GREED! It hasn't gone away among the televangelists!

[True Dough]

I can't believe these charlatans still have their hands out. Disgusting. And the thought that any of them might get the luxurious toys that they think they deserve is sickening. What about helping the poor instead, huh?

LOUISIANA TELEVANGELIST SEEKS DONATIONS FOR $54 MILLION PRIVATE JET

A Louisiana televangelist is asking followers to donate money for a $54 million private jet that will “go anywhere in the world in one stop.”

Jesse Duplantis, 68, a Christian minister based in Destrehan, about 25 miles east of New Orleans, made the appeal in a video posted last week on his ministry’s website, reported the Times Picayune on Monday.

"I really believe that if the Lord Jesus Christ was physically on the Earth today, he wouldn't be riding a donkey," Duplantis says in the video. "He'd be in an airplane flying all over the world."

The preacher has set his sights on a brand new Dassault Falcon 7X, a three-engine jet with a range of 5,950 nautical miles.

http://www.newsweek.com/louisiana-televangelist-seeks-donations-54-million-private-jet-946943

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[PatrickforO]

1. You've gotta be kidding me!

Wow. Excuse me while I go throw up.

[Mariana]

2. Jesse Duplantis's version of Christianity is popular, that's for sure.

Christians have given him an awful lot of money over the years. They have made him very rich indeed.

[MineralMan]

3. Yup, that's what Jesus is supposed to have said, for sure.

This moron doesn't get the symbolism of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on an ass. He must be interpreting himself as an ass, by mistakenly reading the Gospel story, since he is clearly such an ass (or at least the orifice thereof).

Jesse is a rich man's Jebus. He likes that lifestyle better than being a smelly poor man riding on a donkey. As Jesus is supposed to have said, "He has his reward."

[True Dough]

4. An ass's orifice

That made me LOL!

You know, MineralMan, you don't get to heaven without passing through the Pearly Gates. Good ol' Jesse is assembling his pearly treasures here on Earth in advance. Just a little preparation for the cushy eternity he has planned for himself.

[MineralMan]

5. Like I said, Jesus said, "He has his reward."

What he meant by that, I think, was that those who accumulate riches get their reward now, not in the afterlife.

Of course, I think all that's nonsense, but I quote Jesus, because Christians are supposed to believe that his words are Gospel truth. Oddly, most Christians seem very selective about which of the words he was supposed to have said they choose to believe.

I guess that's why there are so many weird variations of Christianity. You can apparently just pick and choose which words to follow and which to ignore. That's a strange sort of religion, if you ask me.

[The Genealogist]

6. A loft of that money will come from the elderly on fixed incomes.

This burns me up about these televangelists who beg for money. So much of what they get comes from elderly people who think it is a blessing on them to give money to a religious cause. They will starve or go without meds to give while people like this live in luxury.