• doctortofu@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    Funny how god never tells them to do something they don’t actually want to do in the first place or that doesn’t benefit them, innit?

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    And that is pretty much how everything goes in the church. Everything you do is because The Lord told you to. So glad I freed myself from that circus.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    If you’re doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get … it … in … writing. His word isn’t worth shit, not with The Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.

    -William S. Burroughs, Advice for Young People

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      It’s not wrong. I used to freelance full time. I quickly learned to never trust any company that claimed to be religious. Most companies I worked with were fine. But if I saw a jesus fish on the owner’s car, or a cross on their business card, I knew they were going to try to fleece me. Everything from exceeding contract scope, to just outright refusing to pay after services have been rendered. If you have convinced yourself that God is on your side no matter what, it becomes very easy to justify your shitty actions to yourself.

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    8 months ago

    Hahahahahahahahaahahahahahaahahaahahahhhhhhhahahahaha

    Out of the $1.3 [million], half a million dollars went to the IRS [Internal Revenue Services],

    Yeah, so like, don’t be so upset because it wasn’t really 1.3 million I stole. The g o v e r n m e n t stole a half million of your hard earned money you invested.

    Holy men (and women) should stick to the tried-and-true grift of their profession.

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    8 months ago

    Even better:

    The pastor and his wife marketed their “practically worthless” cryptocurrency, INDXcoin, to Christian communities in Denver, telling them that “God told him people would become wealthy” if they invested, the Colorado Division of Securities said.

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    Most of these people I think somehow manage to fail some mental check on internal dialog. Of course our internal dialogs are like “do iiiit!”, but most of us recognize that as wrong and ignore it. I think these guys just go “Oh, lord I’ve been waiting to hear from you again! Oh, I should just do anything I want!? COOL!”

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    8 months ago

    Lets be honest, is his story any less believable than the contents of the Bible?

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    Christ called that Lord Mammon, you heathen… you’re gonna burn in Hell for lying with his name in your mouth…

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    You cant prove he didn’t and we don’t doubt the word of God in our new christofacist wonderland.