# Lyin' for the Lord!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyin-for-the-lord/633937>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 7, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyin-for-the-lord/633937 "2012-09-07T01:36:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyin-for-the-lord/633937/1 "2012-09-07T01:36:51Z")

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[Prayer regrows amputated fingers! No Really! This guy said so!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmH1YggCQ7Y&feature=relmfu)

Sweet mother of pearl. He can’t even get through the horsepuckey he’s spouting without sputtering and stammering, it’s such a laughable load of crap. I’m picturing a 5-year-old telling this story on the playground to his wide-eyed friends; the idea that a grown man expects grown people to believe this shit is amazing.

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**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyin-for-the-lord/633937/2 "2012-09-07T14:22:51Z")

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So…anyway.

Does anyone know who this guy is? Who watches this stuff?

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyin-for-the-lord/633937/3 "2012-09-07T14:31:10Z")

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with a name like Joyner and involving fingers, you might think it’s specialty prayer for people who took the safety guards off their wood working machines.

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**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyin-for-the-lord/633937/4 "2012-09-08T03:12:12Z")

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What he doesn’t tell you is that when he was a baby his pappy dropped him on his head and because of prayers, his brains grew back. How 'bout them apples?