PASTOR WANTS YOUR LIFE INSURANCE

[mstinamotorcity]

I was riding home from work listening to the radio,when they were doing their little segment called Talk of the Town. The station on the radio is wmxd the mix 92.3 Detroit.There is a well known pastor of one of our churches who has requested that members take out life insurance policies and he retains half at the time of your death.And this is not the first incident that i have trouble with. There has been pastors who have asked that members show their w-2 forms to make sure they are donating their ten percent and offerings.We even had a well known church have some of its family members bilk hundreds of thousands of dollars from people using their family name which turned out to be a pyramid scheme or ponzi which ever you want to call it. All I know is if anyone and i don't give a damn who it is start asking for w-2's,and life insurance policies and shit they would probably need a mortician.:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :hi:

[ck4829]

1. "I need, uh, I mean God needs your money!"

[Initech]

30. Bernie Madoff never thought of this shit, did he?

[sakabatou]

2. And people wonder why atheists dislike religion.

[madokie]

9. raised as a Southern Baptist

lived most of my life as a non religious person and this is but one of the many reasons I am not a 'believer'.

I do not want to be aligned with any form of religion or anti religion.

[Turbineguy]

3. There's only one guy who knows

how to ask for money. And that man is The Reverend James T. "Gotto Have.... Duh Money" White:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udomqgvsHB4

[guitar man]

4. !!!

works every time!! :rofl:

[mstinamotorcity]

5. Its been so long since i seen

this clip. Its still funny as hell. And I would much rather send a donation to Rev.White than to give some preacher fifty percent of my life insurance policy unless the policy was valued at a dollar.And then i want ninety nine cents change.O8) O8) O8) :hi:

[NotThisTime]

6. This is SO common you have no idea... these religious folks actually send the form home with you to

help fill out and give to your will preparer.... totally disgusting

[mstinamotorcity]

8. This is something

that I really didn't know was happening.I have not been to church on a regular basis in about eight to ten years.I had my own personal problem with the religious folk who do more dirt than the law allows.And more shit than that. I have a problem when there are more collections than there are prayers.And this only proves what I think and feel in my heart.And it seems as this latest ploy to tap in on one of the most crucial times of a family's pain that they have found a way to capitalize on that.Sickening!!!!!!:evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :hi:

[butterfly77]

20. Doncha know..

the church deserves half of everything you have even after you die...:sarcasm:

[piratefish08]

21. How can God be omnipotent but so damn destitute at the same time?

(for any trolling freepers, 'destitute' means 'poor')

sorry for the big word.

[anigbrowl]

7. What could possibly go wrong... nt

[AnArmyVeteran]

10. The 10% isn't enough???

It's sad how so many people are violated by so many, even from churches. I believe there should be a new 'vulnerability' law that kicked in when the most vulnerable in society were taken advantage of. Churches regularly abuse the elderly by getting them to put everything they own in their wills, so when they die all of it goes to a church. Televangelists are the worst offenders. The poor, the uneducated, the weak, the sick, and the elderly are all preyed upon by greedy, soulless people who should be in prison. Personally, I have stood up for dozens of others who were being abused by corrupt people. I have always helped the most vulnerable in society. What makes me sick is the notion on the right that there should be no regulations or laws to protect the most vulnerable from corrupt individuals or corporations. And yet, the people on the right profess to be 'christians'. How can a Christian side with the rich and powerful over the poor and defenseless and still be a 'Christian'?

[mstinamotorcity]

12. Because they have already

deemed what their idea of christianity is.There are a lot of pastor's who's congregations are getting smaller.I have friend who left the church with this recession. They felt that if the church was supposed to help in the community why is it that their grandmother who belong to the church for twenty years and could not get them to help her with a hundred dollar light bill.And this is after she has tithed and offered and served on the usher board.Maybe, and i am only saying maybe,if grandma had saved her money she wouldn't have been in need of any money. Mighty funny when someone needs something in return from the church like a light bill,or help with these over blown mortgages they can't help,but pastor got a house and lights.

[butterfly77]

22. Some of the members ...

of the church will even for go paying their bills for the church.

Now,that a lot of the christian right have lost their jobs.

Why can't get the church to pay on their mortages,gas,light and water bills? or do they have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

[mstinamotorcity]

25. How the hell are they going

to pick themselves up by their boot straps if they can't affordd boots???????Giving all their money even in death to the pastor.:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[piratefish08]

11. more extortion in the name of Sky Daddy.

it's getting more difficult to feel bad for folks scammed in the name of religion.

maybe willful ignorance 'should' carry a price.......

[mstinamotorcity]

13. Or maybe its time

for these so-called houses of worship tax exemptions be lifted.That might solve the deficit crisis.

[piratefish08]

14. THAT would be a perfect solution! I wish I believed it could happen......

[mstinamotorcity]

15. Oh you talk about a fight

That would probably have every nut falling off the tree and rolling on the capitol steps.Can you see rev. Olsteen,Bishop Jakes,then you wouldn' see those charasmatic smiles and uplifting sermons.You would be hearing about the separation of church and state. And how the enemy is using the government to attack the church. Not that they have had enough building funds to build churches that take up football fields.Does anybody know anybody by name in those big churches,I am just wondering.

[piratefish08]

17. organized religion is the most perfect scam ever devised. you CAN NOT question the motives

of all the 'compassionate christians' extorting in the name of God.

[mstinamotorcity]

18. It may be extortion in the name of God

But if you say you want to tax the collections the church makes and they will fight you tooth and nail for their right to extort in the name of any God.O8) O8) O8)

[Macoy]

16. WoW

Unbelievable. The first time my church asks me to show my W-2 is the last time I go to that church.


Macoy

[butterfly77]

23. That is not the only thing these so called pastors are ..

involved in they are also involved in the bedrooms,portraying themselves as an counselor in the marriages of parishoners.

I have seen cases where the Rev would know so much about the marriage that he knows how to break it up so that he can get a little bit for himself...

In some cases, he may be getting a little bit from the husband and the wife...

[mstinamotorcity]

26. I always wondered why there were

three sets of children looking like the pastor and the mothers were no relation.Hmmmmmmm:P :P :P

[butterfly77]

27. Things that...

make you go um hummmmm....:hi:

[butterfly77]

19. The rightwing are infilitrating the churches...

[mstinamotorcity]

24. you betcha

The real christian America have been out in force dressed in their sunday tea bag hats and everything.O8)

[butterfly77]

28. Self Delete..,

[Initech]

29. And people wonder why religion didn't work for me.

[Nikki Stone1]

31. If I ever go into crime, it will be to run a church.

Plenty of suckers and you never get caught.