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Avatar As A Demonic Film

Rev. Mark Driscoll: Avatar is a “demonic, satanic film”

"Driscoll helped build the popular Mars Hill Church into one of the most talked about evangelical mega-churches in the country...

His main objection appears to be that “Avatar” preaches a worship of “created things” rather than the creator. Of nature rather than God.

In that, Driscoll sees demons. And demons — to him as to many Christians — are as common as weeds.

“['Avatar'] is new age, satanic, demonic paganism, and people are just stunned by the visuals,” he said. “Well, the visuals are amazing because Satan wants you to emotionally connect with a lie.”

Driscoll often makes fun of fundamentalists, but he sure sounds like one himself. He tries to be so hip and cool, but then he starts talking like this, and it’s clear he’s just like all the other fundie preachers but with different clothes and music."


 
Personally, for me Avatar is one of the most enlightening, spiritual films ever made. Having seen it multiple times, I always come away from a viewing feeling a million times better than having experienced any Christian sermon.
 
So, just STFU Rev Driscoll. 

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Michele Bachmann Unveiled

Michele Bachmann has finally arrived. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone has her in his crosshairs and has come to the following, very accurate, conclusions that she is:


— "a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions"

— "one of the scariest sights in the entire American cultural tableau"

—"grandiose crazy, late-stage Kim Jong-Il crazy"

—"frenetically pacing the hallways of a vast sand castle she's built [inside her own mind], unable to meaningfully communicate with the human beings on the other side of the moat, who are all presumed to be enemies."


Sounds to me as if she is the perfect GOP Candidate.

David Pakman Interviews Glenn Miller

"Glenn Miller, racist US Senate candidate from Missouri known for his 'Its the Jews Stupid' campaign joins us live to discuss whether African-Americans or Jews are a bigger problem, his felony conviction, his racism, and much more. He calls host David Pakman a "Jew liar" and plenty of other slurs as well.
Broadcast on April 28, 2010
Midweek Politics with David Pakman is a nationally syndicated talk radio and program."


This is a part of Middle America, folks.  And it is not humorous.  Glenn Miller is sick, sick, sick and a canditate for the U.S. Senate.

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The Young Turks - "Doomsday and Don't Say Gay"

Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss Harold Camping claiming the world would end on May 20th 2011 and former Star Trek actor George Takei's funny opposition to a Tennessee bill that would prevent teachers from using the word "gay".

In orher words, they discuss how America continues to be the laughing stock of the civilized world with its rampant homophobia and crackpot religious doomsayers.

 

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As 'Dumbsday' Approaches ...

In 1844 it was the Baptist 'Millerites' who championed the Second Coming of Christ.  Thousands of Millerites sold all their possessions, homes, farms, and quit their jobs.  When nothing happened it became known as 'The Great Disappointment'. 

Some years later The Seventh Day Adventist church was formed by an ex-Millerite on the same principles and then soon after came the Jehovah Witnesses, both well known for their failed propheries of the second coming.  Are batshit crazy Christians absolutely incapable of learning from history?  Or perhaps there is a deeper psychological problem . . .

 

"A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change

"Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point." So wrote the celebrated Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger (PDF), in a passage that might have been referring to climate change denial—the persistent rejection, on the part of so many Americans today, of what we know about global warming and its human causes. But it was too early for that—this was the 1950s—and Festinger was actually describing a famous case study in psychology. ...."


In 1994 Harold Camping made a similar prediction about the Second Coming, and when it didn't happen he did some fancy footwork about a mistake in his calculatons.   For the last 2,000 years Christians have been singing the same tired song based on their bible mythology.   Ho hum and a gigantic yawn . . . . .

[I also noticed that Mr. Camping's Family Radio is still accepting donations.  Do they plan to take the money with them on May 21 ???]

         

    Believers: World to End May 21  [AP]

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     True Believer

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Demented David Barton and WallBuilders

The GOP's Favorite Fringe Historian

"Newt Gingrich is a fan. So's Michele Bachmann. Mike Huckabee's such a booster that he recently said that all Americans should be "forced at gunpoint" to listen to this guy.

The object of this high praise from Huckabee—and recent shout-outs from other potential GOP presidential contenders—is David Barton, a Republican activist and minister who founded WallBuilders, a for-profit evangelical outfit that works to inject religion into politics. Barton holds some pretty unconventional views, and in the past he has spoken alongside fringe figures like Holocaust deniers and white supremacists. Among other things, he claims that Jesus would oppose the capital gains tax and the minimum wage; that global warming is "self-correcting"; and that the nation's homeland security apparatus has been infiltrated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. He also contends that the separation of church and state is a perversion of the Founding Fathers' intention to create a Christian nation. . . . . "

Now this is scarry fricking stuff.  Have I mentioned recently how glad I am that I live on the other side of the planet from these deluded GOP psychos? 

For the real story behind David Barton's psychotic delusions:

     Propaganda Masquerading as History.

     Barton’s Contempt for Religious Freedom.

     David Barton  Master of myth and misinformation.


David Barton & WallBuilders' FAKE QUOTES   ["David Barton is to history what creationists are to science."]

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Blow the Trumpet . . .

Well, I see that Harold Camping and his batshit band of deluded followers are still insisting that May 21, 2011 [only 30 days left!] is Judgment Day.

What will take place on May 21?

On May 21, 2011 two events will occur. These events could not be more opposite in nature, the one more wonderful than can be imagined; the other more horrific than can be imagined.

A great earthquake will occur the Bible describes it as "such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great." This earthquake will be so powerful it will throw open all graves. The remains of the all the believers who have ever lived will be instantly transformed into glorified spiritual bodies to be forever with God.

On the other hand the bodies of all unsaved people will be thrown out upon the ground to be shamed.

The inhabitants who survive this terrible earthquake will exist in a world of horror and chaos beyond description. Each day people will die until October 21, 2011 when God will completely destroy this earth and its surviving inhabitants.

Actually the day that I personally am awaiting is May 22, in order to see the fancy footwork and stammering that these godbots will go through in order to explain why they are still here. How embarassing.

Pastor Terry 'Slimeball' Jones

Terry Jones: How the Mad Pastor Oozed Back

"The world tried to ignore Terry Jones' "Koran trial"—until it incited deadly riots. The fringe preacher tells The Daily Beast's Leon Dische Becker how he pulled off the bloody stunt.

Pastor Terry Jones had just been informed that Jamaat-ud-Dawah, an Islamic organization banned in Pakistan, had issued a fatwa against him. "$2.4 million on my head!" he said, apparently exalted. Is that true? I asked him. (I have interviewed Jones several times now, and know that a fatwa is the kind of thing he brags about, exaggerates—especially to a print journalist. Later I'll find out that the price on his head is only $2.2 million.) "It is!" he says, promising that Mrs. Sapp, his media-relations person, will "shoot" me all the relevant names and publications, as soon as our interview is over. . . . . .


.....Imam Musri is worried that the violent outbursts in Mazar-i-Sharif are only the beginning. "All news channels are carrying this story now. Terry Jones has played into the hands of extremists on the other side—as he intended to. And their response will be fierce." One such extremist, Anjem Choudary, played right back into the pastor's hands. "Whoever insults the prophet, kill him," he said, as a matter of course. "It's the same as Theo Van Gogh. Sometimes the message has to be drummed home to people: Do not insult the prophet. Yet people still continue to do it and they will continue to face the consequences."

Unfortunately, precisely those arguments attract people like Terry Jones and his congregation of 30 to spectacular acts of Islamophobia. As long as insulting Islam generates a disproportionate response in the Middle East, reckless, attention-hungry Westerners will think up new, creative ways of insulting the religion. The only way to hurt a Terry Jones is to ignore him. His symbolic struggle against radical Islam is actually a tangible struggle against his own obscurity."

Japan Earthquake - Message from God ?

So Mr. Wacko claims God may [or may not] be responsible for the earthquake in Japan.

Which means that killing 10,000+ people in Japan is God's way of making a point that he is unhappy, pissed off, mildly agitated or just having a bad hair day?  Certainly too confusing for me to understand  . . . .

Glenn Beck: Japan Earthquake Might Be A 'Message' From God

"On his first day back from vacation, Glenn Beck addressed the earthquake in Japan, and said he thinks that it could be a "message [is] being sent" by God.

Speaking on his radio show Monday, Beck said, "I'm not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes," before quickly adding, "I'm not not saying that either."

He then said that whatever one called God, "there's a message being sent. And that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just saying."