According to a recent article on the Christian Post, the profitable prophet behind the Purpose Driven™ brand of Christianity has now surpassed Benny Hinn, one of my all-time favorite holy rollers, in household recognition.
The poll by the HCD was conducted less than 10 days after the inauguration, so surely Rick got a little bit of an Obama bump but still…
For those of you who don’t know about Benny, he is mostly TV and stadiums and he does waste a lot of time firing up people in Africa and South America. He probably doesn’t get the face time on TV that he had 10 or 15 years ago though. He’s not as cool as Benny Hill but he definitely has his own pizzazz.
Rick Warren also does the stadiums and his 30,000+ person megachurch but his biggest helper is WalMart, with its humble book section. More than 30 million copies of the Purpose Driven Life have been sold (and that’s as of 2006). In addition to that, he has sold millions of copies of his other book on how to put asses in the seats. Any clergyman worth his salt knows that more asses in the seats mean more money in the coffers, so of course thousands of churches are pushing his product.
Benny likes the theatric…
Where as slick Rick would rather blenderize 14 translations of the Bible into one new and improved version that he wrote.
To be honest, I’m a little sad that Benny got beat by an Oprah impersonator, but then again Benny Hinn doesn’t have the support of the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Barack Obama so what can you do…
“Especially from a German pope, I would have expected more understanding and sensitivity,” Graumann said. “The fact that this comes from a German pope leaves a certain taste and provokes certain feelings.”
Shouldn’t Mr. Graumann instead said “Especially from a German pope who was a Hitler Youth that lived near a concentration camp and eventually served in the Nazi war machine…”, because it’s true.
People shouldn’t be so quick to judge the pope for going soft on this holocaust denier. For all we know, during the meeting when he re-instated Bishop Richard Williamson maybe he busted out the his old family photo albums to help convince the misguided bishop that the Holocaust was real.
Muhahaha. Now maybe the Manning for MVP talk can quiet down. Not only was he out performed by a handful of other quarterbacks (the same few guys beat him in nearly every stat category) during the regular season, but he also had mediocre playoff stats in their loss (even worse if you subtract the 72 TD he threw while the Chargers weren’t paying attention at all, he’d have less than 250 yards and NO TDs). Oh, and a couple of those quarterbacks are still in the playoffs.
The Bible warned us of the arrival of this giant foreheaded bastard. Check Revelations.
Now if only the other Manning would lose. Can’t have the Whore of Babylon’s little sister using the limelight of yet another Super Bowl to spread evil now can we?
update: We have been spared for now. Both of the mediocre Manning girls were sent home.
The answer to my prayers came in the form of James Joseph Cialella of Philly. He was trying to watch a little bit o The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Christmas Day. Some guy and his kids couldn’t shut up during the movie even after being asked to do so.
Because most theater talkers are 50% mouth and 50% asshole, they never shut up. No matter how nicely you ask…
The frustrated Jimmy Pop remembered that he was blessed with the gift of a .380 and he used it will convince them to quiet down. After the noisy (and wounded) father left the theater (along with some other flighty movie goers), Jimmy was able to continue watching the movie.
Well, at least until police showed up to take him and his gun downtown.
Anyone interested in helping me start a legal defense fund for the good Mr. Cialella should email me at STFU-Iamtryingtowatchamovie[AT]passingjudgement.com.
There is new damning report out about people who are now unemployed directly due to Barack Obama’s election win last night. You can see the disappointment on the faces of the newly unemployed people who were interviewed…
Update: Here is a slightly less fake news release coving an almost related topic…
