{"id":928,"date":"2009-08-04T00:39:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T05:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2009-08-04T00:39:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T05:39:04","slug":"ray-comfort-tasteless-religious-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/ray-comfort-tasteless-religious-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Comfort: Tasteless Religious Businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-929\" style=\"margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"Michael Jackson Commemorative Bill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Commemorative_Mi_4a523e9ec0f4f-240x123.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Jackson Commemorative Bill\" width=\"240\" height=\"123\" \/>I have written several articles about Ray &#8220;The Banana Man&#8221; Comfort. Most of them have in one way or another dealt with him being obnoxious, ignorant, egotistical or all three. This article deals with his utter lack of taste.<\/p>\n<p>Since Michael Jackson died there have been an abundance of jokes at his expense circulated around the Internet. \u00c2\u00a0Some of them are really funny. Hell, I&#8217;ve told a few to friends. Was I in bad taste? Maybe to some but I&#8217;m not a Christian minister like Comfort. I also will not be profiting from the telling of my jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Comfort&#8217;s, Living Waters Ministries, is currently selling these adorable dead Michael Jackson tracts on their website. That&#8217;s right folks step right up and purchase your &#8220;commemorative million dollar bill&#8221; tracts. \u00c2\u00a0Yep, one stop shopping, tasteless religious propaganda and snake oil all on one convenient website!<\/p>\n<p>All joking aside this is incredible. Not only does Comfort shamelessly use Michael Jackson&#8217;s image to promote his agenda, he&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<strong>PROFITING<\/strong> from it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The million dollar question: Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here&#8217;s a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God&#8217;s name in vain? Jesus said, &#8220;Whoever looks at a woman &#8230;etc.,etc.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the death of Jackson they are actually promoting the sale of these tracts by calling them, &#8220;commemorative&#8221;. As much as I don&#8217;t care for Comfort&#8217;s smarmy way of pointing fingers at sinners on street corners, even I did not think he was capable of stuping this low. Truly shameful. I guess Comfort forgot Matthew 21:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Matthew 21<\/strong> -And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look out Ray Comfort. If Christ does come back \u00c2\u00a0(disbelief suspended) I think he&#8217;s heading right for your ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written several articles about Ray &#8220;The Banana Man&#8221; Comfort. Most of them have in one way or another dealt with him being obnoxious, ignorant, egotistical or all three. This article deals with his utter lack of taste. Since Michael Jackson died there have been an abundance of jokes at his expense circulated around &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/ray-comfort-tasteless-religious-businessman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ray Comfort: Tasteless Religious Businessman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[111,179,182,381,434,532,668,682],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morality","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-christianity","tag-god","tag-hypocrisy","tag-morality","tag-ray-comfort","tag-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}