If Only Pulpit Pimps Would Have Such a Crisis of Conscience…

Earlier this week an unidentified man was caught on security camera footage praying with a woman before he robbed her [HERE]. Those familiar with the prosperity gospel see this all of the time when a wolf such as Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland, or Benny Hinn pray with people before raping them for every dime they can get.

However, where this story takes an unfamiliar turn (especially to the High Priests of Mammonianity mentioned above) is that the man in the surveillance video was so overcome with guilt he turned himself in to the authorities.

Police said Smith apologized to the cashier for his actions but went ahead with his robbery even after praying with her.

“He said that he hated to have to do this, but times were hard and he had no choice,” cashier Angela Montez, 43, told police, according to a police report. Montez began crying when she realized the man’s intentions, she told police. She began to talk to the man about God, she said, telling him he still had a chance to refrain from committing the crime.

The man told Montez he had a 2-year-old child to support and then asked her to pray with him about overcoming his hardships. The two got down on their knees and prayed, remaining there for nearly 10 minutes, police said.

In response to the woman’s kindness, the man took a bullet out of his handgun and gave it to her, according to the report, telling the clerk it was his only bullet and promising not to hurt her. He then asked Montez for a hug.

Despite the heart-to-heart talk, the man was not dissuaded from his plans. He took the woman’s cell phone and told her to go into the restroom and to refrain from calling police for 20 minutes.

OK. I’m going to leave alone the fact that dude prayed with a woman before robbing her, gave her a bullet, and asked for a hug, because that’s so messed up it hardly needs commentary. And just how much supporting of a two-year-old can you do with 20 bucks?

However, I will dream that one day “pastors” like Dollar, Hinn, Copeland, and their ilk will either be outlawed or have heaping coals poured on their heads until they have a crisis of conscience so drastic that they repent in sackcloth and ashes for the many persons they have raped and pillaged for their “ministry” in the name of Jesus.