This is one of the strangest donation drives I’ve ever seen. Stephen Baldwin is of course the lesser Baldwin brother, a c-list actor whose very public conversion to evangelical Christianity arguably wasn’t good for his career. It’s not too strange for his fellow believers to want to elevate this “man of God,” but the way it works is definitely bizarre. Taking inspiration from the story of Job, the premise is that if enough fellow believers “gift” the actor with donations, God will notice and “restore” him to wealth and stardom.
This strange leap of logic is inspired by a this passage from the Old testament:
“After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.
All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.”
Which doesn’t appear to say “Give Stephen Baldwin cash,” but then, I’m no Christian scholar.
Don’t miss the video, which is dramatic and silly enough even for Scientology:
