D'Souza d'vorce: another one bites the dust.

[ddt]

No, 9/11 was caused by people who hate America for being capitalist, a representative democracy, affluent and powerful, for supporting Israel and being essentially secular, rather than a theocracy. Should I ever see D'Souza retract this abominable assertion about the left being the cause of 9/11, if I ever see or hear him say that it's just possible he might be wrong on something, if I ever notice in him even faint signs of humility, then and only then will I believe he has any capacity for repentance.

<nitpick mode on>
You forgot the presence of US troops on Saudi soil, which was IIRC the main reason cited by OBL.
</nitpick mode off>

Your argument still stands of course. And, as one of those on the "cultural left", I share your disgust for DSD.

 

[ddt]

Yes, and not building temples really hurts! I know because I'm a non-temple builder too. No free mutton for me!

As a fellow non-temple builder, I feel with you. With all those measures the Animal Rights Party wants to bring in, the price of meat may rise dramatically.

No. He was forbidden from building the Temple because he killed too many people. Al least that's what it says in 1 Kings 5:3 and 1 Chronicles 22:8.

Or at least conducted too many wars. The 1 Kings 5:3 reads like he just didn't have the opportunity, not so much that it was a punishment, but that may be the translation.

David basically gets off scot free for the adultery and murder of Uriah.

Not quite. Samuel 12:12-23 relates that the child Batheseba was pregnant with died as punishment.

Anyway, thanks for correcting me.

 

[MIKILLINI]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A0F9qTwBOq4/SIbHchnql3I/AAAAAAAAAkM/Qee6HjFb4jU/s400/DineshFail.jpg#Dinesh%20D%27Souza%20fraud%20400x350

Seen this a while back and even now it makes me laugh.

 

[Beelzebuddy]

I don't see a lot of televangelists repenting once they've been caught in sex scandals.

And Jimmie here even had a good excuse, considering who he was married to.

 

[I Ratant]

Expecting the god botherers to actually practice what they preach?

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At work we had a moralizer, one of Bakker's flock chastising us for our sins.
We were really depressed when his marriage failed due to adultery on his part. NOT!

 

[MIKILLINI]

[qimg]http://www.jim-harvey.com/wp-content/uploads/Jim-Bakker-Crying.jpg[/qimg]
And Jimmie here even had a good excuse, considering who he was married to.

Your photo is of Jimmy Swaggert instead of Jim Bakker. Jimmy Swaggert was caught soliciting prostitutes, while Jim Bakker was prosecuted for mail fraud..... and having sex with Jessica Hahn. A preacher by the name of John Wesley Fletcher was also there having sex with Ms. Hahn.
Nothing like sharing a "spiritual" moment.

 

[I Ratant]

Extremely.

If God says "go and commit genocide" then that's good. If God doesn't tell you to commit genocide, that's bad.

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I was reading in "Military History Quarterly" today about the My Lai massacre.
During the process of the conviction of Calley and the appeals, a Georgia federal district judge threw out the conviction, which ruling was later overturned... saying "Joshua did not have charges brought against him for the slaughter of the civilian population of Jericho", and William T. Sherman was "glorified, idolized, beatified by an admiring nation after his march through Georgia.

 

[KatieG]

[qimg]http://www.jim-harvey.com/wp-content/uploads/Jim-Bakker-Crying.jpg[/qimg]
And Jimmie here even had a good excuse, considering who he was married to.

I think that's Jimmy Swaggart. Can't find a good pic of him or Jim Bakker right now. Will keep looking.

 

[MIKILLINI]

I think that's Jimmy Swaggart. Can't find a good pic of him or Jim Bakker right now. Will keep looking.

You're correct; That is a photo of Swaggert. He asked for forgiveness on TV, which is where that photo frame is from.
I still think he was jealous of his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, who was a Rock 'N Roll star and did whatever he wanted without much scrutiny(Well, except for the part when he married his first cousin "once removed").
Apparently when one becomes a popular televangelist, their spouse becomes insignificant.

 

[Elizabeth I]

Tim Callahan, you really just wanted to write "D'Souza D'vorce," didn't you?

 

[KatieG]

You're correct; That is a photo of Swaggert. He asked for forgiveness on TV, which is where that photo frame is from.
I still think he was jealous of his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, who was a Rock 'N Roll star and did whatever he wanted without much scrutiny(Well, except for the part when he married his first cousin "once removed").
Apparently when one becomes a popular televangelist, their spouse becomes insignificant.

I feel so dirty that I knew that. I despise those fundie nut jobs, begging for money from people who barely had enough money to live on. Meanwhile, Jim and Tammy Faye, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, all of them and more live in mansions and never give their poorer followers another thought. Thieves and liars.

 

[Beelzebuddy]

Your photo is of Jimmy Swaggert instead of Jim Bakker. Jimmy Swaggert was caught soliciting prostitutes, while Jim Bakker was prosecuted for mail fraud..... and having sex with Jessica Hahn. A preacher by the name of John Wesley Fletcher was also there having sex with Ms. Hahn.
Nothing like sharing a "spiritual" moment.

Well, I'll bow to your superior televangelical knowledge. He came up in a GIS for Jim Bakker, I know they all did the sobbing confession at some point or other, and I can't even tell them apart when they're not blubbering.

Didja hear the one about the TV preacher with the box full of money?

 

[joobz]

D'Souza's entire anti Obama arguments center on his supposed rage and how we don't know him.

Once again, it seems that one's art is less about the subject and more of a reflection of one's self.

 

[fuelair]

[qimg]http://www.jim-harvey.com/wp-content/uploads/Jim-Bakker-Crying.jpg[/qimg]
And Jimmie here even had a good excuse, considering who he was married to.

Jimmie Fallon cried about his wife???

 

[fuelair]

Your photo is of Jimmy Swaggert instead of Jim Bakker. Jimmy Swaggert was caught soliciting prostitutes, while Jim Bakker was prosecuted for mail fraud..... and having sex with Jessica Hahn. A preacher by the name of John Wesley Fletcher was also there having sex with Ms. Hahn.
Nothing like sharing a "spiritual" moment.

Hmmmm, who got heads and who got tails? Enquirer minds want to know!!!

 

[fuelair]

I feel so dirty that I knew that. I despise those fundie nut jobs, begging for money from people who barely had enough money to live on. Meanwhile, Jim and Tammy Faye, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, all of them and more live in mansions and never give their poorer followers another thought. Thieves and liars.

And, republickers!!!!

 

[Wildy]

Or at least conducted too many wars. The 1 Kings 5:3 reads like he just didn't have the opportunity, not so much that it was a punishment, but that may be the translation.

True, the Chronicles one basically expands on the dearth of information in Kings.

Not quite. Samuel 12:12-23 relates that the child Batheseba was pregnant with died as punishment.

I mentioned that in my response to DOC. The kid was a scapegoat in the end, dying for the sins of his parents. They however got to live as husband and wife and keep on boning each other giving birth to Solomon.

 

[MIKILLINI]

Well, I'll bow to your superior televangelical knowledge. He came up in a GIS for Jim Bakker, I know they all did the sobbing confession at some point or other, and I can't even tell them apart when they're not blubbering.

Didja hear the one about the TV preacher with the box full of money?

Apparently, no one boiled the hell out of their water to make it holy.

I remember these events because they all happened within a relatively short amount of time between each event. These Televangelists all became popular at the same time, it seems, and received incredible amounts of cash from beguiled people; Becoming millionaires virtually overnight and figured they could do as they pleased because of their popularity. D'Souza has shown himself to be just as much a hypocrite as them.

 

[MIKILLINI]

Hmmmm, who got heads and who got tails? Enquirer minds want to know!!!

 

[ponderingturtle]

Apparently, no one boiled the hell out of their water to make it holy.

I remember these events because they all happened within a relatively short amount of time between each event. These Televangelists all became popular at the same time, it seems, and received incredible amounts of cash from beguiled people; Becoming millionaires virtually overnight and figured they could do as they pleased because of their popularity. D'Souza has shown himself to be just as much a hypocrite as them.

No yet that I have seen evidence off. Few people would consider dating while going through a divorce cheating, while few would argue they weren't.

So while he is an idiot and jerk you need to show your work that he professes values in contradiction to his actions.