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New Pastor Disguises Himself As Vagrant To Teach His Congregation A Lesson

Hypocrite-shaming at its finest.

Sorry: http://www.snopes.com/glurge/homelesspastor.asp

What are you sorry for? Maybe you didn't notice, but I did:

Besides, even if it is only a modern parable, it's a damned good one.

So how many homeless people have you helped today?

The same number I preached to in a church in the last 15 seconds. How about you?

Fifteen seconds, at your age? You're doing it wrong.

Yeah, good thing I'm not a bible thumper, or they'd call me a one-thump chump.

I flipped one of their boxes around so that "this end up" wasn't upside down.
The other hobos didn't want to embarrass him.

Of course I noticed, but I also read down to the end:

Not a bad "want to believe it's true" story - but it's missing someone waking up in a bath-tub full of ice missing a kidney.

Of the ass?

Hmmmm.......and another twist to push the story into urban legend territory would be all the people who ignored him waking up to find "welcome to the wonderful world of AIDS" written on their bathroom windows...in Aramaic!

Sounds like a story that's too good to be true.

Kinda like if a stranger drove a car drove off a bridge in front of Ted Kennedy while he was out walking, and he ran away again.

Mah buttox.

Dunno, it's a brilliant way to see how caring and giving your new bible thumpers are when more than the usual fake devotion is asked. Would be sad if the story wasn't true

If it honestly, actually never has been done... it should be. Thing is, though, most Christians are giving and compassionate. I don't think you could find a church where they'd treat somebody as badly as the hypothetical pastor-as-bum was treated.

So what are you doing this Sunday?

I'm giving away "wish sandwiches" and "ricochet biscuits" to the first 100 people standing in line to kiss my ass - so business as usual I guess.

John Castle is basically homeless and can't even help himself.

I have to disagree on that one. I know a number of churches who would treat a homeless person poorly, or worse, they'd tell him they would pray for him, and just keep walking.

That's shitty.

Indeed it is. I've got a problem with that kind of thing. I mean, if you're going to ignore him, ignore him, but don't pretend you care by saying something nice, and then turn and walk away, feeling like you just did the work of The Lord™. What the hell good is that going to do for that homeless man besides take what little faith in humanity he might have left?

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I agree with John here. There are a lot of church members who wouldn't help a smelly, dirty, homeless vagrant. But not all of them are like that.