Here with another real fake or fake fake challenge, this time with America’s favorite heresy, the prosperity gospel. Three names are listed. Two are genuine names (or at least genuine stage names) of prosperity gospel preachers. I made the other one up. Which is which?
Standard rules apply: No googling, and if you already know one or both of the real ones, treat this information as a spoiler and act accordingly:
(1) Jesse Duplantis
(2) Largo Mammon
(3) Creflo Dollar
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#2 is the fake but it is rather awesome.Report
Concur with Saul.Report
I think this is right, on both counts.Report
My choices are two because Mammon doesn’t seem to be a real surname in any language.Report
Ill guess Jesse Duplantis, because the others are like aluminum Christmas trees. No one would believe that they are Victorian old but they really are.Report
I’m with Murali.Report
I agree; numbers 2 and 3 are equally crazy, so number 1 stands out as a fake.Report
I can’t choose, because I want them all to be real (I actually know who one of them is). If I had to choose, I’d go with #2, because it seems almost too good.Report
Livin’ Largo.Report
I think I’m with you on all this. The real one… lord… his personality makes the name seem like a humble choice.Report
I want them all to be real.
But I’m going to guess #2 is not, because it would show an appreciation of irony incompatible with making one’s living via prosperity gospel preaching.Report
That is the exact reason that I want #2 to be true.Report
I, too, am going #2.Report
I don’t know. But if they were names of porn stars 3 would clearly be the fake.Report
#2. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen one of them on a billboard and maybe the other as well.Report
This is one where I am very familiar with the two real ones, so I will use the spoiler: #2 is the fake.
Fun Fact about Duplanits: God once took him on a site seeing tour of heaven! Fun Fact about Dollar: God once told him He wanted Dollar to have his own luxury private jet, and He noted that he wanted Dollar’s followers to pay for it rather than have Dollar use his own money.Report
So, Robocop is his favorite film?Report
Sadly, I already knew the answer as soon as I read it, because I’d heard of the two real guys.
Yeah, it’s #2.Report
As many of you knew, the fake fake is number two, Largo Mammon. I blame Creflo Dollar. On the one hand, any good fake fake has to be at least roughly as ridiculous as that name. On the other, “Creflo Dollar” is so memorable that even people not connoisseurs of the genre are likely to know this name.Report
One of my childhood best friends is now a prosperity gospel minister in Tennessee. His Facebook is at times hilarious, and manages to transcend the constant, mundane religious commentary from every other person I knew growing up, including my parents. (My running joke is that I have to log into Facebook to see what the Bible is saying today.)Report
I feel your pain. On of my college buddies has turned into a gun nut.Report
at least your friend the gun nut can probably shoot straight…Report
Most of the people I grew up with didn’t have to “turn” gun nut.
Next time we feel like we need more “e’ryday conservatives,” we just need to hang out on my Facebook, or hang out with me when I go home for Christmas.Report
Did they close school for the start of deer season?Report
For us school stayed open, but it was an excused absence.Report
What makes someone a gun nut and why is that a bad thing?Report
Has anyone seen a Creflo Dollar program? Whatever else one might say about him, he’s very talented.
(There is not a whole lot of good network TV on Sunday mornings in Florida, but there is always Creflo and he is, if nothing else, very engaging.)Report
Um, spoiler?Report
He already revealed the answer in the above first-layer comment.Report