# Would you expose this grieving televangelist's hypocrisy? (If hypocrisy it is.) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347 "2015-07-27T19:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/101 "2015-07-31T15:40:23Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > We are talking about a fictional woman who’s the fictional head a fictional megachurch with fictional congregants who worship a fictional god, and who had a fictional kid who fictionally died when a fictional brick fell on the fictional kid’s fictional head. Hey, are you trying to say these people aren’t real? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/102 "2015-07-31T15:48:27Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Hey, are you trying to say these people aren’t real? Actually this all happened on alternate Earth #56749876-f, where, incidentally, President Hillary Rodham was impeached by not convicted later that year for cheating on her husband, Newt Gingrich, with Halle Berry. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/103 "2015-07-31T23:25:53Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Actually this all happened on alternate Earth #56749876-f, where, incidentally, President Hillary Rodham was impeached by not convicted later that year for cheating on her husband, Newt Gingrich, with Halle Berry. On any of those worlds, are we _ **not** _ obsessed with the president’s sex life? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/104 "2015-07-31T23:40:49Z")
> [@j666](#): > > On any of those worlds, are we _ **not** _ obsessed with the president’s sex life? Earth-analogs 67903267 to 785443658, and affiliated pocket dimensions. Thanks to a certain nefarious hoser who shall remain nameless, humans there reproduce by budding. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/105 "2015-07-31T23:55:01Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Earth-analogs 67903267 to 785443658, and affiliated pocket dimensions. Thanks to a certain nefarious hoser who shall remain nameless, humans there reproduce by budding. So an underweight kid would be a Bud Lite? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/106 "2015-08-01T00:20:08Z")
> [@j666](#): > > On any of those worlds, are we _ **not** _ obsessed with the president’s sex life? > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Earth-analogs 67903267 to 785443658, and affiliated pocket dimensions. Thanks to a certain nefarious hoser who shall remain nameless, humans there reproduce by budding. Don’t get Skald started on the multi-verse! He’ll setup some kinds of scenario/poll for every damn one of them, and there’s an infinite number. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/107 "2015-08-01T01:19:13Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Don’t get Skald started on the multi-verse! He’ll setup some kinds of scenario/poll for every damn one of them, and there’s an infinite number. Common misconception. There are not an infinite number of universes, nor can there be, as the omniverse is of finite age and it takes time for new universes to bud. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/108 "2015-08-01T01:28:55Z")
We have discovered another seemingly intractable paradoxes of the universe. Skald has an infinite number of answers to any possible questions, every answer being a possible budding point for a a new universe. Yet, other theories posit a limit on the number of universes. Until this issue is resolved, um … I got nothin’ … ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/109 "2015-08-01T02:06:17Z")
I thought you meant an infinite number of polls … ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/110 "2015-08-01T07:23:55Z")
Did not even Jesus rail at God? > **[Matthew 27:46 - The Death of Jesus](https://biblehub.com/matthew/27-46.htm)** > > About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? which means, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347/111 "2015-08-01T12:11:09Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Did not even Jesus rail at God? > > [Matthew 27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"](http://biblehub.com/matthew/27-46.htm) Talking to yourself doesn’t count. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347.md?page=5)