"Do you think God can hear your prayers through a mask?"

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Televangelist Gets Roasted For Saying God Can’t Hear Prayers Through A Mask

Wearing a face mask has somehow become a politicized issue in the US. There’s still a minority that refuses to do so and calls others ‘sheep’ for following the rules and trying to keep others alive. Jim Bakker, a disgraced US televangelist, is the latest figure to spread the “good” word. And as God’s shepherd of a different kind of flock, he has shared his religious views on the sins of wearing a mask in church.

“How can you go to church and pray when you’re wearing a mask?
Do you think God can hear your prayers through a mask?” Bakker said.

Naturally, his questions have blown the internet’s mind, so Bored Panda has collected the best responses to them. Vote for your favorites and let’s pray to God that anti-maskers will finally see the light.



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[Carlitos Brigante]

1. So basically he's like Hard Of Hearing Vader?

[Ilsa]

12. I have never seen that! Hilarious! Thank you. nt

[Carlitos Brigante]

33. .

[Ray Bruns]

14. Freaking Hilarious

I have never seen that one before.

[Iggo]

20. Oh wow, that was enjoyable!

[kairos12]

25. Laughed my ass off. What?

[UpInArms]

2. This was spot on:

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” ― Epicurus

[GulfCoast66]

39. I love the quote but this it is incorrectly attributed here.

Reading David Hume changed my beliefs and I think that quote is his.

Would like to learn if he lifted it.

[myccrider]

43. Nope, it was Epicurus as quoted by Hume.

Or most of it anyway. The part about "then why call him God" was added later according to Mr Google.

https://www.newscientist.com/letter/0-the-trilemma-of-evil-in-a-classical-question/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/problem-of-evil

[GulfCoast66]

47. Thanks.

Hume had to be very circumspect about his beliefs, or lack there of. Especially early in his life.

[GulfCoast66]

48. Thanks.

Hume had to be very circumspect about his beliefs, or lack there of. Especially early in his life.

[tanyev]

3. Jimmy might want to spend some time reading Psalm 139.

1You have searched me, Lord,

and you know me.

2You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3You discern my going out and my lying down;

you are familiar with all my ways.

4Before a word is on my tongue

you, Lord, know it completely.

5You hem me in behind and before,

and you lay your hand upon me.

6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

too lofty for me to attain.

7Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

8If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

9If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.

11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

and the light become night around me,”

12even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

[secondwind]

4. Had never read this... it's beautiful. Thanks for posting

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Someone needs to explain to Jim Bakker that his god only speaks Aramaic....

and ye must be in sackcloth and ashes on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to propose a prayer, submitted in triplicate no later than 4pm on Friday.


KY.........

[jaxexpat]

18. You can try the internet portal if you're running short of time.

Though, so often, it's down for upgrades. God could really use better IT people.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

26. Visa, MasterCard and AMEX accepted, no doubt.

KY...........

[Midnight Writer]

6. jim Bakker is a con man and should be in prison, again.

Instead, we allow him to shill on the public airwaves, sell poison like colloidal silver, use religion to fleece his flock, and give him a tax exemption, too.

Chicanery and fraud in the name of a god should be handled just like any other fraud.

[Ray Bruns]

15. Don't forget his food slop.

[spanone]

7. send this dumbass back to prison

[CrispyQ]

8. This wouldn't surprise me at all:

Wouldn't surprise me, either, if there were takers.

[LiberatedUSA]

9. So then your god is not all powerful. N/t

[walkingman]

10. Are we a country of idiots? These are some weird folks.

[myohmy2]

11. that's strange...

...my God has assured me he could...

...you need a better God...

[Ilsa]

13. So, deaf persons who are mute are not heard by God in Bakker's

religion. Seems like a limited, puny God that is not omniscient.

[doc03]

16. So that is why all those silent prayers I made before

a test in school didn't work so well

[futem]

17. I think god just needs miracle ear.

[mjvpi]

27. Good one

[dalton99a]

19. "When you pray, go into your room and shut the door"

- Jesus

[SCantiGOP]

35. This is actually Old Testament

It says not to pray in church, since that is likely done to impress others. It says to go into private and pray.
I served on a non-profit board for years, and objected to the prayer before the meeting. The group included two Jews and a Sikh, so I said the “in your name Jesus” prayer was inappropriate.
The group kept the prayer but agreed to change it to non-denominational, and I quoted the above passage as the reason I would not close my eyes, bow my head or participate.
It was funny that several members privately told me that they agreed with me, but would not acknowledge that in public.

[Iggo]

21. He ain't dead yet? Wow!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. What a dumbass

[IronLionZion]

23. This is how Republicans like to pray out loud indoors in large groups

while spewing complete nonsense

[Towlie]

29. .. in direct disregard of Matthew 6:5-8 (from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount)

 
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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A5-8&version=NIV

5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

It's common for us atheists to know more about the Bible than most Christians.

[Ms. Toad]

31. GMTA. n/t

[IronLionZion]

36. Give lots of money to televangelists to buy prosperity and a spot in heaven nt

[zentrum]

24. Would a cloak also work?

Will God know I'm doing stuff he doesn't like if I do it under a cloak?

[lagomorph777]

42. Seems to work for me.

No bolt of lightning yet.

[zentrum]

50. Whew! Good to know!

[mjvpi]

28. The real question is can god hear you through an intubation tube?

[Ms. Toad]

30. Matthew 6:6

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

New International Version

I think if God can hear you from a closet, they can hear you through a mask.

[DemocraticPatriot]

44. The average human can hear you through a mask, yet God cannot?

Rather silly presumption.

[argyl]

32. Not always. But his eyesight's great. It's always on that sparrow.

Humans wailing in anguish he has trouble picking up on.

[griloco]

34. I'll bet God can hear Joe Pesci through a mask!

[RobinA]

37. All This Time

I thought God could read minds!

[JudyM]

38. My favorite: "As well through a mask as through a microphone...

Though I’m loathe to quote him, this is spot on:

[XanaDUer2]

40. you can pray silently

sooooo......

[Mad_Machine76]

41. If God is omnipotent

then doesn't he already knows what we think and feel and what's in our hearts, mask or no mask? Any well-read Christians know the answer to this?

[Towlie]

45. You must pray because even though God already knows what you need, he wants to hear you beg for it.

 
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[Mad_Machine76]

46. Ah

Good point LOL

[durablend]

49. Well what would that (it) be?

God gave them masks--don't want
God gave them a vaccine--don't want