Televangelists - Last Week Tonight
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I don't either
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Really? I did.
Anyway I did watch the video. There are some real assholes out there in the world of televangelism. And I think John Oliver is very good. As opposed to the shrike that took over for Colbert.
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Who took over for colbert?
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That trevor noah is likely going to be the death of the Daily show
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No one took over for Colbert. The Colbert Report ended.
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What was the point of Cals response then Steve?
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No one took over for Colbert. The Colbert Report ended.
The Colbert Report was replaced Woody. By another show.
That was your best offering?
WSS
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What was the point of Cals response then Steve?
Oh I suspect you could guess but let me venture that yes there are some bad televangelist out there in the world. There are also some bad engineers.
Sound like a good guess?
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Took over for Colbert and another show taking the Colbert Reports slot are two different things.
Larry Wilmore has his show in that slot now.
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Steve got it. Trying to ridicule all TV evangelists by posting about the worst
of them... if fine with woody, but he doesn't like the same tactic
used on engineers. Kinda obvious...
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What was the point of Cals response then Steve?
Oh I suspect you could guess but let me venture that yes there are some bad televangelist out there in the world. There are also some bad engineers.
Sound like a good guess?
WSS
Oh I suspect you could guess but let me venture that yes there are some bad televangelist out there in the world. There are also some bad engineers.
Sound like a good guess?
WSS
Umm... I guess. If by bad you mean "bad at their jobs" then sure. If by bad you mean "actually a bad person" then that's probably true too.
But I must have missed the examples of engineers preying on the stupid/desperate with religion, basically acting as conmen, to this scale.
If Cals response was an attempt to say "well this thing you like is bad too!" he did a pretty poor job of it.
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Steve got it. Trying to ridicule all TV evangelists by posting about the worst
of them... if fine with woody, but he doesn't like the same tactic
used on engineers. Kinda obvious...
Steve got it. Trying to ridicule all TV evangelists by posting about the worst
of them... if fine with woody, but he doesn't like the same tactic
used on engineers. Kinda obvious...
Engineers aren't supposed to save souls, have moral high ground or preach the coming of the lord. Invalid comparison in my opinion.
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The content is different, but the logical structure of the argument is the same. I simply
flipped the setup structurally, only I used engineers. Turnabout is fair play.
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Except it really isn't Cal...
These televangelists are purposely taking advantage of people for monetary gain. The examples you posted were terrible accidents.
The scale of this real issue vs your made up one aren't the same either.
I think you're just reaching at something here because I posted a thread that puts part Christianity in a negative light. Are you trying to defend their actions?
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I don't defend these televangelists but because they are wrong does not make Jesus or the bible wrong. Most people have enough discernment to see their phoniness but they do prey big time on the shuts ins and elderly which is sad.
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They're just more open in their use of religion as a scam. They need to tone it down like they're supposed to...
But you're right, these people don't prove the bible or Jesus wrong.
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The content is different, but the logical structure of the argument is the same. I simply
flipped the setup structurally, only I used engineers. Turnabout is fair play.
The content is different, but the logical structure of the argument is the same. I simply
flipped the setup structurally, only I used engineers. Turnabout is fair play.
Not at all. You have one group preying (no pun intended) on those looking for a miracle. The other group accidents of a colossal nature.
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Yes. Different content. Same mo on generally dissing an entire group of people.
Basically, the same structure. The title doesn't say
"crazy nutjob evangelists taking advantage of goofy people who believe what they say"...
it says evangelists.
and I didn't say "crazy nutjob engineers taking advantage of goofy people who believe in what
they design".
Qubbling about the very end content/details doesn't make the basic logical structures
stop being the same.
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Yes. Different content. Same mo on generally dissing an entire group of people.
Basically, the same structure. The title doesn't say
"crazy nutjob evangelists taking advantage of goofy people who believe what they say"...
it says evangelists.
and I didn't say "crazy nutjob engineers taking advantage of goofy people who believe in what
they design".
Qubbling about the very end content/details doesn't make the basic logical structures
stop being the same.
Yes. Different content. Same mo on generally dissing an entire group of people.
Basically, the same structure. The title doesn't say
"crazy nutjob evangelists taking advantage of goofy people who believe what they say"...
it says evangelists.
Actually, it says Televangelists.
More to the point, why offer such a general rebuttal to an entire segment of people when Woody has highlighted with a video a particular few?
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