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LANSING, Mich. – A group of friends and family is obscenely rich after winning a nearly $129 million jackpot with a lottery ticket bought at a Detroit-area porn shop. And some of the money will be devoted to sacred purposes.

Mike Greer, a member of the group, came forward Friday to claim the Powerball winnings on behalf of the others, who chose to remain anonymous. Greer — who said only that the group has more than two members and fewer than 100 — indicated some of the riches will be going to a church.

"The only thing I can assume is that the Lord trusted us to do certain things with the money that He bestowed upon us," he said. "That's the only thing that I can gather."
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Why give the money to Jesus? He'll just piss it away in no time.

CitadelGrad wrote:Why give the money to Jesus? He'll just piss it away in no time.

They should tithe like I do... I just get a bunch of cash and throw it up in the air, whatever God catches he can keep.

This story sort of reminds me about the old Art Rooney story where he came into some money and dropped some at his parish as an offering. The priest asked him if he had come by it honestly. Rooney said, "Of course! I won it on the horses!"

Giving money to the church =

That's patent hogwash, Jeff. The Church has the best alcohol and drug treatment program in history. Over 80% success rate. Most others are less than half that.

SuperHornet wrote:That's patent hogwash, Jeff. The Church has the best alcohol and drug treatment program in history. Over 80% success rate. Most others are less than half that.

Perhaps, but the downside is the attempted exorcisms you endure at every meeting.

Uh, Teen Challenge does NOT do exorcisms, Cap'n. Get your facts straight.

SuperHornet wrote:Uh, Teen Challenge does NOT do exorcisms, Cap'n. Get your facts straight.

He and I are talking about the Church, in general, Monsignor.

If the baby Jesus is so fucking great at getting to stop drinking why doesn't he just stop them from drinking in the first place?

griz37 wrote:If the baby Jesus is so fucking great at getting to stop drinking why doesn't he just stop them from drinking in the first place?

People must make the choice, that's the way He designed it to work.

griz37 wrote:If the baby Jesus is so fucking great at getting to stop drinking why doesn't he just stop them from drinking in the first place?

then, of course, there is the part where drinking alcohol (and/or "blood", depending on your point of view) is part of the church service.