re: Megachurch pastor buys wife a $200,000 Lamborghini

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What bothers me about mega churches with extravagantly wealthy pastors AND oppulent, gold clad Catholic Churches, is me thinking how much good could have been done for the people in the church community with all that damn money?

Think of how many meals could be provided, how many food shelters could have been stocked, how many homes could have been repaired, how many pediatric medical visits could have been sponsored. Why must these donations and tithes be spent on material goods?

And don’t give me this bullshite that he got this money from book sales like that Osteen Hack in houston. If he actually lived the life he preached, he wouldn’t live in a multi million dollar mansion.

These guys don’t need to, nor should be expected to, live in poverty. But they shouldn’t be living in lavish luxury completely removed from most of their church community. Man this pisses me off.


ETA: And another thing, that lying sack of shite pastor that asked his congregation for a new jet and said Jesus wouldn’t be riding on donkeys today, donkeys were not the nicest form of travel at the turn of the century, chariots and carriages were, and Jesus didnt have a golden covered ones. Now I’m fricking furious this morning. shite

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LOL. Here's a link to a non-biased site:

There are major difficulties in accepting Luke's account: the gospel links the birth of Jesus to the reign of Herod (Luke 1:5: "In the days of King Herod of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah..."), but the census took place in 6 CE, ten years after Herod's death in 4 BCE; there was no single census of the entire empire under Augustus; no Roman census required people to travel from their own homes to those of distant ancestors; and the census of Judea would not have affected Joseph and his family, living in Galilee.[6

Its bullshite that the churches are not taxed.

But I'll never understand the dumbasses who tithe to mega churches

They pay personal property taxes, they do not pay taxes on things they claim belongs to the church.

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From everything I'm reading, there doesn't seem to be a question about a census happening, just which one Luke is referring to. But it seems that there was a census ordered roughly every 14 years. Luke refers to one, Josephus refers to another one that seems to contradict Luke's account of who ordered the census, which is really the only debating point.

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It didn't happen. The reason it's confusing is because you're reading a bunch of christian sites trying to explain away the inaccuracies of the bible. It's crazy how little consistency there is in the "inspired word of god" from one book to the next in the bible.

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Meaning all four gospels 

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You are forgetting the other other gospels that were rejected by the church in the 300s AD because they contradicted the most basic premises...like no virgin birth, Jesus was married, etc.

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What I always wondered. Did Jesus have to be born in a manager because the area was crowded for Saturn's Day? Or was it Hanukkah? Why were the Inns all booked?

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“Inn” is an incorrect translation into English. The Greek word for an actual inn is different and used in the parable of the Good Samaritan as proof. The word kataluma is used in Jesus’ birth and just means the place

How did we get “inn”? Well there IS a cultural word insula, which would be the established family living area as part of the Beth Ab (“Father’s House”).

What seems to have actually occurred is they showed up to their family and their family area was either full or they were rejected due to the scandalous nature of her pregnancy (cf Isaiah 53:3, John 1:11-13)

Anyone who collects a salary pays income taxes. That's not what this is about and I'm pretty sure you know that.
Any corporation, which is exactly what these mega churches are, pay taxes. Somehow claiming they are a church, relieves these corporations from their tax liability and its BS.