Well, I have a pastor friend who is making well into six figures in a relatively small church. The vouchers will add to the grift, especially for the catholic churches.
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I listen to John Popper (Blues Traveler)
Sit at the pier watch the sun go down
Another lost little boy in a big old town
I want to laugh I want to cry
But no matter how hard I may try
It won't mean a thing in a hundred years
No, it won't mean a thing in a hundred years
That's rare.
Most pastors have college degrees and could be making wayyy more in the world than they do.
Plus, they aren't as despised.
So butt ****ing a young boy and turning him against god would be right up there then?
It's not, you're simply gullible. And pathetic with trying to make all clergy into victims. If they were really doing "god's work" why aren't they all in under developed countries doing everything they can to ease famine and poverty?
There are very few Mother Theresa types out there.
Most pastors are good. Many are saints. They're needed here as well as overseas.
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Trump’s Volunteers: ‘Beautiful Ladies’ From a Secretive Evangelical Church
... Mr. Trump has called out the self-described “North Carolina Girls” at rallies this year in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Arizona and South Carolina, in addition to events in their native state. But the women are unusual in ways beyond their ubiquity.All are members of an evangelical charismatic Christian church in the tiny town of Spindale (population 4,238) in western North Carolina. The church, Word of Faith Fellowship, has for decades drawn controversy over its cultish insularity and its treatment of children and adults who have been judged by church leaders to be sinners.
As church leaders have acknowledged in legal proceedings, Word of Faith relies on a practice known as “strong” or “blasting” prayer. Former church members have described the entire congregation surrounding and screaming at a single member for as long as an hour in an effort to expunge the evil from the person. Church officials say this characterization is overstated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/trump-women-church-north-carolina.html
Weird. My priest a few months ago was talking about how the catholic religion is made up of all different types of people. Both republicans and democrats and how we should support each other and work to create something better instead of trying to create a divide. He said you shouldn’t be able to tell if someone is democrat or republican.
I should probably let him know he would get eaten alive if he ever came to this message board with all the “both sides” arguing some like to do. Because if you don’t 100% agree with their cult, you are the enemy.
I am currently reading the late Cardinal Pell's prison diaries. I think it's pretty fair to say that all sins harm you, and also that some sins are worse than others (and indeed as you know the Church distinguishes between mortal and venial in its theology and practice). But in discussing some of the correspondence he received while in prison, Pell invariably resists the authors' invitations to focus on particular ones and to diminish others, and recognizes that that sort of sorting is best left for God at the end rather than for the priest here on earth. The priest's role here is to facilitate reconciliation to the maximum extent possible.
