{"id":137270,"date":"2018-10-04T00:23:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T06:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/04\/why-does-a-preacher-need-a-private-jet.html"},"modified":"2018-10-04T00:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T06:23:13","slug":"why-does-a-preacher-need-a-private-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/04\/why-does-a-preacher-need-a-private-jet.html","title":{"rendered":"Why does a preacher need a private jet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may mock! But there are many, many, <i>many<\/i> good reasons why your donations to megapreachers like Rev. Copeland and Rev. Duplantis go to private jets. Such as &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; You can&#39;t stand up in the middle of a <i>commercial flight<\/i> and talk with God. Jesus clearly ran into this problem all the time!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; If you fly with the hoi-polloi, the keep coming up to you and demanding <i>healing.<\/i> Yeah, Jesus had to beat them off with a stick on all of his public appearances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Demons! Demons infest public airline flights! And Jesus would clearly have chosen a different option rather than confronting demons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Being able to travel anywhere, at will, is critically important to God&#39;s work. Why, if Jesus had had a private jet, imagine what He could have done! And, jeez, it make you wonder how Paul managed to get all of <i>his<\/i> preaching done without having a private ship to cruise the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>Whited Sepulchres like this (among other things) give Christianity a bad name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AdH2DGSXjss' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/PNvCCV4eeiB'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may mock! But there are many, many, many good reasons why your donations to megapreachers like Rev. Copeland and Rev. Duplantis go to private jets. Such as &#8230; &#8230; You can&#39;t stand up in the middle of a commercial flight and talk with God. Jesus clearly ran into this problem all the time! &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/04\/why-does-a-preacher-need-a-private-jet.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why does a preacher need a private jet?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47964,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/on-politicians-as-people-and-as-demons.html","url_meta":{"origin":137270,"position":0},"title":"On politicians as people and as demons","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Nov-14 10:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In our era of political demonization, there are only two alternatives: someone is on Our Side, and therefore is wise, witty, funny, and admirable -- or else someone is on Their Side, and therefore is foolish, clumsy, annoying, and reprehensible.Which is clearly a false dichotomy, because not only is there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4248,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/08\/calling_in_mark.html","url_meta":{"origin":137270,"position":1},"title":"Calling in markers","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Oct-03 3:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am morally bound not to hate anyone. 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