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How do y’all feel about pastors/ leaders living luxurious ?

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Recently a pastor was robbed at gun point in his church during a live service. The robbers took 500 K worth of jewelry off of the bishop .

No one deserves to be robbed. I have seen several comments saying that the bishop deserved it because he should not be wearing flashy items to church

What are your thoughts?

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This seems like two separate issues. No one deserves to be robbed and victim blaming is always bullshit. But on a spiritual level I wouldn’t attend a church where the pastor made enough to wear 500k worth of jewelry. That reeks of prosperity doctrine which I feel is anti-biblical nonsense entirely contrary to the teachings of Jesus. Also if the Church is paying pastor that much (paying well is one thing…paying enough for jets and mansions and hundreds of thousands in jewelry is a completely different thing) they aren’t using the money to actually help people.

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Kate • Jul 30, 2022
This.

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Je • Jul 28, 2022
Exactly. It doesn't mean they deserve to be robbed, but it is also an irresponsible use of church funds.

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It’s disgusting. I’m not someone that thinks all religious leaders should take a vow of poverty, but padtors that rich are predators of their own flocks. Mega churches in general are awful. They operate as nothing but legal tax evasion scams.

bu

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I’m sorry, but in NO way should ANY pastor and this goes for that Joel Osten motherfucker as well.. should be making that much money!No offense to anyone who is religious on this app…But if I knew I would get paid to tell stories every Sunday I would have said bye bye to my career in science a long time ago.MOST (not all) of these pastors are con artist.
I’m sorry, but in NO way should ANY pastor and this goes for that Joel Osten motherfucker as well.. should be making that much money!No offense to anyone who is religious on this app…But if I knew I would get paid to tell stories every Sunday I would have said bye bye to my career in science a long time ago.MOST (not all) of these pastors are con artist.

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buh-buhbacon 🥓 • Jul 28, 2022
Oh but to answer your question.. no one deserves to be robbed like that… But to be fair… they do a lot of robbing themselves 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Must have been God’s will

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🌹B • Jul 29, 2022
& its was good 🙏

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kimfan🖤 • Jul 29, 2022
Yoooooooooo 💀💀💀💀💀

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R • Jul 29, 2022
LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣

St

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I personally live next to two married pastors, I know how much their home costs, and their cars. I think it’s absolutely WILD that they make that much money from what they do. 👀👀👀

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No one deserves to be robbed, but if you wear 500k of jewelry to church as a religious leader then you're making yourself a really obvious target. But the bigger issue here is should religious leaders make huge salaries, to which I say absolutely not, it's immoral and hypocritical.

VH

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Prosperity gospel has found the perfect grift. Protected from paying taxes and a deluded pool of mindless followers who will throw their last cent in the pot so the "preacher" can live a lavish lifestyle.
Prosperity gospel has found the perfect grift. Protected from paying taxes and a deluded pool of mindless followers who will throw their last cent in the pot so the "preacher" can live a lavish lifestyle.

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lk 🇨🇦🇺🇲 • Jul 29, 2022
Again, no disagreement. I don't care for his tactics and haven't since I first ran across him in 2006.

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Christie • Jul 29, 2022
He is fleecing his own.

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buh-buhbacon 🥓 • Jul 29, 2022
100%%%%%%%%% couldn’t have said it better myself

lk

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I agree that nobody deserves to be robbed. I'm not really into Robin Hood ideology - it's a great fable, but not a good real life model to follow. That being said, I don't think flaunting wealth is a godly thing to do. The Bible is pretty clear on that.

Na

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Pastors should not be getting rich off their congregation.

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Na • Jul 28, 2022
It’s obviously still awful to rob someone at gunpoint regardless, I can’t imagine how traumatic that must be for him and everyone that was there attending services.

Lo

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I’m catholic. Our religion teaches us to share our goods. It is absolutely unacceptable for me to see pastors living large. Our priests have a car and cell phone for necessity and that’s it

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Lo • Jul 28, 2022
Orthodox churches are much moe fancier than catholic churches. And yes - i agree - big thieves! They throw us on the street! But yes back home our pastors do live humble. The ones that i know.

Ja

Ja • Jul 28, 2022
Are you sure though? I have some lovely catholic priest friends even bishops. But as far as the catholic church goes they are the biggest thieves of them all. Maybe not the priest themselves I agree with that but the riches the catholic church has extorted out of people over the years is second to non. They have a whole state that belongs to them. I will even say that they were indeed the source of all of that greed in churches today. Go around and look at catholic churches and cathedrals they weren't build out of nothing there are no other buildings that are more pompous and glamorous than a catholic cathedrals. Beautiful, but cost many people their all to build them.
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