Former church director of finances, William Jeremiah, has been arrested for theft and fraud after $276,000 went missing from the Lakeview Wesleyan Church in Marion, Indiana. Prosecutors allege that some of the money went for a church-subsidized vasectomy.
He is accused of making transfers to his credit cards and direct payment of medical bills as well as payments on cars and motorcycles. The vasectomy was a steal at $736.
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It is not news that not every person that walks into a church does so because he is religious, believes in God, or is not a sinner.
Turley, why post this garbage here if you aren’t on an agenda of trying to make even the tiniest stupidest bit of crimes somehow reflective of religion as a whole?
Hey this would be a great line on Rachael Maddow. She could lead with it!
Maddow: “Proving once again that people in Church are just there for the singing, we have a Church employee stealing money from the Church for a ………vasectomy. We go now to our veteran reporter Richard Wolff who will tell us the nitty gritty. Tom what say you”.
Wollf: “Rachael, the world is outraged over this act and our delving into this report indicates this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg as to what happens to Church money. Indeed Rachel, it is fearsome the amount of money we are talking about in the entire religious community, shocking truly.”
Mr. Six had a vasectomy? I didn’t realize Borg needed those.
It looks like we picked up new Troll or a troll with a new name. I guess if you are going to steal money, you might as well steal it for a good reason. At lesat this felon won’t be able to procreate and his gene pool will end. That sounds like a good thing.
If they are able to recover all of the money they could put it to good use providing another 375 vasectomies for church members, perhaps more with quantity pricing.
Catholic or Protestant?
Goes to the issue of integrity of the defendant.
I think some of the Catholic priests might need vasectomies.
Turley, why post this garbage here if you aren’t on an agenda of trying to make even the tiniest stupidest bit of crimes somehow reflective of religion as a whole?
bell
1, January 11, 2009 at 11:33 am
Turley, why post this garbage here if you aren’t on an agenda of trying to make even the tiniest stupidest bit of crimes somehow reflective of religion as a whole?
bell, IMHO, these “tiniest stupidest crimes” ARE reflective of religion as a whole. What’s your point?
Bell,
Why post this garbage unless you have an agenda of hiding the truth about what happens in Church and to Church money. Oh, I forgot, information is power.
Want some real fun?
Google “attorney convicted” or “attorney lied” and scan the thousands of pages of results.
bell
You’ve reached that point where trolls ultimately arrive where my liberal compassion compels me to be embarrassed for you (even if you don’t have the common sense or self-respect to be embarrassed yourself) for your increasingly innane posts. You must be so desperate for attention that seeing your name printed anywhere is more important than the “thoughts” that don’t go into them.
Want some real fun?
Google “attorney convicted” or “attorney lied” and scan the thousands of pages of results.
Sure beats picking out a story or two about a person nickel diming a church when the usual take for a crooked attorney (one out of every six) is hundreds of thousands.
Google “attorney convicted” or “attorney lied” sure beats a nickel dime story about a church thief when the usual take for a crooked attorney (one out of every six!) is hundreds of thousands of dollars!
Bell has a point. Attorneys are ruining this nation by taking the 1% problem, suing over it, making a livilihood doing it, then 100% of America is screwed with the results of the lawsuit.
There are simple steps to increase the security of your churches finances but it is difficult to know where to start. I recently found out about a Christian Accounting firm that offers online tools and support for churches. They have some excellent resources as well as an online questionnaire that will determine whether your church is at risk. Their service is called Weeds in the Garden.