No, thank you. My YouTube recs are still infected from the last time I tried looking up the name of this beady-eyed, demonic entity with the Covid-19 rap track.
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Not for a trillion dollars.
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I’ve always found all the faith healers and televangelists are deeply creepy in various ways*. Copeland kicks it up by an order of magnitude.
(*And I always laugh when I see faith healers, remembering a story my father told of seeing one in his youth - the pastor was going along, smacking people in the forehead and causing them to keel over, when he got to a guy who, when his forehead was smacked, instead yelled “Ow!”)
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I couldn’t quite put my finger on who it reminded me of. Thanks!
Nah, the man’s a professional grifter. He’s already pivoting, moving his audience from jubilation to outrage. This is step 1: make it feel like what’s happening is simply unbelievable. When the sense of persecution and injustice builds to a high enough level, the donations will double for a month.
He’ll do just fine out of this, more’s the pity.
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From a “force of personality” standpoint, he seems more like a shaman than a preacher to me, with a nod to the cultural appropriation Alice Kehoe criticed.
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That’s why they’re chuckling along with his bullshit. Laughter’s contagious.
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I learned that almost all laughter is Satanic when I was at Oral Roberts U, .Copeland exemplifies this. Where are the exorcists when they’re needed?
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After we are long gone and the far future aliens mine through the detritus of the Earth and find the last server that downloaded the internet and they see this, they will back the fuck up pronto and nuke the entire planet from orbit just to be sure.
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Well done
Copeland looks like something out of one of Lovecraft’s fever dreams. A deeply twisted creature whose sole intent is to create fear beyond tolerance, a soul rapist ready to feast on the ignorant and the innocent.
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I was more thinking of Nelson from the Simpsons.
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Oh, I didn’t say cheap vodka, it’s just that I expect him to be a secret drinker, not into any hipster things like gin, and the bottle of vodka was a complimentary gift from a certain fine Russian gentleman.
Oh, I am sure, but there are signs right there that his gut is clenched in a knot, that he’s been pulling the wool over his own eyes. The man has no Slack, he is a true Greyface, to allude to two religions that make more sense than whatever he is preaching.
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I’m not going to suggest that nobody in Britain is susceptible to this kind of grifter, but the number of people this twat pulls in? Americans are fucking weird. I don’t understand how anyone religious can be taken in by someone so obviously of bad character as US evangelical preachers.
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This is a deep insult to shamen everywhere. If you mean that US evangelicals strike as more dionysian than apollonian, I can see it, but dionysian religion is deeper rooted and more insightful than they are. I think what has happened is that they have basically lost Christianity’s intellectual underpinnings and replaced them with carnival sleight.
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I disagree. He is like antithesis of a shaman. The real practicing shamen (for example those living in Altai region) believe in what they are doing, and feel authentic. Also they are typically very humble.
This guy on the other hand is disturbingly fake and manipulative. He is so fake that when I look at his contorted face it gets diffcult to imagine human being behind it.
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