Isn't this the way it has always been? Grifter takes from the poor and desperate, and makes sure they stay poor and desperate so he can continue the grift.
Our puny little ancestors survived by banding together, not every man for himself. While that herd instinct may have had great benefits in the past, it can be a millstone around the neck of humanity in the modern world. There is no leader so corrupt and incompetent there will not be people who willingly delegate their thinking to him. We will never run out of those people, and they cannot be reasoned out of what they were never reasoned into. The best we can do is keep exposing the lunatic preachers, and try to limit the damage they do.
Let's put it simply: Bullock and people like him are 𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗦. They use people like Jacob and Tammy and Janet to get what they want – money and power and influence – while not really caring at all about their victims. Also, this business about "god calling" someone to do something. The odd thing there is that no one seems to be able to call back to confirm just what Yahweh wants! "I'm sorry, that number is no longer in service!"
Suffice to say that I'm sick to death of Bullock's bullshit and I can't wait for the day when it bites him on the ass.
OT - Sad news. The last of the great, old-school songsters, Tony Bennett is gone at age 96. I loved his work with Billy Joel and Lady Gaga. The man always made GREAT music.
I won't comment on the people who where scammed to give up everything. They are suffering while this asshole thrive.
"En fait, toute religion est une secte qui a réussi. On donne d'ailleurs le nom de secte à toute église non officielle qui concurrence les églises officielles."
"Actually, every religion is a sect who prevailed. Furthermore, any non official church who compete with official ones is called a sect."
Bullocks talking points are always pretty much the same but that horrifying belt is new. Is that mini pro-wrestling championships? WTF, man, at long last have you no shame? Heh. I'm hilarious.
"Once Bullock realized they weren’t interested in worshiping him, he effectively shunned the family, leaving them with nothing to show for their faith." but they have Jesus! Aren't they praying to Jesus for what they need? Jesus said that if you prey sincerely and in his name, your prayers will be answered. Bollocks certainly knows that. And "nothing to show for their faith" seems to be a pretty standard product.
"They gave them hundreds and hundreds of dollars." How else do you expect the church to do very well? I am rarely in a position of being unable to make ends meet, but when I am, I'd like to give money to complete strangers who promised me living quarters made of Jell-O.
"Being in the room that day, Jacob said, it quickly became clear that Bullock has an obsession with power." no, that is not being fair. He also has an obsession with money and over identifying with the infinite creator of the entire infinite universe.
"“Robin Bullock caused me to come here and lose everything,” Tammy Partlow told Tread." I know it's really difficult to accept personal responsibility, especially if you're that type of Christian, but you and your husband caused you to go to Talibama and lose what little you had. And you begin that process long before you went to Talibama, giving hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars to Bollocks.
"Instead of welcoming those people, Bullock is treating at least some of them like agents of Satan eager to cause harm." Well, yes.
Matthew 25:35-40 ESV
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
I do hope that these people can get the help that they need. Obviously, they need a great deal of help in order to overcome their own gullibility. As a liberal, I would be voting for them to get the help that they need. But I suspect that that makes me suspect.
Paraphrasing John Ruskin: "There is hardly anything in the world of faith that some man of faith cannot make a little worse, and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider faith only are this man's lawful prey."
I feel sorry for them up to a point. I hope that they get the help that they need. But I doubt they're ever going to get the smarts that they need.
Grown adults should see him for what he is and shun him. That they don't gives testament to the damage that religious belief does to the human intellect.
Hey, Honey. Do you know the preacher that looks like Bud lite incarnate? Yeah, the one who looks a vampire, but instead of being vulnerable to dawn's early light, he vulnerable to dawn dish soap. Yeah, that one. The preacher who looks like he uses fortified wine for communion. The one who looks like any picture taken of him will smell like AXE body spray. The one who looks like he has hit on teenage girls while having an obvious cold sore on his mouth. The one, who without a doubt has found a cigarette on the floor and tried to smoke it. Yeah that one. You know what. Why don't we sell everything we have and move next door to him.
Bullock's a con artist, this is what con artists do. You don't blame a tiger for having teeth and claws, they're part of being a tiger. Most Christians like to pretend this guy isn't 'really' one of theirs and also that 'everyone knows he's not a REAL Christian', which is why nothing ever seems to happen to these guys.
Tales of seniors and others giving guys like this everything they own aren't unusual, sad to say. This is one of the the harms that religion do and then deny having anything to do with. It's so bad that churches don't even try to discipline or excommunicate these thieves anymore, they just assume it's someone else's problem and move on. While I'm sorry to hear these folks were deceived and are now suffering for it, I can't claim surprise by any means since this sort of grifting has been going on for years now. Seems to me the real moral of this story is to do your own research before you pick up and move on some religious leader's say-so.
Isn't this the way it has always been? Grifter takes from the poor and desperate, and makes sure they stay poor and desperate so he can continue the grift.
Our puny little ancestors survived by banding together, not every man for himself. While that herd instinct may have had great benefits in the past, it can be a millstone around the neck of humanity in the modern world. There is no leader so corrupt and incompetent there will not be people who willingly delegate their thinking to him. We will never run out of those people, and they cannot be reasoned out of what they were never reasoned into. The best we can do is keep exposing the lunatic preachers, and try to limit the damage they do.
Let's put it simply: Bullock and people like him are 𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗦. They use people like Jacob and Tammy and Janet to get what they want – money and power and influence – while not really caring at all about their victims. Also, this business about "god calling" someone to do something. The odd thing there is that no one seems to be able to call back to confirm just what Yahweh wants! "I'm sorry, that number is no longer in service!"
Suffice to say that I'm sick to death of Bullock's bullshit and I can't wait for the day when it bites him on the ass.
OT - Sad news. The last of the great, old-school songsters, Tony Bennett is gone at age 96. I loved his work with Billy Joel and Lady Gaga. The man always made GREAT music.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/entertainment/tony-bennett-dead-at-96/index.html
Bullock claims he saw a dino in heaven, the 5 houses of Jesus and YHVH inside a Jello-O cube? Is he trying to put Kat Kerr out of the crazy business?
OT : my sister went to see DM and we 3 had a nice chatting on video*. She will pick me up next time she will go.
* I also had to guide her from the parking lot to DM room. Luckily I am not prone to seasickness 😅
Who was it who said "I love the poorly educated"?
But if it brings someone comfort, what harm can there be? (Tm)
I won't comment on the people who where scammed to give up everything. They are suffering while this asshole thrive.
"En fait, toute religion est une secte qui a réussi. On donne d'ailleurs le nom de secte à toute église non officielle qui concurrence les églises officielles."
"Actually, every religion is a sect who prevailed. Furthermore, any non official church who compete with official ones is called a sect."
Bullocks talking points are always pretty much the same but that horrifying belt is new. Is that mini pro-wrestling championships? WTF, man, at long last have you no shame? Heh. I'm hilarious.
"he saw a dinosaur in Heaven"
To be fair, if I died and found myself in Heaven, I would expect to be able to ride a T-Rex.
"Once Bullock realized they weren’t interested in worshiping him, he effectively shunned the family, leaving them with nothing to show for their faith." but they have Jesus! Aren't they praying to Jesus for what they need? Jesus said that if you prey sincerely and in his name, your prayers will be answered. Bollocks certainly knows that. And "nothing to show for their faith" seems to be a pretty standard product.
"They gave them hundreds and hundreds of dollars." How else do you expect the church to do very well? I am rarely in a position of being unable to make ends meet, but when I am, I'd like to give money to complete strangers who promised me living quarters made of Jell-O.
"Being in the room that day, Jacob said, it quickly became clear that Bullock has an obsession with power." no, that is not being fair. He also has an obsession with money and over identifying with the infinite creator of the entire infinite universe.
"“Robin Bullock caused me to come here and lose everything,” Tammy Partlow told Tread." I know it's really difficult to accept personal responsibility, especially if you're that type of Christian, but you and your husband caused you to go to Talibama and lose what little you had. And you begin that process long before you went to Talibama, giving hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars to Bollocks.
"Instead of welcoming those people, Bullock is treating at least some of them like agents of Satan eager to cause harm." Well, yes.
Matthew 25:35-40 ESV
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
I do hope that these people can get the help that they need. Obviously, they need a great deal of help in order to overcome their own gullibility. As a liberal, I would be voting for them to get the help that they need. But I suspect that that makes me suspect.
Paraphrasing John Ruskin: "There is hardly anything in the world of faith that some man of faith cannot make a little worse, and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider faith only are this man's lawful prey."
I feel sorry for them up to a point. I hope that they get the help that they need. But I doubt they're ever going to get the smarts that they need.
Robin is for the birds.
Grown adults should see him for what he is and shun him. That they don't gives testament to the damage that religious belief does to the human intellect.
Follow the bullock, you better be wearing good shoes, because you are gonna step in a lot of bullshit.
Hey, Honey. Do you know the preacher that looks like Bud lite incarnate? Yeah, the one who looks a vampire, but instead of being vulnerable to dawn's early light, he vulnerable to dawn dish soap. Yeah, that one. The preacher who looks like he uses fortified wine for communion. The one who looks like any picture taken of him will smell like AXE body spray. The one who looks like he has hit on teenage girls while having an obvious cold sore on his mouth. The one, who without a doubt has found a cigarette on the floor and tried to smoke it. Yeah that one. You know what. Why don't we sell everything we have and move next door to him.
Bullock's a con artist, this is what con artists do. You don't blame a tiger for having teeth and claws, they're part of being a tiger. Most Christians like to pretend this guy isn't 'really' one of theirs and also that 'everyone knows he's not a REAL Christian', which is why nothing ever seems to happen to these guys.
Tales of seniors and others giving guys like this everything they own aren't unusual, sad to say. This is one of the the harms that religion do and then deny having anything to do with. It's so bad that churches don't even try to discipline or excommunicate these thieves anymore, they just assume it's someone else's problem and move on. While I'm sorry to hear these folks were deceived and are now suffering for it, I can't claim surprise by any means since this sort of grifting has been going on for years now. Seems to me the real moral of this story is to do your own research before you pick up and move on some religious leader's say-so.
Good luck to the Partlows and Mrs. Ndegwa.