Peter Popoff Stole My Money!

note:Please keep in mind my references to  god are only in order to give some perspective on things as a believer.I don't believe there is any proof of a god and therefore it/he/she/them does not exist.That would make it impossible for me to be angry at them/she/him/it so any religious people please do not get it twisted.Thanks  

There really is no doubt about it now. Peter Popoff stole my hard earned cash. I  sent him $3.00 cause I needed some debts erased and Peter assured me he was the prophet for the job. I just heard back from Peter and boy am I pissed! Here is what he sent-

Daniel, let me first say THANK YOU... for your faithful support.
Your faithful giving makes it possible to keep
this ministry doing the work of God in the
earth. . . and. . . it makes it possible for you to hook up to
the POWER OF DEBT CANCELLATION... Yes , Jesus said,
"GIVE AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU"... Your
gift of $3.00 is already working for the kingdom
of God... and working to bring you a great
harvest.

Dear Daniel, .

  I believe of all the secrets of great achievement that eminent

people have known and Jesus taught the essence is found in this ONE

thought . . . "AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART, SO IS HE."

First, I must help you understand the POWER of this insignificant

faith tool...

  The laws of the land may grant liberty and freedom to all in the

physical sense, but unless individuals take it upon themselves to

cultivate their minds in a spiritual way... they will remain in bondage

in so many areas where they should enjoy freedom.

These spiritual laws validate the importance of specialized

knowledge as well as your dreams, purposes, goals and plans. Now if you

are ready to begin your journey toward TOTAL DEBT CANCELLATION... let’s get started.

    Moses was directed by God to stretch out a rod in order to roll

back the Red Sea... David was directed by God to choose five little

stones to defeat a giant... A prophet of God was directed to cast a

certain branch into bitter waters to make them sweet... ALL OF THESE

ACTS, IN THEMSELVES DID NOT HAVE THE POWER TO BRING ABOUT THE RESULT

NEEDED . . . BUT WHAT THESE FAITH ACTS E ACCOMPLISH WAS TO CONNECT MAN’S

NATURAL LIMITATIONS WITH THE UNLIMITED SUPERNATURAL POWER OF GOD.

That's what faith acts do.

   Daniel, now in Jesus’ Name, use the enclosed eraser just as I

instruct . . . remembering "AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART, SO IS HE"... Common

logic will tell you that this eraser does not in itself have the power

to erase your debts. HOWEVER... as you and I operate in Faith... we

connect our natural limitations to a SUPERNATURAL GOD... WHO CAN DO ANYTHING.

DANIEL, YOUR VISION ULTIMATELY DETERMINES YOUR DESTINY... Oh, receive

this into your spirit. Many have visions of crystal palaces, golden

streets, but few ever translate these dreams into reality because it

requires PAINSTAKING THOUGHT AND EFFORT... ONE HAS TO HAVE NOT ONLY A

VISION... BUT ALSO FAITH, THOUGHT, AND FOCUSED ACTION... for that Vision

to become a reality. ~

NOW LET’S YOU AND I VISUALIZE... YOUR DEBT CANCELLATION... See yourself

totally DEBT FREE because Jesus Christ paid the price for your total

freedom. NOW... let's put some faith action with this vision... TAKE A

PENCIL... not a pen... but a PENCIL... and write down all of your debts.

Total them all up..

    IN JESUS’ NAME, TAKE THIS ERASER... and erase ONE each day. . . then,

as you erase each one each day, say. . . " I COVER “THIS DEBT WITH THE

BLOOD OF JESUS... AND I DEGREE IT CANCELLED... PAID IN FULL...

AS I PERFORM THIS ACT OF FAITH ....AND ERASE THESE DEBTS"

Don't stop... EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 30 days or until all your debts are

erased, CONTINUE THIS ACT OF FAITH AND MAKE THIS CONFESSION WITH HOLY

BOLDNESS...

 DANIEL, FAITH IS BEING SURE OF WHAT WE HOPE FOR AND

CERTAIN OF WHAT WE DO NOT SEE... THOSE WHO PLACE ALL OF

THEIR FAITH IN OUR LIVING GOD WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.

  Right now, put all your faith in God for the successful outcome of

your life. God now becomes your perfect conduit through which your

thoughts are channeled in regard to the formulation of your dreams,

purposes, goals and plans for DEBT CANCELLATION.

  Each time you demonstrate your faith in God through this Faith Act

by erasing your debt. . . understand, it also becomes a prayer. . . "ASK AND

YOU WILL BE GIVEN WHAT YOU ASK FOR" Prayer is simply having a mental a

and verbal conversation with your heavenly Father. THEN... you'll know

the response you will receive will be loving and true.

  No one is endowed with great faith from birth... FAITH IS SOMETHING

THAT GROWS SLOWLY CONTINUOUSLY INCREASING AS IT IS PUT INTO ACTION AND

USED... So practice your faith with me each day for the next 30 days. . .

or until each one of your debts has been erased. YES, ERASE YOUR

DEBT... ALSO, UNDERSTAND THIS IS PREPARING YOU FOR THE NEXT PROPHETIC

LEADING... -

DANIEL, THE NEXT PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUR FAITH WILL BE THE

PHASE OF EMPOWERMENT... as you continue to confess and erase debt on

paper and in your thoughts... with prayer and faith in God... God will

EMPOWER YOU TO ACHIEVE NEW HEIGHTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENT.

     Now, be honest, have you ever heard such horseshit in your life? Yea, me neither. Keep in mind Peter has no idea whether my $3.00 was needed to feed my kid or to help pay the electric bill but I was so desperate that I sent it anyway.  You know every letter if received from Peter has contained some kind of trinket or prop for me to use and pave the way for Peter asking for more money except this one acknowledging my handing over some cash. You would think  I could get a piece of gum or something for $3.00 but I got nuthin'. Peter Popoff is great with the rhetoric though isn't he? I wonder if Peter could explain one thing to me. This question is one that I've wondered about since i was a little kid. Even when I was very young it seemed to make no sense that god needed people's money. Why the hell would god need money? You would think he could at LEAST make sure the people and places people went to worship him/it/her/them had adequate funds for the bare necessities. You  would think that people who devote their entire lives to god would have some kind of medical coverage and the local  church should have some kind of spiritual disaster coverage. But they don't you hear about a church getting burned down by lightening at least a couple times a year and churches fall down in earthquakes, floodwater does not go around a church either.What's going on with that? I'll tell you what, if you apply the same logic to this question of mine as you would everything else that  exists then you would find the demand for money much the way I see Peter Popoff and his scam.. The problem is most people don't do that. Most religious people say that because its god there is a different type of logic which needs to be applied. That makes no sense, you would think god of all things would make sense sometimes, but it seems that is seldom the case.
   Peter isn't quite done with me yet so I read the rest of his latest letter...

   When the next 30 days come to an end, you, like Moses, will have grown to such a degree that empowerment will come along with a complete trust and knowing that God will meet all your needs. His purpose will be accomplished in your life and your dream of DEBT CANCELLATION WILL BECOME A REALITY...
SPIRITUAL FORCE IS STRONGER THAN MATERIAL FORCE; YOUR THOUGHTS WILL RULE YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE OF YOUR FAITH IN GOD. One thing stronger than all the armies in the world is an idea whose time has come. I say to you... THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA... THIS IS A GOD IDEA... AND THE TIME FOR ITS  FULFILLMENT HAS COME.
 

  REMEMBER, the cost of keeping this ministry reaching out to the world with compassion... continues daily... and let me say... this week your-support is greatly needed:
 

    Daniel, if God should speak to you to enclose a SPECIAL OFFERING THIS WEEK.., it will be greatly appreciated... and KNOW THIS... YOUR OFFERING aimed specifically at your desire for deliverance from this weight problem will come back to you as answered prayer and WILL ALSO BRING YOU AN ABUNDANT HARVEST!
 

  God says, vow and pay... if you have made a pledge of faith to this ministry.., then give toward the fulfillment of that faith pledge. Do what ever you can today... return your offering in the enclosed envelope. ONE MORE THING... would you please... take a pencil and WRITE YOUR DEBTS OUT ON A SEPARATE SHEET... AND GET IT BACK TO ME... I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN YOU IN THIS ACT OF FAITH...

SO, PLEASE FOLD YOUR OFFERING IN THAT SEPARATE SHEET... AND RUSH IT TO ME TODAY... THAT WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO JOIN YOU IN THIS ACT OF FAITH OVER THE NEXT 30 DAYS... AND KNOW THAT I AM STANDING WITH YOU FOR TOTAL DEBT FREE LIVING! 

Ok, so Peter Popoff has ended his thank you note with: Give me more.
Amazing, I wonder if anyone really falls for this crap. I  guess these days anything is possible. Hopefully one of those possible victims will come across my blog and it will prevent them from sending  their own cash to this parenthetic leech and my three dollars will not be wasted on buying a tin ring or some salt that will be used to steal from people who can afford it the least.

God debate, who really won? The audience.

     I watched/listened to a debate last night. It was Blair Scott, Communications Director for American Atheists up against Kyle Butt of Apologetics Press. The debate proposition was "God Does Not Exist" with Blair Scott arguing for the proposition and Kyle Butt arguing against it.
       I've heard Blair Scott speak a few times but I'd never heard of Mr Butt.
  The debate starts and Mr Butt steps up to the podium. One of the first things he mentions is that he has been trolling a certain "social site" and he came upon a comment on Blair's page. Someone had made a joke about Mr Butt on Blair's wall it seemed. Mr Butt was visibly not happy about being the butt of the joke and his comment about it was presented as if it had come from Blair or somehow been encouraged by him. Blair didn't make the comment, it was put on his facebook wall by a contact. We all know how that goes, none of us ever knows what the hell people on our friends list are going to say. If you post a perfectly innocent status next thing you know someone is telling stories about their bowel moments or some other random thing. Besides if you have the last Butt what do you think is going to happen? Do you expect people who don't know you, are never going to meet you, and probably think you are never going to read any posted comment, to pass up the painfully easy opportunity to joke about your name? Yea okay...
    After watching the displeasure flash across Mr Butt's face I thought for a moment He is using a facebook comment to put down the person he is debating about god? It seemed a bit childish to me and as he continued to speak it became clear I was right.
    Mr. Butt told his audience that Blair was sure to lose because you can not prove a negative. I almost expected him to reach out and point at Blair, cackle loudly and scream "We got you my pretty!" in a voice very much like the wicked witch. He didn't but he did ramble on for several minutes presenting arguments which have all been found to be incorrect or had still been considered 'debatable' This would have been business as usual but there was a hint of personal attack in Mr Butt's animus towards Blair. It continued through the entire debate, flaring up a couple of times.
   Mr Butt told a joke his opening came to an end. Blair Scott then started his opening. I was curious how he would address the fact that he could not win a debate where he had to prove the absolute non-existence of god.
    Then something very interesting happened. Blair admitted to losing the debate as it had been presented. He would not be trying to prove god didn't exist, he would be presenting some of the conclusions Atheists had come to and some of the counter arguments to Mr Butt's absolute claims. These would all be presented so that they could be considered by the audience. The audience would have to come to it's own conclusions. There was not going to be an Atheist standing on stage insisting everything he said was factual beyond a doubt.
   This approach was perfect for a couple reasons.
 1) If Blair had started by telling the crowd he was going to change their minds about god you would have been able to hear the minds snapping shut. He had only asked them to listen.
 2) No matter what was said from that point on, no matter how many times Mr Butt took petty shots and behaved like an egotistical prick who had all the answers. Blair was standing in front of a crowd giving them things to think about which would probably never been presented to them otherwise. Things that would help them make informed choices about their beliefs.
    I'm not going to go into the issues tossed back and forth between Blair and Mr Butt except one. Mr Butt said at one point the there were absolutes when it came to what was right and wrong. Besides showing that Mr Butt is unable to even consider another person point of view,it also showed how ignorant he is to the diversity of the world.
    Some people are going to say that Blair did not do well during this debate. While I can understand how they could come to that conclusion I found his presentation to be accurate and done with class, not by taking cheap shots at Mr Butt. Blair could have also admitted defeat and proceeded to describe exactly what kind of god the other side had shown to exist by using the bible. It would have been easy to paint the picture of a needy hypocritical being who seemed very bored and not very intelligent. That would have resulted in most of the crowd dismissing Blair as hateful or angry, the poor Atheist who just needed to find the love of jesus.
     Mr Butt gave me the impression of someone who talks to to everyone but his reflection in a condescending tone. I don't think he even one time admitted that he could be wrong. There is a saying that goes something like this "The wisest man is the one who realizes how little he knows" If Mr Butt possesses any humility at all he must be hiding it where the sun doesn't shine.

Faith in Atheists

I have added about 300 new friends on my social network page this week. the best thing about this bit of news is ....they are almost all Atheists.
Allow me to explain this just a bit.
The friends I have added are not just a good thing to me because we are all on a crusade to kill god (although a few may be)
my new friends do not make me happy because they want to crush religion (even though a few would be happy to do so)
The reason I am happy to have these new contacts is because-They think-They consider-They question.
I have a lot of friends involved in the paranormal and I enjoy them too but as I have learned from reading, listening, and real life, I have grown into a strong skeptic.
I keep an open mind when I need to,but there are so many claims and beliefs regarding the paranormal that are easily explained by science........
It makes me sad that so many people who claim to be looking for proof of an afterlife also claim be based in science when their findings could be explained be reading a high school textbook.
Now to the religion part, without getting too deeply into a subject which causes me endless questions and debate.
Atheist need facts.
One thing that has always caused me grief in all aspects of life is the phrase "just because". The words "just because" equal the same to me as someone saying "have faith"
My Atheists friends do not play the 'have faith' game.
If any of my new friends read this I am happy to have you. Keep sharing your thoughts and what makes you laugh. I have faith in you, just because you have not let me down yet....