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Those are some expensive breasts!
Am I worshipping the wrong God, then?
By the way, Jon, nice boobs…Shame you’ll need more surgery to get them to look in the right direction…
Maurice Cerullo is in town then!
My private jet only cost 4,500,000. The diamond-coated Bible, printed on gold sheets with ink made from panda bear blood… Now that was a luxury. My, how God loves me!
is it just me or do those boobs follow you around the room
darrin – no
There’s also the hair that praises Jesus …
And teeth that Jesus has made whiter than snow
Is there a particular televangelist you’re alluding to Jon?
Im sorry but if my wifes boobs looked like mr potato heads eyes after she spent all my savings then I would be disappointed. Thank God she is perfect!
Ask and you shall receive.
Someone’s been lazy in askingggggggggggggggg… Just like Saint Paul.
Just a thought if anyone needs any new boobs they can have mine when Im gone for a fiver!
Do you have any idea how difficult it is for people who have it all to enrter God’s Kingdom? (The Message Translation)
Sorry Jon, after being confronted with prosperity theology for 12 years while a minister in the States I just cannot appreciate this cartoon at all. I hope you were trying to be ironic.
rockingrev, are you seriously questioning the point of this cartoon, or are you being ironic yourself? I think maybe you need to sit and watch The Office for a bit and tune in to the British sense of humour!
hi rockingrev… yup… it is complete irony. i should think being confronted with prosperity teaching everyday would be appalling. it’s bad enough having it on an optional tv channel. prosperity teaching is a disease… have no doubts about what i think.
you’ll find more in this theme amongst past cartoons. 
dennis… how much does that work out per pound?
Hayles, you have to understand that where I was for a while people would read that cartoon and say, cool, that’s me! That is one reason that after 12 years I came home to Scotland and it is why I do not find it that ironic and instead find it sad because so many people accept the picture in the cartoon as true.
Sorry rockingrev, you are right. To be honest I have never really heard the prosperity gospel preached and therefore have never seen anything like this cartoon being used seriously; I take my own self-reflexive community for granted, I guess. Please forgive my ignorance before.
Still, I don’t think you need to choose between irony and sadness, they usually pretty much go hand in hand. I guess it’s a case of if we didn’t laugh, we’d cry! It is desperately saddening to hear that where you were people would actually respond to the cartoon in the way you describe. It would be great to hear about how people responded when you suggested that this might not be quite what God had in mind…
Some responded positively and thought that what I said was a breath of fresh air, others however were very scathing. The saddest however was a Pentecostal pastor who valued my opinion (For some strange reason) but who admitted that if he stopped preaching a prosperity theology he knew he would lose his post in a heartbeat. Many of these churches are congregational in polity so that if the pastor does not preach what they like, a deacon can stand up at the end of the service, call a congregational meeting and have the guy out on the street by lunchtime! I saw it happen to former colleagues on more than one occasion. It left no space for prophetic preaching at all and leads to a situation where prosperity teaching and preaching is self-perpetuating in the interest of self-preservation. Many of these guys envied the Presbyterian form of government in the church I serve because it is the presbytery that employs the minister once a congregation calls him or her. It means that you can be prophetic without fear of losing your job.
Golly rockingrev… there’s something that I didn’t know…
maybe I have a little more sympathy for the preacher guys who peddle this stufff
there again, maybe not
but isn’t interesting how you point to a situation that is a selfperpetuating cycle… how does the ‘hamster’ get out?
Some move to areas of the country where that sort of theology isn’t so prevalent, others jump ship and change denomination. However you should not be too harsh either on the areas of the country where this is prevalent for most were reduced to abject poverty as a result of losing the civil war and have taken decades to rebuild. The county where I started my ministry was the wealthiest county in the whole of the USA before the civil war. It did have slaves however. It is now one of the poorest for all sectors of society! When you have a poverty situation someone who preaches a way out it is almost always welcome.
House: I live with my Dad, still.
Car: a Peugeot 106 which is just about worth a grand.
Book collection that is too big for my room, poetry society membership: Don’t actually want to think about that one.
Breasts: free, because God gave them to me.
I’m not sure if I deserve all these things, but I’m certainly happy for them!
Ros…I think you have grasp the notion of enough…when I think of what God has given me its enough…in fact it more than enough
I remembered reading this article which I found interesting
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009298.html
This was an interesting article in The Times the other week about money vs kindness. Slightly off the main point, but about what we value.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/environment/2008/10/money-versus-ki.html
Private jet?
Who would want one of those screechy whiney things?
Round Motors sound better any time.
Now, This would be LOTS more fun than that jet: http://aerofiles.com/fleet-50.jpg
A God who knows you deserve all these things……fake and plastic…just like those boobs.
Gravity always wins… looks like the real thing, tastes like the real thing, my fake plastic love… but it wears me out
“I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full”
Just gotta say, the free-standing breasts make me laugh aloud.