Tag Archives: con artists

NBC News reports: Public health officials are warning of scammers who promise early access to the vaccine for people who hand over their Social Security Number to callers. With the initial supply of the first Covid-19 vaccines allocated to health care personnel and long-term care facilities, health and security officials have already identified phishing scams in which perpetrators impersonate health …

Buzzfeed News reports: Around 50 accounts on the social network site Parler are posing as fake GOP leaders and claiming to sell CBD oil endorsed by first lady Melania Trump. An account posing as one run by Vice President Pence shared a link to buy a “Commemorative Medallion” on Dec. 5. The same account later shared a message from a …

“The thing you need to know about the Day of Atonement is that: IT IS A DAY OF OFFERING AND SACRIFICE! ‘MEET WITH ME AND HONOR ME,’ saith the Lord. In this opportunity for oneness with the Almighty, God commands and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. “Every man shall give as he is able, according to the …

The Christian Post reports: Stovall Weems, senior pastor of the 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, told his congregation Sunday that he met Jesus Christ in his home on Good Friday and was surprised by His personality. “I want to talk to you about the experience I had Friday night where I met and I saw our risen Savior,” Weems …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Back in 2013, the Texas megachurch run by televangelist Kenneth Copeland, a member of President Trump’s faith advisory council who recently became the proud owner of a Jesus-provided private plane, was at the center of a measles outbreak that was attributed to the church’s belief that congregants can forego vaccines because Jesus will …

Anne Graham Lotz writes for Charisma News: Within weeks, we have experienced record-breaking fires in the Northwest, record-breaking hurricanes in Texas and Florida and a record-breaking earthquake in Mexico. What is happening? Are these disasters random? Just freaks of nature? Or is something more significant intended? The answer may be found in an incredible biblical story. God used the earthquake, …

Safiyah Riddle reports at Right Wing Watch: Self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs received a message from God about the national security of the United States, announcing that she “decreed” that the Lord would “expose, expose, and expose” terrorist threats to the U.S. “in the name of Jesus.” These visions, according to Jacobs, are “an anointing and an authority and an intercession” …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: God gave America a reprieve in 2016 from judgment. Will you thank Him with me? With Christmas only three days away, will you pause from the busyness for a few minutes? Will you take time now or tonight to stop? I’m an ordained pastor, as well as President of Family Research Council …

Via Right Wing Watch: Mary Colbert assured Bakker that God told her that Trump will win the election, but he will face several cataclysmic events as the new president: “God doesn’t do anything without telling his prophets first, that’s the way it is. He tells them so that they can tell. And this is what he said to me. He …

From the clip description: The recent press attacks upon Trump University have not been an accurate representation of the professionally run school that provided a quality real estate education. While the press has taken selected portions of documents and testimony and spun them in order to further their agenda of attacking Mr. Trump’s business record, the true story is best …

Jan Crouch, the often weeping, always grifting televangelist known for mile-high pink wigs, troweled on eye makeup, and multiple plastic surgeries, has “gone home to glory” with White Jesus. From the right-wing Charisma News: “Laurie and I have just watched the transition of our precious mother from this world to the next; watched her step into the presence of Jesus …

Hemant Mehta recaps last night’s show at The Friendly Atheist: I know it’s cliché at this point to say John Oliver and his staff at Last Week Tonight are amazing, but screw it: What they did last night was incredible. In a twenty-minute segment, Oliver exposed the ridiculous IRS rules that allow tax-exempt churches to form all too easily, the …