Wiccan man wins the lottery

[Breaking Babylon]

The Maryland Lottery on Tuesday validated a winning Mega Millions ticket purchased by an accountant who teaches the Wiccan religion.

http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=1236620&nid=104

What do you guys think about this?

Personally, I say the devil is working overtime right now. It's hard to tell how many people are going to buy into that new age garbage since his 'gods' met his demands.

[Jacob4707]

The Maryland Lottery on Tuesday validated a winning Mega Millions ticket purchased by an accountant who teaches the Wiccan religion.

http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=1236620&nid=104

What do you guys think about this?

Personally, I say the devil is working overtime right now. It's hard to tell how many people are going to buy into that new age garbage since his 'gods' met his demands.

Lucky guy! Wish it were I! :) (But, one has to buy a lottery ticket to win the lottery.)

Let's see ... if I gave $1 million to our church, they would have the new building they/we need.

Then I could quit my job.

I could go to Greece for a year so I could become reasonably fluent in the language, followed by a trip to Israel for a year to do the same with Hebrew.

I'd probably still leave my socks on the floor, but my wife would probably not have to pick them up each day. :D

[paleodoxy]

Yeah, I've bought a few of those in my lifetime.

Although, when I get in a bad mood about government (which is often), and think about the innumerable wasteful ways in which my money is being used at taxpayer expense, I avoid lotto tickets like the plague...

[nutroll]

My brother is a Wiccan and lives in Maryland... Why couldn't it have been him? He owes me for all the stuff I did for him over the years... Oh well. I think it should be pointed out that I'm sure the vast majority of winners are not Wiccans, so I guess the theory that his spells worked doesn't hold a lot of water.

[SeraphimSarov]

People who are going to try Wicca in order to win the lottery are as delusional as those who actually believe they'll one day be rich from the lottery to begin with.

I also avoid the lottery like the plague. IL "governor" Rod Blagojovich takes enough of my money as it is.

[Philothei]

I never play lottery. I usually forget to play even when the amount is big... in general I find it waste of time and money. I do not understand what it has to do with the wiccans though.... they do not win it more often anyways it is random. This guy seems likely to be spending it for spreading lies and harming people's lives with false and evil beliefs and hopes. What a shame that he is mislead and will be misleading others.... and he will continue his unhealthy eating and consumeristic habbits...lol.... well... what can you do? That is life I guess. I will add him in my praying list.


God bless,
Philothei

[Khaleas]

More like Jabba the Hutt (woops did I say that?) wins the lottery! I've seen this guy in MD news before so he's not a total unknown, but I find it sad that they have to mention that he's a Wiccan when it's never said that this and this Roman Catholic for example won the lottery.
It's the fact that he's a 'teacher' of Wicca that get everyone to talk about him as a Wiccan and he said he'll use the money for teaching other people.

"Bartlett, 40, of Dundalk, said his win will allow him to devote his time to teaching people about Wicca, a nature-based religion. He said he also wants to buy a big house with a pool, but he doesn't plan to stop eating at McDonald's or buying his clothes at Wal-Mart."

[Breaking Babylon]

That's what gets me about it. I could care less how he won the lottery, it's the fact that wicca is getting all this airtime. If it was a Christian who won nobody would care.

[TrueHope]

Personally, I say the devil is working overtime right now. It's hard to tell how many people are going to buy into that new age garbage since his 'gods' met his demands.

Well, that wolf called the devil has been working over-time for quite some time now. This is just one of his newer schemes to get youngens thinkin it's a time to cast a spell on the lotto machines again. :doh:

[eoe]

Matthew 5:43-48

Love for Enemies

43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor[a (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:43-48#fen-NIV-23278a)] and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. [B]He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.


Glory to God for all things.

[Dewi Sant]

Lucky guy! Wish it were I! :) (But, one has to buy a lottery ticket to win the lottery.)

Let's see ... if I gave $1 million to our church, they would have the new building they/we need.

Then I could quit my job.

I could go to Greece for a year so I could become reasonably fluent in the language, followed by a trip to Israel for a year to do the same with Hebrew.

I'd probably still leave my socks on the floor, but my wife would probably not have to pick them up each day. :D


Naughty ye!

Give every cent to the Church and live the life of a hermit. ;)

edit:
But first of all, get a flight over to Europe so you can be a travelleing hermit and go to Israel and Greece :)

[Lotheriel]

oooo If I won, I would go and travel Eastern Europe and help orphanages over there.

Well, SOMETHING has to pay for my flight :D

Oh yeh and I would buy a car for my parents. Good use, huh?

[Shubunkin]

If I could win that much money, the best use for it is to build Orthodox Churches all over this country. All that is possible with that amount. :)

[Dewi Sant]

If I got that amount of money, I would build the monastery of my literal dreams.

honestly! I dreamt of a Monastery being built in Wales last night.

It was beautiful.
Yes, it was modern, but the chapel was quite similar to that of the chapel in the Tower of London, sort of Norman Romanesque. (I don't personally see it as a good thing to slap onion domes on all of our churches, fortunatly in England many of the churches are in traditional English design.)

I remember it had a seminary of some sort (of which I was a scholar :P), a large dining room, cloisters and beautiful gardens.


Anyhow, we would love to see a monastery built in Central Wales and apparently there is a group of monks from Essex who want to build a new monastery as their current one is over filled.


But yeah, I would spend all the money in having monasteries built AND, I'll rennovate ALL the monasteries that the Vandal King Henry VIII sent to ruin through the dissolution. What more, I'll give them back to their original Roman Catholic owners.
There will also be Orthodox Monasteries.

I think it is terrible and heartbreaking to see so many beautiful churches and monasteries confiscated and thus destroyed by the anti-Catholic state.

Vast monuments will be erected in memoriam of those who died in the Protestant revolution and the statue of Cromwell outside the Palace of Westminster will be town down, melted, and recast as a monument to King Charles I.

[Dewi Sant]

One such monstery which will be restored:

Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Christopher88/Churches/P1070332.jpg


Lord Have Mercy :crosseo:


ps.
you can see in the above picture that there has been a little bit of rennovation work. They've roofed the aisles (the side bits of the nave) and in this case, a lady chapel to the right of the sanctuary.

This is the only example of some sort of rennovation work I've seen.
When the monastery was first closed, they demolished the bottom part of the great East window and removed the West doors, and laid a road through the middle to prevent worshippers from using it.
There is old graffiti on the pillars inside from passers by in the 16-19th century. The Victorians finally rebuilt the bottom of the East Window and closed off the West entrance as well as re-routing the main road into Leeds.

There is a vast pillar in the nave which was erected by the Victorians to prevent the tower from falling down...as you can see, it didn't work too well :P (there was a small earthquake)

[Dewi Sant]

http://www.peachmountain.com/narayan/images/1997_UK/NSengupta_1997_122x_UK_061.jpg

Fountain's Abbey in Yorkshire. Considered by many to be the best preserved abbey.

http://inlinethumb03.webshots.com/578/1408498175038784126S425x425Q85.jpg

The harrowing image of the ruins of Whitby Abbey.
This church is of particular ecclesiastical importance as it was here in 664 that the Synod of Whitby took place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Whitby

[Shubunkin]

those awful Protestants!! :eek:

:) ^_^

[Andrew21091]

Heh, I saw this guy on Glenn Beck. Glenn just mocked him saying that some spirit told him he would be broke in a few months. I don't get Wiccan. Its just too weird. There are a few in my school but I think they just do it because they think they are "raging against the machine".

[MamaBug]

I don't get Wiccan. Its just too weird. There are a few in my school but I think they just do it because they think they are "raging against the machine".

There is definitely an undercurrent of 'look at me, I'm so counter-cultural!' to it. I also think it appeals to some people because it gives the individual a lot more control than Christianity and other religions. You don't have to pray that God will give you what you want - you just have to cast a spell. It is a form of man-directed vs God-directed belief and gives you the benefits of being 'spiritual' without the attendant responsiblities.

[MamaBug]

This seems like the appropriate thread to put this - I just laughed and cried my way through the movie Millions, about a boy finding a bag of money that 'fell out of the sky'. There are a lot more layers of complexity to it (including that he is obsessed with Saints and sees and talks to them constantly). It's just a happy-crying kind of movie that asks the question about what would you do with $500,000 of money that belongs to no one.

Still teary-eyed :cry:

[buzuxi02]

You guys are generous! I almost feel shame to admit i would probably buy like 10- 15 musclecars for myself and probably a boss hoss and custom chopper.


But that person who said, he might lose his new found fortune very quickly, maybe onto something. I remember when a friend of mine lit a few "scented" candles outside of the apartment of his ex-girlfriend to try to get her back. Some wiccan told him its a great spell that works.

He claimed it worked, but they broke up again like 2 weeks later.

[JustinHesychast]

Matthew 5:43-48

Love for Enemies

43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor[a (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:43-48#fen-NIV-23278a)] and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. [B]He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.


Glory to God for all things.

Wishing I could rep you. ^_^

[JustinHesychast]

ramesses, that sound a lot like what I would do.

Those pictures are great! Thanks! :D

[DarkNLovely]

It really doesn't take much depth of study to see how silly Wicca is! They are just peaople who live in a fantasy world! Most of the "power" that is in comes from occult and not wicca itself. That Gardner guy was a big hoax to me! I don't even believe his story about those people he met who supposedly showed him all this ancient wisdom. Also, they claim to be part of the Celtic religion and to be so old, I love Celtic history and they are nothing like their religion! I feel it's a sham is very disrespectful to ancient beliefes! There's my two cents!

[DarkNLovely]

those awful Protestants!! :eek:

:) ^_^
Uh oh! What did we do now?