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A literal tall tale!

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This just in - "Woman grows an inch taller, jumps for joy, and is killed by ceiling fan."

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Jun 24, 2023·edited Jun 24, 2023

Oh yeah?! Well, by using the Power of Atheism I can slide the end of my index finger off and on without any pain, and there's no trace of any wound! It freaks little kids out, and makes them into instant atheists!

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This is one of those "even if there were a video" miracles. I can gain or lose an inch of height without even changing my posture just by tensing my muscles. Most people will gain some height while sleeping, then lose a bit over the course of the day as their own weight compresses their spine, and the taller a person is the greater the difference is between morning and night. Anyone who's impressed by that could be fooled into buying dehydrated water.

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It'd be nice if more Christians would protest the sort of obvious BS. I mean, if you were a Christian, and thought this guy was on the level, but your Jesus didn't make you taller or fix that cancer on your whatever, how would you feel? Like maybe your Jesus doesn't love you as much?

Call me when your Jesus shows up to use those carpentry skills to help shelter the homeless or do something otherwise useful. These half-baked pseudo miracles aren't going to cut it.

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Soooo...

How many children have been miraculously cured of bone cancer by Jesus?

Yeah, Thought so. Are those crickets I hear?

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When I stand up straight I grow more than an inch taller. Then there’s the story my dad tells me about his buddy (might be an urban legend and it sounds better when you personalize it, but still it’s reasonable) who did not stand upright the entire day before his draft physical so that he was too tall to be drafted. Then Sherlock Holmes was written to be capable of disguising his height by several inches just by posture. I know it’s a fictional story, but so is the claim by the preacher. I mean, movies make this happen all the time, Steve Rogers was tiny before he became Captain America.

As for god having fun, fuck him. This is like billionaires building giant phallic shaped rockets to “explore” space for wealthy tourists. Do better.

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I prayed to SATAN to help me make something grow. He told me to go to a certain website and lo and behold.. just a few minutes later it had grown SEVERAL inches. O_o

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So she was trapped in the body of a short person, but I’m guessing being trans isn’t a thing for these chiselers.

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Jun 24, 2023·edited Jun 24, 2023

No different than seeing creationists claiming to have records of people encountering live non-avian dinosaurs hundreds of years ago in form of dragon and monster myths and legends only to offer no physical evidence to prove it whatsoever other than phony photos that were photoshopped, cherry-picked fragmented texts, poorly made doctored videos, and made up forgeries that can never explain the complete absence of human and extant animal remains in and around the Mesozoic strata where the dinosaur fossils are exclusively found in.

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Lots of guys are calling in asking what else can Mr. French make grow.

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From today call me a Belgian or Italian woman. I don't want to be associated with this conman in any way. I will stop to eat French fries and destroy my ID snd passport too.

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DM used to be 2 inches taller than me now it's about 1 inch. It's the miracle of getting old and (slouching ?) to ease her back pain 😁

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Honestly. He can't even be bothered to do the magician's trick that makes it look like one of the legs is growing. So he just says it, and that makes it true.

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That's nothing special. A couple of weeks ago, I had an outpatient appointment at the local hospital and a nurse was taking my vitals. I'm 4'11" tall. The computer was not capable of entering any height shorter than 5'0" for an adult, so the nurse said to me, "Well, I'll just enter 5'0". Was he a miracle-worker? Nah. Just a wonky computer that thinks little people like me don't exist.

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Perhaps God will give Mr. French the twin gifts of ethics and honesty.

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