{"id":1042,"date":"2012-12-20T16:21:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T23:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankschaeffer\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2015-03-12T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:45:31","slug":"a-perfect-storm-of-evangelical-idiots-respond-to-the-newtown-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankschaeffer\/2012\/12\/a-perfect-storm-of-evangelical-idiots-respond-to-the-newtown-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Storm of Evangelical Idiots &#8220;Respond&#8221; to the Newtown Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>All that was\u00a0needed\u00a0to make the national tragedy of the killing of 20 children and 6 adults into an anti-God kick in Jesus\u2019 teeth fest was for the usual suspects who hate Jesus to step up to defame His Name again. Of course I\u2019m talking about the \u201cChristian\u201d leaders who can be counted on to drag the name of Christ through the mud at every profitable fundraising\u00a0importunity.\u00a0Christian leaders say that the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut was the result of our national falling away from\u00a0fundamentalist\u00a0Protestant\u00a0gullibility.<\/p>\n<p>The idiots \u2014 religious village idiots that is \u2014 are at it\u00a0again. \u00a0I thought Dobson was dead but I guess not. He\u2019s just retired. He\u2019s still alive enough to act like the zombie-for-Jesus\u2019-younger-dumber-brother he is.(I went on his show 3 times back in the day when I too was part of the religious idiots club.) \u00a0Bryan Fischer, the \u00a0American Family Association hate host talk-show host, and Franklin-sell-my-soul-to-the-Mormos-because -I-hate-Obama-so-much-Graham (of course), the president and CEO of the tax-exempt Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was not to be outdone.<\/p>\n<p>Dobson<a href=\"http:\/\/www.policymic.com\/articles\/21012\/sandy-hook-shooting-james-dobson-outrageously-blames-shootings-on-gay-marriage-and-abortion\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> commented<\/a> while speaking to listeners of his <em>Dr. James Dobson\u2019s Family Talk<\/em> program: \u201cI mean millions of people have decided that God doesn\u2019t exist\u2026 And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the scripture and on God almighty and I think he has allowed [this Newtown massacre] judgment to fall upon us. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Fischer of the American family Association said the victims at Sandy Hook had lost God\u2019s protection because prayer has been prohibited from schools.\u00a0\u201cThe question is going to come up, where was God?,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/12\/15\/bryan-fischer-god-did-not-protect-connecticut-shooting-victims-prayer-banned_n_2303903.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fischer said<\/a>. \u201cI thought God cared about the little children. God protects the little children. Where was God when all this went down. Here\u2019s the bottom line, God is not going to go where he is not wanted\u2026\u00a0Now we have spent since 1962 \u2014 we\u2019re 50 years into this now\u2013we have spent 50 years telling God to get lost, telling God we do not want you in our schools, we don\u2019t want to pray to you in our schools, we do not want to pray to your before football games, we don\u2019t want to pray to you at graduations, we don\u2019t want anybody talking about you in a graduation speech\u2026\u00a0In 1962 we kicked prayer out of the schools. In 1963 we kicked God\u2019s word out of ours schools. In 1980 we kicked the Ten Commandments out of our schools. We\u2019ve kicked God out of our public school system. And I think God would say to us, \u2018Hey, I\u2019ll be glad to protect your children, but you\u2019ve got to invite me back into your world first. I\u2019m not going to go where I\u2019m not wanted. I am a gentlemen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Graham wrote a \u201cresponse\u201d to the Newtown Massacre and did not mention the word gun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/guest-voices\/post\/why-the-shock-and-awe\/2012\/12\/15\/3920dab2-46e9-11e2-9648-a2c323a991d6_blog.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Graham said<\/a>\u00a0more or less blamed the mdia and president Obama in a round about way: \u201c\u2019The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.\u2019 He continued: \u201cIn fact, the Bible gives clear testimony to just how evil the human race became. \u2018The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord \u2018was grieved in His heart\u2019 (Gen. 6:5-6).\u201dWhere do we go from here? We might start by looking at what we watch and listen to.\u201d\u00a0Graham \u2014 who has called President Obama a Muslim and not Christian at times \u2014 then took a cheap shot saying: \u00a0\u201cFor example, South Korean rapper sensation Psy, who has gained worldwide acclaim by singing that Americans should be killed \u2018slowly and painfully,\u2019 including, \u2018daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers\u2019 was featured last weekend at \u2018Christmas in Washington,\u2019 a charity concert attended by President Obama. Parents and children are feeding on entertainment that portrays violence whether through lewd television programs, violent movies, offensive music, vulgar video games and anything- goes Internet gaming sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Old Paths Baptist Church\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oldpathstn.com.p9.hostingprod.com\/our_pastor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pastor Sam Morris<\/a>\u00a0(of Tennessee) said: \u201cWhy do you still send your kids to the governmental schools?\u201d the pastor asked the congregation. \u201cWhat\u2019s behind this shooting that we saw on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Connecticut and the other one\u2019s like it? What\u2019s going on. Well, number one, deception\u2026 I got news for you, when you kicked God out of schools, you\u2019re going to be judged for that. \u00a0He added: \u201cThey think homeschoolers are a bunch of crazies, man. But I\u2019m going to tell you something, I\u2019ve never seen a police officer or a medal detector at a home school. Never. Amen. Now, there\u2019s plenty of guns at my home school. Amen. I guarantee you we\u2019re not going to have a mass shooting at any of the schools that are represented in this building today. I guarantee you, if there is a shooting, it won\u2019t last very long. Amen.\u00a0I guarantee you there\u2019s at least six or seven guns in this place right now. Amen.\u201cSo, here you are, you\u2019re an animal and you\u2019re a god! So, what are we going to teach you about in school? Well, we can teach you about sex, we can teach you how to rebel to you parents, we can teach you how to be a homo!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who hates Jesus? It isn\u2019t the so-called new atheists like\u00a0Richard\u00a0Dawkins. It\u2019s the Christian leaders bent on taking\u00a0Christianity\u00a0down with them into their private hell of stupidity. With\u00a0friends\u00a0like these Jesus needs no enemies. The re-crucifixion\u00a0of Jesus by his \u201cfollowers\u201d continues.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>To book Frank Schaeffer to speak at your college, church or group\u00a0contact\u00a0him at<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/frankschaeffer.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frankschaeffer.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankschaeffer.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frank Schaeffer<\/a>\u00a0is a writer and author of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crazy-God-Helped-Religious-Almost\/dp\/0306817500\/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back .<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All that was\u00a0needed\u00a0to make the national tragedy of the killing of 20 children and 6 adults into an anti-God kick in Jesus\u2019 teeth fest was for the usual suspects who hate Jesus to step up to defame His Name again. 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