I assume that means two published books. Yeah, that’s some Lambo money, right there.
SILENT ENDORSEMENTS (YOU KNOW BECAUSE EVERYONE DOESN’T HAVE TO BRAG ABOUT WHO THEY ARE SIGNED TO)
Huh? Does that mean he’s a pitch-man for some products, but doesn’t disclose that when he sells his congregants on them?
6 TV SHOWS
He has indeed appeared on six religious tv shows (/shorts). If doing a few dozen episodes of some religious talk shows brings in that kind of money, that’s its own problem.
MOVIE PRODUCER
I’m not seeing any producing credits on IMDB. Maybe it was for a religious short.
SONG WRITER
Ok.
TOURS
Tours of what? Book tours? That’s not exactly generating funds. So perhaps religious speaking tours? That would be the same as taking money from church-goers, surely?
She missed out by failing to mention his acting role as unnamed “Funeral Pastor” in a recent movie.
But of course, how he generated the money is kind of irrelevant given his role as an ostensibly Christian pastor.
He’s an American Christian. Totally different thing. It’s the kind of ontological situation you frequently get with plant and animal names, where they re-use a name for something totally unrelated because it reminds people vaguely of the original. So you get things like the “California Pepper” (which is neither from California nor a pepper tree) and “American Christians.”
Meh, he won’t have much of a real struggle to defend it. The IRS has been screwed up for over a decade when comes to auditing religious organizations, also defunding campaigns ensure that it sticks to the little people who can’t fight back, efforts to repeal the Johnson Amendment (no pulpit political endorsement, ha!), and generally not wanting to inflame the religious right.
I have known Americans who were Christian who lived simple lives. The term you’re looking for is “white evangelical Christian.” A religion founded on telling slave owners that they could get into heaven despite, you know, owning slaves and living lives exactly and completely opposed to everything in the New Testament.
That the maintenance cost is prohibitive is a big understatement. My family has always had nice cars, and the truth is that there are two types of high-end owners: the fabulously wealthy, and the people who have the skill, tools, and time to do all the work themselves.
At least they got the Urus, which has enough ground clearance to be driveable. Speaking from experience, there are few sounds more depressing for a car owner than hearing the sound of yet another $15K air dam getting destroyed when pulling out of the parking lot.
I guess I can’t maintain a disdain for organized religion and still be mad about this. If people can look at the lavish way these megachurches and their employees behave, completely ignore the evidence that money doesn’t buy you miracles, yet still fork over money to charlatans then more power to the charlatans.
1 Peter 2:18 “Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.“
Sounds consistent with Christianity.
