So, in my work, I recently gained a new client who is a self-professed evangelical Christian. He constantly stresses how he's a Christian, goes to church every week, and will go to Heaven some day; and expresses disdain for non-Christians, claiming that they are implicitly immoral.
Okay, I've heard that before. No big deal.
Until you hear the guy start talking about his life. He's married, but has four girlfriends in four different countries. And when he doesn't have access to his girlfriends or wife, he'll hire prostitutes. He's quite open and frank about this, and justifies it with the claim that "My wife gave me permission to have sex with other women." I don't recall the verses where the Bible taught that extramarital sex, multiple sex partners, and hiring prostitutes were only wrong "if your wife doesn't agree to it".
Then he starts talking about business. In building business relationships, he's proud of his ability to get absolutely ****-faced drunk...and to do lines of cocaine, if it will improve the business relationship.
He has at least 10 people he's told me about who, he claims, if they knew where he was, would literally try to kill him. Why? Because of business deals gone wrong in the past where he screwed them. Again, he not only admits this, but brags about it, considering it a sign of his superiority.
In regard to one business, a popular bar in the city where I live, he told me of his plans to open a competing bar, and asked me to invest. When I asked him how he planned to compete with them, he plainly stated that he was considering hiring local organized crime to burn the competitor's place to the ground.
He wasn't joking.
The list goes on and on and on. Yet the absolutely incredible thing is how he talks at length about all of these things, and then intermixes that with statements about what a good Christian he is, and how non-Christians like me are lacking in any moral compass.
His complete lack of self-awareness is truly amazing. I actually look forward to discussions with him, just to see what lunacy is going to be uttered from his mouth.
In regards to my business with him, I'm keeping him very much at arms length. Just very simple projects, where I provide certain products for him, and he pays me for them. Investing in a bar with him? No freakin' way.
Okay, I've heard that before. No big deal.
Until you hear the guy start talking about his life. He's married, but has four girlfriends in four different countries. And when he doesn't have access to his girlfriends or wife, he'll hire prostitutes. He's quite open and frank about this, and justifies it with the claim that "My wife gave me permission to have sex with other women." I don't recall the verses where the Bible taught that extramarital sex, multiple sex partners, and hiring prostitutes were only wrong "if your wife doesn't agree to it".
Then he starts talking about business. In building business relationships, he's proud of his ability to get absolutely ****-faced drunk...and to do lines of cocaine, if it will improve the business relationship.
He has at least 10 people he's told me about who, he claims, if they knew where he was, would literally try to kill him. Why? Because of business deals gone wrong in the past where he screwed them. Again, he not only admits this, but brags about it, considering it a sign of his superiority.
In regard to one business, a popular bar in the city where I live, he told me of his plans to open a competing bar, and asked me to invest. When I asked him how he planned to compete with them, he plainly stated that he was considering hiring local organized crime to burn the competitor's place to the ground.
He wasn't joking.
The list goes on and on and on. Yet the absolutely incredible thing is how he talks at length about all of these things, and then intermixes that with statements about what a good Christian he is, and how non-Christians like me are lacking in any moral compass.
His complete lack of self-awareness is truly amazing. I actually look forward to discussions with him, just to see what lunacy is going to be uttered from his mouth.
In regards to my business with him, I'm keeping him very much at arms length. Just very simple projects, where I provide certain products for him, and he pays me for them. Investing in a bar with him? No freakin' way.
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