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BlueWaveNeverEnd

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Fri Jun 9, 2023, 12:06 AM Jun 2023

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JFC. What a wrinkled bag of shit. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Burn in hell Pat. Comfortably_Numb Jun 2023 #1
Happy Pride Month. 🌈 Too bad he's not here to celebrate Deuxcents Jun 2023 #2
Just like their politicians, there's a line of Jebus grifters waiting to take his place. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2023 #3
They're All grifters, these megachurch pastors onetexan Jun 2023 #4
No wonder we can't have nice things in most American communities.... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2023 #7
:) Solly Mack Jun 2023 #5
Live in such a way that your death is not cause for celebration. Qutzupalotl Jun 2023 #6
Good thing for Robertson J_William_Ryan Jun 2023 #8
Fake Nooze... littlemissmartypants Jun 2023 #9

Comfortably_Numb

(3,801 posts)
1. JFC. What a wrinkled bag of shit. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Burn in hell Pat.
Fri Jun 9, 2023, 12:10 AM
Jun 2023

Deuxcents

(16,190 posts)
2. Happy Pride Month. 🌈 Too bad he's not here to celebrate
Fri Jun 9, 2023, 12:14 AM
Jun 2023

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,490 posts)
3. Just like their politicians, there's a line of Jebus grifters waiting to take his place.
Fri Jun 9, 2023, 12:19 AM
Jun 2023

After all, what young white Jesus freak doesn't want his own private plane, a harem of women to wait on him and a multi-million dollar home with a limo to take him to his multi-million dollar mega-church?

KY

onetexan

(13,036 posts)
4. They're All grifters, these megachurch pastors
Fri Jun 9, 2023, 12:24 AM
Jun 2023

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,490 posts)
7. No wonder we can't have nice things in most American communities....
Fri Jun 9, 2023, 12:48 AM
Jun 2023

See: https://ministrywatch.com/million-dollar-homes-become-status-symbols-of-televangelists-and-pastors/

snip:

Texas Televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s parsonage has probably received the most critical news coverage of all church parsonages in America. In 2020, the 18,279 ft. tax-exempt mansion was appraised at $10,825,462. A year later the appraisal dropped to $7 million.

The December Houston Chronicle series reported that Texas law restricts the parsonage tax exemption to one acre properties. Copeland’s lakefront “one acre” parsonage sits in the midst of almost 25 acres of land while receiving a religious exemption, according to the Tarrant County Appraisal District. Adjacent to and listed at the same address as the Copeland mansion property is a 35-acre plot of land zoned for agricultural use. This property, located next to Eagle Mountain Lake, is also owned by Copeland’s church.

The 35-acre plot of agricultural land is appraised at $3,743 even though the fair market value was reportedly $1,283,364 in 2018. According to the Houston Chronicle, the tax exemption on Copeland’s home deprives the county government of $150,000 in tax revenue, resulting in a tax burden being passed on to other taxpayers.

The old-timey Baptist preachers I was raised around lived in very modest homes and were not paid well at all, and relied on the charity of the congregation for adequate food each year. This was in the 50s and 60s and they were all very humble, unselfish men.

KY.....

Solly Mack

(90,762 posts)
5. :)
Fri Jun 9, 2023, 12:26 AM
Jun 2023

Qutzupalotl

(14,302 posts)
6. Live in such a way that your death is not cause for celebration.
Fri Jun 9, 2023, 12:40 AM
Jun 2023

J_William_Ryan

(1,753 posts)
8. Good thing for Robertson
Fri Jun 9, 2023, 12:55 AM
Jun 2023

that there's no such thing as 'god' or 'hell.'

littlemissmartypants

(22,632 posts)
9. Fake Nooze...
Fri Jun 9, 2023, 01:41 AM
Jun 2023

Hey, so this isn’t actually from today. It’s just a recurring bit I do, yknow, for “comedy.” It’s from when Trump lost in 2020. I posted it when Tucker Carlson got fired too. Here’s an example from my TikTok:


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But Happy Pride!!

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