His Greatest Joy Was His Children

At the bottom of this post is the obituary of Jeffrey Brasfield. He sounds like such a nice old man - a physician's assistant who felt that "taking care of patients was his true gift from God. He was a deacon and a devoted member of the Churchill Baptist Church. His greatest joy was his children."

Just one thing is missing from the obituary. Our Jeffery, who loved his own children, had a slightly different attitude towards other people's children. He liked to have sex with them. Earlier this month he got caught caught in a police sting when he turned up at a rendezvous point expecting to have sex with a child and was mightily surprised to find a policeman there instead.

After getting bailed out of jail this "devoted member of the Churchill Baptist Church" went home and killed himself. I suppose his family miss him. Nobody else does.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/

News story:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/16-men-arrested

Reality TV Is Totally Unreal

Reality TV shows are so unrealistic. The contestants may not be given a script but they certainly get plenty of hints about the way they are expected to play the game. For example the director might say to one of the actors contestants:

"Look I would never tell you to be rude and bossy with the other contestants but if you did, well you'd get a lot of extra camera time and that could be a big help to your future career --- but you don't have to listen to me. You don't have to get bossy with anyone if you don't want to. You do whatever you want." 

So guess what happens next time the camera is turned on...

Here's another scenario. It's a reality TV show where two of the cast members have decided to get married on camera. It's a good move by the young couple because the producer knows the wedding will bring in millions of viewers so he decides to foot the bill. The soon to be married contestants are delighted with the arrangement because the reality show producer is now chucking money at them hand over fist and their wedding is getting more exciting by the minute. More expensive wedding dress; more valuable ring; bigger church; bigger wedding cars; bigger reception. It all sounds so wonderful.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes (while the happy couple are excitedly preparing for the big day) their producer is secretly figuring out ways to make the wedding as newsworthy as possible. He is at a confidential meeting with his financial backers, listening intently while the PR men bounce ideas around:

• Maybe the car could break down and the bride has to get out in her wedding dress and change the tyre?
• Maybe the bride could be overcome with emotion and collapse at the altar?
• Perhaps we could get her to hesitate before she says "I do"; just long enough to make it seem like she might be going to say "No"?
• Maybe the flower girls could get into a fight with the page boys?
• What if they lost the ring?
• Hey, yeah - that could work.
• But then we'd have to find a replacement.
• A curtain ring perhaps.
• No, that's such an old joke nobody would fall for it.
• Well they could lose the ring and then find it again.

At which point the producer probably said, "OK, that's settled. We create some tension when they lose the ring, and we all heave a sigh of relief when they find it again. I'll leave you to sort out the details while I go and tell the silly buggers what we're up to."


Now you may think that no real couple who were genuinely getting married would ever agree to such an idiotic farce - but they really did! Here's Josh Duggar and Anna Keller getting married on a TV reality show in 2008:

Where do you think he found the ring? On the floor of the vestry? On the path leading up to the church doors? Out on the sidewalk? In the gutter? Behind the back seat of the wedding car? Or was the TV producer standing outside with a big grin on his face and the ring held tightly in his fist and ready to hand it over to the best man as they had rehearsed many times before?

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Since that day it has been discovered that Josh Duggar is an incestuous pedophile who abused his sisters including one who was only five years old at the time! He also cheated on his wife throughout his marriage and paid up to $1,500 a time to have sex with a porn star while his wife was pregnant with their fourth child.

Testimony! Testimony!

Original video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66IpYppQ5qE

Here's what a Christian thinks while watching this video:

Wow, isn't Christianity amazing. 

Nothing else! That's it. 

Wow, isn't Christianity amazing.

Well maybe one other thing:

Perhaps we better make a donation to the church or we might miss out.

Here are some questions that a cynic like me might ask:

Where did this happen?

When did it happen?

Who were the doctors involved?

Have they verified the story about the tumors?

Are the medical reports available?

Has anyone seen the brain scans?

Who is the "precious woman"?

What is her name?

Is she the woman in the video or is that a professional model?

Do the children belong to the "precious woman" or are they models too?

When was the baby declared tumor free?

Who declared the baby was free of tumors? 

Was it a doctor?

What is the doctor's name?

Has the doctor verified the story of the cure?

How much money was in the envelope?

How did the money cause the alleged miracle?

Did the woman go to church every week or just twice: once to deliver the cash and then three months later to report "mission accomplished"?

Or is the whole thing a pious fraud?

The answer to nearly every question is "No", or "We haven't got a clue," which makes it very easy for me to assume that this story is total bullshit invented by a lying preacher.

I could be wrong - but I'll bet I'm not.

This Mac Curtis Song Gives Me Goose Bumps

Another rockabilly legend has died and I didn't even know it! Mac Curtis has been dead for two years and I discovered the news just a few minutes ago. I'm feeling rather sad now.

Here he is in 1957 with "Goosebumps"

one of my all time favourite rockabilly tracks:

Original video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpcc9voUWh4

And here he is fifty years later in 2007

singing "Say So" at a concert in Amsterdam

Original video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbyXmOS-9ig

Pop Culture Blog
September 17, 2013

Fort Worth-born rockabilly great Mac Curtis, an early-days inductee into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, died Monday night in a Weatherford nursing home. His ex-wife and sister say it was sudden: Curtis, born Wesley Erwin Curtis Jr. on January 16, 1939, was injured in a car accident in Weatherford last month, and over the weekend he took a turn for the worse.

“He went to the nursing home for rehab after the accident, and it turned out he had a subdural hematoma that kept growing and growing and ultimately burst,” says his sister, Cindy Winters of Granbury. “It was a shock. It was sudden. He was taken to the hospital after the accident, and they did a CAT scan and didn’t determine anything. All they can say is it must have been a tiny brain bleed that just grew and grew and grew.”

http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/

Devils Exist - Jesus Says So

Two thousand years ago Jesus preached that devils existed:

 Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" (John 6:70) 

And all these years later the leaders of his ratbag religion are still preaching the same rubbish: 

Pope Francis has helped boost the popularity of exorcisms with his frequent warnings against the devil. 
http://www.ibtimes.com/pope-francis-exorcism 

U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson said on Wednesday that earth-quake devastated Haiti was cursed because of a past pact that the island’s inhabitants had made with the devil.
http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2010/01/13/pat-robertson

 
So it is no surprise when one of the congregation jumps up out of the pew and goes in search of devils to destroy: 

The granddaughter of acclaimed actor Morgan Freeman was stabbed to death on a Manhattan sidewalk early Sunday during what law-enforcement sources and witnesses described as an “exorcism” at the hands of her ranting boyfriend.

“Get out, devils! I cast you out, devils! In the name of Jesus Christ, I cast you out!” the killer yelled.
[...]
“Jesus Christ is born!” he shouted maniacly over her body.
http://nypost.com/2015/08/16/man-stabs-ex-girlfriend-to-death

And all around the world the followers of Jesus are trying to distance themselves from the killer by declaring that 'he was never a real Christian in the first place'. [All swans are white if you don't count the black ones.]

I Know The Answer To This One

If a newspaper headline ends with a question mark, the correct answer is always, "No."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/

A Sad Little Moment

Years ago I watched a documentary about an itinerant American preacher who seemed to make his money by filling in at small town churches when the regular minister was away on holidays. He was training his two sons - one a teenager and the other about ten years old - to follow in his footsteps.

The older boy was losing interest in religion so the father was concentrating his efforts on the ten year old and had actually arranged to have the boy ordained as a minister! As they drove to the church where the ceremony was to take place the father asked the ten year old, 

"Are you excited about getting ordained son?"

"Ooo yeah," said the boy...

And then, quizzically, "What's 'ordained' again dad?"