Crazy for Jesus

I have never read about or heard of anything in the Bible that identified Jesus as crazy, so why do many of His followers behave like this?

Ahh, religion. Is believing in God or any deity a problem? No, not in and of itself. Then why are there so many verbal and physical fights and scuffles between believers and non-believers, and even between believers and believers? 

Somewhere along the line many of those who make the choice to believe in an all-knowing deity mistakenly begin thinking that their way of living and thinking and worshiping is the ONLY way to do such. Then, in their grand delusion of spiritual superiority they begin to behave in ways that are really baffling, stupid, absurd, ridiculous, cruel, hateful, angry, crazy, incendiary, divisive, dishonest, and pretty much everything that you would guess that Jesus himself would more than likely be against. Let's take a peek, shall we?

What is this guy doing? Is he mixing some strange version of Pentecostal worship with some kind of weird alcoholism?  Is that it? Is he trying to be cute and engaging? What is it with the "Oing! Oing! Oing!" he keeps saying? Find a 'drinking buddy' and shoot up with Jesus? A floating preacher suspended for twelve hours? What? This is flat out f*cking stupid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP8vQwymOuE

Oh DEAR Lord. What do people expect to achieve when behaving like this? Sure, this has got to be a skit (poorly executed I might say) but the basics of loony believers trying to evangelize the heathen masses is spot on. I will tell you now, in absolute truth and honesty, I know for sure that there were times that I sounded just like this. 

Back in the days when I still believed in God and Jesus and the Bible I know there were times I behaved just like this. I cannot begin to express my shame and sincere apologies for ever behaving like this toward anyone...ever. If you know me, Ester Lighthorse (or by my real name and not my pen name), as a family member or your friend or as a former friend or co-worker or whatever, and if I treated you in such an obtuse manner as I tried to shove whatever it was I thought was truth down your throat I would like to tell you that I am so sorry that I ever did such a thing to you. 

Yes, I was very young at the time. And while I did begin to think differently about what I was being taught about God and Jesus and religion when I was about 14 years old, I did not fully drop everything about the Bible and Christianity and faith and religion fully down the rubbish chute until considerably later. Still, I cannot rightfully use youth as an excuse because as true as I am sitting here now and typing this blog post I KNEW in the very depths of who I am as a person that what I was saying was wrong. It always felt WRONG, because to me it was immeasurably dishonest to take the handful of good messages in the Bible (like the strength and power of Love) and use those messages and the truth they offer as validation for lies and flat-out crazy shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjj7EgqoiU4

Lovely. This is what many generations heavily burdened by the 'holy' bug insist on doing to future generations. How do you like what you see? And remember my position on this. I am NOT against religion as a choice for the individual. If you wish to believe, fine and power to you. What I AM against is ANY religion that attempts to smother people with out-of-this-world ridiculousness as to how people should and should not live. I am also against religion influencing politics on any level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6NrQuup80

As I listened to this man rant and rave on how the people around him did not have faith two things came to mind. First, he says those around him have no faith. How does he know that they have no faith? Faith can be many things to the individual and the only viable answer I could come up with here was that this man meant that the people had no faith according to the preacher's interpretation and understanding of what faith is. Just a teeny bit biased, wouldn't you say?

The second thing that came to mind was the venomous rage with which this guy was preaching. Watch the film clip while viewing the video, and then play it again, except the second time close you eyes and listen to the inflection in this man's words. I found it to be very disturbing. I hope this is not an indicator of the direction that more and more people are claiming religion is moving in at an increasing rate, because if God is changing His message of love and salvation through Jesus to a message of hate, separation, prejudice, inequality, and justified cruelty...

This man's tidal wave of anger is a clear indicator that he does not know the first thing about what Jesus taught, or the ideals that Jesus is supposed to represent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCl3hw9eHt4

Here is a fine example of religious brainwashing. For the most part people maintain a certain conduct when interacting in social environments; there are things most people would do, and things most people wouldn't do. Then you have religion enter stage right. All of a sudden you have people absolutely ready and willing to do ANYTHING in the name of their God and His infallible truth.

Obviously the woman here could give a rat's ass and a good goddamn how absolutely foolishly she is behaving. Why? So long as the otherwise abnormal behavior is supposed to glean converts and add to the glory of God and His horrific plan for mankind, well...folks like this have special divine permission to do absolutely anything in the name of God. You know, I bet those idiot suicide bombers think the same damn way about Allah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm0foa5_m3Q

This is simply outstanding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om8VC4IfeRY

You know what? Maybe it isn't so much that Christianity has a vendetta against gays and lesbians so much as it is Christianity can feel the reigns of power and control slipping from its damnable grasp. Many Christians are SO desperate to remain in a position where they unfortunately believe and think that they are better (if only spiritually and eternally speaking) than all others, they will say and do ANYTHING. Many will have no trouble at all lying about the intent of those holding an opposing opinion. If Jesus were real do you think he would approve of this habit of lying? Gays and lesbians do not want to destroy marriage, no. Their intent is that they receive the same right and privilege to marry irrespective of their religious or gender preferences.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzkVUEmHVI0

Wow. So much for Jesus loving the little children.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhyJpLIpRVA

Haahaahaa!!!! Haahaah!!!! Holy cow this is great! What do you know? There are believers who are so crazy for Jesus that they will try to misinterpret history, or in some cases change it altogether. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabmhdA6r3A

That's right. The bigger and more outlandish the claim, the crazier the individual making the claim is for Jesus. Look at the title of this video. Now look at the date it was posted. Jesus is coming soon? The freaking post is like two years old! Well, Jesus' interpretation of soon and the human interpretation of soon must be completely different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuIzC5GfRtg

Geeze, what the hell happened to the message of love and compassion supposedly offered by Jesus? And what is this shit about death being better than compromising? That's what the freaks who fly planes into buildings say. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mQvvGJYQaM

This is pathetic...and unfortunately very common.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueyBPdPQASI

Stupid is as stupid does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tilbBzrsU3s

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God Speaks to Us

Why Does God Only Speak to Those Who Believe in Him?

God only speaks to His own He-Who-Has-Ears-To-Hear-Let-Him-Hear people. Convenient, wouldn't you say?

This video here is simply excellent. This gentleman is very clear and concise in his descriptions of situations as well as his interpretations of such. I agree with him that many Christians find it absolutely hard to believe that someone can believe in God with all of their heart as a child and then grow up to think and believe differently. It is very much the same situation for me. I grew up believing in God and everything that the Bible has to say about salvation and heaven and hell. For years I thought all of the people who did not believe the same as I did were in fact going to burn in hell. Thank goodness I do not believe such bullshit any more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJSqmGvX_fo

Being able to hear God speak to you seems to be a requirement for every Christian. Never mind that this is a lunatic idea, but do these same people think that their belief that God speaks to them is any more believeable than your standard belief in magic or sorcery or anything of the like? The belief that God or any proposed divine being would go out of their way to tell puny and mistake-riddled human beings to do something when the divine being could simply do it for themselves...and without mistake...is preposterous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKRrcOgQolU

Ahhh, the things people think they are being told by God, or by people claiming to be speaking for God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfkHJmHYn6M

God does not freaking speak to anyone because God does not exist. What you DO have is a bunch of people claiming to be speaking for God Who is all-powerful and omnicient, but Who decides it would be better to speak to a handful of people and then tell those people to tell the world what God told them. You would think that an all-powerful being would have the gumption to speak to everyone all at once instead of whispering to a few people who either get what God is saying ALL WRONG or who get killed or harassed for claiming God is speaking to them in the first place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zA08uiiHkY

Isn't it lovely how this person or that person claims to be speaking for God while at the same time claiming that OTHERS who claim to be speaking for God are not properly discerning the voice of God speaking to them? RRRIIIIGGGGGHHHHT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kwOq5Tnos

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http://makinggodangry.blogspot.com/2013/05/god-is-angry-wants-to-punish-america.html
http://familytreeofthedivine.blogspot.com/2013/04/so-if-god-had-divine-family-tree-what.html

John Hagee: Can't Keep His Trap from Saying Stupid Shit

This is a Man of God?

Oh, how nice. Hagee is praying that God give the President the wisdom of Solomon as he (the President) leads the nation into war. Lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sDDbDxFmY

What Hagee neglects to tell you in this nifty little clip is that Lincoln signed TWO requested national days of prayer and fasting, one signed on August 12, 1861, and one signed on March 30, 1863. The second resolution for a proclamation of prayer and fasting was originally introduced by Senator James Harlan of Iowa on March 2, adopted on March 3, and signed by Lincoln on March 30. Hagee should have mentioned that Senator Harlan's daughter married President Lincoln's son, Robert. Oh, and he probably should have mentioned that the American Civil War ended in 1865...which makes Hagee's claim of things 'suddenly' turning around for the Union total bullshit.
     But what I think is particularly interesting is what Hagee left out about the first national day of prayer that Lincoln signed into effect 1861. Read it, and in the first paragraph you will see that it was a committee of both Houses of Congress that REQUESTED that the President recommend a day of "public humiliation, prayer and fasting" that would be observed by those with "religious solemnities." There is a lot more to be read on both documents and hopefully you will read them both here: http://sdfa.org/lincoln_a.htm
     Please pay close attention to the language in both of the documents signed by President Lincoln and keep in mind that it is HIGHLY LIKELY that since BOTH resolutions were requested OF President Lincoln and not initiated by him that he did not write the bodies of the resolutions themselves, but only affixed his name at the end. Of course, I am very sure Hagee and loads of other psychopathic evangelicals would scream differently.
     But, even that doesn't matter because the idea that God intervened because of prayer and fasting is hilariously stupid, right? Unless it is God's personal policy to totally ignore the first day of the fasting and beseeching prayers of the Union, totally ignore the second day of the same as well, allow hundreds of thousands of soldiers to die horribly, and allow the areas affected by the war to be torn to shreds (literally). I suppose it COULD be God's policy if you consider what He did to the Israelites in the Old Testament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcaNRX_wl6k

     Okay...we will not discuss the hideousness of Hagee's suit jacket, but, his reference to Alexander Haig and the famous quote of being in charge is NOT from the 9/11 tragedy. It is from the March 30, 1981 assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrnH00J0Wk

     What the heck is this fuck-tard talking about? Why is he trying to use world tragedies to try to validate his stupid and ridiculous agenda and vicious God? Oooooohhhhh!!! GOD has a MIGHTY plan and it involves the deaths of MILLIONS of people with SIX MILLION of the dead HIS OWN PEOPLE. NICE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ec-kZGKnQ8

     Again, Mr. Hagee, you are trying to define government and what government should be and needs to be according to a fantasy-riddled religious document. Step off, Mr. Hagee. Your imaginary God does NOT run this country. Some people like you think so, but that does not make it truth. The longer we can keep religious loonies like you and your pals OUT of politics the better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXFJCjJ06U

     Like many others in the muck that results when you mix religion and politics Hagee makes absurdly stupid claims. Never mind the full extent of the political ramifications of what he says here...I only want to comment on one thing: God's treatment of HIS chosen people. Hagee can say all he wants that Israel has this great and grand connection to some great divine being somewhere in the great yonder, but in case Hagee has not peeked into the Old Testament and into the actual historical records of the 'chosen people' of God...this great supreme being has totally and completely treated HIS people with contempt and cruelty and not only that, but this great divine being has done this CONSISTENTLY. And you worry about other nations turning their backs on Israel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPqs4GCszSw

     So, what you are saying is that BEFORE there were even people on the earth this great God of yours decided that His great 'plan' for mankind would include a day and minute and hour and all that happy horseshit where God would KILL one third of the population of mankind? You don't think that is likely to get you a bunch of converts, do you? In fact, it might get a few to collect their brains and to leave your precious little flock. You are a sicko. Your God is a sicko. Your Bible is also totally sicko.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCY9zMitdPU


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