From the Preachers ’n’ Sneakers Instagram account, which calls out supposedly ‘humble men of God’ sporting outrageously expensive footwear and leggings.
Someone had to take a stand.
MORE: Greedy Preachers (Eat Liver)
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From the Preachers ’n’ Sneakers Instagram account, which calls out supposedly ‘humble men of God’ sporting outrageously expensive footwear and leggings.
Someone had to take a stand.
MORE: Greedy Preachers (Eat Liver)
When my parents became godless heathens when I was a kid, one of the reasons they cited was the preacher’s wife’s massive fur coat, clearly bought with everyone’s 20% tithings. Some things never change.
The holy man in pics 1 & 9 seems to spend on shoes, that which is saved on socks.
And alternative trousers.
Walk a mile in another man’s really expensive shoes before you judge them etc.
No vow of poverty with those preachers then I take it.
Some US churches are absolutely despicable, with a policy of the more you pay, the more you get back.
https://boingboing.net/2018/12/14/megachurch-pastor-struggles-to.html
One of those men of god, Joel Osteen, reluctantly opened his megachurch to be used as a shelter during storm Harvey, only caving after massive public pressure.
The “Prosperity Gospel” is vile.
The shoes of the fisherman, by Gucci.
The most repulsive collection of sports shoes I’ve ever seen. The black pair are okay though, but 500% overpriced
The Jordans aren’t bad. I can’t imagine it’d be too easy to walk in the ones with the big heal jutting out the back.
Expensive they may be; but then the Walking-on-Water function cost a lot to develop.
That last slipper seems to belong with the dog, not god.
pretty disingenuous to use prices from stockx, being a website for the ‘resale’ of sneakers and other clothing items and thus rarely representing the actual retail price of same, but point taken all the same
Also, the last pair comes with a free tiger, which has to be worth a few quid.
The one who appears multiple times with the hipster glasses, he’s the image of Elon Musk.
I bought a pair of Docs about 6 weeks ago, €170
I’m still thinking about it
It’s a lot, for a pair of shoes like, even decent ones
And I had a €130 voucher
but still
€170
that would have bought almost 6 pairs of my last shoes, 6 pairs of shoes could see me out the rest of my life
unless there’s a fire or a shoe thief
American protestants believe that everything good that happens to them, being born white wealthy and in America is goods gift. If they err or make a mistake it’s god challenging them, they’ll do better.
Pure self centered religion.