# I just got Televangelized. WT-everlovingF?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 1, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115 "2012-08-01T23:04:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/41 "2012-08-15T03:53:49Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#):
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> Nitpick: a televangelist is an evangelist who conducts religious ceremonies on TV. The OP got hit by an evangelist who uses telemarketing techniques, which is a whole different obnoxious critter.
So, an evangelemarketer?
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### Author:  [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/42 "2012-08-15T13:20:14Z")
I don’t think Patheos is an atheist website, it is run by a non-practicing Catholic and an Evangelist. I just recently read [this](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/ayn-rand-and-paul-ryan) on there and assumed it was one of those Vatican 1 Pius Xth leaning sites.
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### Author:  [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/43 "2012-08-15T14:15:52Z")
I am left with only a patchwork of impressions from my time at collage.
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/44 "2012-08-15T18:52:07Z")
Oh, this got bumped? Okay, I can share, then: the night my husband was [moved from regular inpatient to the ICU](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=661847), I came home to find two messages on his cell phone: an “OMG I heard you’re sick!?!” message from an old friend we thought we’d lost to the cosmos … and one of the ones in the OP.
I just got told my husband - the only person I really care about in this whole world\*\* - might very well _ **die** _, and now I have to hear, “Are you facing dark times … ?” :mad:
\*\* No offence, Dopers. 😛
Heck, I’m glad this thread had been started earlier. If I hadn’t seen it, I might very well have completely lost my shit. As it was, I went, “Oh, _that’s_ what that thread was about.” So - thanks for the heads-up that this garbage is going around!
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/45 "2012-08-15T20:48:36Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#):
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> I don’t think Patheos is an atheist website, it is run by a non-practicing Catholic and an Evangelist. I just recently read [this](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/ayn-rand-and-paul-ryan) on there and assumed it was one of those Vatican 1 Pius Xth leaning sites.
Oh. Well, the “unreasonable faith” blog on that site is pretty atheistic.
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### Author:  [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/46 "2012-08-15T22:41:47Z")
I was raised pretty damn evangelical, but I really really wasn’t expecting anything like that. I suppose if I was putting Chick tracts on poor unfortunate shriners’ cars while they were at their meetings twenty years ago, then this is par for the course now.
I just couldn’t believe they actually left their spiel as a phone message.
I think **evangelimarketer** is a pretty accurate description of the process. I’m sure there was some sort of hook if I’d listened long enough. Either a church invitation or a push to “tithe” to somewhere that sounds either vaguely sinister or totally inane and non-religious. (ie “The Smiting Arm of the Lord” or “Family Ministries”)
Also, I have to share that my vaguely animist (totally unfamiliar with Christianity) husband was introduced to the Screaming Preacher after this thread - I had totally forgotten about that nutball, and husband was properly traumatized. 😃
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/47 "2012-08-16T14:15:51Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#):
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> I don’t think Patheos is an atheist website, it is run by a non-practicing Catholic and an Evangelist. I just recently read [this](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/ayn-rand-and-paul-ryan) on there and assumed it was one of those Vatican 1 Pius Xth leaning sites.
It hosts a variety of blogs about religion and faith from an assortment of different perspectives. I read some of the Pagan blogs on it.
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### Author:  [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/48 "2012-08-16T18:16:45Z")
> [@Lasciel](#):
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> **ring ring ring**
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> **Didn’t get to the phone in time…**
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> **voicemail message beep**
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> **boop boop boop, be boop**
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> Yes, yes, I want to listen to my damn message. Stupid phone.
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> "…with our prayer warriors standing by 24/7 to mediate for you with our Lord and Savior - "
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> **pulls phone away from ear, shakes it, listens again**
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> “… having financial troubles? Your spouse or children testing your authority? Contact the **blanked because I honestly don’t remember** Faith Center, and talk to our prayer warriors. We are standing by to help God help you.”
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> **looks suspiciously at phone again**
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> “Find that God is your ever-present help in time of trouble, your shelter from the storm, _yadda yadda_ Call right now and we will pray with you to overcome your-”
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> **takes phone to husband to let him listen**
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> **cracks up while watching husband’s face**
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> WTF?
Where do you live? I got the same message. Part of me thinks it cant possibly be serious and that its some sort of push polling (just cant figure out from which side)
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/49 "2012-08-16T19:09:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> Also, I have to share that my vaguely animist (totally unfamiliar with Christianity) husband was introduced to the Screaming Preacher after this thread - I had totally forgotten about that nutball, and husband was properly traumatized. 😃
It’s always fun to traumatize our nearest and dearest. My husband will no longer trustingly open links that I send to him, even if I swear that they are safe for work, unless I also swear that he won’t be Scarred For Life.
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### Author:  [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/50 "2012-08-16T21:56:57Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> Where do you live? I got the same message. Part of me thinks it cant possibly be serious and that its some sort of push polling (just cant figure out from which side)
South Carolina. Weirdest damn polling trick I’ve ever heard of, if that’s actually what it is.
I’m pretty certain that it’s just as straightforward as it appears - some church or Christian ministry has bought a whole bunch of people’s phone numbers to try and “reach people for Christ” in the newest and most totally obnoxious way they can dream up.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/51 "2012-08-17T10:24:27Z")
> [@Lasciel](#):
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> South Carolina. Weirdest damn polling trick I’ve ever heard of, if that’s actually what it is.
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> I’m pretty certain that it’s just as straightforward as it appears - some church or Christian ministry has bought a whole bunch of people’s phone numbers to try and “reach people for Christ” in the newest and most totally obnoxious way they can dream up.
Could have bought a used war dialer like PhoneSweep or the like in an office junk sale and decided to use it. Actually I would be willing to bet there are freeware war dialers out there for VOIP.
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/52 "2012-08-28T22:36:57Z")
Holy crap, I just got phonevangelized, too!
Time to registry this number, I guess.
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### Author:  [@Shoujin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoujin)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/53 "2012-08-28T22:59:34Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#):
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> Holy crap, I just got phonevangelized, too!
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> Time to registry this number, I guess.
I’m in MA, on vacation, and they called me TWICE!
I never thought vacationing in Massachusetts would be e most difficult time in my life! :eek:
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### Author:  [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/54 "2012-08-30T13:45:04Z")
Both my wife and I got called on our cell phones with what sounds like the same thing.
God told this dude I was having troubles (or something like that) and God wants him to pray for me. I always assumed that if God wanted to contact me he would do so directly or through one of the 3 ministers in my family.
It doesn’t help that when my phone rang with the “not a number in my contacts” ringtone I thought it was an update on my grandfather’s heart surgery. I was even thinking of pitting the call myself.
Mods:
Would it be against board rules to list the number?
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/55 "2012-08-30T21:55:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> Mods:
> Would it be against board rules to list the number?
Yes, it is against the rules. I totally sympathize, though.
God sure isn’t choosy when he picks his spokespeople, is he?
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### Author:  [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-televangelized-wt-everlovingf/630115/56 "2012-09-22T12:01:44Z")
If they stopped to think of it: any Supreme Being who knows all things, is all loving etc. that they claim to believe, then God doesn’t need to be told what is going on, or will go on, or what a person needs. To me it is like making a child beg for it’s food. A good father (or parent) that knows a child’s needs ahead of time, doesn’t keep anything from the child that is for it’s good, nor give anyhring that would be harmful. It seems like a lack of trust!
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