I can imagine Mondo as a fan of this sarcastic asshole since they both like to believe that their god is a mean, wrathful bastard. His show is titled “Wretched” because he is wretched. He even admits it. He says he is wretched, and people are wretched and the whole damned world is wretched. Reminds me of a fundie that used to come by here named Dani. Just feel the Xian luv as the verbal diarrhea comes forth from his mouth. He either has Tourettes or is having spastic orgasms as he grunts and makes pig noises as he spews forth his hateful ranting. “Unity is for believers only” he says, and states in so many words that believers must hate those who do not believe as they do. He is one of the biggest assholes I have ever come across on television.

Todd Friel on The Prayer That Should Be Prayed At The Inauguration

I usually watch television after settling in bed for the night and flip through channels to see if anything interesting is on. Last night I ran across these money beggars, Jack Van Impe (known worldwide as The Walking Bible and his wife, Rexella (Rexella appears sedated when she speaks). In addition to their own television program that mostly is a sales pitch asking viewers to purchase one of Van Impe’s books, video tapes, or other media products, these con artists have their own Ministries World Outreach Center, located in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Over the years, Van Impe has set many specific years and dates for the second coming of Jesus, but has continued to move his prediction later and later when his imaginary friend fails to show up, and now he is saying that 2012 is the date of the “end of history” based on the fact that the heathen Inca calendar stops at that year. In the following video, it will nearly make your brain explode with the way that Impe tosses around numbers, adding and subtracting and manipulating to make it seem proof of the bullshit that he espouses. I found it hilarious that in 2001, Impe Ministries won the humorous/mock Ig Nobel Prize for astrophysics for its assertion that “black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell.”

Here’s the video link.
And if you are feeling masochistic, here is the link to the first of four of Impe’s end of times videos. Lame, lame lame!

And what do the suckers who fork over their money to this con man have to say?

Jack and Rexella are the ones to keep in the know with….. the church certainly is confused about this topic,maybe a few talk of it… but most don’t.. that is why I watch them. If prophecy is not part of your church, ( prophecy is all through the Bible, old and new testaments,) I suggest you make Jack Van Impe YOUR CHURCH, and support him as I do. I have ordered his video 2012 3 videos, to share with others. It’s all about Salvation… and getting ready to be raptured.
alex9nanc

ohhhh if this is true i cant wait to see Jesus im soo exited
theemaway

Praise GOD. I don’t know what is to come in 2012 but I am at peace with whatever happens. For the battle is already won. Even as our corrupt government attempts to controls this world. God is still in control.
StopLossSolutions

First of all here to you Christ haters, with out Christians the world wouldn’t be so bad you would even sitting on your buts saying trash. Also to my fellow dear Christians, don’t mind what these hate mongers say, it’s all junk and funny to them because they don’t have what you need inside to understand about the wonderfull Kingdom of God that’s coming and anything related to it.
ShineCity711

whoever is commenting negativity about jack van impe, knows that god is real because why would they be looking at his videos,
weo890ur

Why would we be looking at his videos? To MOCK them and to get others to realize what suckers they are and to put scammers out of business. Idiots.

Keith has a nice summary of the past eight years…

(The link for this video can be found here.)

I have referenced Americans United’s Rob Boston on many occasions in my posts, and here we get to see who he is and what he has to say about Rick Warren, Obama and the promised “change” in discussion with Keith Olbermann:

Boston points out that Warren has not only voiced his opposition to gays, but also non-believers saying that they are not fit to hold public office.

Boston’s description of Warren is right-on: “Just another Jerry Falwell in a Hawaiian shirt.”

It is indeed a real shame that Warren’s voice is one of the first ones the nation will hear at the inauguration. Maybe Obama has planned it so fundies will tune in and listen to his own message, but my experience with fundies tells me they will tune in, listen to Warren, say “Amen” and shut off the television when it’s the “evil baby-killer librul’s” turn to talk.

I mean, where else can you get away with comparing your goals to totalitarianism — and call it righteous?

Ignorance is Knowing, Weakness is Strength, God Bless America…

(The link to this can be found here.)

I haven’t checked the link to Fundies say the darndest things for awhile, and here’s one from this fundie asshat.

Most of you may remember the story from the Bible where after “Gawd’s people” were let out of slavery in Egypt, he instructed them to slaughter all the Canaanites, which included every man, woman, and child who were living in the land (Deut. 7.1-2; 20.16-18).

This asshat, William Lane Craig, writes in response to a couple of questions given to him by explaining that when the Christian’s imaginary friend tells them to kill people, it’s not murder. You can click on the link and read the whole thing yourself, but these following quotes give you the gist of Craig’s attempts to justify his murderous god.

So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgement. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalizing effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.

Don’t pity the dead woman and her children, just think how incredibly difficult it is for that soldier who killed them!

And he goes on to say:

“In fact, insofar as the atheist thinks that God did something morally wrong in commanding the extermination of the Canaanites,”

That’s what this dude and other brainwashed sheeple do not get — their god DOES do something morally wrong. Genocide and wiping out a whole people is wrong. Period.

To the question, “how can He command soldiers to slaughter children?”, Craig justifies it that all of the Canaanites had to be wiped out to avoid anyone who was not a Canaanite accidentally mingling or gasp, intermarrying with “those people”.

The terrible totality of the destruction was undoubtedly related to the prohibition of assimilation to pagan nations on Israel’s part. In commanding complete destruction of the Canaanites, the Lord says, “You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons, or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods” (Deut 7.3-4).

*snip*

God knew that if these Canaanite children were allowed to live, they would spell the undoing of Israel. The killing of the Canaanite children not only served to prevent assimilation to Canaanite identity but also served as a shattering, tangible illustration of Israel’s being set exclusively apart for God.

If this event really happened, it was simply based on cultural paranoia. Fear of others who hold different beliefs and the ones who did the killing not having a strong enough faith to endure being exposed to different worldviews.

And here is the real frightening part where he believes killing of the children in the story was good for them!

Moreover, if we believe, as I do, that God’s grace is extended to those who die in infancy or as small children, the death of these children was actually their salvation. We are so wedded to an earthly, naturalistic perspective that we forget that those who die are happy to quit this earth for heaven’s incomparable joy. Therefore, God does these children no wrong in taking their lives.

This kind of justification is so dangerous. Just look how many news reports we hear of god believing mothers and fathers killing their babies and children because they were evil and felt justified in murdering their little ones. And it also perpetuates the hatred for this world, while longing for a fantasy of escape to a celestial paradise.

Craig provides lots of material for us to tear apart. It’s disturbing to know that these people who hold these ideas can be living right next door to us.

I saw this on DallasNews.com.  Looks like the Jews aren’t real impressed with the Catholics either.  http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/italian-rabbis-withdraw-from-i.html

Italy’s rabbis announced they were pulling out of the Italian Catholic Church’s annual celebration of Judaism, saying Pope Benedict XVI’s actions were turning back 50 years of interfaith progress.

Speaking for the assembly of Italian rabbis, Elia Enrico Richetti, the chief rabbi of Venice, cited the pope’s decision to restore a prayer for the conversion of Jews as part of Easter Week services in the old Latin Mass. Jews consider the notion that they need to be converted to Christianity offensive on its face.

In addition, Richetti said, Benedict has signaled that he doesn’t find interfaith dialogue particularly useful, since, in his view, “the superiority of the Christian faith is proven anyway.”

Finally, while the rabbis didn’t cite this as one of their reasons, the pope’s denunciation of the violence in Gaza — interpreted by many as an implicit criticism of Israel — surely did nothing to ease tensions between Italian Catholics and Jews.

Gotta love it!