Did the reporter follow her the whole day taking pictures?

she also hangs out in front of the Wall Street 2/3 station.

If she belongs to a church & that church has a whole bunch of other nuns-- how does that make her a fake nun? Like-- I mean, that is how Catholic nuns run their scams, right? There is a church with a bunch of child molesters in it, & they claim a bunch of ladies & guys in the church have magic powers, & they send them out to scam people into giving them money. Right? I'm just confused where the difference is. I have the same problem with Scientology & Southern Baptists, Mormons & palm readers.

Mordacai, do you have the same problem with the Orthodox Jews and Hassidim, who are the most organized con artists, Medicaid fraud artists and welfare scammers in the city?

And let's not forget all the welfare we give to the Israelis. Do you have a problem with that too.

Or do you just pick on easy targets?

I'm not sure you know what the term "welfare" means. But if you mean "You have a biblical name, lets see if some race baiting will work" then let me say for the official record: yawn. Are organized religions goofy? Yep, all of 'em. & the disorganized ones, too. Just because I think their dumb doesn't mean I think they should be illegal-- which is the trick to it, isn't it? That is the whole "freedom of religion" thing I think you are missing. It is fine if you think Islam, Judaism, Christianity & Buddhism (& Hindusim & whatever, Neo-Pagans & whatever) have serious problems with institutionalized sexism & are silly games of lets pretend. THAT is fine. When you start calling on the government to intervene to keep people of an ethnicity you don't like-- I'm sorry, I mean religion, but isn't it so convenient that the religion people dislike overlaps pretty heavily with the ethnicity they don't like?

Anyhow-- yeah, & you know what? Taking potshots at Christianity is a different ballgame than taking potshots at Islam. That is the nature of hegemony.

Weak job at evading my question.

No cigar.

So, I guess you just like taking cheap pot shots at easy targets.

Whether or not the lady is a nun, by your definition or anyone else's, doesn't matter. She is a liar.

She told people she was collecting money for a charity that didn't exist, and she used religion to lend credibility to her lie.

You're right, you're right. I'm just taking potshots from the sidelines. Organized religions may siphon off dough for golden pope cups or whatever, but there are SOME oversights & there are legitimate charitable works. They may use those charities as evil chess pieces (see also, DC priests using homeless shelters as pawns to oppose gay civil rights) but they are at least REAL.

Post Script: I attempted to entitle my post Booyah!, because I really liked your response to thefacts, but it just didn't work.

Oh hey, I didn't even realize it was you there I was talking to.

Yeah the streets on NYC are littered with nuns soliciting loose change for their parishes. Quite a scam they are running...

Oh please don't be so naive, she is panhandling for a NON EXISTENT ORPHANAGE so spare us your religious freedom BS. This lady dresses up in a religious outfit associated with a commonly followed and recognized faith to lend legitimacy to her scam, whats wrong with you

if you couldn't, like, tell he's kind of impartial on the topic of religion.

& plus its really edgy & cool to be, like anti-religious, right?

like-- i mean, its cool to make stereotypical statements about a group of people as long as they are not under the magical PC umbrella of power, right?

yep

First of all, whether he "lustily" did anything to her behind or just made her scrambled eggs has nothing to do with the rest of the story. Secondly, whether he's a convicted rapist or parking scofflaw also has no bearing on anything else. However, is this something the police are investigating because it sounds like a garden variety con artist scamming people.