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What are you thoughts about ministers who go to Jails and convert, lonely, gullible, criminals by convincing them that what they did can be erased by becoming christian?

sillysketcher 5 Feb 12
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Snake oil salesmen. Con artists. LIke most "successful" pastors.

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Just a salesman on the road. Religion is just another insurance business. The false hope of promising forgiveness and eternal salvation is their premium. The cost to those who buy is unquestioning obedience and whatever money a person can pay. As the song goes, "Nice work if you can get it...".

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if it works so be it . most real criminality is hard wired anyway

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An intern from a local MDiv program at my old church was hired as a chaplain at a juvenile prison then fired after she was caught "ministering" to a 17 year old in a closet.

since when is consensual sex a problem

@markdevenish
Why would anyone consider sex when only one of the participants could walk away consensual? She was sexually abusing teenagers.

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Many of these preachers are being played by the inmates, as they get the preachers to help them with appeals, parole hearings....they deserve each other!

Yep, I know someone who "found God" in jail after murdering his cousin's husband at a Thanksgiving dinner.

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Sadly, most Christians don't or won't understand that premise was meant as a one time offer. I don't agree with recruiting people into your faith. Their walk with the Creator can only be found through their own experiences and outcomes. I think they become more fake Christians and that's part of the reason people are turning away from that faith

Kimmy Level 3 Feb 12, 2018
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This is one of my really...hated things...that the Christian people do. It is more like stealing a person's vulnerability and inserting a false hope into their consciousness. People who are trying to figure out the right thing to do, will just have their growth stunted!

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It shouldn't be permitted. That the State allows it does seem un-Constitutional to me.
They are peddling their delusions to people who are usually desperate for redemption.
They offer absolution through mythological dogma, but do nothing to encourage real
solutions for changing the behavior that got the criminal in trouble in the first place.
Whatever they offer is tied to their religion.

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The entire system is poorly designed and doesn't allow for people to recover at all. Adding religion to the mix is just insult to injury as far as I'm concerned. Most people don't commit crimes because they want to, they do so out of desperation. Our awful penal system is a major factor in the cycle that keeps people involved in crime.

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Disgusting, like all missionary work.

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Con artists who kick people while there down

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