Monday, August 24, 2015
Must be something in the TV rays
Last week John Oliver did an expose of Television Christohustlers whom the IRS has failed to properly oversee. And part of his schtick, he revealed that he was the head of the new church of Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption.
In just one week, John Oliver has received thousands of dollars in donations for Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, the ministry the HBO host said he founded to draw attention to the tax-free practices of prosperity gospel churches.More responses than expected. Either people will send money to any request from television, even when they know it is false or his viewers responded to the notice that "Doctors without Borders" would receive anything left if and when he dissolved his church. I like to think it is the second reason.
“And we asked you to send us money at this address,” Oliver said, displaying a P.O. box number on the screen during Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight.”
“To be honest,” he added, “slightly more of you responded than we were expecting.”
Oliver, moving into the pseudo-reverend character he uses to speak about his new ministry, then displayed a large pile of letters (and at least one FedEx package), surrounded by several U.S. Postal Service bins filled with additional donations.
There were thousands of letters in all, he said, equaling thousands of dollars in donations.
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