Rick Warren Begs Parishioners For $900K

Source: CBS2-KCAL



Evangelical pastor Rick Warren is begging parishioners at his Orange County megachurch to cough up $900,000 before January 1st to keep the parish out of the red.

He asks parishioners to donate before January 1st to keep the church out of debt. A spokeswoman for Warren said the church does not release financial details, so it's difficult to put the $900,000 shortfall in context.

Warren delivered the invocation at the inauguration of President Barack Obama and is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling "The Purpose Driven Life."

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Posted without comment - but can't wait to see what folks think about this...

i wouldn't give a dime to any of those preachers.

if you pay now, you'll have everlasting life LATER. Bwahahahahaha

It's still hard to believe Obama chose Warren to deliver the invocation.

it wouldn't be struggling the way it is.

This is a clear message from God.

(Is Warren going to pull an Oral Roberts "Give or God will off me" threat too?)

You can still see a few "Warning, 900 foot Jesus crossing" signs up in Oklahoma.

Who put them up?

And: why 900 feet?! Because the bigger the Jesus, the bigger the con?

Those solid gold toilet seats are REALLY expensive - right Pastor Swaggart?

If there's "good" news about BecKKK tomorrow we might all have a solid year in 2010.

for a bailout! Say it ain't so!!

This is a bad move on his part in my opinion. Just shows him to be another of the properity driven deceitful ones. If you can't open your books to the public then you must be hiding something. Otherwise, open your books at least to the people you are begging money from.

I turned my back to him.

I wish I was coulda been there. One of the early warning signs about President Obama being a pleaser of the hard-right at the expense of teh gays!

I don't think the Admin. realizes how many tens of thousands of people they have lost already who will not lift a finger to help get him re-elected, plus tens of millions in dollars.

Hoping the WH Admin. changes and starts working on the people's behalf, and not the interests of the money-changers...

:hug:

:spray:

:rofl:

Zing!

Something really stinks.

Dang, $900,000 could run my church for 15 years. Might even upgrade the bathrooms and put in a warming kitchen. Nine hundred thousand. Just . . . dang.

Oh, I'm sorry, people thrown under the bus and their allies aren't allowed to make any sort of criticisms. Ever.

My bad. :shrug:

A: A conservative one!

who was screwin' the hockey player...

like Falwell did?

eom

First sawtooth bank of Bumfuck. Get a real job skypilot.

nt

Does he promise material wealth in exchange for giving to the church, like most of the sleazy so-called Christian churches have been doing for so long now?

Well, J6P might be figuring out, Jesus doesn't care if you have a tract mansion and a beemer.

Hope Fierce Advocate is paying attention. Huge debt and connections to Uganda pogrom laws. Very fitting for a President's honored minister. The company one desires is a huge indication of one's own character. God is in the mix. One man, one woman, 900,000 dollars. Smell that Sacrament!

Gawd will surely answer your prayers but right now he's a little short on cash. if you could just send us your check........

Where does the money go?

Remember Joyce Meyer using a face lift is a legitimate ministry expense? I seem to also remember she purchased a $23,000 commode with marble top.

Charlatan.

I hope those "followers" aren't that stupid and realize they are being USED!

do this all the time, AND get the money from their watchers.

Or better yet, move there and face the consequences of your own hate, fuckwad.

Hurt, motherfucker. :nopity:

Let Rick Warren mortgage his house, or better yet, sell his house and live on the streets. Then I might take his request seriously.

If he wants to keep the church out of the red, let him do what Jesus would have done.

To me, it's really just that simple.

Your dear departed buddy Oral set the bar at 8 million for his grand scam. C'mon Rick, go for more. You know you need that extra mansion!

PRAYER is the only way to get his church out of the red! Only GOD can deliver the miracle needed to make his church more profitable and liquid. If the HOLY FATHER wants his church to be fruitful, then by JESUS the HOLY FATHER will deliver. If not, then FUCK YOU, Rick!

These christian snake oil salesmen are all alike. Why does it take so much money to believe in a god that's free? Rick's "god-share" scheme is getting a little old. He's dipped into that well too many times. But bend over, believers. You're about to be filled by the holy spirit! ;)

Read your own book and stop begging stupid people for their grocery money.

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one. - Poor Richard's Almanac, 1754

Disclaimer: I'm an atheist, so I don't have a god - or any money - in this fight. Other than the extra tax money I pay because of blow-dried witch doctors like Warren, that rat-faced little troll Joel Osteen, etc. etc.

hee hee

i hope he and his ilk rot

and humble?

:middlefinger:

Is there going to be a new Rick Warren book on the horizon? "What to do when your Purpose-Driven Mortgage Company resets the Purpose-Driven ARM on your Purpose-Driven Church."

Warren has a MAJOR publishing empire going on here--A Purpose-Driven Life has spawned plenty of other books, plus he's got titles that aren't directly related to his main book. (He's got one on Christmas too--"The Purpose of Christmas."

Now check this shit out: In Warren's begging letter, he explained that Christmas Week contributions were half what they normally get, which left the church $900k in the hole. If they were breaking even before Christmas week, this disparity means people donate $2 million a week to this church. They are therefore running on a budget of over $100 million per year, which to me is astounding. Then again...he's got 20,000 weekly attendees plus he webcasts his services. Two million a week. Wow.

I have a relative who is the accountant (voluntary/unpaid, of course) for her Methodist church in South Carolina. She complained that their pastor bought Warren's printed snake-oil, which I think is called The Purpose-Driven Church. Consists of books and training courses, etc.

She said it cost her church a lot of money and didn't accomplish much that she could see.

Sometimes the answer is NO!

it's a scam. This used to happen in the 80's with the tele-evangelists who would claim, 'God said they would die if they didn't get the money.'

If the church can't prosper, why would its followers?

:think:

Gave into one of the deadly sins, I see.

It's editorial comment, but I like it...