogovy promised. “The Bible tells us that through agreement in prayer, the Lord shall grant us all that we desire.

“The internet has enabled us to build a massive congregation,” Christian Prayer Center boasted, “to lift your prayer requests to a whole new level”.

lmao
#3
i was gonna let your kid die but then a bunch of strangers begged me because you paid them so i was like, aight - god
#4
GOKU: .....People of Earth....give me your power.....*enters credit card number*
#5
now they're even outsourcing prayer to china?
#6
i'm still praying for you goat man despite this blasphemous thread, peace be upon you
#7

"nobody was actually praying at Christian Prayer Center," like it would have made a difference if they were, implies article

I prefer this to the situation where a company has to crack down to make sure employees are staying on message and praying from the provided scripts only

#8
at what point does naïveté disqualify you from happiness, morally? at what point are you so naive that your happiness and success are evil?
#9

Panopticon posted:

now they're even outsourcing prayer to china?



we will sacrifice a shitload of incense iPads to our ancestors for you - the cheerful chinese people, what a great bunch

#10
john w. goatstein of the Gaping Ring Ranch was convicted today of animal cruelty for never hiring anyone to manage or care for the residents of his no-kill unicorn shelter
#11
goatstein i hope u send ur daughter to catholic school instead of trying to inculcate godlessness in her yourself because otherwise she'll probably end up being a christian youth pastor instead of an atheist
#12
Op needs jesus bad
#13

camera_obscura posted:

at what point does naïveté disqualify you from happiness, morally? at what point are you so naive that your happiness and success are evil?



In the 1st world, everyones success and happiness is evil

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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

john w. goatstein of the Gaping Ring Ranch was convicted today of animal cruelty for never hiring anyone to manage or care for the residents of his no-kill unicorn shelter

I'm sorry you feel that way, John.

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EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

Op needs jesus bad



mods

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tpaine posted:

seriously how much of a child do you have to be to think prayer accomplishes anything. i guess i've been an atheist for too long because i can't even understand the mindset a little bit, like how i catch myself wondering what a cat is thinking is sometimes



"no" repeatedly, iirc

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EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

Op needs jesus bad

if you give me 50 bucks i can send some jesus to him

#21
God graciously answers my prayers all the time but then again I don't try to tell God what to do or how to do it
#22
maybe try praying for communism then??
#23
This is a sad article about the lengths that loving parents will go to in order to save their children, and the depth of cynicism of those who will rip them off in their time of grief.

Anyone else who paid for anything needs help, but in a different way. I knew a guy who worked at a psychic hotline, and he told me that people who call are generally the loneliest and saddest people on earth.
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MarianneSadd posted:

I knew a guy who worked at a psychic hotline, and he told me that people who call are generally the loneliest and saddest people on earth.


I knew someone who did the same. He was an out of work actor so really it's hard to determine who was sadder.

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#27
We all live in a very sad and lonesome world, and should be wary that our empathy for one another, our natural instinct to comfort and seek help, is being commoditized at an astonishing rate.
#28
face the void with dignity. to grasp for superstitions at the end is what feeds the creature
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MarianneSadd posted:

This is a sad article about the lengths that loving parents will go to in order to save their children, and the depth of cynicism of those who will rip them off in their time of grief.

Anyone else who paid for anything needs help, but in a different way. I knew a guy who worked at a psychic hotline, and he told me that people who call are generally the loneliest and saddest people on earth.



when me+my wife were separated she got one of those spam testimonial emails about Dr. Whatever the miracle-working witchdoctor and how he put a spell on someone's jackoff husband and made him come back to her and she was so miserable she actually answered it, altho she wasn't depressed enough to pay the $500 initial consultation fee

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