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Plague Craig's avatar

"To be clear, we didn't bury the report in a hole in the ground using a spade, so I think we are not lying. Likewise I've reached my arm in all directions, therefore towards Charlotte. Got that lord? Amen"

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David Farrier's avatar

Amen.

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Hayden's avatar

I'd like to request a correction on Arise's initial email, which said Webworm has repeated an inaccuracy "at least twice", when it had repeated zero inaccuracies a potentially infinite number of times. Can Arise confirm when it will make these corrections please?

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Downtown Brown's avatar

Pad out that statement with some meaningless apologies and they might just be able to understand your request. Please, sorry and thank you.

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Chris O's avatar

Nice... and while they are at it, could they explain the tense change in reaching out to Charlotte...with associated apologies of course.

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Annabel's avatar

"I'm not sure how to answer your direct question so I'm just going to repeatedly slightly alter my babble until you go fucking insane and leave me alone. I mean, obvs. Lol."

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LP's avatar

Allow an individual to create church of personality around themselves, let them control the governance completely, and build the entire entertainment/salvation brand around their own personalities, worship, enable, and defend their actions, but all of a sudden when it suits refer to them as individuals not part of the Church and continue to claim no fault of your own.

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Jesse's avatar

Imagine showing up at heaven’s gate after you die and you’re like “well, uh, my name should be there. Anything marked down from Arise Church? Hmm, maybe they forgot to follow-up”

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David Farrier's avatar

I can imagine that scenario very clearly

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Betsy's avatar

“Ah yes, however we are adding your name and seeing how we can assist in the meantime.”

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Kelly's avatar

Oh FFS what?!?! I just don’t get it but does anyone? Arise need to just own up already and make things better or just go away altogether....

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Jen B.'s avatar

JFC, David. This is “slam-your-head-on-the-floor-repeatedly” bad. Their responses are an insult to AI. At least with AI, there’s intelligence.

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Jackson's avatar

Why communicate clearly when you’ve got the word of God on your side? Bow down before His greatness, David.

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Jackson's avatar

Also, do they believe in evolution? Because their statement evolved between original distribution and publishing in their own website.

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David Farrier's avatar

I think they are in deep, deep denial of any kind of evolution - be it biological, or press release.

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Meg Gilliland's avatar

Okay, but like, if church members attempted to bury the report doesn’t that technically mean that the church attempted to bury it? Biblically (lol like they care) a “church” isn’t an organization or board or leadership team. It’s the group of people who congregate in fellowship to worship. All of them. As a spiritual family or whatever.

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David Farrier's avatar

Considering they let John keep attending for fucking ages, you're bang on.

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Downtown Brown's avatar

There’s a lot of “sorrys” and “apologies” but not a lot of remorse. In my mind’s voice I’m reading them like this... “ohhhh SORRRRRY DAVE”. (I too have a first name that infuriatingly gets shortened sometimes).

I can almost see the sarcasm leaking from their words.

Chunder.

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Mothy's avatar

Ben is the worst, every interaction I’ve had with him on Instagram he comes across as a smirking twat.

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David Farrier's avatar

The second they called me fucking "Dave" I knew what reality I was in.

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Grahame gee's avatar

So 2001: A space oddesyish. I now have "Mary had a little lamb" running through my brain.

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Kate Bruhn's avatar

The fact that they refuse to use proper grammar in a professional email REALLY irks me. It is the least of the sins committed here but it is sticking in my craw

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Rob Buckingham's avatar

They actually don’t appear to be very bright

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Linda (they/them)'s avatar

That's what happens when you just blindly follow an arrogant, charismatic, bull-shitting leader who just teaches the PROSPERITY gospel every week (Call back joke!). Brain-washing does tend to weaken the gray matter, and I believe IQ drops a few points with every sermon you have to listen to at Arise. Just a theory, please and thank you.

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Chris O's avatar

That’s an understatement!

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Chris O's avatar

Also loving the irony. When it suits them to say so, it is not ‘the church’ being represented, but individuals associated with the church, on the other hand he’s quite happy to hide behind ‘the church’ and respond anonymously to an email.

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Graham's avatar

“But I wanted to post it on the Webworm site for prosperity.”

You’ve been spending so much time reporting on them that you’ve started repeating that ‘Prosperity Gospel’ bullshit 😁

I think the word you were going for is ‘posterity’ 😜

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David Farrier's avatar

OH NOOOOOO. I wish I could say this was on purpose but it's not!

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Chris O's avatar

Ouch!

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Janice Jones's avatar

This is typical Pentecostal psychobabel They were mentored by the best Airheads in the business Brian and Bobby Houston They all specialise in word soup That means nothing treats the reader as if they are as dumb as dog 💩and it's al Rah Rah Rah

Oh This is so freaking sad 😢 Because they 💯percent believe this 💩

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