Leave it to the false prophets to let their greed and ambition get in the way of propagating their impious messages. Many minions are needed by the Devil when minions like these fall so easily - and seemingly without fail by their own hand. Guess the Beast will have to wait
The once-mighty Christian Coalition, founded 17 years ago by the Rev. Pat Robertson as the political fundraising and lobbying engine of the Christian right, is more than $2 million in debt, beset by creditors' lawsuits and struggling to hold on to some of its state chapters.
At its peak a decade ago, the Christian Coalition deployed a dozen lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Today, it has a single Washington employee who works out of his home. Its phone number with a 202 area code is automatically forwarded to a small office in Charleston, S.C.
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Yeah--and I happen to recall that the height of this "Coalition" was in 1996; they were having major conferences, and Ralph Reed was the poster boy. I was only 16 then, and I knew it was bullshit, because...well, what PAC could avoid paying taxes, claiming a non-partisan political status by posing as a religious organization, yet be able to funnel monies to a horde of GOP candidates, to the tune of millions of dollars?
Thank God that the IRS finally made the dummies pay up.
See, it's demagouges like these that actually fuck up religion for the rest of us. That's why Robertson pisses me off, because I know he isn't speaking from God's point of view. He's a charlatan; he's always been one, and forever one he shall remain. He's taking all that money and putting it in his pocket, yet going aroung professing to speak on behalf of the Lord.
Asshole.
Hey there Cowboy!
Have you considered re-saddling to the way of the poet? The way in which you wrapped up your missive with Asshole had ol' Robert Frost rolling in his cold northeastern grave. I swear I could feel the earth shudder when I read that sealing of yours.
Man, these guys are so far from being God's men. One look at their hairdoos or varicose harlots could tell a fool that. Man-O-Man, there must be a lot of fools out there. Obviously you were far from being one even at the tender age of 16. Haven't these guys read of the biblical warnings of latter-day false prophets? They fucking smack of false prophetness. Can't they at least make a little effort to pass themselves off as semi-sincere or are the faithful fucking to foolful to make such an effort worth while?
Pat Robertson's Satan's 42 chromosome son and I'm trying to figure out what that makes gimp-man McCain. (For a guy that took a lickin' and kept on tickin'...well, he certainly seems very good at sucking up even more lickings.)
Thanls for dropping by!
No problem; happy to drop by, finally.
You know, I could dabble a bit into poetry; you never know...but I like writing about current events and history better.
I don't blame some of the flock for following a wayward shepherd--as I understand it, a good deal of those people are kind of transient on religion, as I was once. But the reason why I never once was fooled by Pat Robertson is because a lot of his own teachings are political in nature, and a lot what he does is political in nature.
Now, to be fair--Jesse Jackson is sort of the same way with me. Because I see him as a sort of "ambulance chaser"; he inserts himself into whatever will seem to make him look like a hero [re: Schiavo], and it kind of annoys me, because he just disappears off the face of the Earth, until his "Spidey Sense" starts tingling. I mean, you don't see him out there on these immigration rallies, do you? Yet, I'm just waiting for him, or Al Sharpton for that matter, to jump into this Duke lacrosse scandal.
The point is: the last time I checked, Jesus wasn't a politician, and he wasn't going around making political doctrines on the way to Calvalry. Yet to hear people like Frist, Robertson, Falwell, DeLay, et. al, talking about God as if they were standing right next to him. Then finding out that they're some of the worst liars and crooks of all? That's why I'd rather read the Bible than to listen to all these jackasses pontificate on how they're so morally superior to everybody else.
And by the way, according to BibleGateway.com, there are 30 passages in scripture that contain the words "false prophets" in the New Living Translation alone. Maybe God was trying to make a point, no?
Funny JJ cariacture. Is that so?
...and Oui, I think God was trying to warn the faithful and unassuming of those bellicose and predatory proselytizers out there that abound and are bound to take advantage of the meek and afflicted.
There's one rule of thumb for spotting impostors...men of God don't have comb-overs - or use hairdryers for that matter. There are no exceptions whatsoever to these observances. I think that leaves MLK still standing.
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