Oy Jeebus . . . .

You just know that this has to be the byproduct of several generations of Appalachian folk ingesting polluted drinking water and being constantly exposed to all manner of fossil-fuel industry chemicals and toxins.  How else can you account for people having such a perverted view of Christ's actual teachings?:

The Happy Valley Church of Jesus Christ in Tennessee must be channeling Phil Robertson! Brother Donny Reagan doesn’t like Communism–and by Communism, he means “race mixing.”

Brother Donny, in a 2013 sermon posted by the American Jesus, let his congregation know exactly how evil it is to “hybreed” the races. Citing Brother William Branham, a man who is credited with founding the post-WWII divine healing movement and who is considered a prophet by many Pentacostals, Reagan explained to his sheep that race mixing is just wrong.

“We realize there’s a move in the message of blacks marrying whites, whites marrying blacks and folks think it’s alright,” Reagan told his followers (Spoiler alert: Reagan does not think it’s “alright) through quoting the “prophet” Branham. He explains that Branham did not share his opposition to “race mixing” because it was the 60′s when”all that racial stuff was going on.” Brother Branham (and he) spoke in opposition to the mixing of races because it is an affront to God.

To the cheers of his congregation, the Tennessee pastor read passages from Branham’s writing. While he did speak out against the mixing of races, facetiously praising “colored” people, the most impassioned hate speech expressions of his Christian faith came when speaking about white women and men “breeding” with other races.

Branham says that if God wanted someone to be a particular color he would have made that person that color.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/tennesee-preacher-refuses-marry-whites-and


There are videos at the C&L link dear readers, however The Gadfly could not bring himself to publish such humanity-hating, putrid bile on the pristine pages of his shitty little blog, therefore you are on your own should you be in a masochistic mood of mind.

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The one thing, other than the issue of "hybreedin,'" that piqued The Gadfly's interest was the claim by Preacher Branham stating that "if God wanted someone to be a particular color, he would have made that person that color."  Run that one through your cerebral calculating machinery for a bit dear readers.

And so The Gadfly did just such a thing and he thunk and he thunk and he thunk about that statement . . . . . .

 . . . . . And the correlative interpretation that The Gadfly came up with was -- If God deliberately determines his human creations to be the way he intended them, then it stands to reason that --- God, for God's own divine reasons, made The Gadfly a dirty-fucking-hippie, liberal progressive, who has a passion for learning and knowledge, and someone who gives fucking thanks every day of his breathing existence that he wasn't born in to a family as ass-backwards, hateful, disdainful of knowledge and learning, and ignorant of God's son's teachings as the good Preacher Branham and his adoring congregation are.

As such, while The Gadfly cannot prove it, he firmly believe that God loves The Gadfly more -- for why else would God bless The Gadfly with a much clearer comprehension of his son Christ's teachings than all of the spiteful people congregating in Preacher Branham's den of enmity?

See how that game is played?

And thus endeth today's lesson in comparative religious studies dear readers.



----TFG