I think we've reached that point (which I know has a name) where I honestly can't tell if this is a satirical gag or genuine.
Meh. That happened a long time ago.
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#12As a Christian, I’m both annoyed at someone creating this and the people who will inevitably fall for it.
Why would they "inevitably fail"? I doubt this has any significant operating costs: as long as one person pays for this joke of a product, they've succeeded about as much as they possibly can. The only remaining question is how long they'll keep the site online.
fall, not fail
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#13The support for pay-over-time is a nice touch. Praise be Him.
Missed opportunity for a "pray as you go" or "monthly prayment plan" joke, but I agree.
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#14I think we've reached that point (which I know has a name) where I honestly can't tell if this is a satirical gag or genuine.
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#15The support for pay-over-time is a nice touch. Praise be Him.
But if the blockchain is truly append-only, what stops me from paying the first payment and then disappearing? Even if I pay it all upfront, what if I charge back?
Maybe it's like most other NFTs and is just a pointer to the server where the actual data is stored? If you don't pay, they can just change the prayer to "Jesus, please ignore this prayer" or something.
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#16As a Christian, I’m both annoyed at someone creating this and the people who will inevitably fall for it.
Why would they "inevitably fail"? I doubt this has any significant operating costs: as long as one person pays for this joke of a product, they've succeeded about as much as they possibly can. The only remaining question is how long they'll keep the site online.
If the number of people who call themselves Christians yet fall for charlatan televangelists is any indication, there will be people who fall for something like this too.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would they "inevitably fail"? I doubt this has any significant operating costs: as long as one person pays for this joke of a product, they've succeeded about as much as they possibly can. The only remaining question is how long they'll keep the site online.
fall, not fail
Thank you. I didn’t quite understand what they were driving at with their comment and now I see that they misread what I wrote.
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#19I think we've reached that point (which I know has a name) where I honestly can't tell if this is a satirical gag or genuine.
Seriously. I thought it was satire for sure but I started the checkout process just to be sure and it seemed real.
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#20And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagan…
Matthew 6 - what a great work
https://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/MATT+....