Preacher Checking His Phone While Speaking In Tongues
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About
Preacher Checking His Phone While Speaking In Tongues refers to a viral video of Pentecostal minister Perry Stone looking at his phone while delivering church service.
Origin
On September 26th, 2019, Minister Perry Stone streamed "Firehouse Prayer" from the Omega International Center on PerryStone.org.[1] About 32 minutes into the stream, Stone, still preaching picks up his phone, looks at it and sets the device back down (screenshot below).
The following day, YouTuber Hemant Mehta uploaded an isolated clip of the moment when Stone checked his phone. The clip received more than 65,000 views in less than one week (shown below).
Spread
On September 28th, the website Friendly Atheist[2] shared the video, following Stone's uploading of the sermon to YouTube. According to the site, Stone removed the original video from YouTube.
Three days later, on October 1st, Twitter user @nuns_on_film shared the video with the caption "This video of a preacher checking his phone while speaking in tongues is my favorite video on the internet right now." Within two days, the video received more than 2 million views, 61,000 likes and 14,000 retweets (shown below).
Many responded to @nuns_on_film tweet by disputing the sincerity of Stone's preaching. Twitter[3] user @TellUsWhy2017 wrote, "Except this isn't how it sounds when people are truly speaking in tongues. He's exhorting (badly) but he's also speaking English. Praying in tongues, the language of the Holy Spirit, is only understood & translated by the person speaking it. It isn't in English. So he's faking" (shown below, left).
Others mocked the video. For example, Twitter[4] user @supimanidiot posted a Blinking White Guy variant Fouth-Wall-Breaking White Guy in response to the video.
Several media outlets covered the video, including The Independent,[5] The Daily Mail,[6] The Daily Dot [7] and more.
Search Interest
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External References
[1] PerryStone.org – Firehouse Prayer
[2] FriendlyAtheist – Watch This Preacher Check His Phone While Speaking in Tongues
[3] Twitter – @TellUsWhy2017's Tweet
[4] Twitter – @supimanidiot
[5] Indy100 – This preacher speaking in tongues while checking his phone might be the funniest thing ever
[6] The Daily Mail – A message from above? Hilarious video shows a distracted preacher checking his phone while speaking in tongues during a prayer at his Tennessee church
[7] The Daily Dot – Video of a preacher speaking in tongues while on his phone goes viral
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