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Vicious Love · 07-21-2007, 10:44 PM

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"If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed … you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven," Paul Crouch, co-founder of the Orange County-based network, once told viewers. Meanwhile, Crouch and his wife, Jan, live like tycoons.

Because God can't afford to give healings away to the dying and needy. This ain't a charity, He's got mouths to feed!

Boy, that Jesus sure was Jewish, wasn't he?

Styrofoamdeity · 07-22-2007, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Vicious Love

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"If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed … you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven," Paul Crouch, co-founder of the Orange County-based network, once told viewers. Meanwhile, Crouch and his wife, Jan, live like tycoons.

Because God can't afford to give healings away to the dying and needy. This ain't a charity, He's got mouths to feed!

Boy, that Jesus sure was Jewish, wasn't he?

Is this an attempt at race humor? Not sure what in this thread spurred this anti-semitism. We had a good thread going, showing how a rational person could lose faith by thinking about things a little more deeply- so a real feel-good story from an IIDB perspective. And then we get this angry Tourette's type interjection from nowhere.

:huh:

Vicious Love · 07-22-2007, 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Styrofoamdeity

Is this an attempt at race humor? Not sure what in this thread spurred this anti-semitism.

If you'll examine my ethnic credentials, I've every confidence you'll find I'm fully qualified to make that joke.

Styrofoamdeity · 07-22-2007, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Vicious Love

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Originally Posted by Styrofoamdeity

Is this an attempt at race humor? Not sure what in this thread spurred this anti-semitism.

If you'll examine my ethnic credentials, I've every confidence you'll find I'm fully qualified to make that joke.

I have no idea what you mean by "examine my ethnic credentials", nor how any such thing would give someone a pardon for making racist remarks. Enlighten me...

premjan · 07-22-2007, 05:19 AM

Self-deprecation?

Djugashvillain · 07-22-2007, 06:26 AM

Discussion of anti-Semitic remark split from here.

Vicious Love · 07-22-2007, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by premjan

Self-deprecation?

Precisely. Well, not precisely, since the remark was ironic.

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Enlighten me...

Y'see, young Padawan:
1. Christians have a long history of stereotyping Jews as uncharitable, greedy and obsessed with usury and contracts
2. The God implied by Mr. Crouch's actions appears uncharitable, greedy and obsessed with usury and contracts
3. Jesus was charitable, generous, and used His kung-fu grip on moneylenders
4. Mr. Crouch worships Jesus
5. Jesus was a Jew

Combine pretty much any three or more of the above statements, and I'm sure the irony will become apparent.

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