CNN: Minister Creflo Dollar asks for $60 million in donations for a new jet
Creflo Dollar is hoping folks will see fit to bless him. The Atlanta-area minister is seeking donations for “our goal to purchase the G650 airplane.”
Author: sayingsofthepreachers
Our humble preachers
Not a comment about a specific religion. There are many others….
Some things that prayer doesn’t accomplish
It doesn’t cool down hot fajita trays.
It doesn’t change the minds of judges.
(The gentleman described apparently burned his face when he tried to say a blessing before tackling a fajita. He sued, but the judge considered it to be “an obvious danger”.)
Judge tosses out Applebee’s face-burning fajitas lawsuit
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/06/news/companies/applebees-fajitas-lawsuit/index.html
Urban legend or real?
Story to be confirmed in June, according to the post.
Fri Apr 26, 2013 at 02:28 PM PDT
South Carolina Christian School Fourth Grade Science Quiz
The source of this quiz is the father of the student who took it. He will not identify the school until June, after his daughter finishes the school year there, after which she will move to another school. Snopes rates this item as “probably true.
I’m pretty much speechless here. Plus, the test speaks for itself.
Mazel Tov
Muslim Scholar, Looking to ‘Speak the Truth,’ Teaches the Holocaust and Islam
Any conversation is better than none.
To follow that up…
For the anti-vaccination crowd: religion based, faith- (whatever that might be) based, and generally mistrusting scientific or governmental authority.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/03/1361929/-Point-Set-Match?detail=email#
Republican senator says restaurants should be able to opt-out of mandatory handwashing
So, this isn’t a minister of God, but it still works under the category of “all rules are completely arbitrary”.
Christian minister opens Tennessee Senate with prayer to end Medicaid expansion
I guess that, if one can pray for one’s sports team to win [I never understood why God would choose sides] then God can take part in political campaigns as well.
The horrible and the good
First, the horrible:
Pakistani Taliban Attack on Peshawar School Leaves 145 Dead
but then the good–that humans treat other humans with respect. Remember that, after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Orthodox Jewish women went to the neighboring Arab community in Brooklyn and offered to shop for them if they were scared. Well, The Australians turned that gesture into a worldwide effort:
Australians started to tweet an anti-Islamophobia response that indicated that they would stand with their countrymen against any outbursts of hatred. #illridewithyou has gone viral in a worldwide effort.
#illridewithyou goes viral after Sydney siege |
Anti-Islamaphobia campaign trends globally in solidarity with Muslims after cafe standoff raised fears of reprisal. |
Love thy neighbor
We could be AIDS-free by Christmas if we got busy and killed the homos
Faithful Word Baptist Church Pastor Steven Anderson of Tempe, Arizona is no stranger to spewing awful things in the name of the Lord. In 2009, Anderson made a media splash when he delivered a sermon during which he prayed for President Obama’s death. Just this past March, he went on a tirade over women who so much as dared utter an amen in church, telling his lady-congregants that their place was subserviently in the home. He has also had some choice words for Jewish people, declaring that “Christ-rejecting jews are children of the devil”.
Sayings of the Preachers 