If I didn't have ethics, I could con so many religious people...
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I knew a kid who'd go door to door in neighborhoods requesting donations for the poor.
In his mind he was being honest because he was "the poor"
To be fair, this was the pre-existing model for GoFundMe. That kid could've been a millionaire if he dreamed bigger.
So you accidentally learned the greatest lesson the church has to offer. Salvation for a profit.
Also, religious fanatics are really gullible
Honestly. I think that's what many of the nutjob protestors and "commentators" do. Why work a real job when you can be paid by suckers to jetset around the country/world spouting controversial views.
Since it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter heaven, relieving said rich man of their excess wealth is actually a kindness. Therefore this is an ethical life pro tip.
While everyone's telling their stories. In middle school. My friend had a game shark book with game shark codes and he would write them all out and then sell them to kids that didn't have a game shark.
Game shark, my god you brought me back. Shit, now you got me thinking about Game Genie too.
Codebreaker for PS2 was my daily use cheat disc back then lol
I did something similar when I was like 11. Went on a "canned food drive" around the neighborhood because it was summer and I was hungry.
To be fair, my family was poor and used services that actual drives would benefit, so I just cut out the middle man.
Full circle since I Rember reading that blink got started telling schools they wanted to play concerts in gymnasiums to spread a positive Christian message.
When I needed a job I went to church and asked them to pay that a job would come my way. Had 3 offers before I left
Pay or pray?
Pay to pray
Pray to get paid?
Is there actually any way literal grown adults fell for this
Why are their pastors driving lambos
Have you ever talked with fundamentalist? It's not only plausible, but those adults have probably done the same thing while actually being serious about the preaching part in the concert
Yes.
Religious fanatics are that gullible, they do after all believe in really shittily written fairytales as if they're real.
Yes! I went to an evangelical church run private school. They had the brilliant idea to send good "strong Christian" students to raves and parties to narc on their classmates that attended said raves and parties. I wish I was making that up.
Depends on the town. Some of the ones in the Bible Belt? Absolutely possible. In others it's completely possible they knew the kids were lying and decided it was fun to play along and get them to a concert.
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M. Lockwood Porter, @mlockwoodporter
My best friend and I wanted to go to a Blink 182 concert in high school but couldn't afford tickets, so we told everyone in our extremely Baptist Oklahoma town that God called us to spread the gospel at an evil secular concert but we needed donations to get in. We turned a profit
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