Or maybe it’s a plot by Obama.
Why just these? Why not other sinners, such as, for instance, warmongers, hatemongers (but maybe that’s getting a little too close to home), etc?
Ah, the holy ones
Deputies: Disney worker/pastor caught watching child porn at work
Deputies said 49-year-old Cedric Eugene Cuthbert was writing a sermon and watching porn at the same time on his Disney computer at work.
Then there are the Zealots
Recently a far-right wing young lady, who loves to provoke the left on Twitter, decided to make a point of her stance on Guns, Flags, and God:
Unfortunately she did not realize how well she made the point about similarities:
See the original at http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/06/womans-attempt-to-troll-liberals-backfires-when-someone-notices-this-disturbing-similarity/
Unfortunately, the barbaric…
Christian Discipline? Church Pastor Abuses 13-Year-Old, Forces Him to Dig Own Grave
and worse…see http://www.alternet.org/christian-discipline-church-pastor-abuses-13-year-old-forces-him-dig-own-grave
Bryan College is a special creation
And a spokesman for the college says, “It’s in our DNA”??? (Last sentence)
Bryan College now says Adam and Eve “are historical persons created by God in a special formative act, and not from previously existing life-forms.”
Huh?
Bryan College is named for William Jennings Bryan, who defended Tennessee in the Scopes Trial.
And on the 2,167,393rd day*, God created Bryan College….
[1930-(-4004)]*365.25 (± 365.25)
Don’t let women drive!
Religious figures have also weighed in.
One prominent sheik, Nasser al-Omar, led a delegation of more than 100 sheiks to the royal court in Jeddah to appeal to the king against “the conspiracy of women driving,” as he said in a video posted online.
Another cleric, Sheik Mohammed al-Nujaimi, described the campaign as a “great danger,” saying it would lead to ruined marriages, a low birthrate, the spread of adultery, more car accidents and “the spending of excessive amounts on beauty products.”
New York Times October 28, 2013 (Ben Hubbard)
Don’t let Data Get in the Way of Faith!
An organization called The Cornwall Alliance for The Stewardship of Creation recently issued what it calls “An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming.” Here are someselected quotations from that document:
- We believe Earth and its ecosystems–created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence–are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth’s climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history.
- We deny that Earth and its ecosystems are the fragile and unstable products of chance, and particularly that Earth’s climate system is vulnerable to dangerous alteration because of minuscule changes in atmospheric chemistry. Recent warming was neither abnormally large nor abnormally rapid. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contributions to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming.
- We deny that carbon dioxide–essential to all plant growth–is a pollutant. Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures, and the costs of the policies would far exceed the benefits.
- From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/rising-antiscience-faith_b_3991677.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Good News! No Global Warming!
In 2009, John Shimkus, Republican of Illinois, and a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, argued that climate change is a myth because God told Noah he would never again destroy Earth by flood (Gen 8:21-22). He isseen on video as saying, “The earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood. . . . I do believe God’s word is infallible, unchanging, perfect.”
This is from Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/rising-antiscience-faith_b_3991677.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
See also the next post, Don’t Let Data get in the Way of Faith
“The facts are the facts, but then we know the truth. That always overcomes facts.”
“So I’m going to tell you what the facts are, and the facts are the facts, but then we know the truth. That always overcomes facts,” she has said.
You can’t make this stuff up.
She is Terri Copeland Pearsons, the daughter of televangelist Kenneth Copeland and head of Eagle Mountain International Church in Texas in reference to resisting measles vaccine. See http://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/217746942/texas-megachurch-at-center-of-measles-outbreak.
Part of the recent increase in measles has resulted from an infection breaking out among church members. To be fair, she has since decided that vaccination is not a bad thing.
Along the same lines, a chassidic (orthodox Jewish) group in Brooklyn is the center of another outbreak. See http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6236a5.htm?s_cid=mm6236a5_x
Some are more understanding
In the category of drowning out Terry Jones by singing (see “The good and the evil: The good” posted earlier, some people are more American than anti-Muslim. See http://www.upworthy.com/a-boy-makes-anti-muslim-comments-in-front-of-an-american-soldier-the-soldiers-reply-priceless?g=2. Of course, New York may be somewhat special. (Chassidic women offered to shop for Arab neighbors who were afraid to go onto the streets after 9/11/2001). (Thanks to Sounak Ghosh Roy for pointing this out to me.
Sayings of the Preachers 