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      You can easily steal a wheelchair (like taking stroller from a candy-eating pos baby) … but I would never steal (or rent for that matter) a whellchair, out of respect. And practicality, it’s daily usefulness is just unimaginable.

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      It really destroys the bit if you leave with the wheelchair so what happens to it is anybody’s guess

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    Maybe add a few tricks, make your soles catch fire as you walk away, lights flicker, and the candles go out.

    Maybe your faith will cure someone else on a wheelchair in that church too, and they just stand up & walk away whilst their head does epic 360s …

    \m/

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    1. join church and fake disability for 6 months.

    2. Get ‘healed’

    3. ???

    4. Profit (now you lead a cult)

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      it would NOT shock me if you could actually create your own cult by doing exactly that in an already established cult.

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        Back in the 90s there was a scourge of ponzi schemes and investment scams etc going through churches. Honestly we probably wouldn’t even have the acronym MLM if it wasn’t for Christians.

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          oh totally. I went to a few with some group called Lexus (not the car). I let them blabber, eat my breakfast (1-1 meeting, they paid) and left right after.

          had another one, full on interview with a company. 12 others in the room… thought it was weird but I was a teen… they said I had to pay for training… stood up, verbalized how scammy that was and almost the whole room cleared out right after me.

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    Alright one of you who know whats up, whats the deal with lucifer and satan? They’re different figures, right? Whats with the christians using them interchangeably? And why dont they throw Mammon into the ‘same guy’ umbrella term of ‘the devil’ too?

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      No, Lucifer and Satan are the same entity. Satan’s name before he was cast out of heaven for heresy was Lucifer.

      Other figures like Baphomet, Mammon, Beelzebub, etc were pagan gods that Christianity coopted into being devils controlled by Satan to cause people to stray from God.

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      as I understand it Satan is officially a title and means something like “the adversary”, and Lucifer got this title after being cast out of heaven

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        Lucifer was just farrying light (ferre lucis - the bringer of light), but that just means morning star/Venus.

        But like all such texts and oral traditions the dude had several previous roles via random translations, misrememberings, story evolution, several distinct religions, mashups of all those, etc.

        I mean, look at this

        wiki/Lucifer