Erik Rush And Jim Garrow: Equals In Idiocy

There are those from all walks of life who hold extreme world views of the political, economic, religious, racial, ethnic, sexist, paranormal, environmental or climate change, etc. kind, even if those worldviews would be deemed irrational to 99 and 44/100ths percent of everyone else. Okay, if they sincerely believe in that worldview, even if extreme, well different strokes for different folks. It would be a very boring world if absolutely everybody agreed on absolutely everything.

However, extremists can cross the line between what’s extreme yet rational (to them) and what’s extreme and deranged. There are numerous people who are intelligent enough to spout off nonsense while knowing its nonsense. Unless they have a hidden agenda, that’s crossing the line between rational behaviour and a rational albeit extreme worldview and what really should be considered irrational even deranged behaviour and an irrational worldview even to them. Hidden agendas however often rear their ugly heads and include drawing unwarranted attention and publicity to yourself because you like to get public recognition that you are a Mr. Big, in the manner that some people confess to crimes they couldn’t possibly have committed in order to get into the headlines, on the news, and get their five minutes of public recognition sunshine.

Even so, irrational behaviour and extreme worldviews are usually harmless in the broader arena, but not all the time. Some of these are often featured on the People for the American Way project they term the Right Wing Watch. While the Right Wing Watch [RWW] website can be very entertaining – who doesn’t like being entertained by funny clowns* – some clowns can also be very disturbing.  Consider the following two irrational, IMHO, idiots with deranged worldviews.

ERIK RUSH

What do you tend to make of someone who is reported to hold the following views according to the website Right Wing Watch?

Conservative WorldNetDaily [WND] columnist and frequent Fox News guest Erik Rush is the name and being whacko is his game. For example:

“Erik Rush thinks Obama ‘murdered’ everyone on missing Malaysia Airlines plane.”

“Erik Rush: Founders would kill ‘the radicals in our government’.”

“Jim Garrow and Erik Rush call for executions of elected officials by hanging, firing squad.”

“Erik Rush: Obama is murdering critics.”

“Erik Rush: Obama is ‘enslaving’ white people.”

“Erik Rush: Government officials should be ‘hanging from D.C. like fruit’.”

“Erik Rush: Obama might be on drugs.”

“Erik Rush wonders if South Africa was better off under apartheid.”

“Erik Rush: Remove Obama from office ‘by any means necessary’.”

“Erik Rush: People who criticize me belong in jail.”

“Garrow & Rush: Obama should be tried and executed over mythical EMP plot.”

“Erik Rush: Obama is just like Damien from The Omen.”

“Erik Rush: Obama a Communist operative and ‘evil incarnate’.”

“Erik Rush wonders if Obama is in a satanic cult.”

“Erik Rush: Obama will begin staging hate crimes.”

“Erik Rush: ‘Insurrection’ needed before Obama begins ‘herding people into cattle cars’.”

“Erik Rush: Civil war needed to overthrow Obama before he imposes ‘the cruelest

totalitarianism’.”

“Erik Rush: ‘Narcissistic sociopath’ Obama using shutdown to ‘usurp complete power’.”

“Erik Rush: Navy Yard shooting carried out to prevent Obama from being arrested for treason.”

“Erik Rush: Obama engaging in triple cover-up of Benghazi.”

“Erik Rush links Obama to Okalahoma murder.”

“Erik Rush: Africa and India colonized because their people seemed ‘only a few steps out of the trees’.”

“Rush & Wiles: Obama’s civil war starting any day now.”

“Erik Rush: Obama is murdering everyone and I don’t need evidence to prove it.”

“Erik Rush: Muslim immigrants will be ‘Obama’s cutthroat foot soldiers’ & ‘incite the chaos that will necessitate martial law’.”

“Erik Rush: Journalists, who should be in jail, must stop Obama’s ‘tyranny’.”

“Erik Rush: Obama likely ‘orchestrated the attack’ in Benghazi and ‘deserves to be occupying a cell in some federal penitentiary’.”

“Erik Rush: Obama will allow terrorist attacks to declare martial law.”

“Erik Rush: ‘We have far more human garbage in this country than we ever ought to have tolerated.’

“Erik Rush wasn’t joking when he said kill Muslims.”

“Erik Rush: Kill all Muslims in response to Boston marathon attack.”

“Erik Rush: Same-sex marriage is an ‘anti-theistic, christophobic design of the Radical Left’.” 

“Erik Rush: There is a 50% chance Obama will cancel the 2016 elections and become a dictator.”

“Erik Rush: Obama and allies ‘merit being removed by force of arms’.”

“Erik Rush warns conservative leaders secretly support the imminent Obama dictatorship.”

“Erik Rush suspects Obama will classify Christians as ‘mentally ill and ship them off to an asylum’.”

“Erik Rush: Supporting gay rights like ‘capitulating to a developmentally disabled child’.”

“Erik Rush: ‘Street hustler’ Obama is building a ‘Communist state’.”

“Erik Rush: Obama emulating Stalin to pursue his ‘totalitarian end game’.”

“Erik Rush warns we will all soon ‘bow to Communist overlords’.”

“Erik Rush: Obama may cancel 2014 election to help bring ‘this nation under the heel of Communism’.”

“Erik Rush: Chinese military building bases in U.S and pushing new gun laws.”

“Erik Rush: ‘Supernatural evil’ and ‘mind-control’ behind rise of the Left.”

“Erik Rush: Obama bringing about the Apocalypse.”

“Erik Rush suggests Founders would hang ‘evil’ Obama for seeking to ‘enslave us’.”

“WND [columnist Erik Rush] floats armed resistance to Obama administration.”

“WND [columnist Erik Rush]: Gun violence part of Obama’s Marxist plot.”

“WND [columnist Erik Rush] warns of martial law during Obama’s second term.”

“WND columnist [Erik Rush]: prosecute liberals, journalists for treason.”

“WND columnist [Erik Rush] warns gay rights advocates will bring about the next Holocaust.”

I’m sure the Secret Service has this guy as a person of interest and on their ‘to be watched very closely’ list.

JIM GARROW

Then there’s Erik Rush’s sidekick, the even wackier Jim Garrow, oft interviewed by Rush. Here are some of Garrow’s offerings as reported by the Right Wing Watch [RRW].

“Garrow: Obama blew up missing Malaysia airlines plane.”

“Jim Garrow and Erik Rush call for executions of elected officials by hanging, firing squad.”

“Garrow: Get out of US before Obama tries to ‘wipe us out’.”

“Garrow: Obama will soon implement Sharia law and kill people by guillotine.”

“Garrow: Put Obama ‘in chains and under arrest’.”

“Garrow: Obama should be ‘put down’ like a ‘rabid dog’.”

“Totally stable Jim Garrow is angry that we’re [RRW] making him look ‘crazy’. “

“Garrow: God stopped Obama/Satan from killing me!”

“Garrow: Anti-Obama ‘coup is very close,’ ‘it’s time to revolt’.”

“Garrow: Obama will have you ‘wiped from the face of the earth’.”

“Garrow: Obama deserves to be killed for treason.”

“Garrow: Obama is ‘mentally ill’ and preparing to implement martial law.”

“Jim Garrow and Pete Santilli now openingly calling for military coup against Obama.”

“Garrow: Obama part of Arab-Chinese-Communist conspiracy, [Obama’s] children need DNA test.”

“Garrow: Obama tried to kill me!”

“Garrow: ‘Your days are numbered Bathhouse Barry” as guerrilla war against the government is about to begin.”

“Garrow suggests Obama had Hawaii health director killed as part of birther cover-up”

“Jim Garrow claims Reagan almost nuked Mecca and God stopped Obama from nuking US.”

“Garrow and Rush: Obama should be tried and executed over mythical EMP [electromagnetic pulse] plot.”

“The Obama-Soros conspiracy to nuke America and kill 300 million people exposed [by Jim Garrow]!”

“Garrow: Breitbart’s ‘big mouth’ got him, Michael Hastings and Tom Clancy all killed by President Obama.”

I’m doubly sure the Secret Service has this guy too as another person of extreme interest and definitely on their ‘to be closely watched’ list.

But surely Rush and Garrow can’t sincerely believe the bovine fertilizer they are spouting off. This is surely just a grab for attention. If Rush and Garrow sincerely believe in their own rhetoric, and in their rationality (they are not just play acting in order to bring attention to themselves for its own sake) then they are very dangerous individuals indeed.

* Not funny ha-ha but funny peculiar. Those peculiar and even frightening  extremist/fundamentalist Right Wing clowns like Congresswoman Michele (the end times are near) Bachmann; David (pseudohistory is my stock-in-trade speciality) Barton; Glenn (I do keep on rambling on) Beck; Senator Ted (the new messiah) Cruz; Gordon (anchors aweigh and let us pray) Klingenschmitt; and Sarah (green eggs and ham) Palin. 



Science vs. the Religious Right: Part Two

The religion vs. science debate should have been settled and confined to the dustbin of history multi-generations ago. The fact that it still rages today sits squarely on the shoulders of those diehard never-give-in right wing religious fundamentalists who just keep on keeping on about how the ‘goat-herders’ who penned the Bible deserve all the Nobel Prizes for getting the science really right. No doubt the non-existent validity of the debate will continue to rage for generations to come.

Continued from yesterday’s blog…

IN ADDITION

The Earth is the centre of the Universe (or firmament) and the Sun goes around the Earth and that religious point of view got lots of people who suggested otherwise into lots of trouble.

Scientists can’t determine the age of the Earth, nor can they determine what the origin of life was, for the extremely simple reason that they weren’t Johnny-on-the-spot and therefore actually present at the exact time and place of the happening.

Homosexuality/lesbianism is a free-will choice and has nothing to do with genetics or biochemistry or neurochemistry. You aren’t born gay any more than you’re born an astronomer or a criminal. Homosexuality is encouraged by the powers-that-be as a ways and means of population control. Satan also inspires and encourages homosexuality to cause the participants to be in direct disobedience and in defiance to God and God’s laws. Further, there are clear connections between homosexuality and paedophilia and bestiality, etc.

Fossils are a deliberate deception by Satan; or a deliberate deception by God in order to test your faith; or proof of that universal flood – take your pick.

Non-avian dinosaurs and human beings coexisted, religious fundamentalists citing fossil dinosaur and human footprints check-by-jowl embedded into rocks (in Texas). Dinosaurs were therefore on Noah’s Ark (which means Noah’s Ark had to have been just a tad larger than the Bible says it was).

There was no evolution by natural selection, just intelligent design and creationism by a Creator God. God created all species as is. Humans did not evolve from apes. Teaching and accepting evolution is apparently an evil Jewish plot according to some! Further, evolutionists support abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research.

There are no ‘natural’ disasters only acts of God (as in displays of God’s wrath). It’s been claimed by those Right Wing religious fundamentalist types that whenever God is pissed off, He sends His wrath via a ‘natural’ disaster. So, any tornado or hurricane or blizzard or earthquake or wildfire, etc. isn’t really ‘natural’, rather its an Act of God’s punishment. However, it’s rather amazing that tornados tend to happen in roughly the same areas at roughly the same time of year; ditto hurricanes; ditto blizzards; ditto wildfires; ditto floods. You don’t tend to get massive earthquakes other than in well known fault zones and thus earthquake prone areas. You don’t get volcanoes erupting in areas not known to be tectonically active. Now if ‘natural’ disasters were really Acts of God, you might expect God to produce the occasional blizzard in Southern California in July; or how about 40 straight days and nights of rain in Death Valley; New York City becoming ground zero for a massive earthquake or volcanic eruption; a tornado outbreak in Alaska in January; or wildfires in areas of high rainfall and high humidity. If ‘natural’ disasters are Acts of God, why doesn’t God have an asteroid striking Chicago or a comet spanking Las Vegas or for that matter institute a massive solar flare or coronal mass ejection to blanket the entire US of A?  Even more central, why does God have to hide behind Mother Nature’s skirts in the first damn place? Why doesn’t God take a leaf out of His earlier wrath-filled up-yours and smite the first born?

Environmentalism (i.e. – the Green Dragon) is out to destroy Christianity, destroy America and replace it with fascist tyranny! In fact, the ultimate objective of environmentalists is to kill off 95% of humanity! After all, didn’t God say to humanity to “be fruitful and multiply” and subdue the earth and take dominion over the earth (and basically rape and pillage – Genesis 1:28) which has any greenie spitting chips!

Stem cell research is equivalent to Nazism.

We’re well aware that some fundamentalists reject vaccinations and blood transfusions and will allow their child to die rather than allow any medical procedures that they see as ungodly and against Biblical teachings. 

Anything fundamentalists don’t like, like say birth control, will be linked to anything and everything nasty, like AIDS, and by extension, all disease is caused by sinful activities. In a similar fashion, if you accept any ungodly tenants, like evolution, you are way more prone to be antisocial and of criminal intent. Mass murderers are all Darwinists.

In a variation of ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, one finds fundamentalist Christians supporting Islamic fundamentalists (otherwise strange bedfellows) since the latter do not accept and undermine Darwinian evolution.

Any normal museum that exhibits anything on physical or cultural anthropology that doesn’t reflect and give credit to the Almighty and God’s holy word is just asking for trouble.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

There’s more that you probably didn’t know.

According to Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association:

* The laws of thermodynamics are detailed in the Bible although Fischer tends to muddy the waters by mixing up the first and second laws of thermodynamics.

* Jesus is the entity that holds together the nucleus of an atom. [What held the nucleus together before the birth of Christ isn’t related by Fischer, assuming there even ever was a supernatural Christ of course.]

* Only God can alter the climate. Humans have nothing to do with any global warming. Global warming is pure junk science. Further, God created fossil fuels for the benefit of mankind and so to refuse to use them (in favour of renewable sources like wind or solar energy) is an insult to God. Trying to prevent climate change is anti-Christian.

If you have a spare couple of weeks, tune into the Right Wing Watch (RWW) website, or his videos on YouTube for tons more Fischer idiocy.

Bryan Fischer isn’t the only rather fishy fundamentalist going.

Just touching a very few of the highlights (via the RRW) from the patriarch of the extreme religious fundamentalists, Pat Robertson, and so-called self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs, is more than enough to make any scientist turn in their lab coat and head for the hills. Again, you can few more of them (if you must) on YouTube – far better on an empty stomach however  

PAT ROBERTSON

“[Robertson’s] 700 Club: Climate change helps environment and civilization, SUV owners treated like witches.”

“Robertson: Expect natural disasters and divine wrath over Middle East peace talks.”

“Robertson: Environmentalists may cause the deaths of ‘a couple billion people’.”

“Robertson lashes out at ‘doctrinaire’ environmentalist ‘fanatics’.”

“Robertson dismisses ‘nutty,’ ‘true believer’ climate scientists.”

“Pat Robertson blames drought on Americans who ‘ignore the laws of God with impunity’.”

“Robertson: Scientists ‘can’t speculate about the origins of life’.”

“Pat Robertson says Satan is behind homosexuality and abortion rights.”

“Pat Robertson says people could have stopped deadly tornadoes through prayer.”

“Robertson calls Oklahoma earthquake a sign of the end times”

“Robertson suggests crack in the Washington Monument was a sign from God.”

“Robertson: Asteroid will destroy the Earth.”

CINDY JACOBS

“Cindy Jacobs heals broken cheek bones and her own tumours.”

“Cindy Jacobs’ prayers can cure insanity.”

“Cindy Jacobs’ five-year-old daughter can stop tornadoes.”

“God miraculously made a pair of Cindy Jacobs’ shoes last for years.”

“Jacobs warns Obama’s ‘anti-Biblical’ policies have led to ‘floods and fires and more’.”

“Cindy Jacobs: I have the power to revive dead children.”

“How Cindy Jacobs reversed a hysterectomy.”

“[Jacobs]: We are seeing natural disasters ‘because sin has reached Biblical proportions.”

“Jacobs: The DC earthquake is a sign from God to share the gospel.”

“Jacobs: God is using earthquake to break Japan’s pagan idolatry.” 

“Jacobs: Birds are dying because of DADT [Don’t Ask Don’t Tell] repeal.”

“Jacobs and Pierce issue warning that CA [California] will be destroyed by earthquake if Prop 8 is struck down.”

“When Cindy Jacobs caused Washington DC to flood.”

On that note, I might just head for the hills myself!



Science vs. the Religious Right: Part One

The religion vs. science debate should have been settled and confined to the dustbin of history multi-generations ago. The fact that it still rages today sits squarely on the shoulders of those diehard never-give-in right wing religious fundamentalists who just keep on keeping on about how the ‘goat-herders’ who penned the Bible deserve all the Nobel Prizes for getting the science really right. No doubt the non-existent validity of the debate will continue to rage for generations to come.

There are those religious fundamentalists who claim that all you need to know about science is contained within the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible. Not only is the Bible a religious text, an historical document, but it’s a science textbook too chock full of astronomy, geology, meteorology, biology, medicine, etc. And should there ever be a disagreement between nerdy white-coated scientists in jeans and God Almighty’s holy word, well it’s a no-brainer; no contest – God always wins – in God we trust not nerdy Einstein-types. Any science that undermines your faith in God, etc. is a false science. Real science proves the bona-fides of the Bible.

The fact that such Right Wing Christian fundamentalists say this with a straight face and sincerely (apparently) believe this claptrap is actually a tad frightening. In any other context they appear to be intelligent, articulate, sane and rational beings! But then again, how many people have been taken aback to find out that their wonderful and lovely next door neighbour was a serial killer, kidnapper, paedophile, or a closet white supremacist pseudo-Nazi.     

Fundamentalists though in general, when pressed, admit they aren’t scientists, but that doesn’t stop them from bucketing any science that rubs their personal worldview the wrong way. One common argument is that science is fundamentally limited since it can only explain the natural, whereby supernatural philosophy (i.e. – Right Wing Christianity) explains all. The natural in their opinion or belief is just a minor subset of all things supernatural.

SCIENCE vs. RELIGION

There has been quite a number of various religious vs. scientific issues hotly debated over time.

The Earth is (religion) or is not (science) the centre of the Universe. Science won that issue.

The age of the Earth is less than 10,000 years old (religion); way, way, way more than 10,000 years old (science). Science won that debate too though diehard religious fundamentalists haven’t conceded any ground.

Most recently, starting with Charles Darwin in 1859 (“The Origin of Species”) down to the Scope’s (Monkey) Trial in 1925 and ongoing today is that Homo sapiens were made in God’s image (religion) vs. Homo sapiens were the product of natural (Darwinian) selection and evolution from primate ancestors (science). Creationism is pure science; evolution is junk or false science according to the religious right. The names that fundamentalists call evolutionists would make many a blue-water sailor blush!

It’s that most recent issue, evolution (science) vs. creationism/intelligent design (religion) that mainly dominates the debate today. You could make a journalistic career just following, covering and reporting on the ever ongoing battles between creationists, educational institutions and authorities, politicians, and scientists over whether science curricula and textbooks should be giving equal space to God and intelligent design vis-à-vis Darwinian evolution.

But intelligent design is absolute nonsense upon reflection. God, the so-called intelligent designer, places the female sex organ sandwiched right between the two waste elimination orifices. That’s intelligent? And the male sex organ does double duty sharing a common tube as a liquid waste elimination apparatus. That’s intelligent? Speaking of tubes, how often has the food/drink you inputted ended up doing down the wrong tube – the windpipe instead of the oesophageus? Painful, isn’t it? It’s also potentially lethal – people have choked to death. So, is that intelligent designing in operation? 

And if humans are God’s personal favourite intelligently designed creatures, why create other creatures and natural scenarios than render that intelligently designed human into a prematurely dead intelligently designed human? I mean if the Godly created bacteria and viruses don’t get you, the puffer-fish, scorpion and snake venom might instead, assuming the sharks, lions and tigers don’t have you for a midmorning snack first. And if life doesn’t end your life, there are tornadoes, earthquakes, lightning bolts, tsunamis, and a whole host of other meteorological, geological and even astronomical phenomena just waiting to put you six feet under. Conclusion: so much for a loving God looking after His favourite intelligently designed flock.

BIBLICAL ‘SCIENCE’

But let’s go back to the Biblical truth about all things scientific. We all know the standards:

The Bible is literally true; scientifically accurate. Science according to the Bible requires that:

* Life, the universe and everything was created in just six days somewhere roughly around 4004 BCE and any evidence to the contrary of an earth billions of years old (i.e. – radioactive dating; geochronology) is the work of that great deceiver, Satan.

* Adam was created from the dry dust of the earth despite that fact that a human is roughly 70% water.

* Eve was created from Adam’s rib which means Eve should have been, genetically speaking, a male.

* There was a universal flood which requires the creation (and later destruction) of an additional and massive inventory of water out of nothing in defiance of conservation laws.

* Noah’s Ark carried two (or sometimes more) individuals (male and female) of every (presumably bisexual) species. Okay, that’s fine, but that must include the New Zealand flightless kiwi bird; every species of Antarctic penguin; the Australian koala; and the dodo bird of Madagascar. Am I the only one who sees a problem here?

* Some Biblical characters lived in excess of 900 years, but such longevity hasn’t been observed in recent post-Biblical times so don’t get your expectations up, no matter how religious and God-fearing you happen to be.

* A bush refused to be consumed by fire, an obvious case of the application of high-tech fire retardant in use thousands of years ago.

* The Red Sea parted over a rather lengthy time period in order to allow hundreds of thousands of pedestrians to ‘cross with the green’ and then un-parted so that another set of pedestrians got run down by trying to cross against the sudden red traffic light. Such a phenomenon has never been witnessed since so a one-off report doesn’t have much credibility.

* The sun and moon stood still in the sky and thus for the duration the Earth ceased rotating on its axis.

* Unicorns exist (and no doubt so do Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy).

* Life actually begins before conception according to Jeremiah 1:5!

* Jonah lived undigested for three days in the belly of a large fish. Jonah must have had on hand an extraordinary supply of antacids in order to prevent being dissolved and turned into or assimilated as fish food.

* Mary reproduced asexually – the virgin birth – which means Jesus should have been born a woman, again, genetically speaking.

* Jesus walked on water in defiance of gravity. Newton and Einstein are not amused at this parlour trick!

* Loaves and (dead) fishes multiplied – the creation of something from nothing yet again.

* Presumably the lion will lie down with the lamb (and also presumably if the lion isn’t hungry).

* There were resurrections (life after death). That’s no big deal any longer in this modern age of medical ‘miracles’.

To be continued…



Round Three of Some Random Irreligious Thoughts

Sometimes you have a new thought, an idea, or eureka moment, but it’s not gutsy enough to expand into a reasonable length article or essay. So, here’s a third potpourri of thoughts that won’t exactly put me in a favourable light with any deities (if any) that are too good not to record, but with not enough meat available to flesh out. 

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* Despite anti gay, anti same-sex unions, anti marriage equality sentiments vehemently expressed ad nausea by extremists from the religious Far Right Wing, and endlessly going on and on and on about how the Bible states or defines marriage as between one man and one woman and thus the constitutional legality of gay marriage is a violation of God’s law, I fail to find any such Biblical reference or conformation. It’s certainly not one of the Ten Commandments!

I fail to spot in Genesis where Adam and Eve were actually married, or for that matter even in love. Adam and Eve were living in sin right under God’s righteous nose! Well one could suggest that Genesis 2: 21-24 suggests marriage since the word “wife” is used in the last verse, but that was a generality statement that is apparently nonsense since that same verse also uses the term “mother” and “father” before there ever was such a thing as parents or parenting. There is no place that says Adam and Eve were married or were husband and wife. There’s a sort of rehash in Mark 10: 6-9; Matthew 19: 4-6; and Ephesians 5: 31 whereby if you take the generality phrase, one not referring to any specific pair or twain of individuals, that phrase “one flesh” might be a synonym for “marriage”. However, since the Bible makes ample use of the word “marriage”, well it should just come right out and say “marriage is between one man and one woman” – but it doesn’t. 

Overall, marriage as defined between one male and one female might be implied in the Bible, but it is never specifically stated. However, that didn’t stop a lot of the upper crust patriarchs from practicing polygamy (Genesis 29: 15-30). 

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* Of all the various worldviews people possess, they seem most inclined to fight over their concept of God, not over country, not over politics, but over their religion. It’s been said there many times that while good people do good things and bad people do bad things, it takes God and religion to make good people do bad things.

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* Anyone who has made more than a cursory examination of the ‘ancient astronaut’ theory knows how incredibly popular the concept is. Ancient alien (was God as astronaut) books like Von Daniken’s “Chariots of the Gods” (and film) are bestsellers. In fact I understand that the History Channel’s documentary TV series “Ancient Aliens” is their most viewed and the best selling DVD they have put out. Then there have been sci-fi movies and TV series like “Stargate” that have picked up on the theme, as well as countless documentaries, websites, and articles. Collectively, all of this testifies that the idea has hit a very responsive neve indeed. People perhaps realise that there is something highly unusual, even anomalous about the human species, the origins of humanity and our ancient history that traditional religions and supernatural deities inadequately come to terms with, fail with plausible explanations, fail entirely with respect to these hundreds of enigmas. 

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* If Islam is the religion of peace, how come so many Muslims kill other Muslims (Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.)? Not that that is a bad thing, mind you. That in fact should be applauded even encouraged. The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim, IMHO.

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* Of all the follies that humanity has ever embraced, belief in a supernatural deity ranks head-and-shoulders above anything else. Never have so many have spent so much time on absolutely nothing. It boggles the mind. It would be absolutely hilarious were it not for the massive degree of death and suffering religious belief has inflicted on the relatively helpless. It’s a pity that all those true believers will never have any coming to terms with their delusions since once they snuff it, there’s no resurrection or afterlife to bask in.

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* Name the most evil thing Satan or Lucifer did (past tense) in the Bible. Now name the most evil thing God did (past tense) as related in the Bible. Now ask yourself, who is the more evil of the two? Who most approximates Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, Saddam Hussein, and those of a similar ilk? If you should spell that entity’s name backwards, you should get a K9. 

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* It’s been claimed by those Right Wing religious fundamentalist types that whenever God is pissed off, He sends His wrath via a ‘natural’ disaster. So, any tornado or hurricane or blizzard or earthquake or wildfire, etc. isn’t really ‘natural’, rather its an Act of God’s punishment. However, it’s rather amazing that tornados tend to happen in roughly the same areas at roughly the same time of year; ditto hurricanes; ditto blizzards; ditto wildfires; ditto floods. You don’t tend to get massive earthquakes other than in well known fault zones and thus earthquake prone areas. You don’t get volcanoes erupting in areas not known to be tectonically active. Now if ‘natural’ disasters were really Acts of God, you might expect God to produce the occasional blizzard in Southern California in July; or how about 40 straight days and nights of rain in Death Valley; New York City becoming ground zero for a massive earthquake or volcanic eruption; a tornado outbreak in Alaska in January; or wildfires in areas of high rainfall and high humidity. If ‘natural’ disasters are Acts of God, why doesn’t God have an asteroid striking Chicago or a comet spanking Las Vegas or for that matter institute a massive solar flare or coronal mass ejection to blanket the entire US of A?  Even more central, why does God have to hide behind Mother Nature’s skirts in the first damn place? Why doesn’t God take a leaf out of His earlier wrath-filled up-yours and smite the first born?

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* If Hell is here on Earth, then you’d think the fire and brimstone must have been extinguished when Noah had to sail the really, really, really high seas!

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* I find it quite amazing that so-called Christian, God-loving, God-fearing, God-believing nations will at the drop of a bible wade into the internal affairs of other nations for their perceived wrongdoings and crimes against humanity. Most recently, Syria comes to mind, along with Afghanistan and Iraq, but right back through WWII and WWI and so on and so forth also springs to mind. The oddity is that while professing to believe in an all-powerful, all-wise, all-seeing, Almighty God of justice, they have absolutely no faith or belief that that very deity will actually strut His stuff and deal with the situation at hand. What makes that even odder is that’s exactly what God did historically – Exodus anyone? So, these goody-two-shoes Christian nations while believing in a just and a righteous God don’t believe that just and righteous God will do bo-diddily squat to give modern truth to that belief, and so take matters into their own hands.

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* The attraction of virtual reality (the simulated universe) or of ancient astronauts, is that you have a ‘creator god’ without having to resort to a supernatural universe, force and/or deity as an explanation for life, the universe and everything (virtual reality) or the ‘creation’ via artificial selection of the human species (ancient astronauts).

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* Contrary to everyone’s opinion, the human species is not God’s favourite creation. By the numbers, it would appear that God loves beetles most of all; thousands of times over that of the lone human species, maybe because beetles toe the line!



Televangelist Pat Robertson

It takes way more than you fingers and toes to tick off the number of radical right wing religious fanatics, those Christian fundamentalists and evangelists who seemingly are anti anything and everything even slightly left of their worldview. They don’t tend to preach the positives, but concentrate on the negatives like God’s wrath, Satanism, hellfire and brimstone, demons and the end times. One of the better established examples is long term televangelist Pat Robertson, and his worldview is pretty typical of the type.

Pat Robertson is one of those popular televangelists, in this case chief cook and bottle-washer on the “700 Club” part of the Christian Broadcasting Network with roughly one million viewers. Robertson has seemingly been a televangelist ever since TV became mainstream entertainment. He just keeps on keeping on, and on, and on!  Now even I have to admit that Pat Robertson comes across as a mild-mannered soft-spoken kindly grandfatherly (b. 1930) character, nothing akin to a hellfire and brimstone Bible-thumping hell-raiser. Instead, he’s the sort of person you’d suspect who’d sit you on his knee and comfort and sooth your aches and pains and pray your troubles away.

Charismatic he’s not, but he’s in your comfort zone. Don’t let all that fool you, though he’s a middle-of-the-road extreme right wing fundamentalist (he doesn’t subscribe to the literal six 24-hour days of creation and likes to pick and choose what parts of the Bible suit his purposes rather than outright acceptance of Biblical infallibility), he’s still way, way, way right of centre when it comes to all things Biblical. In fact, author Robert Boston has termed Pat Robertson “The Most Dangerous Man in America” (1996).

Perhaps its just his advanced age, but he’s convinced God talks to him – that’s his story and he’s sticking to it – although he sometimes gets the message from on high befuddled. In fact his success rate in relating God’s predictions to the masses is, to put it mildly, embarrassing.

Robertson once sought the Republican Party’s nomination for the American Presidency (1988) – no dice. He also once made plans to televise live the Second Coming (which he’s convinced in just around the corner and has been for many decades) from Jerusalem, but to date Jesus hasn’t cooperated with the anointed one.

Here are a selected few Right Wing Watch headlines about our elderly Mr. Robertson. As you might expect, Pat is anti-gay, anti-environment, anti-abortion, anti-Muslim, and of course anti-President Obama, etc. If God is against it, you can bet the family farm Pat Robertson is against it too.

“Robertson lashes out at ‘doctrinaire’ environmentalist ‘fanatics’.”

“Robertson: Liberals use schools like gulags to ‘indoctrinate’ youth.”

“Pat Robertson’s prayers can make you a millionaire.”

“Robertson: worth praying over clothes to rebuke demons.”

“Robertson dismisses ‘nutty,’ ‘true believer’ climate scientists.”

“Robertson: ‘Demonic’ Islam isn’t a religion but an ‘economic and political system’.”

“Robertson: Obama is a secret socialist.”

“Robertson: Liberals ‘want death’ [regarding euthanasia and abortion rights].”

“Robertson admits he blew election prediction he received from God.”

“Robertson: ‘Miserable’ atheists trying to ‘steal’ Christmas.”

“Pat Robertson excuses [CIA Director David] Petraeus: ‘Here’s a good-looking lady throwing herself at him’.”

“Pat Robertson on Obama victory: ‘What is going on with the American people?’”

“Robertson: Gays and Liberals ‘don’t want freedom’ but ‘want a dictatorship’.”

“Robertson warns God is about to ‘take down the wall of protection around this nation’.”

“Pat Robertson: Since ‘we don’t condone wife-beating these days’ husband should ‘move to Saudi Arabia’ to beat her’.”

“Robertson: Democrats the ‘party of gays, godlessness and whatever else’.”

“Pat Robertson: ‘out of your mind’ to support same-sex marriage.”

“Pat Robertson blames drought on Americans who ‘ignore the laws of God with impunity’.”

“Robertson: Gay rights advocates should ‘shut their mouth’.”

“Pat Robertson blames Sikh Temple shooting on atheists.”

“Pat Robertson: Same-sex marriage is the ‘death knell’ of the Democratic Party

“Pat Robertson: Dump your Muslim girlfriend.”

“Pat Robertson: Ignore what the Bible says about slavery.”

“Robertson: Gay relationships lead to ‘disease and suffering’.”

“Pat Robertson prays to free people from the ‘so-called homosexual lifestyle’.”

“Pat Robertson describes how God built the Christian Broadcasting Network.”

“Robertson: Scientists ‘can’t speculate about the origins of life’.”

“Pat Robertson tells man to tithe against wife’s wishes because ‘you are the boss’.”

“Pat Robertson says Satan is behind homosexuality and abortion rights.”

“Pat Robertson says homosexuality is ‘related to demonic possession’.”

“Robertson calls non-Christians a ‘virus’.”

“Pat Robertson flip flops and denies climate change.”

“Pat Robertson implores woman not to attend sister’s same-sex marriage.”

“Pat Robertson says people could have stopped deadly tornadoes through prayer.”

“Robertson says Obama’s ‘role in life is to diminish the power of the United States’.”

“Robertson warns of looming ‘secular atheist dictatorship’.”

“Pat Robertson tells viewer it’s his own fault, not Robertson’s, that [faith] healing didn’t work.”

“Pat Robertson claims Obama is becoming a dictator.”

“Pat Robertson says you should be Christian first and American second, but attacks Muslims who put religion ahead of nationality.”

“Pat Robertson calls Obama ‘power hungry’ and a ‘dictator’.”

“God tells Robertson that ‘radical’ Obama will bring down America.”

“Robertson: ‘What is this ‘mac and cheese,’ is that a Black thing?’.”

“Robertson says Obama has a Muslim ‘inclination’.”

“Robertson calls Oklahoma earthquake a sign of the end times”

“Robertson: Christians should oppose Occupy Wall Street.”

“Bennett, Robertson blame feminism, gay culture for ruining men.”

“Robertson tells woman who can’t pay mortgage she must keep tithing in order to receive God’s blessings.”

“Robertson says Obama is ‘inciting people to revolt’.”

“Robertson blasts Occupy Wall Street ‘clowns’.”

“Robertson: Christians shouldn’t celebrate Halloween because ‘it’s the night for the devil’.”

“Robertson’s marital advice: divorce your wife with Alzheimers.” 

“Robertson: Jews must convert to Christianity to usher in end times.”

“Robertson suggests crack in the Washington Monument was a sign from God.”

“Robertson: ‘The antichrist is Islam’.”

“Robertson: Media hate freedom, democracy and America.”

“Robertson: [Texas Governor Rick] Parry ‘founded his administration on the Bible’.”

“Robertson and Spencer agree: media love Islam ‘cult’ because they hate America.”

“Robertson: Jewish ‘self-hatred’ explains support for Obama, lack of support for Israel.” 

“Robertson: God will destroy America for marriage equality.”

“Robertson: The Tea Party is God’s answer.”

“Robertson: Fighting Muslims is just like fighting Nazis.”

“Robertson: Left backs abortion rights to make straight women more like lesbians.”

“Robertson on burqa ban: don’t like it? Go back to Africa.”

“Robertson: Asteroid will destroy the Earth.”

“Robertson: Nuclear power is, without question, the way to go.”

“God tells Robertson 2011 will be bad for the world, great for Robertson.”

Further Reading:

Boston, Robert; The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition; Prometheus Books; 1996.

Donovan, John B.; Pat Robertson: The Authorized Biography; Scribner; 1988.

Harrell, David Edwin; Pat Robertson: A Life and Legacy; William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.; 2010.

Harrell, David Edwin; Pat Robertson: A Personal, Religious, and Political Portrait;  Harpercollins; 1988.

Marley, David John; Pat Robertson: An American Life; Rowman & Littlefield; 2007.

Straub, Gerard Thomas; Salvation for Sale: An Insider’s View of Pat Robertson; Prometheus Books; 1988.

Religion: Some More Random Observations

Do you have greater credibility for your personal worldview and biases, or are you taken more seriously if you invoke God, Jesus and/or the Bible in support? Perhaps you may think a wicked city like Las Vegas should be destroyed. Thumbs down, but then you say well look what God did to Sodom and Gomorrah. You’d get short shrift if you advocate executing disobedient children, until you can cite the Biblical chapter and verse which states the exact same thing. Wacky ideas get the thumbs down; Biblical wacky events that mirror those ideas – thumbs up. 

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Anybody reading the story of the crucifixion in Matthew, Mark or Luke will note that for three hours, between noon and three pm apparently, it became very dark. John doesn’t mention this, and Matthew and Mark only note the three hours of intense darkness. But Luke (23:45) notes specifically that “the sun was darkened’. That clearly implies a solar eclipse. However, there are several problems with this. The first is that the crucifixion of Jesus took place at Passover. Alas, Passover happens or is celebrated when the Moon is in its Full Moon phase (or when the Earth is between, but not quite in direct alignment with, the Sun and the Moon). A solar eclipse can only happen when the Moon is totally dark, that is when it is in its New Moon phase (when the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun). So, when the crucifixion happened, that is at Passover, the Moon was Full, not New, therefore no solar eclipse. The second problem is that the New Moon only covers the Sun causing a solar eclipse thus causing intense darkness, for a maximum just shy of eight minutes. That’s just a tad less time than Mathew, Mark and Luke allow for. The third problem is that the crucifixion happened as far as can be determined in April of 30, or 33 or 34 CE. There is no solar eclipse in Jerusalem in April in any of those months and years and is therefore irrelevant, misleading and immaterial. So, either it’s all just fiction, added in for dramatic effect, or it was a miracle (which is probably the official church line). I’d opt for the fiction myself.

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Be sure to check out Wikipedia’s entry for “List of scandals involving evangelical Christians” – very, very enlightening. Also, if you have access, read the following:

Gardner, Martin: “Prime-time preachers” (in) The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher; Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York; 1988; p.223-245.

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This is the latest Right Wing Watch Cindy Jacobs story.

“Cindy Jacobs’ five-year-old daughter can stop tornadoes.”

Apparently her trick is to shout out “I told you to be quiet in Jesus’ name!” and the tornado just goes poof.

My response: Hello, my name is Alice and I’ve gone through the looking glass into wonderland – whee!

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Speaking of the Right Wing Watch, their coverage of the extreme right wing fundamentalist religious personalities like Pat Robertson, Bryan Fischer (especially Brian Fischer), Cindy Jacobs, Glenn Beck; and dozens more, show that these individuals and the organisations they represent (like the American Family Association) are stridently anti-President Obama, and have been since Obama rose to the fore in 2008. I’ve never witnessed any American president being subjected to the vitriol and abuse that President Obama has routinely been by the religious right. Amazingly, it doesn’t seem to be a racist thing, it’s just Obama stands for everything the extreme right wing is against like gay marriage. So, Obama is the antichrist; Obama doesn’t believe in the Bible; Obama hates America; Obama isn’t even an American citizen; Obama is anti-Israel; Obama is pro-Muslim; Obama is a closet Muslim; Obama is a closet gay; Obama is America’s Lenin or Stalin; Obama hates the military; Obama is an illegitimate president; Obama should be impeached. There’s a lot more negatives, but you get the drift.

But it’s not so much about what Obama is (sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me) but what Obama’s agenda is. Obama will declare himself God; Obama wants to destroy the American economy; Obama wants to raise a black army and kill whites, especially right wing Christian whites; Obama wants gun control to disarm his enemies; Obama wants to precipitate another Civil War; Obama will turn America into an Islamic state; Obama discriminates against Christianity; Obama declares war on white America; Obama is out to destroy the family unit; and on and on and on it goes without any shred of evidence whatever.

While that might be an example of America’s freedom of speech, I wonder whether or not any of these individuals will apologise in January 2017 when Obama leaves office and nothing whatever has come to pass that even remotely confirmed these outlandish shock, horror, it’s the end of the world or at least of America, claims. My gut feeling is that there won’t be an “I’m sorry” or “I got it wrong” from anyone that’s a member of any one of the extreme right wing fundamentalist religious groups. By then they will have moved on and will be bucketing some other person.

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Why is it that a select number of those with a religious conviction feel they have a moral and ethical right to disturb and inconvenience you, at their convenience of course, in order to shove their religious worldview down your throat? The nice thing about atheists is that they don’t disturb and inconvenience you; they don’t do doorknocking!

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Ancient art works that depict ‘flying saucers’ all seemingly have a religious, especially New Testament, Jesus/Mary themed context: Why? Perhaps because the religious figures central in the artistic works aren’t supernatural but flesh-and-blood of an ‘ancient astronaut’ variety.

The AFA Is As Phoney As A Seven Dollar Bill

Let’s start by noting that the name of the organisation is the “American Family Association” (AFA). So, if in all innocence you came across the name, you’d be expecting probably a lobbyist group that lobbies on behalf of health, education, welfare, etc. issues that are of concern to the average American family.  You will not note the word God, Religion, Christianity, Church or any other word normally associated with all things Biblical in the name of the organisation. That’s misleading at best; misrepresentation at worst since in fact they are a 100% Right Wing, even extremist and fundamentalist, Christian organisation.

We note that the word “families” occurs only once in their “Philosophical Statement” and not at all in their “Action Statement” or “Statement of Faith”, whereas there are numerous references to God, Bible, Jesus, etc. So, any rational person must conclude that a more accurate phrase or name for their organisation would be “American Association for God” or “American Bible Association” or “Americans for Jesus Association” or some variation thereof. 

The following trilogy of statements is extracted directly from the AFA website:

AFA PHILOSOPHICAL STATEMENT

 

The American Family Association believes that God has communicated absolute truth to mankind, and that all people are subject to the authority of God’s Word at all times. Therefore AFA believes that a culture based on biblical truth best serves the well-being of our nation and our families, in accordance with the vision of our founding documents; and that personal transformation through the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the greatest agent of biblical change in any culture.

AFA ACTION STATEMENT

The American Family Association acts to:

(1) restrain evil by exposing the works of darkness;
(2) promote virtue by upholding in culture that which is right, true and good according to Scripture;
(3) convince individuals of sin and challenge them to seek Christ’s grace and forgiveness;
(4) motivate people to take a stand on cultural and moral issues at the local, state and national levels; and
(5) encourage Christians to bear witness to the love of Jesus Christ as they live their lives before the world.

AFA STATEMENT OF FAITH 

1.  We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

2.  We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:  Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

3.  We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

4.  We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

5.  We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

6.  We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost;  they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

7.  We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now what is wrong with the above bullshit? Firstly, and obviously, they state that there is absolutely no question in their minds that there is a God (their invisible friend, but with friends like God of the Old Testament, who needs enemies). Unfortunately, the AFA provide no evidence for this claim. The exact same must apply to their Lord Jesus Christ. There’s lots of PR and hype – no evidence that the AFA could use in a court of law to so prove his reality. Also we note their trust in the absolute infallible truth of God’s word as related in the Bible (presumable in all editions and versions and languages). Unfortunately, the Bible has been shown to be, by thousands of people, including myself, as fallible as fallible can be. So, their trilogy of God, Jesus and Bible as the be-all-and-end-all of their worldview is okay by me, if they just wouldn’t endlessly ram it down the throats of everyone else. But that’s one philosophy the extreme religious right do not adopt – live and let live. They are peas in a pod with radical Islam in that they need to ram their own narrow Biblical worldview down the throats of others.

They also adopt a similar philosophy when it comes to gay (homosexual/lesbian) relationships, and positively froth at the mouth when it comes to same-sex marriage. I’m sure the extreme religious right wing, of which the AFA is a member in good standing, their members would say that what they do behind closed doors with their wife or husband is none of anybody else’s business, no correspondence need be entered into, yet it’s okay for them to be a sort of ‘Peeping Tom’ and condemn others and the lifestyle of others.  

Their prime spokesman is one Bryan Fischer. If he’s not raving on daily about the evils of homosexuality (one of the many practically frothing at the mouth over the issue), he’s really got it in for U.S. President Obama. I’m well aware that not all Americans like all American presidents all of the time, but Fischer’s public hatred of Obama is pretty much over-the-top, though I suspect that’s partly a cover for his anti-Muslim sentiments.

Here are just a very select few of the Right Wing Watch headlines that accompany stories about Bryan Fischer and the American Family Association he represents.

“Fischer: Obama is an Antichrist’.”

“Fischer: Obama is ‘filled with arrogance’, believes that he knows better than God.”

“Fischer: A full moon is when ‘Satan chooses to activate his influence and control over people’.”

“Fischer: Abortion rights will lead to terrorist attacks.”

“Obama’s Inaugural Address sends Fischer off on another anti-gay rant.”

“Fischer: Obama is trying to make gun owners seem crazy.”

“Fischer says the anti-gay right is tired of getting ‘pushed around’ and ‘backing down’ and vows to push back.”

“Fischer: We are the victims of ‘a new moral McCarthyism’.”

“Fischer: High-capacity magazines necessary to defend yourself from a posse.”

“Fischer: Anti-gay activists are now ‘the new Rosa Parks’ and victims of Jim Crow.”

“Fischer: Natural disasters are God’s spankings.”

“Fischer: Modern assault weapons the same as hunting rifles used in the American Revolution.”

“Fischer: Fiscal Cliff legislation is ‘demonic’.”

“Fischer: Sandy Hook shooting proof that America’s ‘moral capital’ has run out.”

“Fischer: God didn’t stop CT [Connecticut] school shooting because he’s a ‘gentlemen’ who doesn’t go where he’s not wanted.”

“‘Barack the destroyer’: Bryan Fischer’s grand unified theory on Obama.”

“Fischer and Beisner say that not using fossil fuels is an insult to God.”

“Fischer: Obama is intentionally trying to keep ‘as many Americans as poor as possible’.”

“Fischer: Only eyewitness testimony can determine the age of the Earth.”

“Fischer: The 9/11 terrorists were ‘agents of God’s wrath’.”

“Fischer: Obama ‘may in fact be a closeted Muslim’.”

“Fischer: If Obama is re-elected, ‘America has no future’.”

“Fischer: I am a ‘prophetic voice’ warning against the gay agenda.” 

“Fischer: The UN is ‘deliberately seeding’ Muslims throughout the southern United States.”

“Fischer: CNN is ‘what the Gay Gestapo looks like in action’.”

“Fischer: ‘Political leadership ought to be reserved for the hands of males’.”

“Fischer: ‘We cannot give one millimetre to the forces of homosexual activism’.”

“Bryan Fischer is looking at the bright side of slavery.”

“Fischer: Liberals can’t be reasoned with, they can only be defeated.” 

“Fischer warns the ‘homosexual lobby’ will soon allow celebrations of incest, paedophilia, and bestiality.”

“Fischer demands mass public executions in response to Libya attack.”

“Fischer: We want to take America back to the Book of Genesis.”

“Fischer brings on guest to explain ‘it really all stands to reason’ that few women get pregnant from rape.”

“Bryan Fischer: Todd Akin is ‘absolutely right’ [that ‘legitimate rape’ rarely results in pregnancy].”

“Fischer and Beisner praise [Paul] Ryan’s ‘Biblical view of the environment’.”

“Fischer says ex-gay mom had an obligation to God to kidnap her daughter and flee.”

“Fischer: Obama’s re-election will lead to ‘serious talk about secession’.” 

“Fischer: ‘Muslim’s are worshiping a demon’.”

“Fischer: Removal of prayer & Ten Commandments from schools responsible for CO [Colorado] shooting.”

“Fischer: It was Liberals who opposed the fight for civil rights.”

“Fischer: Obama like a ‘street thug’ who is destroying America just for the pleasure of it.”

“Fischer: Gay biological parents should be denied custody and only allowed supervised visits.”

“Fischer: Jesus’ teaching is ‘virtually the foundation of the Second Amendment’ [right to bare arms].”

“Fischer: Gays are driven by a ‘dark, venomous, demonic hatred’.” 

“Fischer: Government should mandate that everyone attend church and tax those who don’t.”

“Fischer rewrites American history so it corresponds to the Bible.”

“Fischer: Gay marriage leads to sex with animals.”

“Fischer: Liberals have been duped by Satan.”

“Fischer: Abortion, gay rights & environmentalism are the work of Satan himself.”

I’ve only highlighted a relative few of Fisher’s recent headlines, and the above only extends back to mid-2012! So, this is just the very, very tip of the Fischer iceberg. His headline rants as documented by the Right Wing Watch (People for the American Way) extend back to 2009, and that’s way in excess of a five-fold increase on the above. But you probably get the idea by now.  

In conclusion, we note from these headlines that the rants and ravings of Bryan Fischer, and of the American Family Association, have relatively little to do with the health, education and welfare of the family unit, and everything to do with promoting their own extreme Christian agenda, especially an anti-gay and anti-Obama (translated, an anti-Muslim) agenda. Fischer will spew forth hatred with a vengeance, yet he calls himself a Christian. Go figure.