Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: October 31, 2026, 1:52 pm
Thread Rating:
|
The Reality of Churches (and their selfish agendas)
|
It really is all about the money.
I have recently noticed a trend with fictional characters in television shows where the pastors state something to the effect of Make sure you open your hearts and your wallets. How do people who get duped into believing the fairy tales not make the connection with a statement like that? Clearly, the money is what the church wants more than anything else.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
 RE: The Reality of Churches (and their selfish agendas)
November 20, 2013 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2013 at 4:42 pm by freedomfromforum.)
$87,000
 Silly... My former pastor makes 3 times that much, It's really sick actually. It's times like these when I wish that hell were real, and that I would know these guys would burn there forever. 
I've seen plenty of television ads for churches before. The Methodist church had a campaign a few years ago, I remember probably about 10-20 years ago the Mormon church was advertising a free Book of Mormon and all you had to do was call their special 1-800 number. And even a year or two ago the Bahai's and even Scientology were running ads on TV.
I haven't seen too many local ads for local churches, but I have heard them advertise on the radio. And yet, when atheists put up a billboard, the billboard company gets death threats. But it's the Christians who are being persecuted.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
 (November 20, 2013 at 4:41 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: $87,000 I know! That's just the average! The lowest paying one on the chart was $56,000 and the highest over $108,000!
Dammit. I'm still at work on a government computer. I can't access YouTube until after 5. It's so lame. 52 minutes to go!
It is not always paid advertising. Go about it the right way and you can get plenty of free advertising. Around these parts we have a Xtian sky-pilot everyone knows as "Pastor X". I'm leaving his actual name out, but everyone here knows who he is. Courtesy of the local news he gets free advertising, because it is not at all uncommon for him to get a mention because his church is up to some new program or another.
He does, however, advertise as well. Just not on TV. He has a small truck that drives around advertising his churches, or one or another of his programs on this huge mobile billboard. There are also several billboards around town advertising for the same things. He used to have a fake ambulance driving around town offering "salvation" until the authorities finally got up the nerve to make him cut that particular silliness out. He also runs a fake trolley in the warm weather that shuttles young people from some of his programs to their neighborhoods. Does this guy do any good? Most around here would tell you so, but I have a problem with anything that comes with proselytizing attached to it. The man is a fundie preacher, to his way of thinking he has to save your soul if he can. Is he running a racket? I don't know, but there is certainly a lot of money flowing through this guy's ministries. How much goes into his personal pockets I have no idea. I doubt that any reporter in these parts is going to go poking around that story because the Pastor is too revered a figure in this area, with lots of political allies.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens "That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana "If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin (November 20, 2013 at 5:00 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: I know! That's just the average! The lowest paying one on the chart was $56,000 and the highest over $108,000! I was wondering if it might be skewed a bit due to multimillionaire televangelists, but apparently not if the highest listed is $108,000. Some of them make over a quarter million or even $4-500,000 a year.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
|
|
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
