This is Pastor Donnie Swaggart, son of Jimmy Swaggart: "I've got my 45s loaded and polished." Granted, the guy did not come from the highest quality genetic material (whether you determine quality to mean "ethical, decent human being", or "top-o-the-line huckster"), but this astounds me.
Whatever happened to followers of "the prince of peace"? (Courtesy of Wikipedia - check out the second line on the page: "...(for) the religious figure, see Jesus.) This bozo should be preaching about helping your fellow man, being good, acting good, etc. Instead he proclaims that there is "a philistine in Washington". Because of his perverted "holy" views, he feels violence may be justified. After all, he has his guns loaded and polished.
The "man" needs to learn about the country he lives in. Civilized people really, really need to learn about this country. If you do not like somebody who is in office, fire them the legal way - by not electing them. Have they broken laws? Impeach them. Don't like who they are working with? Work to get your folks elected. But to imply that armed revolution is justified now is simply treasonous. I hope the Secret Service and FBI have their eyes on Swaggart.
Why is this guy NOT in a psychiatric ward? If I were to go to a street corner, and start preaching that "there's an alien working in Cosmetics at the Macy's in Newark, the police would whisk me away for an evaluation. But, because the voices this guy hears in his head are the same voices millions others claim to hear, he is given a pass.
Listen to the whole message if you can. I did a while back, but could not bring myself to do it again for this post.
And I have mentioned this before, and I will mention it again - Swaggart and his ilk are not the only ones with guns. I love my country, and I WILL defend its Constitutionally elected government.
Showing posts with label Divine insipidness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Divine insipidness. Show all posts
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
As Funny as Telling a Kid His Parents Died in a Car Crash!
Practical jokes have always interested me. Not in a "my gosh, I love practical jokes and admire those who pull them" way, but more in a "how low does some fool have to go to get his jollies?" manner.
Practical jokes have been part of mainstream entertainment for years. Candid Camera hit the airwaves in 1948, and was broadcast in one form or another through 2004. Punk'd has been a hit on MTV for years. Scare Tactics and Boiling Points , two of the more vile versions of this type of show, have also had their runs.
Now, christians frequently claim that theirs is a religion of love and peace. Where in the lexicon of "love and peace" does "scare the crap out of a fellow believer by convincing them that their greatest fear has come true" fall? A so-called comedian tricks people into believing that the rapture has occurred, but those people were "left behind", taping their horrified reactions. That's not "love and peace" - that's childishness and downright cruelty! How funny would it be to tell a child that his parents died in a car crash just to watch his reaction, then tell the kid "ahhh, just kidding." That's what these cruel SOBs are doing.
While researching these painful shows, I did notice one interesting (but not surprising) tidbit - Candid Camera was last broadcast on PAX between 2001-2004. PAX TV was launched by a christian who felt there was too much violence and sex on TV. I guess he also felt there was not enough abject cruelty on TV.
Practical jokes have been part of mainstream entertainment for years. Candid Camera hit the airwaves in 1948, and was broadcast in one form or another through 2004. Punk'd has been a hit on MTV for years. Scare Tactics and Boiling Points , two of the more vile versions of this type of show, have also had their runs.
Now, christians frequently claim that theirs is a religion of love and peace. Where in the lexicon of "love and peace" does "scare the crap out of a fellow believer by convincing them that their greatest fear has come true" fall? A so-called comedian tricks people into believing that the rapture has occurred, but those people were "left behind", taping their horrified reactions. That's not "love and peace" - that's childishness and downright cruelty! How funny would it be to tell a child that his parents died in a car crash just to watch his reaction, then tell the kid "ahhh, just kidding." That's what these cruel SOBs are doing.
While researching these painful shows, I did notice one interesting (but not surprising) tidbit - Candid Camera was last broadcast on PAX between 2001-2004. PAX TV was launched by a christian who felt there was too much violence and sex on TV. I guess he also felt there was not enough abject cruelty on TV.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Divine Intervention ?!?
So, at the recent Teabagger convention, priestess Sarah Palin stated "It would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention in this country again..." Sorry, ma'am... the "Hairspray" star died in 1988, so won't be able to come to your aid.
But seriously - haven't we had enough "divine intervention" over the past 10 years already? We had fanatics working towards their interpretation of their god's wishes fly four jets into three buildings and the ground in 2001. We had a number of doctors murdered because some fools interpreted their divine inspiration as meaning "get a high-powered rifle with a good scope and fire at will (even if it means taking out a husband in front of his wife in their kitchen)". We've had a decider in chief follow his insipid divine inspiration to intervene in the Middle East, starting a war in Iraq.
How many bombings and acts of retribution can be attributable to divine intervention in Israel and Lebanon? Is Salman Rushdie still under a fatwa courtesy of fanatics intervening into literary affairs, inspired by their flavor of a divinity? And those same Teabaggers - how many of them feel President Obama is their version of satan, and will any be evil enough to intervene via violence based on their delusional beliefs of divinity's words?
Ex-governor Palin - we do not need any more "divine intervention", and your call-out to your fanatical base was, if I may say, an astoundingly retarded act.
But seriously - haven't we had enough "divine intervention" over the past 10 years already? We had fanatics working towards their interpretation of their god's wishes fly four jets into three buildings and the ground in 2001. We had a number of doctors murdered because some fools interpreted their divine inspiration as meaning "get a high-powered rifle with a good scope and fire at will (even if it means taking out a husband in front of his wife in their kitchen)". We've had a decider in chief follow his insipid divine inspiration to intervene in the Middle East, starting a war in Iraq.
How many bombings and acts of retribution can be attributable to divine intervention in Israel and Lebanon? Is Salman Rushdie still under a fatwa courtesy of fanatics intervening into literary affairs, inspired by their flavor of a divinity? And those same Teabaggers - how many of them feel President Obama is their version of satan, and will any be evil enough to intervene via violence based on their delusional beliefs of divinity's words?
Ex-governor Palin - we do not need any more "divine intervention", and your call-out to your fanatical base was, if I may say, an astoundingly retarded act.
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