Peter Popoff mailed me a letter

KiwiChic wrote:

.....anyone asking you for money is a scam artist period!

And why they let those Red Cross folks and Greenpeace folks and Amnesty International folks and Shriners and UNICEF get away with asking for money is a mystery, ain't it?

Matter of fact, I went to the grocery the other day and before I got out the door the cashier asked me for money too. Hey...................

mesquite wrote:

SNIPE wrote:

He told me he could help me. He sent me some water i was suppose to put under my pillow. When I opened the letter the water packett was empty. He told me to ssend him a seed of 15 dollers. I sent him $20 like an ass and now regreat it. The same day I mailed out the $20 dollers he sent me another letter saying God want you to send a seed of 200 hunderd dollers. I seen a vision and god told me to help you. If you send me this money and obay god you will be blessed with a higher income everymonth. I am so mad. I looked him up on the internet and people say he is a fake. Im mad I mailed him $20 but glad I found out he was a fake before I mailed the $200.00. Did anyone hear of this guy. Can I get him in trouble. Does anyone know about Peter-Popoff

Yep,

Peter Popoff with his "miracle spring water"

Don Stewart, with his "green prosperity handkerchief"

Robert Tilton with his request for "vows to the Lord"

All three play on the BET channel on Sunday evenings.

All three promise miracle healing and sudden wealth if you just send them money.

All three prey on the desperate and disadvantaged.

Why don't honest Christians police their own house?

Because they all sell the same product.

And what do you expect Christians to do about these folks, Mesquite? Beat 'em up? Shoot 'em?

Don't tell me there's nobody taking advantage of folks who aren't religious........

Is there anything that you can't find a way to bash Christians about, Mesquite? Is absolutely everything their fault?

You're a sad case.

Hey, KiwiChic, for fifty bucks I'll have god smite real life for you. He owes me a coupla favors...

Are you disagreeing with my premise that "they sell the same product"?

real life wrote:

Mesquite wrote:

Are you disagreeing with my premise that "they sell the same product"?

What a ridiculous question. Of course I disagree.

Use is not the same as misuse.

Would a doctor who uses a scalpel and a punk who uses a blade be engaged in the same occupation?

Real,
I provided four links where I previously brought up these leeches. Feel free to scan those threads or even this one for a post by a believer that that responds other than defensively.

Mesquite wrote:

Real,
I provided four links where I previously brought up these leeches. Feel free to scan those threads or even this one for a post by a believer that that responds other than defensively.

Which may not be surprising, considering your tendency then and now to paint all Christians with the same brush, just as you did above --- 'they sell the same product'.

real life wrote:

Mesquite wrote:

Real,
I provided four links where I previously brought up these leeches. Feel free to scan those threads or even this one for a post by a believer that that responds other than defensively.

Which may not be surprising, considering your tendency then and now to paint all Christians with the same brush, just as you did above --- 'they sell the same product'.

Yep, definitely the same product. Robert Tilton has an assortment of Bibles on his desk with all of his favorite passages referring to "vows" highlighted. He skips from one to another reading passages during his "show".

mesquite wrote:

Yep, definitely the same product. Robert Tilton has an assortment of Bibles on his desk with all of his favorite passages referring to "vows" highlighted. He skips from one to another reading passages during his "show".

So how does that prove that all ministers professing the Christian faith 'sell the same product' ? You haven't shown anything to prove your assertion.

Do all atheists 'sell the same product' ? Are all of them culpable for the atrocities committed by atheist regimes such as the Soviet Union during the reign of Stalin, etc ?

Your weak broadbrush attempts grow more desparate each time you trot them out, Mesquite.

Just state the obvious; that you will do and say anything, no matter how untruthful or disconnected from reality to smear Christians because you dislike them and feel superior to them. Just tell the truth and be done with it.

Mesquite, you live near me???

real life wrote:

mesquite wrote:

Yep, definitely the same product. Robert Tilton has an assortment of Bibles on his desk with all of his favorite passages referring to "vows" highlighted. He skips from one to another reading passages during his "show".

So how does that prove that all ministers professing the Christian faith 'sell the same product' ? You haven't shown anything to prove your assertion.

The product would be the Bible, the word of God.. It is the sales pitch that varies. Some push it's fire and brimstone and wrath of God messages, others push the sweet Jesus died for you message, or some other message, but they all trot out scriptures from the same book.

real life wrote:

Do all atheists 'sell the same product' ? Are all of them culpable for the atrocities committed by atheist regimes such as the Soviet Union during the reign of Stalin, etc ?

Athiests have no product. That is what the term means. The atrocities were not commited in the name of atheism, however you cannot say the same for Christianity.

real life wrote:

Your weak broadbrush attempts grow more desparate each time you trot them out, Mesquite.

What is desperate is your continual lame attempt to discount science so as to accommadate your 6000 year age of the earth.

real life wrote:

Just state the obvious; that you will do and say anything, no matter how untruthful or disconnected from reality to smear Christians because you dislike them and feel superior to them. Just tell the truth and be done with it.

How about you either put up or shut up with your accusations. Show where I have ever criticized Christians for being Christians. In this thread I have criticized the lack of even lip service against the charlatans abusing your faith. I also readily criticize those that would impose their religious view upon others.

Show me one instance of my being untruthful that is even close to the incessant quote mining technique that you employ on the evolution thread.

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