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mmmm....sacrilicious.

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ultraholland: [Homer]

mmmm....sacrilicious.

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Congratulations!

Do they have forbidden soul donuts?

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mmmm....forbidden donut.

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No wittiness, just a creepy photo. It's worthy of a good farking with.

DRTFA, but... Jedi Donuts?

*waves hand*

Faith-based cupcake shop opens in Tampa. You believe you'll have another cupcake


These are the donuts i was looking for....

There are plenty of faith based businesses, how is this news? More importantly how did this go green?

/no seriously, how?

"If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with pink frosting, tiny curlicues of white icing, and sprinkles of many colors..."
--Leviticus 7:12

I'll take the Devil's food cake, please.

I'm not getting how this "faith-based" business is different from a real business, other than the proprietor is religious and wants to plow his profits back into his church.

nytmare: I'm not getting how this "faith-based" business is different from a real business

It takes 3 days for the cupcakes to rise.

Take this, all of you...eat it. This is my icing-covered chocolatey body,

Um, it's just a shtick to get Christians to buy his merchandise, same as with all the other Christian merchandising crap that is out there.

What a strange name to choose.

"It's nothing special, just a glorified cupcake."

Your body is a temple that probably shouldn't be stuffed full of cupcakes.


/I'm talking to you Pastor

...and He shall rewardeth thine good deeds with cupcakes, Amen.

We don't need no commie sinner ovens!

The cupcakes rise with the power of JEE-ZUS!!

nytmare: I'm not getting how this "faith-based" business is different from a real business, other than the proprietor is religious and wants to plow his profits back into his church.

It has to do with the target group. If your product or service is advertised as faith based you have an advantage over your competitors. Often your product can be vastly inferior or more expensive than the regular one and you will still find customers that you otherwise wouldn't. It ranges from clever marketing to outright con.

\Christian rock is a related phenomenon.

Church of Goth has had a pastry shop for a while...

Will they bake for those who only believe in Dog?

Oh skycake...

do they use crucifictioners sugar??
3 c. water (note: do not turn it into wine)

"Faith-based cupcakes"?

. . .and this isn't an article from The Onion?

*sigh* Poe's Law at work.

How in the heck does a faith based cupcake shop work? I imagine the workers showing up in the morning then sitting around doing nothing secure in their faith that god will make the cupcakes for them.

I pray to the FSM. Ramen !

Loki-L: nytmare: I'm not getting how this "faith-based" business is different from a real business, other than the proprietor is religious and wants to plow his profits back into his church.

It has to do with the target group. If your product or service is advertised as faith based you have an advantage over your competitors. Often your product can be vastly inferior or more expensive than the regular one and you will still find customers that you otherwise wouldn't. It ranges from clever marketing to outright con.

\Christian rock is a related phenomenon.

Ding! Ding! one of the biggest reason I don't use the services of any company that goes out of it's way to advertise that they are a GOOD {insert religion here} company. to me it just stinks of scam artist.
FirstNationalBastard: shivashakti: Take this, all of you...eat it. This is my icing-covered chocolatey body,

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/I hear the lower half was actually a fishcake.

meh..

GAT_00: nytmare: I'm not getting how this "faith-based" business is different from a real business, other than the proprietor is religious and wants to plow his profits back into his church.

He's probably going to try to get out of taxes too.

Of course, if he's doing this as a for-profit business that's essentially a church front, this opens up the door for the IRS to yank aforementioned church's tax-exempt status. (You'd pretty much have to find damn good proof it's being operated as a front, but the IRS has yanked tax exempt status for this in past.)

It sounds to me like he's half going for those sorts of people who ONLY buy from companies listed in dominionist "Shepherd's Pages" business directories (yes, the dominionists have their own "yellow pages" directories that you have to sign a dominionist statement of faith to be listed in...of the sort that typically excludes Catholics, among others) and half that he is setting up a funding-front similarly to how Hillsong (a certain rather infamous Jesus Camper church in Australia widely regarded as a "Bible-based cult" and pretty much the reason that the Assemblies of God rebranded en masse in Oz) uses Gloria Jean's Coffee as its major "business front".

NutWrench: Do they have cupcakes for atheists?

:: touches cupcake ::

:: cowers and hisses, eyes glowing red ::

IT BUUUUURRRRRNNNNSSSSSS!!!

They're made of babies.