That’s no Jesus freestyle! That’s Carman!
Remember our anesthesia patient from earlier this week? Well thanks to a comment left by Eric S, we now know that her Jesus freestyle was actually a song by Carman
Remember our anesthesia patient from earlier this week? Well thanks to a comment left by Eric S, we now know that her Jesus freestyle was actually a song by Carman
Reverend Fred Phelps (above) is the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, the fire-and-brimstone outfit that attributes America’s “eternal damnation” to homosexuality (so, yes, that last link does indeed, sadly, take you to godhatesfags.com).
What distinguishes Phelps and his 12 or so kids (including daughter Shirley, his most passionate supporter), from most church-goers, though, is that this family really likes to get their picket on, waving signs and spewing hate at grade schools, gay pride parades, even at the funerals of soldiers. Their enemy list includes such figures as Bill O’Reilly, Coretta Scott King and Ronald Reagan. And now one more: estranged son, Nate Phelps.
Nate escaped a life of hate (and frequent beatings, apparently) and is starting to talk about it. He recently sat down with Canadian TV’s Peter Klein, and described what it was like “running from hell.” Give it a look, it’s a bizarre but fascinating 30 minutes.
(via Mother Jones)
Kentucky Elvis sings his own special rendition of Suspicious Minds at his church, but his version is called Sin Filled Life.
This bill has a gospel message written on the back:
The trillion-dollar question: Will you go to Heaven when you die?
Here’s a customer review of the Lincoln Trillion Bill:
I just ordered 2 packs of these and can’t wait to see how God uses them to open doors! Think of the ways you can use it, for kids, as part of your tip at a restaurant, even cashiers at the check-out line. Thanks for making these and helping further the Kingdom!
(via J-Walk Blog)
Apologies for the bad scan and slight tackiness of uploading a “Ziggy”-esque cartoon, but I thought this was kind of clever.
Listen as Jimmy Swaggart’s son, evangelist Donnie Swaggart, calls Obama “That Philistine in Washington that is aided by the powers of darkness” and brags how he’s going to preach against the President. “Wait ‘til you hear the sermon—I got my .45s loaded and polished.” It’s like he wants to be the Glenn Beck of TV preachers. What a fucking idiot.
The only things a moron like Donnie Swaggart has going for him are his rather tarnished last name and the fact that there are people even dumber than he is willing to tithe 10% of their income to a cracker con man like him! He learned from the best, obviously. Disgraceful. Stupid and dare I say it, pretty hilarious. Love the deep voiced sidekick guy!
Via the Christian Nightmares Tumblr blog.
Clips:
Planet Earth
PBS NOVA Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Human Animal
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
Life of Mammals
National Geographic - Ape Genius
Yann Arthus Bertrand - Home
TEDTalks: Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man
What Darwin Didn’t Know
Quotes:
Mike Huckabee
Ken Ham
David Attenborough
Desmond Morris
Steven Pinker
Kenneth Miller
(via Arbroath)
Reality Sandwich excerpts “Autobiography of a Sadhu” by Rampuri. Balls-to-the-wall crazy like only India can offer.
As he repeated a mantra, Amar Puri Baba slipped the rudraksha bead on the janeu string, over my head.
“My brother, your guru, has given you the gift of rudraksha. This bead, which as you can see, is a seed from a tree, contains the power of discipleship. It is the manifestation of the covenant between humans and the Great God Shiva that the Path of Knowledge would be passed down through the tradition of discipleship. Shiva’s most uncompassionate manifestation, Rudra, shed a tear of compassion for mankind, and this became the Rudraksha tree. It pulls the pranas upward, and can be worn anywhere on the upper body to focus energy, but the one the guru gives you is worn over the heart, where your connection with the guru is established.”
Mangal Bharti concluded the giving of the five gifts by wrapping me in the ochre dhoti, creating little sleeves for my arms as he folded and tied the cloth in the traditional sannyasi way. “This final gift of the five is your protection and sheltering of Mother Earth. You see, it is the color of her soil, ochre, her life-blood. You see how long this fine cloth is when unfolded? It is a flag marking that you are in her hands, and that you are on the Path.”
