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There’s been no end of people blaming the people of Houston for the flood, all of them christians. Now, Joyner and Bakker have joined in, with Bakker hawking his horrible ‘food’ inna bucket.
Joyner asserted that the storm had nothing to do with climate change because “the real issue with the weather and everything else on the earth has to do with sin and wickedness.”
“The whole earth will cry out because of the shedding of innocent blood,” he said. “That’s what throws nature off more than dumping CO2 or anything.”
I’ll just assume Joyner is yakking about abortion here, and not the endless imperial wars Amerika starts, or all the brown peoples who get murdered by homicidal cops every day, or anything like that. The earth we walk on, every single day, is blood and bone of all those who have gone before, and that’s a bunch, to say the least. Some of us realize that, and it leads us to respect. Apparently, it leads christians to the conclusion that climate change is no thing, no. My idea of wickedness differs a great deal from theirs. I think they are wicked assholes. Not that it would affect climate change in any way.
“The whole earth” is all manner upsetty by what people in Houston are doing. Amazing. One of the very worst aspects of many Americans is that they think the world begins and ends with Amerika.
That prompted Bakker to declare that he felt that “this flood is from God, it’s a judgment on America,” and Joyner agreed, noting that “these kinds of things don’t happen by accident.”
Oh FFS. Yeah, uh, climate change, dipshit. And yes, these things do happen at random. Always have done, but we’re happily accelerating it all.
Joyner said that Key West, Florida, had been hit by a hurricane “on the day they’re supposed to have the Day of Decadence parade” and another hurricane hit New Orleans right before it hosted another Day of Decadence festival.
“Coincidence? I don’t think so,” he said. “We have to stand up against the perversion of our times and call it what it is.”
Once again, Amerika, it’s not the whole world. Other countries have such fun celebrations, and they aren’t being flooded (something that psychogod of yours promised to never do again. Of course, there was that qualifier about not wiping out everyone via flood. I guess spot flooding is still good) or otherwise wiped out. Gosh, I wonder why not. See if you can figure that one out.
Bakker agreed, saying that the former mayor of Houston “ordered all the preachers to turn in their sermons before they preached them.
That doesn’t sound right at all, and I’ll go with the assumption it’s a lie. Anyone know about that?
Just remember, God gets the last word. God gets the last word. Be not deceived, God is not mocked.”
I mock Jehovah all the damn time. Still here, still intact. People all over the place mock Jehovah. They’re okay, too. You can add sloth to the list of your god’s sins.
Via RWW.
So … he’s saying that with Piss Christ or Eddie Izzard stand-up routines or thousands of statements right here on FtB that we’re only mocking the human religionists and that even when we’re apparently mocking some god or other, that it’s not actually possible to be mocking that god (or any other)?
Hmm. I can think of a framework in which I would agree. That, however, would require that Bakker be a knowing con artist. How could that be?
Snopes:
The claim does seem to be a lie in that the subpoenas were apparently for sermons already given prior to the HERO repeal petitions, apparently as part of the “discovery” phase of a lawsuit.
Thanks, Blf. That’s not at all the way Bakker makes it out to be.
Why do people worship a God who floods an entire city, killing 44 people and leaving countless others homeless, just because He was pissed off by some of them? Some people really have no sense of morality, do they?
No, they don’t. They are, however, making a fucktonne of money. As for the faithful who supply all that money, yeah, I don’t know.
These two have been hallucinating for some years now. For instance (May-2014):
The embedded link to RWW doesn’t explain how the feckwits came to that conclusion (there is a video at that link if anyone cares to try and endure ranting hysteria).
Don’t forget the lack of zoning, building on flood plains etc. This is basically the other side of the same of don’t give a fuck about the future capitalism.
militantagnostic, yes, very true! Maybe psychoJehovah was all upset about that.
God is pissed that Jim Bakker only served 4 years of his 45 year sentence. Until he’s back in the big house, god’s gonna keep kicking America’s ass. I know this because my breakfast muffin this morning was a sign from the lord.
Marcus:
Imma go take another look at the muffins in the kitchen.
I presume any muffins there were in the kitchen are now inside the rats. Just what that’s a sign of is unclear†, even in general terms, so expect a volcano or similar to further
clarifyconfuse. Possibly also a plague of walruses hopping about the place like kangaroos whilst yodeling.† Other than perpetually-hungry rats, that is.
Every day in New Orleans is Day of Decadence Festival.
Well…if you’re at the Satellite, sure.