Irony is a pastor asking for money to solve church problems, and advising you to pray to solve yours.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    And the starvation army they play

    And they shout and they clap and they pray

    Till they get all your coin on the drum

    Then they tell you when you’re on the bum

    You will eat (you will eat) by and by (by and by)

    In that glorious land in the sky (Way up high)

    Work and pray (Work and pray), live on hay (Live on hay)

    You’ll get pie in the sky when you die

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        After looking into it, yes! Joe Hill wrote this song in 1910, these lyrics are from the song “the Preacher and the Slave”. It probably stems from the 1910 Spokane Free Speech Fight, where the IWW was butting heads with the Salvation Army and the government of Spokane

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Reminds me of a video of Silas Malafaia, a brazilian manipulative asshole crook pastor, preaching that the faithful should not denounce or report criminal pastors: “Is your pastor a thief? A criminal? Don’t like it? Leave the church and find another one. (…) Don’t mess with God’s anointed.”

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I know it’s not sensitive to say, but how fucking stupid do you need to be to buy that shit? Unreal.

    • cmoney@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      They (the church) cares more about image than criminals in their ranks, Wouldn’t want word getting out father McFeelly likes touching alter boys.

  • miridius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Don’t get me wrong I hate the church but this just isn’t accurate. Churches do tons of work to help the poor, including financial aid. At least where I’m from anyway