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Brooklyn pastor says he and his wife were robbed of more than $1 million in jewelry while preaching
A flashy Brooklyn pastor known for wearing designer outfits and extravagant jewelry says he was robbed along with his wife of more than $1 million while he was preaching at church Sunday.
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Do I feel sorry for this pastor? Hell, no! Over the past five decades, many televangelists – including Benny Hinn, Joel Osteen, Oral Roberts, Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, T.D. Jakes and Frederick K.C. Price – have preached what is known as "the prosperity gospel." God wants us all to be wealthy, they declare. No, God wants us to be holy. Jesus, who was born in poverty and died in poverty, said "You cannot serve both God and money" and "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
Perhaps Pastor Lamor Miller-Whitehead will respond to the robbery by realizing how wrong he is for "accumulating treasures on earth" (Matthew 6:19-20) – but I doubt he will.
Perhaps Pastor Lamor Miller-Whitehead will respond to the robbery by realizing how wrong he is for "accumulating treasures on earth" (Matthew 6:19-20) – but I doubt he will.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Brooklyn pastor says he and his wife were robbed of more than $1 million in jewelry while preaching
A flashy Brooklyn pastor known for wearing designer outfits and extravagant jewelry says he was robbed along with his wife of more than $1 million while he was preaching at church Sunday.
There was some scumbag preacher around here that would do TV commercials where he's leaning against some fancy Bugatti looking car wearing a zoot suit and a gold watch. It always pissed me off. Preachers shouldn't starve, but they shouldn't be living a lavish lifestyle either.
”And the rich came to me and said they wanted to get into heaven. I said, ‘It’s easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven.”’
”That was pretty surreal of you.”
”Yeah, well, I’d been smoking a bit that day. But the rich, they got huge blenders and liquidized camels and squirted them with fine jets through the eyes of needles, so they’re all coming up now.”
-Eddie Izzard
I get annoyed when anyone talks about "the N-word" – as if there is only a single word that starts with an N. Well, today I have a new source of annoyance: a story that refers to "the M-word" instead of saying "midget." I think the writer is full of "the S-word."
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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones apologizes for use of 'offensive' term
Jerry Jones was paying tribute to former Dallas Cowboys director of scouting Larry Lacewell when he used what is considered a derogatory slur.
There's only one word to which the term "n-word" refers, so I don't know how that would confuse anyone. And I don't think it's a good idea to walk around saying the word. So I'm ok with that. The "r-word" is pretty definitive too. But really, in both cases I don't know why a person needs to say it or refer to it.I get annoyed when anyone talks about "the N-word" – as if there is only a single word that starts with an N. Well, today I have a new source of annoyance: a story that refers to "the M-word" instead of saying "midget." I think the writer is full of "the S-word."
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones apologizes for use of 'offensive' term
Jerry Jones was paying tribute to former Dallas Cowboys director of scouting Larry Lacewell when he used what is considered a derogatory slur.
I'm aware that midget is not a term to use anymore, but it doesn't qualify to be the "m-word". Does the "d-word" refer to dwarf? My least favorite is the "b-word" for bitch, which is allowed in media. So is shit and asshole.
I never saw the word "bullshit" in newspapers or heard it on television until former Attorney General William Barr told author Jonathan Karl that a certain person's claims of widespread voter fraud were "bullshit." Barr was quoted in Karl's Betrayal, published in November 2021. In June 2022, in a videotaped deposition, Barr told the January 6 House select committee that on November 23, 2020, he had told that person that his claims of voter fraud were "bullshit." Now I hear the word on CNN and local newscasts and see it in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, always in the same context: there was no voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election.
Who would have thought a United States Attorney General would make the word "bullshit" acceptable?
Who would have thought a United States Attorney General would make the word "bullshit" acceptable?
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
What is the r-word? Since nothing is coming to mind, I don't think its too definitive.
"Retarded" is the so-called "R-word." I suppose we're now supposed to say "mentally challenged."
The problem with some of these "offensive" words is they were originally legit classifications that people started calling each other as insults and then became offensive. Retard, moron, idiot, imbecile ... these were actual classifications based on IQ.
In psychology, an idiot has the least intelligence on the IQ scale (this now is equivalent to someone who is mentally retarded or the more politically correct “mentally challenged”); an imbecile is not quite as dumb as an idiot and is now considered equivalent to moderate retardation; a moron is then the highest level of intelligence for someone who is mentally retarded, thus considered as being mildly mentally retarded. Specifically, those who have an IQ between 0 and 25 are idiots; IQs between 26 and 50 are considered imbeciles; and those who have an IQ between 51 and 70 are considered morons.
So no matter what the new terms are, they will eventually be considered offensive too and replaced with newer more-sensitive terms (that will again be used as insults by new generations and become just as offensive).
In psychology, an idiot has the least intelligence on the IQ scale (this now is equivalent to someone who is mentally retarded or the more politically correct “mentally challenged”); an imbecile is not quite as dumb as an idiot and is now considered equivalent to moderate retardation; a moron is then the highest level of intelligence for someone who is mentally retarded, thus considered as being mildly mentally retarded. Specifically, those who have an IQ between 0 and 25 are idiots; IQs between 26 and 50 are considered imbeciles; and those who have an IQ between 51 and 70 are considered morons.
So no matter what the new terms are, they will eventually be considered offensive too and replaced with newer more-sensitive terms (that will again be used as insults by new generations and become just as offensive).
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I think the only time I've heard those terms legitimately used, was on the Howard Stern Show, when everyone took an IQ test. I think Bobo and Eric were "feeble" and "dull", and maybe Wendy was a moron.
But yeah, terms that were considered acceptable, like handicapped and disabled, are losing favor to "differently abled". The one I hear these days regards homeless people. They no longer label them as homeless people; they are persons "experiencing homelessness".
Good luck with this. Does anybody remember the Whigs, the Federalists, the Greenback Party, the Independence Party or the Constitution Party?
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Former Republicans and Democrats form new third U.S. political party
The new party, called Forward, will be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and former GOP Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey.
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But for all the complaining about a two-party system, it's nice to see someone try to add a third. The current two parties will probably use it to pull away voters from the other party though.
An American dentist and big-game hunter is found guilty of killing his wife on their African safari
Jurors found that Lawrence Rudolph killed his wife with a shotgun in their hunting cabin in Zambia and later defrauded insurance companies to collect millions after her death.
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