Conservative Christians

When they are children they frighten each other with stories about ghosts and the boogeyman.

When they are teenagers they frighten each other with stories about the end-times and demon possession.

When they are adults they frighten each other with stories about aliens and cloud-eaters.

This guy (Dave Daubenmire) has won an award for "broadcasting excellence", which gives you an idea of the low standard of broadcasting in America.

If ever you needed proof that conservative Christianity turns your brain to mush, then Dave Daubenmire provides it.

Link to his website 

Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out

Ken Adkins was the pastor at Greater Dimensions Christian Fellowship in Brunswick, Georgia, USA.

When 49 people were murdered at a gay nightclub in 2016, the good pastor tweeted, 

"I don’t see none of them as victims. I see them as getting what they deserve!"

Turns out this devout Christian has been fucking children who attended his church for years - and now he is getting what he deserves. He has been sentenced to a minimum of 35 years in jail for having sex with boys and girls under the age of consent.

http://jacksonville.com/news/

Even As Metaphor The Bible Still Doesn't Work

Who Could Have Done It? Who Could It Have Been?

MALÉ, Maldives — A liberal blogger who wrote satirical critiques of the Maldivian government and the spread of radical Islam died Sunday after being stabbed in the stairway of his apartment building.

The blogger, Yameen Rasheed, 29, had complained repeatedly to the police about receiving death threats, he said in an interview with The New York Times this year, adding that the police often failed to return his calls or dropped his complaints without investigation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/

Who Could Have Done It?

• The Republic of Maldives ... has become a source of recruits for the Islamic State.
• The government said at least 49 Maldivians had traveled to Syria to fight with the group, also known as ISIS
• The population is predominantly Sunni Muslim
• A more conservative strain of Islam has spread in recent years under the increasing influence of Saudi Arabia

Who Could Have Done It? 
Hard to say isn't it?

They All Talk Like This When They Get Caught

My overdose went viral — and it saved my life

A WOMAN whose overdose went viral last month said the negative publicity she received from it has actually given her a second chance at life.

Katrina Henry, who described herself as a “good kid” before getting hooked on Percocet and other drugs, said without the video, she probably wouldn’t have taken the incident seriously.

http://www.news.com.au

I'm guessing two weeks before the first relapse, two months before the next overdose, and two years before the next car crash. 

A Surprise Telephone Call

I just had a telephone call from a Christian who wanted to talk to me about the role god plays in my life. This is the first time I've had a proselytiser call me on the telephone so I am posting the basic gist of our conversation here while it is still fresh in my mind (and before I forget it).

I can't remember how he started the conversation, but I quickly interrupted him to ask which god he was talking about. He said it was Yahweh, the god of the bible.

So then I asked him to describe his god otherwise I wouldn't know what we were talking about.

He said things like god is perfect, righteous, just, kind, loving, etcetera.

I said that was interesting but how would I recognise god if I saw him.

The Christian said it doesn't work that way. He said god is invisible.

I pointed out that god "spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend". [Exodus 33:11]

I forget exactly what the Christian said but it was something about the bible having many things to say and it is unfair to pick out just one verse at a time.

I pointed out he had done exactly the same thing to me - quoted a single verse that says god is invisible!

Then I told him I wasn't relying on just one verse because Jacob had also said, "I have seen god face to face and my life is preserved."

I got the impression from his tone of voice that he thought I was making it up and he tried to call my bluff by asking where that text appears in the bible - book, chapter, and verse.

I told him I didn't know for sure but suggested he could find it easily enough. "Have you got a Concordance," I asked him.

There was a short hesitation and then a very cautious, "yes." (I don't think he knew what a Concordance was.)

So I told him to look up the word "Jacob" and that would take him directly to the verse.

But he never did find it - so I found it for him [Genesis 32:30] - because I actually have a Concordance.

Again I've forgotten his exact words, but he started pushing the idea that I had taken the verse out of context.

That's the thing that really irks me about Christians: this guy had obviously never heard about Jacob seeing god face to face until I mentioned it, and now, just a few seconds later, he was trying to tell me that I had it wrong and he knew what it really meant!

As it happens he never did get around to explaining the context and the conversation ended not long afterwards.

21st Century Journalism - Top Class Reporting

The baby of an Australian man fighting with Islamic State has been reportedly murdered by the regime. 

The Daily Telegraph reports intelligence agencies believe the baby, an Australian citizen, was killed by ISIS terrorists as punishment for its father’s attempt to flee the bloody conflict.

It has been reported that the man made contact with Australian authorities, looking for assist­ance in escaping from the battles in Syria and Iraq.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/

Not one news source provided any details about the murder.

When did it happen?

Where did it happen?

Who saw it happen?

What is the father's name?

What is the baby's name?

Where did the reporter get this story?

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Australian baby murdered by ISIS. That's all you get. We reporters have got more important things do than run around fact-checking sensationalist rumours. The rule is simple enough: We report, you believe.

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Say A Little Prayer

You are choking to death. 

What do you think will work best?

Someone to perform the Heimlich Manouvre?

Or a Christian to pray for you?

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You are feeling ill.

What do you think will work best?

A priest to exorcise the demons in your body?

Or a visit to the local doctor?