Never Woulda Paid It

Recently, a clip of prosperity preacher Marvin Sapp asking for donations from his congregants, as well as those streaming at home, to the tune of $40,000.

The clip is from a conference in July of last year in Baltimore and is so inflammatory because he instructed the ushers to close the doors—which he claims was to protect everyone by being able to tithe in a safe manner—but others feel that it was him holding his parishioners hostage until the millionaire was able to collect the money.

Imagine suffering through this thing we call life and going to church to find some reprieve from your sorrows and then being coerced into “donating”$20.

Sapp does not know what people have going on, but he surely feels entitled enough to demand money from people instead of asking for it.

Black Christianity is a funny thing. Not funny in like, “haha,” but funny like, “It’s funny that Black people believe in a God that was forced upon them during slavery and somehow still think that there is immense good born from such virulent evil as if the omnipotence of God couldn’t just let Black people find the religion without being enslaved, murdered and raped.”

The greatest silver lining for our ancestors, who were forced to believe or face death, shouldn’t be that a few of them became millionaires behind that same ‘good word,’ forced down their throats, as if them bilking their own people was reparations. Prosperity preachers most certainly are correct when they preach that the Lord will ‘bless,’ but they forget to mention that it is the preachers who are only receiving it.

One could say that preachers deserve to live a good life. They are, in fact, anointed to deliver the gospel; yeah, so was Jesus, and he was dirt poor and managed to touch billions without ever making millions. Ask any bank teller on a busy Monday morning about how many checks she received from a church, and then ask her about her last deposit in that transaction and if it’s a big-ass fat check that goes into a preacher’s account.

Black people have far less disposable income than their white counterparts and yet Black leaders are still so eager in demanding asking money from their poor churchgoers and then wonder why fewer people go over time.

Marvin Sapp, T.D. Jakes, Eddie Long (Rest In Piss Eddie) and Creflo Dollar all have millions from plagiarizing remixing the same book. They are also all sh*tty people, from demanding money from people while having a net worth ONE HUNDRED TIMES that amounts to fraternizing with Diddy, sexual assault, asking congregants to help fund the purchase of a private jet, greens, beans, potatoes, you name it.

With leaders like these, where exactly are you trying to go?