“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.”
“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
"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
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
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
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.
EmanuelaBrolandi posted:Op needs jesus bad
mods
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
EmanuelaBrolandi posted:Op needs jesus bad
if you give me 50 bucks i can send some jesus to him
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.
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.
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