# Praise The Lord™, I am free. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-the-lord-i-am-free/629025 "2012-07-22T04:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-the-lord-i-am-free/629025/21 "2012-07-22T18:02:35Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > O.K., I understand a little better now. I had assumed that this was somebody that you went to a lecture of his, and you stuck around for hours listening to his ridiculous claims in that lecture. There actually are such people. They arrange to give lectures to Christian groups telling about how they saved women and children from slavery (or some such bizarre feats), even though they’ve never remotely been close to any such activities. They get a boost to their egos from these lectures and often make a lot of money from them. > > You mean that you were either on a date with this guy or that you met him in some situation where you couldn’t get away quickly. In this case, we’re not likely to ever find ourselves in a situation where we could meet him, thankfully. Thanks for telling us about him in any case. So I guess the art of quickly exiting from a date or a personal conversation is useful. It was a little like being held captive in a lecture, but no, it was not a lecture of any ‘official’ nature. I was working alone with the guy all day. What’s scary is he is _exactly_ the kind of guy that would put on the kind of scam you are describing if it would occur to him. He’s already scammed people out of money for martial arts classes, for example. Even if I weren’t already aware of the scams his overwhelming need to make sure everyone knows he’s a Christian that LOVES GOD (ad nauseum) would make me incredibly suspect. Incidentally, when I arrived home yesterday there was a 60 page “The Gospel of Jesus Christ According to John & Romans” pamphlet stuffed in my door, courtesy of a local church. The same church where the minister was arrested for sexual abuse of children. His anti-women son-in-law is the new pastor. It’s like I’m being stalked by Jesus. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-the-lord-i-am-free/629025/22 "2012-07-25T03:23:35Z")
Oh. When you said “Praise The Lord™,” I thought maybe you were talking about the program on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). I grew up watching that drivel. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-the-lord-i-am-free/629025/23 "2012-07-25T04:08:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Oh. When you said “Praise The Lord™,” I thought maybe you were talking about the program on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). I grew up watching that drivel. I apologize for the lack of clarity - “The Lord” was the TM part, and I used it that way because it seemed less like a genuine spiritual expression and more like a tool used to bludgeon me into a false sense of security and overwhelm me with admiration and respect that he then wasn’t required to earn. I think I was supposed to be twitterpated. Didn’t work 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-the-lord-i-am-free/629025.md?page=1)