Someone Believed This Was a Good Idea…

Suicidal Tendencies – Send Me Your Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djWQBO-ckCk 

Nope.  Made it :34 into it and that is the worst half of minute of my life.  Between the bad EVERYTHING and the “write my check and the blessings come,” I was rolling my eyes so much that I almost lost a contact.
Anyone make it all of the way through?

This music has no soul.

. . . I kind of love the robot, though.

why does god needs money?

Uggghhh, I think my ears are bleeding!  Not sure but I might be even MORE atheist now just for having listened to that!

My dad (who’s Mormon) decided to pick out the ten+ verses he found that proved that tithing wasn’t necessary anymore. I thought it was freaking hilarious. Still do. 

Okat, first, white guys simply do not have rhythm of the ability to dance. So that is fail one. Two, this is worse than Celine Dion. 

So what song did this Christian group “parody”?

I don’t know whats worse…the horribleness of the video, the subtle demand that tithing is more important than rent or food, or the endless flood of religious adds for billy graham that pop up, no doubt as a result of posting the stupidity of religion…praise be unto nuggin for the posting of ST’s send me your money…I swear they were a big part of my surviving highschool.

 It’s all about making Pastor Marty prosperous, yo!  And the best part is churches pay no taxes, Pastor Marty gets a housing deduction or parsonage tax-free, and churches make no Form 990 disclosures, so nobody will ever know how much he’s raking in.

“I’m sexy & I know it.”

0:37 into it and I feel like I’m about to have a seizure.
Whyyyyyyyyy

The real song is almost a parody itself, but at least it’s funny. This is just manipulative and grotesque.  Greedy, too.  Are we certain it wasn’t made by atheists who are just trolling?

Lol- come on – yes, tithing is bad, church is bad etc.. But- this was clever and creative. I’m glad you posted it, I got stuck through the whole thing. These guys are having fun with something (as misdirected as it may be). I can appreciate that. LookIng forward to the day I have that much energy to put into “I’m sceptic and I know it”. Who knows- the gauntlet is thrown…

I laugh every time I hear LMFAO’s original, but that church took a hysterical song and made it distinctly un-funny.

It’s no How to Worship.

This is the kind of so-bad-it’s-hilarious video that needs to go viral, hahaha

Oh dear. And I thought the original song by LMFAO was bad enough. I don’t know which bothers me more, Christian versions of bad songs or Christian versions of good songs.

Ohhh, that’s a robot. I thought it was one of the Blockheads from The Adventures of Gumby. Silly me, a robot makes so much more sense.

What are they saying??  “I’m ____ and I know it.”  Can someone please help me fill in the blank. 

If you think this is bad, then you certainly do not want to click here.

 “Tithing”.  It means paying 10% of one’s earnings to the church.

 growing up I thought tithing was something that only happened in the Dark Ages – like the sale of indulgences. I was so shocked to find it still happens in the modern world.

Come on, why not just call it what it really is, A COVER CHARGE! I didn’t see a two for one or a ladies nite on their church calendar. 

 Very nice. For all the whining and the wringing of hands on Atheist blogs(yes, including this one) about the supposedly awful treatment of women by atheists, somehow the subtle racist misandry of “white guys can’t dance” always seems to go unnoticed. At least thanks for using “guys” instead of “males”.

There are no percents in the bible. That is a medielval invention. The T-shirt with its % sign is clearly blasfemous.

 No. You is wrong. Every time the word “tith” or “tithing” is used in the Bible, it spells out 10% — that’s what the word means.

You misunderstand. Its the mathematical SIGN % that does not occur in the bible. Of course the concept of one tenth is there.

You must discriminate between a concept and its name! Especially in math.

True, but then, it is rap after all.

Oh God That’s Funny!

Yeah, I’d say you got it right. 

 Yeah, I think you’re probably wrong in this case.

In my experience, Christians who spend alot of time talking about tithing tend to be “Prosperity Gospel” types.  So they think that they are giving away 10% to make themselves rich.

Also, the Christians who are so terribly addicted to trying to be so terribly hip tend to be Obama supporters and consequently supporters of Obamacare.

 I noticed it immediately, but I didn’t see it until this afternoon (I work and stuff). I know plenty of white guys who have rhythm and can dance. I know plenty of other people of various races and genders who can dance with varying degrees of skill. None of it seems to come from their race or their gender. hmmm, perplexing, no?

Also, this is the first time I’ve seen anyone make a “white guys can’t (insert skill here)” statement on any of the atheist blogs I read, that wasn’t called out by somebody within a few minutes. I don’t see what that has to do with people talking about women within the atheist community. Why can’t we acknowledge sexism (and/or racism) in the atheist community and address the issues when they come up, instead of pitting them against each other?

 I’ve had to explain to a few muslim (and ex-muslim) friends what tithing is, and they all think it’s weird. I also find it odd (in hind sight) that at my church growing up, “tithing” and “offerings” were the same thing.

 Your comment made sense until you equated “Obamacare” with “universal health care,” these are two very different things. Of course, I don’t feel like turning this into a debate over health care legislation. So I’ll end on a high note: anyone feel like this video could have been awesome* if they went out of their way to dress up for it (not just the wigs and the robot head). It feels weird that they got the wigs and stuff but didn’t feel like dressing in anything other than what they would normally wear while shopping or watching tv.

*by awesome I mean funnier.

 Do you mean to contend that a supporter of Obama’s health care agenda would be against universal health care?

 “I’m not sure about your version, support Obama’s version but oppose true single payer universal.  ”

That’s not my version.

Rich, my point was simply that in my experience the type of Christians we’re talking about here tend to be politically liberal and thus not opposed to universal health care, single payer, or whatever it may be called.

Regardless of what one calls it, the folks I’m talking about not only aren’t complaining about liberal politicians’ policies on health care or taxation, they are themselves liberal Democrats.

Why so much hate? It’s not prosperity gospel by the way. If you tithe we don’t preach you will be rich. We believe scripture says you will be blessed. You don’t have to believe but don’t hate on those who do. That is all.

There is no good reason to believe you will be blessed for it either.

That is all.

And yet Nordog, most actually do not believe in the health and wealth gospel, but I admit, sadly this cancer has been spreading and growing lately. When I  moved to my current city, I spent a couple of weeks trying out different places and ran into a church that teaches health and wealth. THIS IDEA IS NOT BIBLICAL! 

I do not give so that I am blessed in some way. Nor do I limit it to 10%. The Testament was 10%. 10% is sadly taught as the requirement. 10% is actually the minimum. Jesus taught sacrificial giving (give until it hurts). So that’s where I am at. 10% for some doesn’t phase them. 10% for others is a hardship.

The NT doesn’t require a tithe, it requires more than that…to give until it huts. ex. the good samaritan, the woman who pours out the only perfume she has to wash Jesus’ feet, etc. 

To be a bit cliche, it’s not the size of the gift that counts, its the size of the giver’s heart that does instead.

Zakāt is more than ‘pay alms’ once a year.    As much as I roll my eyes at the religious reasons for anyone’s charity, I think what they do and give (including your own) should be respected.  That’s one of the good aspects of any religion, and one that I think quite frankly could survive without the religious backing.

I wish that was true. And I know that non-religous people give to charities as well, but no-one gives when it comes to disasters like the church does.

 I know of a lot of people who have traveled or given to the N.O. rebuild and now to Jopling, MO.