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JonLP24

(29,322 posts) Sat Jan 18, 2020, 11:30 PM Jan 2020

Religious gathering with Kanye West to fill up Sun Devil Stadium

PHOENIX – College football season is over, but a huge crowd is expected to converge on Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe on Saturday for a daylong religious gathering featuring rapper Kanye West.

All of the free tickets for Awaken 2020 were quickly snapped up online. The event’s website invites attendees “to be part of the Jesus awakening that is shifting HISTORY.”

West and his Sunday Service Collective gospel choir may be the biggest draw, but the event runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with about a dozen evangelical leaders.

In addition to West, who released the Christian-themed album “Jesus is King” in October, Daniel Kolenda, David Herzog, Brian “Head” Welch, Cindy Jacobs, Jerame Nelson, Guillermo Maldonado, Jake Hamilton, Jeremy Riddle, Stephanie Herzog, Eddie James and Steve Swanson are scheduled to speak.

https://ktar.com/story/2924371/religious-gathering-with-kanye-west-to-fill-up-sun-devil-stadium/amp/

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Religious gathering with Kanye West to fill up Sun Devil Stadium (Original Post) JonLP24 Jan 2020 OP

Don't think it would be too hard to fill a stadium .... CatMor Jan 2020 #1

In Phoenix in January marybourg Jan 2020 #6

will it be big enuff to fill his ego? nt msongs Jan 2020 #2

It's somehow strangely ironic that Kanye is making a living as a sleazy televangelist. Initech Jan 2020 #3

I dont find it ironic at all SlogginThroughIt Jan 2020 #9

Would not want to be around that crowd walkingman Jan 2020 #4

That was my first thought. No way I would want to be near them. nt Blue_true Jan 2020 #11

Sad is the only word I have for this. blueinredohio Jan 2020 #5

He is a fucking idiot and a total joke. Run along Kanye, BigmanPigman Jan 2020 #7

This is not good . Look who else is appearing lunasun Jan 2020 #8

He reminds me of a weird Texasgal Jan 2020 #10

I wonder what is going on in the minds of people that follow a fool like him. Blue_true Jan 2020 #12

CatMor

(6,212 posts)

1. Don't think it would be too hard to fill a stadium ....

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 11:38 PM

Jan 2020

when the tickets are free.

marybourg

(12,634 posts)

6. In Phoenix in January

Reply to CatMor (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 11:55 PM

Jan 2020

msongs

(67,441 posts)

2. will it be big enuff to fill his ego? nt

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 11:42 PM

Jan 2020

Initech

(100,103 posts)

3. It's somehow strangely ironic that Kanye is making a living as a sleazy televangelist.

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 11:42 PM

Jan 2020

That profession seems to attract guys with egos as big as their bank accounts.

SlogginThroughIt

(1,977 posts)

9. I dont find it ironic at all

Reply to Initech (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:28 AM

Jan 2020

sleazeball uses sleazebag profession to make money isn't ironic... It is par for the course.

walkingman

(7,667 posts)

4. Would not want to be around that crowd

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 11:43 PM

Jan 2020

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

11. That was my first thought. No way I would want to be near them. nt

Reply to walkingman (Reply #4)

Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:23 AM

Jan 2020

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)

5. Sad is the only word I have for this.

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 11:54 PM

Jan 2020

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)

7. He is a fucking idiot and a total joke. Run along Kanye,

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:09 AM

Jan 2020

you can go and refill your med Rx now and go buy some more Hennessy booze. You're as big a crazy loser and a jerk just like your dear. Obama is right, you're a jackass.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

8. This is not good . Look who else is appearing

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:19 AM

Jan 2020

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/not-like-this-kanye-yeezus-christ-to-headline-massive-1841040335

The Christian gathering features a lineup of controversial religious leaders who’ve expressed anti-gay views. These figures include Cindy Jacobs, a self-proclaimed prophet who encouraged Christians to “rise up” and stop the Equality Act; Guillermo Maldonado, a Miami-based pastor who believes homosexuality is a result of “a generational curse, or even a demonic attack while in the womb”; Ché Ahn, the president of Harvest International Ministry who once compared gay rights to racist laws: “just because it’s legal does not mean that it’s right, at one time we had a law saying blacks were not citizens, that didn’t make that right”; and Lou Engle, a senior leader of the International House of Prayer who was a vocal proponent of Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill, and who once claimed Nazism was fueled by homosexuality.

Texasgal

(17,047 posts)

10. He reminds me of a weird

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:20 AM

Jan 2020

Jim Jones or a David Koresh... sorry... I hope I haven't offended. It's just the way he has gathered a flock.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

12. I wonder what is going on in the minds of people that follow a fool like him.

Reply to Texasgal (Reply #10)

Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:27 AM

Jan 2020

I will not find out, because every time I am near one, I walk away from their zoned-out bullshit.

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