A picture of a real live witch, not Kimberly Daniels.
Oh all you guys think Halloween is just fun for the kids. Not true! We’re actually worshiping Satan and playing with demons!
At least according to Kimberly Daniels, who has an article published on CBN and Charisma, two popular Christian websites. She says:
If this holiday is hallowed, whose service is it set apart for? The answer to that question is very easy—Lucifer’s!
Lucifer is a part of the demonic godhead. Remember, everything God has, the devil has a counterfeit. Halloween is a counterfeit holy day that is dedicated to celebrating the demonic trinity of: the Luciferian Spirit (the false father); the Antichrist Spirit (the false holy spirit); and the Spirit of Belial (the false son)….
Really? A counterfeit Satanic trinity? You just can’t make this stuff up.
Well, that’s not true. They do make this stuff up.
Mrs. Satanic Expert continues:
During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For example, most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches.
Citation needed. And that could be said after most of her sentences.
I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference….
The truth is that these demons that have been presented as scary cartoons actually exist. I have prayed for witches who are addicted to drinking blood and howling at the moon….
Decorating buildings with Halloween scenes, dressing up for parties, going door-to-door for candy, standing around bonfires and highlighting pumpkin patches are all acts rooted in entertaining familiar spirits. All these activities are demonic and have occult roots.
Well there you have it, folks. An expert on all the activities of the demonic Satan worshipers — which I guess is us, since we celebrate Halloween — has thus declared it so.
While this woman is afraid of demons and witches, I’ll be honest… I’m a little afraid of her. She makes statement after statement about things she can’t possibly know. She doesn’t know there’s a demonic trinity. She doesn’t know that most of the candy sold has been “prayed over by witches.” She doesn’t know that curses become active during this season. Those are assertions that are impossible to prove.
I don’t think this woman is stupid. Her article is fairly well-written and she’s obviously given the topic a great deal of thought. So if she’s not stupid, what is she?
There’s two options: she’s either a fraud or very self-deluded.
Update: Daniels’ article has been deleted by CBN with no explanation — I’d guess from all the negative attention. As someone on reddit said, this is an article so crazy CBN deleted it.
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I guess Hallowe’en really does bring out the kooks and the crazies!
Let us bear in mind that these people who believe in witches are also the ones who murder those they believe to be witches. Even in the 21st century, there are people who cling to such outdated beliefs, and the rest of us have real reason to fear their superstitions.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/08/png.witchcraft/index.html
Never mind that Hallowe’en, also known as All Hallow’s Eve,* is celebrated as a Christian holiday, a saint’s day for saints without their own feast. People are having fun, so it must be bad.
*In the 800s, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints’ Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were once celebrated on the same day. Halloween on Wikipedia.
Although All Saints’ Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were once celebrated on the same day.
I did not know that. You learn something new every day, I guess! :)
Halloween is an example of the christian faith being laid over the existing pagan day of samhain.
Observances include:
Being disguised as ghosts/spirits etc to appease the dead on the day when the world of the living and the dead are at their closest.
Leaving food on the hearth stone for when the dead visit (we still do that but for Santa Claus)
Carving large turnips into faces and putting a light inside and displaying it in the porch to ward off evil spirits. (jack-o-lantern anyone?).
Lighting large bonfires (we still do this on November 5th but in the guise of celebrating torturing seditious Catholics to death).
Old gods might do new jobs but the holy-days stay the same
yeah amazing how most Catholics have no clue their practice of putting holy water on themselves as they enter a church was to supplant a pagan new moon custom. They just do it out of habit/tradition – blindly. Even their practice of eating a wafer as a symbol of their god was stolen from the followers of mithras.
My observation? Most Christians are liars, stupid and ignorant–end of story.
Er, you’ve observed most Christians?
Er, you can’t draw inference on the basis of a sample?
B. Water – you can add another stupid one to the list.
You can draw an inference based on a sample, but the legitimacy of such inferences are dependent on a great number of factors. I would submit that particular claims being proffered here would not well yield to a inference from a population subset to the greater population.
I can add credence to what B. Water is saying. I grew up a Christian, and we were definitely ignorant of certain things, but we were also taught to be proud of that fact.
We also lied a lot. Missionaries in most every church I went to claimed mass healings for years, until video cameras became prevalent in the field. Then they began claiming massive outpourings of the spirit.
Even I was tempted to claim many spiritual things had happened to me, since my life seemed devoid of the supernatural experiences of my friends and family.
I said I’d encountered skin walkers near my uncles house on the Indian Res in Arizona. I claimed to see demons in my dorm room when I listed to “bad music” at Bible college.
I needed attention and I never had any good stories like everyone else did, so I made it up.
And what does that make me? Stupid. Stupid for not realizing that I was faking it for so many years all in an attempt to fit in to a culture that didn’t make any sense and couldn’t give me proof of a single miraculous event having ever occurred.
(Hmm… I feel a blog post of my own coming on.)
Doesn’t that rely on a heckuva lot on projection? That is, you consider what you were as being a liar, etc., and the particular Christian group you were a member of reflected those values, and therefore Christians and Christian groups everywhere must be likewise?
My experience has been much more like Jabster’s: Christians run the full gamut of possibilities, just like every other group ever. Mendacious to honest, ignorant to informed, idiotic to brilliant. Generalizing about character traits across such a ridiculously diverse and sizable group is likely to not be accurate enough to be useful.
Uh… no. I wasn’t projecting. I was speaking about what I did or experienced first-hand.
I’m not saying every Christian has done those things or falls into every one of those categories. I’m saying that I know some have because I was one of them. And I can also say that many de-converted friends of mine from that time in life… well, they’ve come forward with a lot of the little secrets too. That is not a generalization. That’s a fact. We lied, but now we admit it to each other and try to move on in light of reason.
I’m not generalizing at all. If anything, you are, to keep from admitting this information into your worldview and how it may impact hat you want to believe.
Well, then pardon my confusion. The original context was a guy claiming that “Most Christians are liars, stupid and ignorant–end of story.” You claimed to be adding credence to what he was saying by using personal anecdote; i.e. I did this when I was a Christian, and saw some others do the same, therefore the original claim is right. How is that not projecting?
Maybe someone else can explain it to you. I’ve learned my lesson trying to be rational if someone just doesn’t want to hear what you’re saying.
@Tony
There’s no real explaining to do … the statement was “most” and statistical that seems somewhat unfounded unless you w2ant to provide some figures? Taking the three parts:
Liars: Well we all are to some extent
Stupid: That’s a relatively term so it seems unlikely that the majority of a population can be considered stupid.
Ignorant: Yep, we are all ignorant of many things.
Right… but B Water is that one who asserted all that as a somewhat blanket statement.
I simply agreed that it once applied to myself, and a few people I know. I did some stupid things and I no longer do those stupid things.
Neither of us have said this applies to all Christians. At best, B Water asserted it applies to most, and I only said it applied to me and a few people I know.
What do you expect me to do? Take back what I lived? I don’t see how you intend to out argue me or prove me wrong on this one. At best, your main argument would be with B Water anyway, not me.
P.S. My name is Anthony. Calling me Tony only reveals your innate ability to relabel people as you see fit. You may as well call me Bartholomew for all I care, my name is still Anthony.
B. Water: “My observation? Most Christians are liars, stupid and ignorant–end of story.”
Anthony D Jacques: “I can add credence to what B. Water is saying.”
Now you are arguing that your statement really has nothing at all to do with what he was saying, that you were making an entirely separate and narrow point about your own experiences as a Christian.
Forgive me, but I’ve been kinda irritated lately about people who lecture others on reasoning while demonstrating fairly sloppy reasoning and/or poor ability at communicating it themselves. If you were intending your post to lend credence to B. Water’s statement, it fails to do this (being only anecdote). If you were not intending to do this, as you now claim, you shouldn’t have said the sentence quoted above. And when people fairly gently point out the discrepancy, it serves little good purpose to be testy about it.
Oops, there I go trying to be rational again. Sorry for offending your sensibilities. I’m done.
“Oops, there I go trying to be rational again.”
… and trying is the most important part of that statement.
What’s hilarious here is it seems that we actually agree, but you guys still want to argue about something. I don’t get that.
“Liars: Well we all are to some extent
Stupid: That’s a relatively [sic] term so it seems unlikely that the majority of a population can be considered stupid.
Ignorant: Yep, we are all ignorant of many things.”
If we are all liars to some extent, and stupid is a relative term, and all of us are ignorant of many things… then what are you trying to prove? Where do we disagree?
“… then what are you trying to prove? Where do we disagree?”
Re-read what Elemenope posted and I have the same disagreement. You added ‘evidence’ to support an unsubstantiated claim and when called out on it you claimed that wasn’t what you meant. Look at this way if Christian A claimed that most atheists where immoral and Christian B said I agree as I knew an atheist who was a shop lifter, would you think that was a good argument? All that has been pointed out to you to gross, and inaccurate, generalisations aren’t particularly helpful.
I presume this ’sample’ has been selected to ensure that it takes a true representation of all Christians just not the ones who happen to make it look bad?
The thing is Christians go right across of spectrum of characteristics just as those of other faiths or no faith do. Yes the woman could be described as ignorant; but a liar … probably not (well not wilfully anyway); stupid, maybe or just ignorant? To make the most Christians “… are liars, stupid and ignorant …” statement based on a few observations, and possibly some self-confirmation, just doesn’t make any sense.
Yeah, Thomas Aquinas sure was stupid!
I haven’t noticed them being especially stupid, although I think they are often gullible and prone to circular logic. As for liars, that’s a pretty odd assertion IMHO.
Funny you should bring up circular logic.
If you use a personal anecdote relating your experience, the Christian says “This is not a statistic, therefore it’s invalid.” Even though their own “testimony” is nothing more than anecdotal.
If you bring up statistics on some topic that cast religion in a bad light, the Christian says “These numbers are obviously biased and skewed, and you don’t have any personal experience, therefore it’s invalid.”
Fails every time.
Silly woman. The Unholy Trinity is Lucifer, the Anti-Christ, and the Beast.
I thought the unholy trinity was Bella, Edward and Jacob.
Eeeeewwwwwwww, Stephanie Mayers’ Mormon girl-porn references…..
If it’s fraud, what’s the purpose? To stir up more donations, I suppose. Maybe Pat Robertson would like to make an addition to his house.
If she’s truly that delusional, on the other hand, why hasn’t someone (a family member, a friend, anyone) had her committed? Go around telling people that you’re the Tooth Fairy or Eleanor Roosevelt and someone will institutionalize you. Go around spouting bat **** insane nonsense that’s remotely religious-related and nobody seems to care.
“If it’s fraud, what’s the purpose? ”
Fear. Plain and simple. You make parents afraid, then you’ve earned their viewership or readership for a long time, since they want to protect their children. Things like that.
Eventually, yeah, people start giving these idiots money and supporting their delusions, but the purpose has to start with fear.
On the larger scale: If you’re not afraid of Hell, you don’t need to be saved in the first place.
Fear to increase viewership to increase profits/donations.
Fear always puts money in the coffers of the powerful, be it political (ie George W) or “spiritual” (ie. Pat Robertson). It’s a very effective tactic. And the only weapon we have is the truth. To refuse to listen to the lies, promote reason at every opportunity.
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Maybe it’s because I’m attracted to the darker side of life. Halloween is a time when you have scary pumpkins and (sometimes) frightening costumes. And the online communities I visit normally have some sort of event going on mimicing Halloween with dark nights and flying bats and whatnot. It’s always baffled me why I like Halloween so much since trick or treating got old when I was in my teens. I think I’ve just found out why I like it so much, thanks to this article.
I’m actually worshiping Satan by doing Halloween things. I did not know this, since I thought it was a pagan festival. Well. That just makes it all the better! All hail Satan! Treats for the treat god! Pumpkins for the pumpkin throne!
Well anything that isn’t the same type of Christian as the writer tends to be pagan and thence in league with Satan.
I am a little confused as to why you think Halloween is the dark side. Life on this planet it has cycles and all of them have to happen for the next cycle to happen. It almost sounds like you are ok with satanic views but think of yourself as a non believer. I think you are confusing liking the dark side with actual human nature. If a person is given the chance to truly be themselves they will take it. That is what Halloween does more them anything else.
Are you high? Just wondering.
saytun haz candehz? hez doin it rite.
Candy beats crackers every time.
It troo. Srsly.
I thought long and hard about a proper response to this, but all I could think of was, “Oh, bloody hell. Not another one!”
I can only quote Count Floyd by saying, “Oooooo, scary!!!”
From the article: “Another abomination that goes on behind the scenes of Halloween is necromancy, or communication with the dead.”
Oh snap! Praying to Jesus is satanic!
Haha, I wonder if we could get him on the OUIJA board?
From AIG:
“Because so many cultures have a day of the dead celebration, it is likely that this event originated prior to the separation of humanity at Babel, where God confused the languages of the people. The various people groups probably took this holiday with them when they separated—although each culture added its own unique elements.
So, if the origin of Halloween does stretch all the way back before Babel, what was this holiday orginally? No one knows for sure, but there are several theories: …”
It’s so nice to see evidence based history at work …
So you mean that the story about a guy riding his horse with a pumpkin for a head isn’t true??
In hispanic cultures (correct me someone if I’m wrong here), El Dia de los Muertos is to remember and celebrate ancestors passed – they parade to the cemetary and dress up like spirits. They even prepare a meal and leave it in a little altar for their passed relatives to feast. No trick-or-treating to my knowledge, but they do make special dishes and pastries.
So if she’s not stupid, what is she?: I think the expression you’re looking for is “Batshit crazy”:
“The word “occult” means “secret.” The danger of Halloween is not in the scary things we see but in the secret, wicked, cruel activities that go on behind the scenes. These activities include:
* Sex with demons
* Orgies between animals and humans
* Animal and human sacrifices
* Sacrificing babies to shed innocent blood
* Rape and molestation of adults, children and babies
* Revel nights
* Conjuring of demons and casting of spells
* Release of “time-released” curses against the innocent and the ignorant.”
I wonder what’s the distance from KD’s article to this video:
http://bit.ly/1D5R4Z
Bloody hell Flea, DISCLAIMER before that kind of link, please!
Very deffinitely NOT SAFE FOR WORK, and if you don’t want to watch a bunch of people getting beaten and burned to death, DON’T CLICK THAT LINK!
I really didn’t want to see that shit before lunch.
Sorry Custador, I should have dropped a warning note. But don’t let the shock you have experienced make you forget the point of this whole thing…
Duly noted.
I can’t view the video. Do I need to register with the site first?
Everybody can view it. Maybe your javascript is disabled…
Seeing this kind of thing makes me feel deep despair. How can any human being be so vicious? I wish I could erase that from my mind…
Yuhu. Which is why I disclaimered it after Flea posted it. Don’t need to see it to know it happens.
I do! In fact, I am not able to REALLY believe it despite having seen it with my own eyes… My brain refuses to acknowledge that as a fact and keeps sending that information to my “this is fiction/a movie” mental compartment… I guess this is why I’m doing nothing about it and why I am able to sleep like a baby every night.
The joy of nursing as a career – you’re not desensitised to stuff like that because you know it’s real life.
I went out as a Musketeer, with a giant cross on my tabard. Surprisingly, I was not consumed by flames in a holy act of vengeance.
This was a riot last night. Someone gave my one-year-old daughter a tract instead of candy. I mean, she won’t remember, but it’s still an insult. At least hand out your nonsense WITH candy.
Here’s the best line:
“Be honest. You know you will be guilty on Judgement Day, and therefore end up in Hell.”
It also quotes the scripture about plucking your eye out if it causes you to stumble, although that one… I’m pretty sure Christians don’t practice any more. It’d be nice if they did.
At least hand out your nonsense WITH candy.
An excellent piece of advice. Everything is better with candy.
That is what one might call “holy crap.”
The article, if it was removed, is back on CBN, with a warning. The comments are a riot, she’s getting fired at from both sides.
I love this comment:
Candy Giving Heathen 2009-11-01 13:50
Y’know, I had a weird feeling as I handed out candy to the neighborhood kids who were trick-or-treating as school girls, angels, Luigi, and Batman. Now I know that feeling was an invisible demon forcing his prodigious, evil-laced member into me. Oh, if only I knew that giving children candy was an open door for demonic possession and rape!
Classic :D
wow the comments are amazingly fun to read! Thanks for sharing Daniel. Couple more I love:
If the candy is cursed (as this article says) put a stronger blessing in with the candy like a Bible verse. If kids are going to eat too much candy and feel ‘evil” why not give them a word of hope? These are children! And what kid doesn’t want free candy? Can we not reach out one day a year and help them to see the goodness of Jesus?
All I can say is that I wish I lived in the world Kimberly Daniels describes, because it sounds way more interesting than reality. I’ve been to tons of Halloween parties and not once have I ever seen a baby sacrificed or had sex with a demon. If Ms. Daniels has evidence or further information on these activities, perhaps she could point us in the right direction, because clearly most of us have been missing out on these totally sweet orgy bashes.
I think this is my favorite comment on the stupidity that is Kimberly Daniels’ “article”:
“When I read articles such as this, I understand even more why I left the Christian faith. Everything frightens Christians such as these. Here you are, claiming to be the sons and daughters, and the beloved of, and under the care of the creator of the universe, and you’re frightened of hollowed out pumpkins and bonfires. If your God can’t protect you from the minions of his enemies, then what hope is there?
Bonfires at autumn are there because it’s cold.
The colors of autumn are the colors of nature, that God presumably created. The demons of this time are of your own making, fashioned of fear, and nothing else.”
Pat Robertson vs. Larry Flynt debating about prostitution on radio show.
http://02e56fa.netsolhost.com/blog1/index.php/2009/10/30/pat-robertson-admits-using-a-prostitute-
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/7/23/128928519067955637.jpg
I am just wondering if the witch/demon curse-casters got a job at Hershey’s, or at the warehouse, or Walmart, or what? Where did the demonic infiltration and curse-sending actually happen – which shipment…I KNOW FOR A FACT that the nasty orange and black taffy things a personally made by satan.
“are personally made” – sorry
Does satan have a bunch of demons doing the job of the elves? ie – Santa (which, by NO coincidence, is Satan with the letters moved around) has elves making the toys all year. The elves’ responsibilities include ensuring that the toys are properly oiled so that they can slide down the chimneys without getting stuck. I’m wondering if the demon elves, similarly, make the evil candy throughout the year, and make sure that they are infused with special powers so that any child eating them will have a sudden urge to don a black robe, chant around a fire, and sacrifice animals to the dark god. Sounds reasonable to me…does anybody here have a problem with this?
I offer this link for your amusement. Sometimes the best response is satire…
http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com/2009/10/news-from-future-pat-robertsonn-blamed.html
Something that appears to have slipped miss Daniels’ deluded mind is that the initial purpose of Halloween – like in so many other celebrations and holidays prevalent in many other cultures and religions – is to ward off the evil spirits. Evil spirits that I’m sure miss D would agree exist. She should be thankful for Halloween.
Just went on Wikipedia and left wondering why atheists would observe Halloween (and not Christmas, or do they?). The origin of halloween seems to have to do with gods or spirits of the dead. Don’t you all believe/know that when you’re dead, you’re dead?
It’s just a holiday. It’s fun. Many atheists celebrate Christmas.
I am not particularly festive but I am more likely to celebrate Christmas than Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is bullshit.
“Observe Halloween” is strange phrase to use … Halloween, like Easter, Christmas etc. , is just another celebration imbedded in many Western calendars and which can be celebrated with or with religious meaning. Do I celebrate Christmas — well yes I use it as an opportunity to visit friends and families, give presents, eat and drink, and generally have a good time – but I do not treat it as a religious festival and this is not what it means to mean.
I’ve never, ever heard of atheists refusing to celebrate Christmas for (a)religious reasons.
But it reminds me: It can’t be long now before Fox “News” and various fundie blow-hards begin their traditional annual “War on Christmas” rant. It wouldn’t be Christmas without it. Well, in the US anyway. Most other civilized countries are spared from this nonsense.
That means that the UK must be uncivilized!
Well, I did say “most” other civilized countries, so you can use that as an escape clause.
I turned on Fox News this weekend, just because I never do and because I had seen the Jon Stewart show making fun of how biased it is. I really thought it would be more subtle in it’s bias… but it was hilarious! Anti-Obama, Anti-taxes… even the commercials. In one, a lady is shopping with her little kid and says “my family can’t afford taxes on juice drinks and soda.” Um… how about you buy your kids REAL juice so that they can get the vitamins and minerals they need? They were trying to be pro-family and just came out as pro-obesity. Another commercial was about us having “100 years of natural gas.” HELLO! 100 years is NOT that long and we’ll be facing the same problem again… but who cares about anyone but themselves in this exact moment?
Another thing that was hilarious – they were talking about gov’t run healthcare and had a panel of people, bashing it by saying that it’s destined for failure, yadda yadda. One guy goes “if you liked cueing for hours and hours for the H1N1 vaccine, you’ll love Pelosi-care.” They keep going, and then the one sane guy speaks up with exactly what I was thinking – (not really a quote but my recollection) “The vaccine lines were due to private companies’ inability to supply the promised amounts of vaccine. I don’t think people should draw any correlation between the government’s ability to provide insurance and a private entity’s ability to fulfill production promises.” He was met with silence. It was great.
Jon Stewart makes me think there is a god, and it’s him! :)
Except for Bill Maher – he’s pretty god-like also…I think I’ll start the Church of Comedians/Political Commentators. They are the only ones telling the truth in the current debates, it seems.
Except in Religulous, when Bill Maher was arguing with the Rabbi, and the Rabbi was winning! Bill got so frustrated and wouldn’t let the Rabbi get a word in. If you are going to argue with someone, at least give them a chance to speak! Then you can knock down their ideas for being ridiculous. Otherwise the movie was awesome.
PS I also love how Jon Stewart finds the hyprocrisy ON TAPE and puts it all together. Glenn Beck and healthcare, hilarious. Fox News and media bias, hilarious.
DCtourist – only fundies believe their gods are with flaws – I’m willing for mine to have the occasional character flaw or even (*gasp*) a mistake now and then!
haha, touche. Some gods have big egos, others kill millions of people. I’ll take the lesser of the “evils” =)
Ramen, brother.
Two words: free candy.
Religions and spirits are no match for the promise of free candy.
I’m an atheist, but I’m really big on holidays! I LOVE Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Halloween. Christmas is about giving, getting together with people you love, and having a few days off work to psych up for the upcoming year. Thanksgiving is, well, about being grateful (which I am, extremely). Halloween is the really fun one – it’s about costumes and candy, and getting to play “pretend” for a day. As adults, we don’t have nearly enough fun in our lives. Halloween is my chance to be a kid for a day. I don’t really like Easter much – I find it a bit morbid. But I dutifully get together with my family as we use it as an excuse to kill a foul for our culinary pleasure.
Well if Halloween is satanic, and atheists worship satan, then why wouldn’t atheists celebrate Halloween? FYI most “true” Christians believe Christmas is a satanic holiday as well and do not celebrate it. All the Christians who do celebrate Christmas are heathens and will be damned to eternal torture and hellfire at the hand of their just and loving God, along with most everyone else.
Halloween is my birthday. Thus, I celebrate.
In any case, the holiday is so secular by now that it’s just an excuse to dress up, have fun, and eat candy. And spread the word about the evils of sex with demons, apparently.
Halloween(tm): Helping ugly people having sex with demons when they cannot score with a gal/guy since time immemorial. Oh, the delusion…
I had sex with a demon once, but then she took half of everything during the divorce.
You got off lucky. You know demons are VERY powerful, and she could have gotten the house AND the car.
They are doubly powerful when they summon lawyer demons to assist them.
I have to say what everyone is thinking.
Demon lawyers – isn’t that redundant? (I can say that because I’m a lawyer :)
I was thinking the same thing when I wrote that, but I decided to keep it in for clarity. All lawyers are demons, but not all demons are lawyers. I suppose I could’ve just written “lawyers”.
…
Please don’t sue me.
Actually, I wouldn’t sue you because a defense to libel (written defamation of character) is truth. Therefore, if what you say is true, you would win and I would have to pay court costs. If I’m any good at this game, I wouldn’t go to trial on this one.
The system works.
More fundie nonsense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdD6s2q6Rqo
You know that show won awards for comedy, right? Stuff like that wouldn’t get aired in Britain if it was meant seriously. We just aren’t that stupid as a race.
Unfortunately, we’re not that evolved in North America. Yet.
I’m loving all of the commenters taking it dead seriously, despite the give-away picture accompanying it that tells you it was a) Aired on a BBC radio station, and therefore highly unlikely to be serious about being kooky, and b) An award-winning comedy show, and therefore most certainly not serious about being kooky. Netwarriors… When will they learn to think and to read? Who knows.
Actually, looking at the picture on that vid, the man is Chris Morris. If you’ve never watched his show Brass Eye, then do so. It was a parody of a news and current affairs show – the episode about paedophiles was, I think, one of the most complained about shows ever aired on British TV because so many retards thought it was serious. Brilliant, just brilliant. The episode where he invented an imaginary drug called “cake” and got a whole bunch of celebrities to do anti-”cake” adverts and interviews was also inspired :D
Didn’t many of us in North America come from Great Britain??? I know my family did. How have we gone backwards?
Maybe because we are still relatively young and immature countries???
I think we just have different styles of comedy. Besides, there are LOTS of older countries that I would call less mature than the US in many ways. There is always room for improvement!
The thing is that it’s deadpan and there are crazy people who actually say things like this. Without the context, it’s hard to know whether it’s a Poe or not.
Yuhu. But the picture is a dead giveaway.
I think that the British style of humor is sometimes lost on those from elsewhere.
Having a British sense of humour can be a dangerous thing on the internet; I read an article on “red state” and thought it was satire (it was about Rush Limbaugh’s failure to buy a share in an American football team and they finished it with “First they came…” by Martin Niemöller, thanks to cynical-c for pointing that out to me)
The thing is, even if CBN deleted this article, they wouldn’t object to most of its basic claims.
For example, maybe they’d dispute/deny that witches pray over the majority of USA’s candy, but they probably wouldn’t dispute that if a witch did pray over candy, it would have a negative impact.
The only prayer that might be said over candy is by executives who hope that they make a profit this year! It’s scary that so many crazy people call themselves Christians. It makes the intellectual, reasonable Christians like me sound like them because we happen to believe in the same God. But people will always use the ridiculous, the stupid, and the flat out insane to push their agenda. I happen to love halloween, because it is an American tradition I enjoy, period. And I’m a minister.
Ap Kim is right with what she sayes. So don’t ignore her warnings of the devil. The Bible sayes in Hosea 4:6 my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.