Holy Crap: I’m a Christian and I Am Here To Take Your Money Edition.
Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s lawyers, found a great way to make a living.
Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses.
Telemarketers for the nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case), were instructed in contracts signed by Sekulow to urge people who pleaded poverty or said they were out of work to dig deep for a “sacrificial gift”.
Hey, the dude has payments on his airplane and God only knows what else. In his defense, he was trying to raise enough money to burn a wet elephant.
Here’s the script for his “Christian charity” phone calls.
Some people are going to a real special place in hell.
Thanks to SGray for the heads up.
Well, money is the rtoot of all evil – so by taking their money, they’re making people less evil and becoming more evil themselves. Admittedly, for folks such as Sekulow to become more evil that they already are is difficult – they’re approaching totally 100% evil as an asymptote.
1Everybody who is surprised by this, raise your hand!
(Crickets)
2The line waiting to get into Hell is getting pretty damned long! Maybe the Devil needs to open a separate waiting room for the Republicans.
3Just one small thing, RepubAnon. It’s the “Love” of money that’s the root of evil. snacilbupeR sure do love it, more than anything else, including Christianity.
4Dear Miss Juanita,
I approve of his actions. This is a huge amount of money that otherwise might have gone to the RNC.
5As I slightly recall (my old brain at work) such “charitable”
6outfits have to file with the IRS and get some sort of weird combination of letters and numbers. Question: when such outfits are found to be fraudulent/criminal, do they ever automatically lose their federal designation? Can they ever start all over again under a different name and people? Please tell me that when disbanded they wander aimlessly through burning deserts and frozen tundra forever!
Are we really surprised?
The well dressed preachers have been taking the last penny of the destitute for a very, very long time.
Maybe part of what the preachers consider as qualification for salvation is having enough smarts to not be gullible and give away one’s funds in support of the needy…
7From what I remember from Sunday school, the only time the bible says that Jesus got pissed off to the point of physical violence was because of people just like these douchebags. Using religion to fleece folks for their own profit. It would be funny if it wasn’t so nauseatingly abhorrent.
8it’s only 6:30 am and I already have a headache because of reading this. It also brings to mind the Tea Party group that got tax-exempt status because they claimed to be “educational”. I guess the people at IRS who go along with this bull are the ones who were too stupid to get into Cohen’s law school.
9Since over 85% of voters are xtian, the chances of getting xtian charities to be treated like all other charities and pay their proper taxes, is exactly ZERO!
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