Revoltingly OT: Size of your colon

kerensky · #1 November 14th, 2005, 07:47 PM

While we are on the topic of crappy infomercials....

I saw this one latenight infomercial by this one alledged baptist preacher. He was selling these green money cloths that if you prayed with them at least twice a day, they would bring you "untold" riches. Notice te key thing is that you have to buy them from him for about ten dollars for a four by four inch scrap of cloth. Being a christian myself, I know that this is all a bunch of crap but the commercial was quite funny...

(Note: please do not start another religion flame war again. PLEASE.)

AgentZero · #2 November 14th, 2005, 08:07 PM

Not starting a religious flame war, don't worry (checks the charge on his Logic-o-Matic brand flamethrower, just in case) but unless those little strips of cloth were VIP passes into heaven, I don't see how what he's doing can be squared away with the Christian faith he claims to profess. From what I remember of my Catholic upbringing (which isn't much, thank's to the miracle drug, Represitol!) one of the basic concepts of Christianity is that you don't get squat in this world, because the "untold riches" await you in the next, and that those with more in this world will have less in the next. Hmmmm.... Maybe those little cloths DO work, and he's trying to make everyone on Earth filthy rich in order to stake out a bigger piece of the pie in the next life.

Ah, well, I'm going to Hell anyway. I'll take four!

Edit: Typo!

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 November 14th, 2005, 09:14 PM

Lot was filthy rich and totally righteous. It's not the money, it's the love of money.

kerensky · #4 November 14th, 2005, 10:18 PM

Thank you narf.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 November 14th, 2005, 11:15 PM

You're welcome. Random trivia, *anytime.

* Offer not valid.

AgentZero · #6 November 16th, 2005, 10:15 AM

Yay! I'm back in Ireland! Yay! And my flatmates have managed to royally bugger my computer. Boo!

Um, by the way, didn't Lot have his home and all his worldy possessions destroyed by God, have his wife turned into salt, and end up living in a cave where he ended up impregnating his two virgin daughters? Not exactly the poster boy for rich & righteous if you ask me...

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 November 16th, 2005, 02:12 PM

Different Lot; there were more than one of them

Although the other Lot also had his worldy possesions destroyed, his sons killed, his wife left him and he was stricken with leprosy, I beleive, he ended up with twice as much stuff, sons that weren't drunk most of the time and no disease. (I can't remember if his wife came back or he got a new one)

It's the part of the Bible that gave us the phrase 'The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord.' - Said while sitting in the dirt, diseased.