Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts

Feb 26, 2010

Craigslist Fun: Cults!

So I found this on Craigslist (Champaign-Urbana). Anyway, apparently they're nuts. I mean, look at the people who run that group:



Yeah, so I started reading some articles they have posted and found this, which was titled "More Facts About the Infamous Shed Story":

"A 39-year-old Sacramento woman is suing FLM [Free Love Ministries, former name of ACMTC] claiming the unorthodox Christian group held her captive for 6 months last year..."

Goodtimes!

Oh, but it did lead me to this website which totally has all the help you need if you ever have a run in with a cult. Or you want to start a cult. That's cool, too.

Sep 8, 2008

Double Standard

Remember that whole Reverend Wright fiasco with Obama? Looks like Palin has crazy church shit of her own:

"Palin now attends the Wasilla Bible Church. She was there on August 17, just days before entering the national spotlight. David Brickner, the founder of Jews for Jesus, was a speaker. He told congregants that terrorist attacks on Israel were God's "judgment" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. Brickner said, "Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. When a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment -- you can't miss it.""

Yeah, that's what the dood said. Read it again, it's not going to change. Apparently Hamas terrorists are really agents of God. Or something like that. There's more:

"Pastor Ed Kalnin, the senior pastor of Palin's former Pentecostal church, has also come under fire for his comments. In 2004, he told church members if they voted for John Kerry for president, they wouldn't get into heaven. He told them, "I question your salvation.""

Not as bad as the whole "Jews are going to be killed by God" thing, but still pretty bad. Especially considering they ought to lose their tax-exempt status for that shit. But I know what you're thinking, "But like Obama, can't she just say she doesn't agree with her priest?" So let's see what she says herself:

"Her campaign says she doesn't mix her faith with government business. But Palin did ask her audience to pray for $30 billion natural gas pipeline she is on a mission to build in Alaska. In the video Palin says, "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas pipeline built. So pray for that ... I can do my job there in developing my natural resources. But all of that doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart is not good with God.""

And:

Speaking of the troops in Iraq, Palin says on the video, ""Pray for our military men and women who are striving do to what is right. Also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for -- that there is a plan, and that plan is God's plan.""

So God wants a natural gas pipeline and a war in Iraq. So she's mixing politics and religion, we've seen 8 years of that already. But I don't know about this kind of religion, not to judge or anything, but we are talking about possibly being "Leader of the Free World" and having nukes and shit:

"Palin's former pastor, Tim McGraw, says that like many Pentecostal churches, some members speak in tongues, although he says he's never seen Palin do so. Church member Caroline Spangler told CNN, "When the spirit comes on you, you utter things that nobody else can understand ... only God can understand what is coming out of our mouths." Some Pentecostals from Assembly of God also believe in "faith healing" and the "end times" -- a violent upheaval that they believe will deliver Jesus Christ's second coming."

Ooh. So this "end times" is a violent upheaval. And then Jesus comes. Who doesn't want to meet Jesus? Not Sarah Palin, I bet. With all those nuclear weapons at her (possible) disposal, I bet she can bring the "end times" pretty quick, right?

Aug 18, 2008

Fun with CNN

CNN is really raising the bar for journalism: Amateur journalism on an LA burlesque house and theater. (NSFW in case you couldn't tell by the word "burlesque") Here's a good quote: "It's not about nudity, it's about story telling" . . . and I get my subscription to "Juggs" for the articles. And, no real surprise here, the burlesque show pays for the actual theater portion. One last thing on this theater: they have a children's theater school. If only I had teachers when I was young whom I could look up on the internet and see dancing around in corsets.

As for the actual reporting, CNN apparently is now allowing amateur commercials to be shown on their website. I think the requirement is the commercial must include sex, animals, or children wearing or doing something comical.

Now for Other Articles:

"Mayor John Molony found himself under attack Monday over comments he made to a local newspaper that read: "May I suggest if there are five blokes to every girl, we should find out where there are beauty-disadvantaged women and ask them to proceed to Mount Isa."" Cause a big fat woman will keep you warm at home

The lagging economy has stopped teenage girls from dressing like whores . . . DAMN YOU REPUBLICANS!!!

Chinese Bible laws are very much like US drug laws: "Under Chinese law, it is illegal to bring printed religious material into the country if it exceeds the amount for personal use." Gideon would be SOOO busted.

Aug 12, 2008

The Chinese Are Crazy

Not the Chinese people, but the Chinese government. Here's some nuggets from the Olympics that also illustrate some of the reasons why I'm against them being held in China:

Lin was lip-syncing to the sound of another girl, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, who was heard but not seen, apparently because she was deemed not cute enough.

Cute, but can't sing
Ugly, but can sing

And then there's the whole anti-religion thing: Those Christians who want to avoid the state-controlled religious movements meet in unofficial buildings or even each others' homes - hence their description as "house churches" - risking fines, imprisonment, torture and even, in some cases, death.

And you can't forget the creepy treatment of Houston Rocket, Chinese-born Yao Ming: The Chinese government had monitored his birth because of the perfect physical and athletic genes of his parents, forever treating him as something of a science project.

There's plenty of other reasons, some noted before, and others that haven't been noted on this, the greatest of blogs.

*** UPDATE: I totally got the jump on Wonkette for this post by over an hour. Up yours professional bloggers!

Feb 21, 2008

Auntie Anne To Be Canonized

pretzel that resembles nothing to be sold on ebay for (most likely) alot of money

you got till march 1st