Maybe flexing on your church isn't the way to keep a low profile? Want to support me further? I now have a Patreon. / kirayt ------------------------------------------------------------ #blingbishop #videoessay #documentary
Depends what they tell you. Part of The PG is the concept of 'trickle down economics" i.e. you're going to get rich because I am. Just what desperate people want to hear.
You know I atleast appreciate you being honest, there are so many liars CLAIMING to be Christian who couldn't show you where the word "Christian" is in the Bible much less anything else other than something they can pervert to substantiate mooching and bumming from others. Atleast you are honest about who you are, those people, just religious hypocrites that are high on theirself and give nothing but bad exmaples making those of us who are believers in Jesus Christ's word look bad, but if they don't have the fruits of the Spirit that Galatians chapter 5 teaches about then they are lost. The Bible commands teachers/preachers to work and eat their own bread, any of them pimping out teachings to get your money is a false teacher 1st Thessalonians chapter 2 and 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3, Paul said if they won't work and eat their own bread then they shouldn't eat at all, just lazy busybody moochers. Paul who wrote most of the New Testament, he didn't take pay for teaching, he worked night and day, he said he had power to ask to be supported but he chose to be a better ensample for the rest of CHRISTIANS to follow that we be not chargeable to the brethren. If they teach for money it's because they love money not the Lord Jesus Christ, there are so many people using God's name in vain to get that easy money, they sell out their own souls, 1 Timothy chapter 6 talks about "for the love of money is the root of ALL evil" and how people error from the faith with that love of money, they don't love the truth. The truth don't sell nearly as well as lies do. I can sit and eat with someone that says they don't believe but I will not and cannot sit with someone that claims to be a Christian but isn't.
@@Avg-Usrpoliticians are different, literally every single one of them is a criminal and you’re lying to yourself if you think otherwise regardless of their party color. Literally all we can do at this point is pick their lesser damaging option
@@TheThreatenedSwan Oh the sheer naivety of this comment. Megachurch and televangelist pastors are known for being corrupt and consumed by greed. Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Jim Bakker, Jesse Duplantis, Mike Murdock, and plenty more liars, fraudsters and greedy "holy men". Looking to start something that isn't there due to vacuous ignorance and unwillingness to recognize confirmation bias. There are constant scandals regarding pastors of every Christian denomination. The pattern you're looking at is marked on the forehead of every group, but you prefer to ignore and point fingers.
Bling bishop: "thou shalt not steal". Good thing it's a donation But seriously let's hope he gets the maximum of each sentence and gets all his assets seized
He got 9 years in prison, three years of supervised release after it and was ordered to pay $85,000 in restitution and forfeit $95,000, so he'll be as rich and back to his antics in nine years, unless they let him out on parole earlier.
As someone who worked at churches (audio engineer) it never surprises me when pastors turn out to be sleazebags. I remember one morning before a service a denominationally famous pastor who was guest preaching was chatting with me after soundcheck chuckled and said "I've been doing this more than 30 years and I've never met a pastor that always wanted to be a pastor, it's people who screw up so bad in life it's really the only option they have left that become pastors". That always stuck with me because he said it so casually and after that I realized he was spot on; the head pastor at the church I was working at had gone to seminary as a means of laying low after ripping off the cartel, and the other regular pastor there had the most vague past for someone over 50 I've ever heard, he was just driving around casually somewhere and decided to become a pastor according to him, and he also had a wife and kid but they went to a different church? its hard to explain in a YT comment but after a while I realized he was either in witness protection or was on the run 😂 From then on I looked up the guest pastors too and one of them had done a huge bid after setting his kids on fire while they were sleeping, another had been indicted for bribing judges in an election fraud scandal...and like, just look at the catholics churchs coverups too, 99% of these guys are wolves in a sheep's skin and it blows my mind how much people just...trust them, sure take the kids on a ski trip, give them thousands of dollars for church expansion projects (and buy them a new car in the process) I'd sooner trust bernie madoff with managing my investment portfolio than I'd trust any pastor at any local american church, small or not
It's a business sure some fortune tellers reading tarot cards are deluded enough to think they can actually do it but the majority know it's bs and just do it for the grift and the pastors are the exact same but more culturally accepted scammers.
@@chickenlittle5095 It's because they are assholes, who have no self-accountability. It is easier for them to shift the blame on religion. In those situation they say god told them to do it, to absolve themselves of any responsibility. Then use their religious superiority to shift the blame - it's societies fault for detaining me because they are godless heathens or ignorant and don't know gods plan. They also re-offend often because they unlike others, do not see it as their feck up - that followed with consequences. They go in thinking they did nothing wrong, that they are in the right, and it's everyone else who is wrong. Thus when they come out there is 0 reason to change their behaviour.
I can't wrap my head around the concept of the words "prosperity gospel" being used in the same sentence. Now, the subject of this video isn't preaching under that specific doctrine, but clearly, he was preaching something very similar.
Unfortunately, most people do associate pastors with wealth. Not because its true, but because of the outliers that are the most famous pastors and that teach a prosperity doctrine which is not only antithetical to the gospel, but justifies their greed to their congregation.
That's a developing nation (Nigeria, South Africa, the US, etc) thing. Europeans don't generally believe in the fairy tales anymore, so churches are falling into disrepair. Kira is from the UK and we really don't have the blingy priests here :)
@@TheUltimateBlooper The developing countries have to deal with the blight that is Christian missionaries coming from the West to bother them. Europe is 76.6% Christian, the chances of the % of reaching zero are near impossible. We have the U.S. to thank for birthing televangelism that made so many greedy pastors rich even to the present. Now it's everywhere else, wreaking havoc.
It's so funny to hear "$500,000 house" and think at one time that was an expensive nice house.. now a days that place would likely be $1.5 million or more.
Oh please. The IRS is staggeringly underfunded and understaffed, and can’t look into anyone for anything. And that’s exactly how the Lamonts and Trumps of the world like it.
American spotted then. That's not how it works in Europe - the churches are in disrepair here because people don't generally believe in the cult (religion) anymore, only the developing nations (like the US or Nigeria) still cling to the fairy tales.
@@jonathangrafton4016 Where do bureaucrats get their money? Do you pay taxes? Are you cutting the IRS a check to make up the difference so you pay your fair share? Or are you motivated by malicious envy like most people who push for more taxes?
Some of the biggest Grifters and Sickos call themselves Men and Women of God. Bible Lore encourages leaders of The Flock to be humble and nurturing but I guess this guy and other preachers like him (especially those in MegaChurches or Prosperity Preachers...) forgot all about that. As well as the Commandments: YOU SHALL NOT LIE and YOU SHALL NOT STEAL.
Hopefully this doesn’t get taken out of context (bit of a worrywart I am, and please excuse the possible rant/ramble) But even the Bible warns of folk like these, iirc, akin to the false prophets. These grifting hooligans, to me at least, are part of what make Christian’s, Catholics, what have you, bear such a bad rep and it does sicken me. Even online with the vitriol against them and I feel like these blinged out pastors are part of why such vitriol exists. The Bible, as I said before and going off of memory here, does warn of these grifters, even the very commandments themselves as you stated say to not lie and steal. This man in the video is just one of these “pastors” who can’t be trusted due to his actions.
what I don't get is the followers, if you see a preacher going against what is said in your scriptures so badly why still follow and donate? how do you reconcile someone flaunting and hoarding their wealth with them being men and women of faith? don't you stop and think for 5 seconds that something just isn't right? don't you read your scriptures?
The law should go after his wife too because I am sure she was very much aware of what her husband was doing and benefitted from his criminal activity.
This just part of a much larger scam that preys upon a huge number of marginalized and vulnerable people, and it’s frequently not on such a large scale, but every bit as damaging.
@@yourfake915 yeah and pablo escobar gave money to the poor too to help buy their votes and public support so he would not get prosecuted for his crimes. the catholic church still has a lot of work to do before it can even begin thinking about breaking even on a moral scale rofl
@@yourfake915 wonder how they can afford all of that. Also schools are mainly for propaganda to make more money, and nursing homes are used as ways to trick elders to will them their whole possessions
Thanks for sharing this story. It's important that people know about the Bling Bishops of the world. We have a lot of this going on in our megachurches here in the US. Sadly, people buy into it because they want to feel good and are manipulated by others looking to steal from them in the name of a god.
I always hate when someone steals from any religion group or uses it to hide their own bad activities. Dude somehow read and yet understood nothing he was preaching.
@asksearchknock Completely wrong. The main point from the very start in the very first centuries is that Jesus Christ was God. Many prophecies from the Old Testament described EXACTLY where he would be born, the circumstances of the place he would be born in, and exactly the way he would be punished for our sins even though he was sinless. His holy resurrection on the third day is the biggest thing. And those "Ancient Scrolls" you're talking about still exist and haven't invalidated at all Jesus being God. So please stop lying.
Thats what religion is there for, you preach to the fantasy teapot in space called god and donate money to some "holy" "insitiution" or "messiah" so you feel better about yourself cause you have to be so ignorant that you cant accept it that we dont have all the answers to everything yet and that neither you or anyone else knows what comes after death. Pretty simple but hey lets rather make fictional friends like a kid.
@@asksearchknock As a Christian myself, I frequently have to remind others that what Jesus died on the stack for was NOT because he claimed to be God. Even the Jews didn’t claim that when they got the Roman Governor to hang him. Their argument was that Jesus claimed to be God’s Son. That was the “blasphemy” they clutched their pearls at, NOT that Jesus claimed to be Almighty God. It makes his sacrifice all the more heart wrenching when you realize God “sent his only-begotten son” into the world to die to 1) Answer Satan’s claim, and 2) To die in place of sinful mankind. What choices we make in life will determine whether we will benefit from that sacrifice or not. A Son died on that day (a perfect man), not Almighty God who “cannot die”.
Prosperity gospel is very popular amongst a certain type of person. I absolutely conflate ostentatious & flashy wealth with that type of religious person.
What do you think "religious" followers ask for most? Forgiveness. What is the purpose of a pastor? To illuminate the path to forgiveness. What kind of people are willing to "donate" to a man like this when seeking "forgiveness"? Think about that.
He was sentenced today 6.17.2024. He got 108 months, 9 years with 3 years of supervised probation. Mother karma came, saw, and went. He needed to get more time, the devil.
"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and render unto God what is God's" doesn't just talk about separation of Church and state when it comes to money, it's saying that Earthly wealth and luxuries have no sway over God, and so when a self-proclaimed "Christian" is flexing wealth and using tithes and the like on luxuries instead of on the Church and spreading his word, they're not doing God's work. They're the false-profits Jesus warned us about.
.... Imagine being such a mindless NPC that you would actually give someone like this your money. Remember all the money that this guy made were willing voluntary donations. That's the terrifying part.
As a Christian and son of a pastor I’m so disgusted by the prosperity gospel narrative. Preying on desperation and vulnerability to build “your” utopia. The church came to serve! Not to be served! Literally the life of JESUS
Matthew 19:23-24 ESV [23] And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. [24] Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
I just had to write this to say this man Lamar M. Whitehead came from out of prison after doing five years and decision he's going to be a pastor but who's he's pastoring? His church was a joke rented beat up over a store front with under twenty members. smhnd So the Title should say "A Con man from Prison come out Preaching & now back to Prison for Fraud" and the only people that followed this man were the blind and if the Blind led the blind, how many will fall it a ditch? All! amen
How could you NOT look at him & tell he’s a lover of self & the world. The last thing on his agenda is saving souls. If you’re spiritually in tune, you’d see this “man of God” was NOT sent here by God. I knew watching that “robbbery” video that it was staged. Chaos upon chaos.
I was in the church for most of my life. My mother got hit with an IRS issue. I was going to help her by sending money every month, It would be gone in a year. I called the pastor that I knew and trusted for about 5 years for advice. He said I shouldn't give her money, but instead should give it to the church. Just no. Thanks for nothing. Never looked back.
I am a combat preacher. I preach bout slingshot David and how all of us can defeat Goliath. Also, like my man Nino Brown, I give turkey to my whole community. Even on Ramadan, turkeys are flying off of my truck. David is king and remember God did... 🙏
There are some devout people watching this video shocked at the behaviour of this man of God, but fall prey to their own money hungry demon every Sunday. The devil is everywhere, even at the pulpit!
He'd taken money from the church He'd stuffed his bank account with righteous dollar bills But even still I can't say much Because I know we're all the same Oh yes, we all seek out to satisfy those thrills
Probability dictates that there must be trustworthy pastors out there, but I find it hard to believe. Nowadays, it seems abnormal for a man of the cloth to not be doing something shady behind the scenes.
Here in Australia, the police can actually seize assets if you cannot prove you obtained them lawfully. Let's say I have been receiving unemployment benefits for the last 10 years, and before that, I only worked a minimum-wage job for a few years after school. Now, if I own a fleet of BMWs and live in a multimillion-dollar home, the police can ask, "How did you afford this on your income?" If I cannot prove I obtained those assets lawfully, they would be seized and become property of the government. It's a good law. If someone has a large amount of wealth and cannot show it was lawfully obtained, it is likely the proceeds of crime. This means even the successful criminals in Australia cannot openly spend their money without attracting the attention of law enforcement. If police can link any asset as proceeds of crime they will seize it. If you cannot show you obtained it lawfully they will seize it. The assets will be auctioned off and the proceeds will go to the Government.
He's a disgrace to the body of Christ. Looking the way that he dos it's a no wonder he got robbed. Can't people see through this guy he's nothing but a scammer.
He says people are jealous because of his wealth. A true Christian's isn't because God said build your treasures up in heaven not on earth where it can rust and thrives can steel it. He already got a taste of being robbed.
