So, an evangelemarketer?
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 on there and assumed it was one of those Vatican 1 Pius Xth leaning sites.
I am left with only a patchwork of impressions from my time at collage.
Oh, this got bumped? Okay, I can share, then: the night my husband was moved from regular inpatient to the ICU, 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!
Oh. Well, the “unreasonable faith” blog on that site is pretty atheistic.
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. 
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Holy crap, I just got phonevangelized, too!
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:
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?
Yes, it is against the rules. I totally sympathize, though.
God sure isn’t choosy when he picks his spokespeople, is he?
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!