image source A tangled celebration was held in Amritsar, India to commemorate the occasion and hundreds of men turned out to participate in an old fashioned Turban Tying competition. Competitors were judged on neatness and speed, and I was shocked to learn that tying a turban is harder than it looks!
A few years ago, a viewer wrote to Pat Robertson asking him if teaching karate was OK with God.
Pat Robertson responded with how much he admired Chuck Norris for creating martial arts programs that "took ghetto kids and made them very fine citizens" but he warned, twitching eye and all, that practicing karate could lead to the inhalation of demon spirits.
I'm always on the lookout for Jan Crouch videos, so I was beyond elated to find a relatively recent one.
Here's a video of TBN's Jan Crouch crying for cash:
So what's going on with TBN? Are they broke? Have they fallen victim to the recession like the rest of us? Is Brenda even a real person? I doubt it.
According to Ministrywatch.com, a church and ministry watchdog, TBN closed 2006 with a total revenue of $200,658,000 and $838,983,000 in assets. Since TBN has been blatantly shady with Ministry Watch from the beginning (their transparency grade is F) and they haven't provided their 2007, 2008, and 2009 numbers yet, there's no way to tell if they really are in the poor house, but since televangelists are immune to strife and recessions, I highly doubt that TBN is in financial ruin.
Therefore I wonder why old Janny is crying for cash on the tube......
Well, not really. It was yesterday (September 30, 2009)
Anyway, I'm still tickled pink that an organization called 'Center for Inquiry' has founded an official Blasphemy Day complete with a Blasphemy contest and a Free Expression essay contest.
From the site:
To encourage free expression and to celebrate Blasphemy Day 2009 (September 30), CFI and its sister organization, the Council for Secular Humanism, are sponsoring a Blasphemy Contest.
Blasphemy: n. the act of denying or scoffing at God or God's alleged attributes.
To enter, all you have to do is create a phrase, poem, or statement that would be or would have been considered blasphemous. Entries may take any form (haiku anyone?), but must be 20 words or less. The top 5 winners will receive CFI t-shirts with their submission printed on the shirt. In addition to the shirt, the first place winner will also receive a mug imprinted with the winning phrase, recognition in Free Inquiry magazine, general publicity, and, naturally, eternal damnation. Entries must be received by midnight, October 1, 2009
Here's a video about it:
P.S: the Freedom of Expression essay contest runs until January 5, 2010
The Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas is a group of people who believe god hates everyone. They have gained notoriety in recent years by saying ridiculous things and regularly protesting large scale events and the funerals of U.S soldiers, hate crime victims, and AIDS victims.
Make a long story short, they're bat-shit crazy!
But they love attention and they really love talkin' trash and holding up hate signs...........(video is NSFW)
Click here for a detailed profile of the Westboro Baptist Church by the Anti-Defamation League.
Below is a video clip from Michael Moore's 'The Awful Truth' show that ran in 2000. NSFW
Pastor Melissa Scott, widow of televangelist mogul Gene Scott, is a pastor at the University Cathedral in Downtown Los Angeles.
She is also an alleged ex-porn star that went by the name of 'Barbie Bridges' and starred in several porn movies for her ex-husband Paul Pastore's adult entertainment company, Barbie Bridges Enterprises.
Of course, Pastor Scott has denied all porn related allegations and in an interview with Marie Claire magazine, she maintained her position. Others in the adult industry however, couldn't seem to keep their mouths shut. Playboy Playmate Elke Jeinsen said "Melissa was there, always dancing for Doc [gene scott] topless, showing her tits right away."
This whole mess began when Pastor Melissa Scott's husband Gene died from complications of prostate cancer and she took over the pulpit at University Cathedral. According to the Marie Claire article, shortly after the pastor's first sermon, an anonymous person sent X-Rated Easter cards to the congregation that showed a nude woman who looked a lot like Pastor Scott. "One image showed the woman with her legs spread wide, Virgin Mary and baby Jesus postage stamps covering her privates. Another featured a "See you Sunday!" banner plastered across her bare chest; underneath, it read: "The Church Where You Can Do Anything ... Anything." read the complete article.
It was enough to ignite an online storm of speculation so bad that numerous attack sites sprouted up and the pastor's Wikipedia page had to be removed due to constant vandalism.
Despite everything, there is currently very little online information about Barbie Bridges or the supposed 'Miss Nude CanAm Exotic' pageant she allegedly won, and the accusation that Pastor Melissa Scott is Barbie Bridges is unsupported and probably untrue. It still makes for a juicy story though.....
For more information about this scandal, click here (opens in a new window)
This just in....well not really, it happened 2 years ago....but no that's not a typo; famous televangelist Joyce Meyer did in fact pay $23,000 for a marble toilet in November, 2007.
While LA senorita Meyer's taste in toilets shouldn't have been anybody's business, this tacky display of excess overflowed the bowl of common sense and actually precipitated an investigation into her finances by a U.S Senator...It also caused a storm of speculation among the common folk like myself, who simply could not come up with a valid justification no matter how hard we tried.
I was kinda bored today and thought I could use a quick pick me up, so I headed over to MinistryWatch.com, a site that aims to protect unsuspecting consumers from donating to seedy televangelists. I did a search on The Christian Network a.k.a Worship Network a.k.a Praise TV Network and a quick glance of their financial statements show they've done quite well over the past few years. Touché Christian Network! Those "Hymns of Hope" CDs must have been flying off the rack because from 2000 to 2004, the Christian Network had a revenue of $22,215,458! That's between $4 million and $5 million every year! except for 2001 which was a bad year all around. Even though the 2005 to 2008 financial statements aren't on Ministry Watch just yet, I can imagine that the Christian Network continues to do exceedingly well despite the economic crisis that has the rest of the world contemplating pawning their gold teeth for cash.
I think it's time that Televangelism be offered as a major in college...
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