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Joyner: High Salaries For Black Athletes Are God's Reparations For Slavery
Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 12/8/2014 10:13 am
On Friday's episode of "Prophetic Perspective on Current Events," Rick Joyner focused on the unrest that erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of a grand jury's failure to indict a white police officer who shot an unarmed black teen. While discussing his views on the issue, Joyner shared his belief that blacks were brought to America as slaves as part of God's plan to teach this nation about freedom and that the large salaries professional athletes earn today are God's reparations for slavery.
"As the Lord showed me many years ago," he said, "He sent the blacks to our country to help teach us about freedom and liberty. You say 'they were made slaves, how are they going to know about freedom and liberty?' Wasn't Israel in prison, I mean they were made slaves to Egypt. You know, the only two people groups in history that were enslaved because of their race were the Israelites and the black people."
Citing the passage in Exodus in which the Egyptians shower the Israelites with riches as payment for their years of slavery, Joyner then said that the same thing is happening today with black professional athletes.
"I believe that's one reason for all the high salaries for athletes today," he said. "I rejoice in it. The bigger the salary that are mostly going to minorities, I'm saying that's the Lord doing that. They may not use it right or anything, but the Lord is going to repay them":
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My "WTF?" remark of the day... (Original Post)
Archae
Dec 2014
OP
How do people who have brains that think like this even function in this world? nt
logosoco
Dec 2014
#4
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)1. "They may not use it right or anything" can I vomit now? nt
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)2. Who the hell is this ignorant buffoon? What a bunch of crap. nt
bravenak
(34,648 posts)3. So fucking stupid.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)4. How do people who have brains that think like this even function in this world? nt
Archae
(46,328 posts)5. Like I've said before...
They've been hit in the head with a big family Bible once too often.
Rex
(65,616 posts)6. Well isn't that special.
What rock did this guy crawl out from under?