US Christian nutcases

[dancer_rnb]

I think some of our overseas Christian friends have no idea what some Christians are like over here.

One horrifying conversation I had one time here in Texas was with a woman
who bought into the hysteria about widespread Satanism, ritual abuse, and child
sacrifice. This was back around 1998.

Carl Sagan touched on this subject in DEMON HAUNTED WORLD.

[DMB]

Does anyone know how many Christian sects there are in America? Would the Mormons count as Christian? In fact how does one decide that a sect/religion is Christian?

This matters in Islam as well, where, for example, the Ahmadis are persecuted as apostates from proper Islam.

[Matty]

I just read a quote last from the FBI dude charged with investigating those non existent sataistic deaths and sacrifices and his major conclusion was that more phisical and mental abudse of children was perpetrated by fundamentalist Xtian households than any other demographic.

Say it aint so. Spare the rod and all that eh.

I'll look up the actual quote when i get home, its in one of my atheist quote compendiums books that i browse of an evening.

[miss djax]

Does anyone know how many Christian sects there are in America? Would the Mormons count as Christian? In fact how does one decide that a sect/religion is Christian?

This matters in Islam as well, where, for example, the Ahmadis are persecuted as apostates from proper Islam.

thats a great question. technically? i think the mormons would could as christians with a twist. altho to fundies like my familiy thats absolute heresy. they're not even sure catholics are christian :D

[BioBeing]

According to Religioustolerance.org (http://www.religioustolerance.org/christ7.htm) "There are on the order of 1,200 Christian organizations in North America, and over 30,000 in the world".

[Pendaric]

I think some of our overseas Christian friends have no idea what some Christians are like over here.

One horrifying conversation I had one time here in Texas was with a woman
who bought into the hysteria about widespread Satanism, ritual abuse, and child
sacrifice. This was back around 1998.

Carl Sagan touched on this subject in DEMON HAUNTED WORLD.

We had Satanism child abuse scares in the UK in 1990.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satanic_ritual_abuse_allegations#Cleveland

Dozens of kids were removed from their homes on the basis of nothing at all.

[dancer_rnb]

Pastors wife is anti-vaccine.....

From Respectful Insolence.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/04/if_you_think_anti-vaccine_loons_are_just.php#more

[Criada]

We have our share of religious nutters in the UK... but it certainly seems more prevalent, and more accepted by the mainstream, in the US

[Jobar]

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THE source for the strange, the bizarre, the kooky, and the utterly screaming insane. Enjoy! :)

[Jobar]

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[Anne]

oooo! Those are cute!

[Jobar]

Here's a classic one.

Brother Jed Smock (http://www.brojed.org/)

Well known on college campuses throughout the land, for trying to spread the word of Jaysus by screaming insults at students. Not as nasty as the assholes from Westboro Baptist, but still very nasty indeed.

(I just found out that he has his own corps of "fans" who are known as 'Jed-heads'. :D)

[Laton]

I just read a quote last from the FBI dude charged with investigating those non existent sataistic deaths and sacrifices and his major conclusion was that more phisical and mental abudse of children was perpetrated by fundamentalist Xtian households than any other demographic.

Say it aint so. Spare the rod and all that eh.

I'll look up the actual quote when i get home, its in one of my atheist quote compendiums books that i browse of an evening.

This one?

"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it."
[Kenneth V. Lanning, Supervisory Special Agent at the Behavioral Science Institution and Research Unit of the FBI Academy, from The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan]

[Notta]

Just a few minute's exploration of that site led me to the makers of Armor of God PJs. (http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/)

http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/images/home.jpgI posted that over at After the Bar Closes for Dave Hawkins once upon a time. I thought his kids might like them. And Dave, too. I picture him cozying up in bed for the night with his protective jammies on.

[Garnet]

Here's a classic one.

Brother Jed Smock (http://www.brojed.org/)

Well known on college campuses throughout the land, for trying to spread the word of Jaysus by screaming insults at students. Not as nasty as the assholes from Westboro Baptist, but still very nasty indeed.

(I just found out that he has his own corps of "fans" who are known as 'Jed-heads'. :D)

*gags*

He and Sister Cindy were regulars at Arizona State University when I went there. What they do must be lucrative in some way. I graduated in 1985.

[JamesBannon]

Just a few minute's exploration of that site led me to the makers of Armor of God PJs. (http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/)

http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/images/home.jpg

You know, my sister, who teaches primary school kids, was working on a lesson with exactly that title!

[Norrin Radd]

Here's a classic one.

Brother Jed Smock (http://www.brojed.org/)

Well known on college campuses throughout the land, for trying to spread the word of Jaysus by screaming insults at students. Not as nasty as the assholes from Westboro Baptist, but still very nasty indeed.

(I just found out that he has his own corps of "fans" who are known as 'Jed-heads'. :D)

:eek: *poops pants*

Boy, you just gave me a huge flash-back to my Penn State days in the early '80s. Brother Jed visited a few times during my years there, but who needed him? We had our own resident self-proclaimed apostle/prophet, Bro Cope (http://www.brocope.com/Newsletters/Week_15_Dec_1-5.html).

[DMB]

Here's a classic one.

Brother Jed Smock (http://www.brojed.org/)

Well known on college campuses throughout the land, for trying to spread the word of Jaysus by screaming insults at students. Not as nasty as the assholes from Westboro Baptist, but still very nasty indeed.

(I just found out that he has his own corps of "fans" who are known as 'Jed-heads'. :D)

First of all, the name made me think of more religious clothing, like the pyjamas. Then I read about HELL (http://www.brojed.org/Hell_Rationally_Considered.html)

Sample quote:

“Why should sinners suffer forever for sins committed in a relatively short span of life?” The effects of sin are perpetual, and in like manner the manifestations of the disapproval of God must be endless. How many multitudes have an atheist like Bertrand Russell, author of Why I Am Not a Christian, continued to influence through his writings long after his death? Evil is contagious, a deadly plague; it must be quarantined. The effects of his sin are infinite. Therefore, Russell, like all unbelievers, deserves endless punishment. Sin committed against an eternal God has endless possibilities of evil and deserves punishment without end. The murderer does not only take the life of one man; he cuts off the man’s seed, thus multitudes of potential souls do not even have the opportunity of life.

[sidhe]

Here's a classic one.

Brother Jed Smock (http://www.brojed.org/)

Well known on college campuses throughout the land, for trying to spread the word of Jaysus by screaming insults at students. Not as nasty as the assholes from Westboro Baptist, but still very nasty indeed.

(I just found out that he has his own corps of "fans" who are known as 'Jed-heads'. :D)

Dude! He used to come to UGA every year. :D

I wonder if my old roommate still has the most awesome owning of Bro. Jed that ever happened on video...

He and I were out getting stock footage for a movie he was working on around campus, and figured that getting some Brother Jed footage was worth it just for posterity. So, Jed is on stage, yelling insults, screaming, etc., when up walk eight students in full '80s hip-hop gear, carrying a huge sheet of cardboard and an ancient ghetto blaster...

"Brother Jed, your God can damn, but CAN HE FUCKING DANCE?"

...commence to a breakdance routine to Curtis Blow's "The Breaks". Then they just walked away as if not a thing had happened.

And Brother Jed, for the only time ever, was speechless.

[Berthold]

Just a few minute's exploration of that site led me to the makers of Armor of God PJs. (http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/)
Do they have a locked anti-wanking belt in them? :eek:

[Redshirt]

Just a few minute's exploration of that site led me to the makers of Armor of God PJs. (http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/)

:rolling:

Holy frak! That is so cheesy! It's just another example of some of the really cheesy cultural commodities that evangelical subculture churns out. They try to find an evangelical cultural equivalent to anything that secular culture produces -- cartoons, comic books, role playing games, soap operas... you name it... Here's another fine example:

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This is promising somewhat to aspiring entrepreneurs out there. Are you concerned that your cultural product might be a little too cheesy to be accepted in the normal marketplace? No problem! Just "evangelicalize" it and you'll fit right in!

[Puck]

Funny. Night before last I told Bobby we ought to invent something to sell to christians, because they'll buy anything that has something about god or the bible on it.

[DMB]

I gave my husband a pope-on-a-rope soap (http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/000460.html).

[ofro]

And I have a Popener (http://www.slashfood.com/2006/05/04/pope-john-paul-ii-bottle-opener-get-it-fast/)that a friend brought me from an Italy trip.

[B.H.]

Does anyone know how many Christian sects there are in America? Would the Mormons count as Christian? In fact how does one decide that a sect/religion is Christian?

This matters in Islam as well, where, for example, the Ahmadis are persecuted as apostates from proper Islam.

This is shamefully true. I believe in Pakistan the Ahmadis can't even claim they are Muslim.

[TheBear]

Just a few minute's exploration of that site led me to the makers of Armor of God PJs. (http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/)

http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/images/home.jpg
That's rich! :D :thumbup: