Oh NOES! Saddleback Church is in $$$ Twubble!

[blogslut]

The bigger they are, the harder it is to keep the lights on:

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) -- Evangelical pastor Rick Warren is begging parishioners at his Southern California megachurch to cough up $900,000 before Jan. 1 to keep the parish out of the red.

In an urgent letter posted on the Saddleback Church Web site on Wednesday, Warren says expenses are up because parishioners are out of work and ''the bottom dropped out'' when year-end donations dropped dramatically.

He asks parishioners to donate before the new year to keep the Orange County 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...

link: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/30/us/AP-US-REL-Rick-Warren-Donations.html

[DainBramaged]

1. Let him call Limbaugh for a donation......

[beac]

2. What an amateur!

Doesn't Warren know you should claim that God will KILL you unless your followers cough it up?!? Epic Grovel Fail.

[blogslut]

3. Bow down before your 900 foot Jesus!

A least he's pleading for a buttload o money!

[daleo]

4. First, have a vision of a 900 foot Jesus

Then we can talk.

[beac]

8. It appears you and blogslut had a shared 900-foot Jesus vision.

(simultaneous Christgasm?) Let me know where to send my check!

[daleo]

14. It's a miracle

Praise 900 foot Jesus!

[bridgit]

5. Hold Up! I seen that Warren dude talking the other day and he was saying that he & his wife...

Have been tithing larger & larger amounts *back* to the church since he & his wife started cherry picking through the pick & choose evangelical produce dept known as Holy Scripture for a long time so...

Where's the money? What - church, I guess or whatever, was he & his wife tithing all this money to? Cause his books make mega-church-bank. Where'd it all go?

[Commodius Vicus]

6. Now they're "parishioners"?

Looks like it's time for a "parish" turkey raffle.

[rwheeler31]

7. Who goes to that money grubbing church?

[progressoid]

9. Dang - you beat me to the punch!

:)

[blogslut]

10. 900 foot Jesus forgives you

[progressoid]

12. Sidecar Jesus gives it a k/r

[beac]

13. Maybe Warren should start offering snacks...

[progressoid]

23. For those watching their weight...

[WCGreen]

11. I thought the idea of donating to these churches was to curry favor with the

Lord, Jesus Christ so that he could shine down on your live with a return bounty to you that would be three, four even five times greater than your contribution...

Proprietary Churches. That's the ticket...

I think there is a tenth ring in hell Dante didn't get to that will hold these ass wipes...

[Hannah Bell]

15. god doesn't love him anymore.

[Behind the Aegis]

16. Maybe he just needs another two minutes to state his case.

[3waygeek]

17. Why does Saddleback need lights anyway?

Isn't the holy glow from Warren & his followers bright enough?

[AllentownJake]

18. He's doing this all wrong

He needs to go to congress and explain that the morality of his parishoners will collapse and they'll need to declare martial law in California if he isn't given a billion dollars.

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[WhiteTara]

20. what what he did with all the money he got

from his best selling book. Not to mention all the mega bucks he got from his mega church. He does wear expensive suits.

[AllentownJake]

21. Most of the time he's wearing Hawaiian shirts

But what was done with the Purpose Driven life proceeds is an interesting question. Rick has stated that most money was given back to the church.

I'm curious to see how Rick's church operates, if there is a council of elders, there are going to be questions on why they are in the shape they are in.

There is a chance they simply just spent all the money, not on Rick, but on things the church was doing.

He's a dominionist, and ideologically and theologically, I could not have a larger difference of opinion on the faith, but it will be interesting to see what was done with the 400 million in profit that was earned on the Purpose Driven Live.

[peekaloo]

22. God helps those who help themselves to other people's money.

:nopity:

[rateyes]

24. Rev. Rick's video explanation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g">Rick Explains Budget Shortfall

[WeDidIt]

25. I guess they spent too much trying to kill marriage equality

Serves 'em fucking right.

[rateyes]

26. He should donate a million himself. nt