Satire, Poe’s Law and The New York Times Campaign to Discredit the Evangelical Message of Christwire
On behalf of everyone at Christwire, I was deeply saddened to read Mark Oppenheimer’s facile attempt to discredit Evangelical Christianity and this site in particular today. His crudely written, fact-challenged article was an insult to the men and women who work so diligently to engage in honest, constructive conversations about faith in our nation. Bigotry against Christians has gone on for far too long in this world. In our liberal, politically-correct society, it is considered wrong to preach scripture in the public square, but no one bats an eyelash when Jesus Christ Himself is strung up like a pinata for the juvenile to bash to their hearts’ content.
Maybe this should come as no surprise in a country that is slipping evermore into moral corruption and economic decay. Maybe this should come as no surprise from a nearly-bankrupt newspaper like the New York Times which has a recklessly pro-Zionist, anti-Christian agenda. Indeed, we are in the age when Sarah Palin’s vision for our future seems incompatible with the conspiracy theories of the liberal minority, a minority that consumes the assembly-line propaganda of papers like the Times with insatiable abandon.
Recently, another blogger tried to crack into this site. She emailed our technological company requesting passwords, mailing addresses and other information. It was sickening and hurtful and the result was a sloppy blog post that lacked both substance and credibility. But what is happening here? Why has the mainstream media suddenly decided to assault a small Christian organization? Are these people wrong or simply deluded? Is this a yet another atheist disinformation campaign? Some sort of reprisal for Christwire’s incisive criticism of the Times? Is Oppenheimer part of this grand scheme or was he simply hoodwinked by two California pranksters?
“I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move.” –Matthew 17:20.
In the middle of the 18th Century, America experienced a widespread and powerful rediscovery of Jesus Christ now known as the first “Great Awakening.” It was a time when this land’s earliest colonists and frontiersmen struggled to understand the sometimes harsh, sometimes bountiful realities of their new home. The word of God was preached vigorously in churches and open-air tents pitched at the edge of their towns. Men and women gathered in large groups and were overwhelmed by a new understanding of faith, finding glory in an immediate, personal relationship with our Lord and Savior. The community and dedication that resulted from this religious fervor became the basis of our idea of democracy and led directly to the fight for American Independence.
Yet during that time, there were many doubters of the Great Awakening. Entrenched leaders of the religious establishment and British colonial administrators considered the charismatic preachers of the day idolaters and charlatans. Their sermons were likened to medicine shows. These supposedly great men watched the dramatic changes happening around them and imagined, quite simplistically, hucksters making quick sales of spiritual tonic. Imagine what would have happened had these leaders successfully suppressed the public’s newfound passion for Christ…
Something quite similar is happening today in the United States. As Christians step forward and proclaim their faith, they become the targets of mockery. Look at how the liberal media handled Glenn Beck’s march on Washington, D.C. Look at how they attack Governor Sarah Palin’s spirituality. Yet there are groups like Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council and yes, even Christwire, here to say that the grubby little men behind these once-famous news organizations have lost touch with reality. There is an unbreachable divide between those who comprehend the passion of the Tea Party and those who do not. There is a great philosophical difference between those who put their loving faith behind traditional values and those who want to throw all that away for indulgence and sexual experimentation.
The liberal left has a deep bag of dirty tricks to dig in to. They may point to James Hartline’s ministry and call him insane. They’ll label Peter LaBarbera, of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, a secret homosexual. They will attempt to silence brave people like Dr. Laura Schlessinger because she speaks openly about modern morality. They will picket and hack the websites of Maggie Gallagher or Dr. James Dobson because they fear the power of their Christian messages. They will even go so far as to call something beyond their comprehension “satire” and “Poe’s Law.”
No, Christwire is not satire. If you want to understand what satire is, you need only look at the fraudulent website unscrupulously labelled, “Landover Baptist Church.” As I have written,
Much like the liberals who infiltrated Tea Party rallies so they could be photographed holding up offensively racist signs, Landover Baptist’s purpose is to mock American values from within the hive. They also aren’t shy about cashing in on people’s shock and disgust while they’re at it. Ultimately, this website has nothing redeeming about it. It’s simply there to promote an open hatred of Christians while simultaneously subverting any possibility of honest dialogue in this country.
I cannot begin to understand what lies behind the minds of men like Bryan Butvidas, Kirwin Watson and Mark Oppenheimer. If maybe one of them had contacted me or any of the other representatives of Christwire, we would have set them straight. Maybe they hoped to profit by strong-arming their way into this site. Maybe they hatched some illicit advertising scheme and wanted to cash in. Maybe they are addicted to publicity, like the dimwitted and lonely men who confess to crimes they did not commit. Could this whole blowup be the result of a pharmaceutical insufficiency or a pharmaceutical overindulgence? Looking at the photographs of these two online does make one wonder about mental health. There is also a chance that they are nothing more than highly-placed atheists seeking to discredit established Christian moralism. I would be remiss if I did not also consider the possibility that these hucksters have indeed contributed to Christwire in the past. They could be part of that ever revolving flock of hoodlums who try to pawn off fake stories on this website for their insipid and self-indulgent pleasures. Whoever they are, they are welcome here no more.
As for Mr. Oppenheimer, it is clear from his work at the New York Times and his memoir, “Wisenheimer, A Childhood Subject to Debate” that he has far more faith in his own intelligence than in anything else around him. There is much I could write about such a man but there is an old poem that will suffice. If you are reading this Mr. Oppenheimer, I can only pray that you comprehend the necessity of my message.
Hans, there are moments when the whole mind
Resolves into a pair of brimming eyes, or lips
Parting to drink from the deep spring of a death
That freshness they do not yet need to understand.
These are the moments, if ever, an angel steps
Into the mind, as kings into the dress
Of a poor goatherd, for their acts of charity.
There are moments when speech is but a mouth pressed
Lightly and humbly against the angel’s hand.
– James Merrill, 1959
To each and every one of our friends, I ask you to pray with us for the future of Christwire. We have found the most wondrous pleasure sharing faith with you and we can only hope that you find some joy in visiting us. We are here for you, no matter what ails you or how far off you have wandered. We love you more deeply that you can ever understand and will never give that up, no matter what challenges the future throws our way. Let us embrace you, do not be afraid.
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Author: Stephenson Billings
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4:17 am
so you got a bit of your own medicine and now you resort to crying that it isn’t fair.
well let me be “constructive” for once then: CALM DOWN!!!!!!!
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4:09 pm
Sadly, Jazze, your comment underestimates the damage that can be done with such unfounded accusations. It was just a mean, petty thing to do on the New York Times part and I believe it was in retaliation for several articles we had published recently poking gentle fun at some of their more absurd trend pieces. We also leveled some serious criticism at their ethical standards and their financial motivations behind supporting certain issues. I didn’t set out to stir their pot, but it was necessary to point out the hypocrisy and subversiveness when I see it. This is not a “tit for tat” situation, but a question of integrity and faith.
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5:39 pm
Reverend Jazze, you mean?
http://confessionwire.com/index.php/2503/question-marriage-sacred-minutes-internet-become-minister
Good times…
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2:20 am
Um…. when the Registered Owners of the domain name admit in the New York Times the site’s a joke, yes, we’ll call Poe’s Law on YOU because you either don’t know how to “Wink wink nudge nudge” or you actually ARE a delusional hatemonger who believed this site was legitimate. Either way, the site is awesome, except for you. Whoever you are behind the pseudonym? You need practise. If you want to tell a joke right, the audience has to be in on the joke or it will NEVER work.
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9:24 pm
Sorry but you have your basic facts wrong. The owners of this website admitted nothing. It was a few guys in California who some how got in contact with a reporter at the Times. Did you even bother reading my article? The facts are all contained there and your comment is nonsensical.
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9:14 pm
wow Penny. wow. satire. you get satire, right? Like the Onion. Funny? The contributors are IN on the joke. You with me now?
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9:26 am
Sorry Andrew, there’s “Satire” and then there’s “Idiot who takes the joke WAY too far and ends up looking strupider than those he’s allegedly spoofing”. The very fictional Mr. Biullings is very much the latter. If he is indeed satire as the rest of the site is, he’s a method actor, staying in character 24/7. Ask the people who worked on “Man On The Moon” with Jim Carrey how funny or witty or charming it was to deal with Carrey’s impression of Andy Kaufman all day every day? Billings is either genuinely a Christian nutjob, or a really shitty comedian who forgets to let his audience in on the joke. Either way the guy is a complete and total moron.
As for you Stevie, I actually looked up the site registry, as I have this crazy notion involving knowing provable facts before I speak, so, you’re either lying through your teeth to stay “in character” or you really are a scary crazy nutcase THAT far removed from reality. Eiuther way you’re not funny, witty, or entertaining. You’re about as funny as dead baby/rape jokes if you’re satire, and as worthwhile as algae on a lake in China if you’re genuine.
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9:58 am
Hi Penny, thanks for the discourse on journalism and comedy but I’m afraid you’re way out of your league here. Your ad hominem attacks and childish tantrums won’t dissuade me from being the Christian and the journalist I have always been. Sorry that you find that so shocking.
I do find it fascinating that liberals such as yourself can never engage in the true issues at hand and will avoid questions of morality and the fate of our nation at every turn to get down in the dirt and wrestle over petty nuances and silly claims. You are neither an inspired person, nor an interesting one. It is a great testament to the Freedom of Speech that is ingrained in this country’s Constitution that you are allowed to share your banal and simplistic opinions here in the first place. And my name is “Mr. Billings.” Your intentional misspellings are more appropriate for a grade schooler.
And Penny, why don’t you provide us a link to your own writing so the rest of us here can evaluate this oh-so-concieted judge who keeps returning to this website again and again (despite her avowed hatred of it) as she deigns to share her almighty opinions on yours truly. Sadly, I am afraid you are either clueless or incompetent, some sort of bitter failure in life who gets her jollies typing away without reason or wit, compassion or humanity.
God bless you my child and I do hope some day your life can become beautiful and worthwhile.
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3:39 pm
Yeah Penny – now who looks strupid???
‘For God is not the author of confusion but of peace …’
1 Corinthians 14:33
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5:49 am
Nice lashback, though you’d better be aware that James Merrill, whose soemwhat obscure poem you quote, is (or was, he’s dead and judged) an out homosexual who made no bones about his behavior in life or writing. So you know.
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3:47 pm
I was not making a point about homosexuality, but about faith and spirituality.
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3:52 pm
how about homospirituality?
or faisexuality?
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6:50 am
Been found out, have you? Your nasty, evil messages of hatred have now penetrated the mainstream, have they? And what do you do? Cry foul. Plead that you’re just a small organisation, why are they persecuting you? This, after years of spewing out the most vile, hate-filled, racist, homophobic, anti-Christian filth and lies that you can think of. If you can’t take it, don’t give it.
If you want a fight, you’re going to get it. And you’re going to lose. But not before you’ve discredited your entire religion and made moderate people question whether they actually want to be associated with right wing nut jobs like you.
And, Stephenson Billings, several people have asked about your qualifications. What gives you the right to describe yourself as an investigative journalist? Where did you study? What officially recognised qualifications do you have? What’s your CV? Until you can answer any of these questions satisfactorily, you’ll just be a grubby, hate-filled little man, spending his life trawling through the internet looking at gay porn, feeling ashamed about the feelings it gives him and venting those feelings on your blog here.
Face the truth. Accept it. You’ll soon feel a lot happier about yourself.
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10:44 am
So much hate… I will pray for you brother.. i only hope that as a result of this pathetic article that more people will be drawn towards the preaching of Reverand Billings – we love you SB!!
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
(Psalm 24:4,5)
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12:12 pm
Yeah, Mr Debonair, you do that mate. You pray for me if it makes you feel better. But while you’re eulogising, you might want to take time out to spell the word ‘reverend’ correctly.
Also, for your information, I don’t harbour hatred for you lot. Just anger at the way you try to pollute the world and destroy lives. The hatred all comes from you. But I’ll pray for you brother, if that’ll make you feel better.
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4:12 pm
I am very happy with my work as are many of our readers. I do not need to explain myself to a man who visibly intent on ad hominem attacks and juvenile displays of anger. If you cannot control yourself, if you cannot approach the people here with respect, I ask that you post your nonsense somewhere else.
“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.” –Psalm 20: 7-8.
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10:43 am
I’m perfectly capable of controlling myself, thank you. And I haven’t said anything about you that you haven’t said about others. And still you refuse to show your credentials as an investigative journalist. Until you prove you’re qualified, your comments and ‘investigations’ have no validity.
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9:27 pm
If you want to see proof of my journalism, you simply need to read here: http://stephensonbillings.wordpress.com/
And who are you to question me? What are your credentials and what is your faith? I would love to know.
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10:04 pm
Posting the link to your blog is NOT the same thing as providing proof that you’re a credentialed journalist.
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10:12 pm
A blog does not equal a certificate that signifies one to be an investigative journalist. That’s equal to a fake ID used by someone trying to get into a club.
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10:30 pm
Hello Claire, please try to use complete sentences and logic if you are going to attack a professional and a journalist. I realize you’re not a person of faith, and not even an adult person so I will give you some leeway on this subject. As for “the comedian”, I have heard all your conspiracy theories before and you’re getting more and more desperate by the way. I would love to ask you why you are so absolutely hostile to me? What is your problem? Why do you hate? I just want to love you? Please email me at my personal account if you want to get into this more deeply and feel free to send your photo if you want.
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10:46 pm
//As for “the comedian”, I have heard all your conspiracy theories before and you’re getting more and more desperate by the way.//
Again, this coming from a man who hates Mormons for simply existing.
//I would love to ask you why you are so absolutely hostile to me?//
You want to hate without reason, and you want to drag the name of Christ through the mud. You want to use Christianity as an excuse to bitch about everything, to hate everything, and when confronted about your idiocy, you rely on “I’m Christian” like a semi-retarded man relying on his retardation excuse to get out of trouble.
//What is your problem?//
My problem is when liars come around, claiming they know more about a subject than actual experts and people involved in a subject, and say that whatever the subject is, is completely evil. You think video games cause problems with people, you’ve never done the research; you think gay people fighting for equal rights are ruining this country, you’ve never talked to one; you hate everything Obama and Clinton have done in their presidencies and claim they’re responsible for the plagues of today, you’ve clearly forgotten who started the mis-aimed war Obama cleaned up, and so on.
You lie all the time, and you claim to be an expert, when all you’ve done is do a fucking Google search on a subject and looked up who else agrees with your pre-determined views.
//Why do you hate?//
Because assholes like you want to muddy the truth and use their religion or standing as an excuse to hate everything else, like the bitter old men that you slime balls are.
//I just want to love you?//
No you don’t, you want to hate. I’m part of a group of people you hate, and you’re just desperate for attention. When I admitted I was on the same side as you, you’re attitude changed for the better, PROVING that you only give two shits about people that are on the same side as you.
//Please email me at my personal account if you want to get into this more deeply and feel free to send your photo if you want.//
What, so you can run with your tail between your legs in a personal email discussion? So you can bring up your bullshit without making a bigger fool of yourself? So you have some excuse as to why you didn’t answer any of my questions or try to refute any points because you get so many emails? You just want another email in your inbox and read it as ‘love and support’ for your fragile, pathetic mind?
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1:44 am
billings i know you have a reading disability but that is a full sentance. stop trying to fix correct english. if you can’t make any kind of logical comeback just admit that you are wrong. linking to your blog proves that you are a blogger not that you are a investigative journalist so i guess you just proved us right.
also billings : why all the hate?
btw his creditdentials as what? as a “can-question-journalsim-guy”…. didn’t know that required creditedentials.
also even we do not agree with you even if we have another faith or even if we have no faith we can question you.
we might as well ask who are you to ask the questions you ask. actually that is what we are asking. and we asked first. so who are you to do the bullshit you do?
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5:00 am
Who am I to question you? I’m British, a published journalist, a university lecturer and also an internationally bestselling author. Those are my credentials. I’ve shown you mine. You going to show me yours?
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7:25 am
You’re also coy, smarmy and hellbound if you really believe what your name title. So let me guess. You’re Richard Dawkins?
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12:34 pm
I’ve got to ask, who the hell was this aimed at? Adam has such a hard time trying to post here that it’s difficult to tell just who he aimed at with his comments.
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12:35 pm
Hell, I think his postings fuck the boards up something fierce, what the hell is up with Adam?
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4:13 pm
Please just try to respond to people’s comments in a timely manner and don’t click on the Trackbacks too much, that disrupts things.
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4:14 pm
Link (Mr Dawkins?)?
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9:34 am
As I unlike you have actually written for an actual newspaper, (The Vancouver Province), I can claim knowledge of Journalism as I was required to memorize and practise the journalism standards of the Associated Press Stylebook, something you have NEVER come remotely CLOSE to acheiving. Writing bad satire with no sense of humour in the vein of uneducated hateful religious batshittery is NOT journalism. It’s not even funny given how bad you are at it. I repeat; If you’re satire, learn Poe’s Law and subsequently how to let your audience in on the joke. If you’re for real, stop writing ANYTHING altogether, you’re a horrible human being.
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1:51 pm
Penny, I’d like to ask you kindly to leave this website. Your opinions are a waste of everyone’s time.
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2:33 pm
//Penny, I’d like to ask you kindly to leave this website. Your opinions are a waste of everyone’s time.//
Funny, you’re a waste of my time. Albeit a very good waste of my time, you’re still a pile of waste regardless.
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6:53 am
Funny as always, and a beautiful, beautiful ending.
That’s what I would say if I was one of those sick minded atheist enemies of Christ who fail to understand the true need for evangelizing against a homosexual agenda.
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8:00 am
why would you say it’s a beautiful ending?
also as for us being sick minded well yeah that’s a quite subjective term… you do realise we think the same about you guys right. and until yóu manage to prove us wrong with facts we are as right about you being sick as you are about us being sick.
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9:27 pm
I guess you don’t find love beautiful. How sad.
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10:43 pm
“I guess you don’t find love beautiful. How sad.”
What’s sad is that:
a) a single, childless 60-year-old man with an alcoholic mother is preaching to us about love
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b) you find homosexual love to be absolutely repulsive, when in actuality it’s just as beautiful as heterosexual love
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11:15 pm
My mother’s diet has nothing to do with anything. Mind your own business.
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4:26 pm
would you say that was an ad hominem attack?
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1:34 am
the person in question said “if i was a atheist”. and an atheist would never find that beautiful. would you please explain where the love is? because all i see is arogance.
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3:54 pm
“I guess you don’t find love beautiful.”
No, I don’t find love on this website. Simply repeating the mantra “Love, Love, Love” means less coming from the author of this article than it did from John, Paul, George and Ringo (which wouldn’t be an insult to those of us in the reality-based world, but that’s not exactly who I’m addressing here).
This website regularly publishes broad, bigoted, baseless attacks on people because of their creed and the color of their skin.
Christ said: “By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?” If racism and hatred are thorns, you’re no grapevine, despite what you see in the3 mirror. At least according to Jesus.
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10:40 am
Praise him brother Deguello!!
Rom. 1:26-28, “For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper.”
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Purity of faith is the only pathway still surviving since Satan’s servile savages soiled all others with their senseless stupid stuff. From the perfect height of His eternal love the sight of the struggling mass of humanity is put into true perspective. We tell the heathens how to be saved, but, they must ask Him. None of us can prevent their being murdered for not getting the message. It is a sad state of affairs when honest Christians have to hire the thirty faces of Xe to do God’s work on this Earth, since the liberal leftovers have tied the hands of our military with their little lefty lariats. He gave us these heroes, we must untie their hands. In His Name, Amen.
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7:57 am
god is omnipotent….why can’t he do his own work? why does he need you faulty humans who may misinterprit his words to do the work he is more than capabel of doing himself?
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2:23 pm
So you agree Y’H'W is a ‘He’??
Praise you brother…
‘The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’
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8:00 am
The NYT has been long known as a hotbed of godless homosexuals, most of whom spend their off hours “reviewing” Broadway shows (which employ a number of gay men). For them to create this firestorm challenging a site such as this one, well, they’ll be judged and judged hard come the end times (which will be called down by that Muslin in the Oval Office). Blessings upon you and the other rock-hard Christians who run this site.
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9:18 am
I doubt Mr. Oppenheimer would dispute that his article was designed to discredit your website. He was quite successful at doing exactly that which obviously upset you.
All you did in response was rant against his motivation, without attempting to debunk his accusations. Perhaps it’s because they are “fundamentally” true? Oppenheimer didn’t attack Christianity. He attacked just another of it’s long list of self-serving “representatives.”
Congrats on getting busted by the New York Times. That is high praise for the sophistication of your con.
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4:06 pm
No, as I have stated clearly and concisely Mr. Oppenheimer’s accusations are false. How else can I defend myself against lies manufactured from whole cloth? It’s pretty absurd and the members of my family got quite a laugh from the line “there is no Stephenson Billings”! But on a more serious note, several members of Christwire, myself included, have become concerned by the attempts of various online groups to dig up personal information about us. It’s invasive and crosses a line. There is no need to plaster my home phone number and my mother’s address across the internet.
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6:30 pm
//No, as I have stated clearly and concisely Mr. Oppenheimer’s accusations are false. How else can I defend myself against lies manufactured from whole cloth?//
So Stevie admits that the only possible way he can defend himself from the truth is by calling it a lie. Fuck everything else, it’s a lie, because he doesn’t like it.
Stevie, why do you want to talk like you’re a god? Do you plan on overthrowing the Creator when you ascend? He can read your mind, you’re fucked buddy, he ain’t lettin’ you in with the intention of taking over the place, and Satan himself has a special room custom-made for assholes like you who plan on destroying the balance of existence.
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9:31 pm
Honestly, people have thrown a lot of lies at me over the years. I am fully aware of who I am and the words I speak. I know my faith. Maybe I can’t vouch for each and every other person who crosses my path, but I know who I am. I have always stated that much. ANd I do share love with my fellow Christians but this whole thing is gotten out of hand. Truthfully, I don’t know what to do, how to respond. I keep at what I do. I will continue writing and working on my jounralism. I could care less what a anti-Christian rag tries to say about me. They have their clear bias and many in the conservative movement have written about this before. It’s old news, particularly their Zionist affiliations.
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9:57 pm
//ANd I do share love with my fellow Christians but this whole thing is gotten out of hand.//
Ah, so JUST with your fellow Christians, and only if they’re the kind of Christian that YOU are, I see. No wonder you want to bitch and moan about every other person on the face of the Earth, you only have a handful of jack-offs that you can even remotely relate to.
//Truthfully, I don’t know what to do, how to respond.//
Here’s a thought: stop putting up bullshit on the internet, there’s already enough of it as it is.
//I keep at what I do. I will continue writing and working on my jounralism. I could care less what a anti-Christian rag tries to say about me. They have their clear bias and many in the conservative movement have written about this before. It’s old news, particularly their Zionist affiliations.//
anti-Christian? Please, sensible Christians have long-realized that the crazies in the Old Testament should only be taken with a grain of salt, and to ignore the parts that deliberately invoke hatred and death. You seem fit to want to become a different type of Christian that wants to follow the old ways that would damn everyone on Earth, including yourself.
Keep in mind Stevie, most people have realized the Leviticus was fucking insane, you should remember that part of what he said was that those with seeing disabilities weren’t going to heaven and touching pig skin was unclean, and you’ve admitted to loving football AND having your eyesight fail you. You wanna follow Leviticus? Congratulation, you’re going straight to Hell because of it.
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10:03 am
The anger at a constant boil in you makes me concerned. Why don’t you take a break and get some fresh air? You throw out so much delusion and outrage, it’s now at a critical point. I do hope there are people who love and care about you close by. Someone certainly should intervene in the life of someone so torn apart and unhappy.
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9:34 am
Maybe this should come as no surprise in a country that is slipping evermore into moral corruption
when you will learn was is morality is you can come back otherwise just shut up
we are in the age when Sarah Palin’s vision for our future seems incompatible with the conspiracy theories of the liberal minority, a minority that consumes the assembly-line propaganda of papers like the Times with insatiable abandon.
what conspiracy theory that if Palin get elected she will resign after what 1 year or less
If not she will wages wars with almost every country Not agree with her
she will surely attack Canada because we have Oil
Bigotry against Christians has gone on for far too long in this world
its quite weird that the “link” provided with Bigotry its said dsicrimination when the article itself is discrimination and yet you still discriminate your own President
you wnat respect than start respecting Homosexual and your President otherwise we won,t respect you and If I see one christian on My turf I will Kick his sorry Butt so Hard
so Billings you really Believe its a “real christian site” ?
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Just saying that I talked to Marie jon ( yes your “pseudo author in CW” when actually NEVER wrote for this site
she even said and I cite
“Please don’t even hit the site. It’s a spoof and intended to denigrate Christians. It’s affiliated by the Huffington Post.The progressives think they are clever. ”
Still I don’t think it’s progressiste since I am and why wasting our time doing such stupid thing as a site demonizing christian
Most of the progressist respect other people opinion
but weird enough most of those article reflect Islamist and In Koran as well and I said to Marie Jon that and that cna be actually dangerous that some article even if as “joke” you said you wnat to Nuke country Like China or russia for Nothing
This can be VERY serious
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10:06 am
I was truly sorry to hear about Marie Jon and yes, she did write for this site and encouraged us to reprint articles she wrote elsewhere. Clearly, she has been misled as we are in no way affiliated with the Huffington post nor the New York Times. I hope to reconnect with her soon and gather her back into the fold. She is an intelligent and beautiful person whose commitment to faith is an inspiration to us all.
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9:53 am
Thank you for your reasoned and intelligent thrashing of the emotional and reactionary Liberal News Media Commintern!
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We truly do appreciate your kind and loving support.
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9:55 am
Billings, this quote stands out as being particularly amusing in your latest blog entry: ‘Maybe they hatched some illicit advertising scheme and wanted to cash in.’ Presumably you’ve seen the ads on your site. Most of them for loan sharks and gay dating. Are you happy to cash in on them? Are you taking Satan’s dollar to spread God’s word?
And also, your blog entry didn’t answer a single point that the NYT article raised. Just moaned about being victimised, gave the usual Nazi-ish right wing rant, claimed that because someone (most people, to be honest) disagree with you there must be something fundamentally wrong with them. But ignored the points raised. So are you going to answer? Because, after all, the NYT is an internationally respected newspaper. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people look to it worldwide as an unimpeachable, respected source of news. So if you can’t find a comeback maybe, oh I don’t know, perhaps Oppenheimer was right in what he said?
Still, well done. You’ve got your name in a big, grown up paper. So you’ll get lots of publicity. Even if it is the kind that makes you look like a ragtag band of nutters and losers.
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4:00 pm
Christwire is a dot org organization, not a for profit enterprise. The cost of maintaining the traffic that spikes at times can be high. I believe the advertising revenue attempts to cover that. The types of ads you see is not determined by myself or our tech staff. It is a Google ad service and as such, not something that we censor or closely control. From what I understand, each users sees different types of ads (often related to other sites they’ve visited). I do sometimes get the gay ads and am not really happy about that, but that is a debate we have internally, not really for the public to get involved in. For the large part, I see many ads from Newsmax, conservative polls and Republican politicians and financial services. It seems pretty run of the mill of what you encounter online.
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4:54 pm
Maybe it’s just my noscript, but it looks like Google adsense gave you the boot.
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11:45 am
I’m seeing ads for Scientology at the moment. And I certainly haven’t visited any of their sites. So you’re happy for those ads to pop up. And you’re happy to have a charge of hypocrisy levelled against you. Just remember that when you try to claim the moral high ground next time.
And you didn’t answer any of my other points. Which leads me to believe you can’t.
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9:33 pm
Since I do not pick and chose the ads that appear here, there is no way you can use this against me. It is so absolutely irrelevant that you people just look desperate and chidlish by returning to this subject. Grow up!
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11:32 pm
“Grow up”? That’s fucking funny coming from you. The ads are entirely relevant, you fucking weasel. You know that when someone views this webpage that there’s a pretty good chance that they’ll see an ad for a gay dating site. You KNOW this, and yet you post anyway, fully aware that you are directly promoting the “lifestyle” you purport to condemn. There’s only one way to avoid this unseemly hypocrisy.
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
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10:07 am
I have no interest in responding to someone who so readily uses foul language to hurt me. You have a lot of growing up to do, young man.
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10:06 am
Are you SURE you’re not satire? …………. REALLY?…….Really….. *sound of crickets…..”Dude….”
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10:35 am
“On behalf of everyone at Christwire, I was deeply saddened to read Mark Oppenheimer’s facile attempt to discredit Evangelical Christianity and this site in particular today.”
You mean, on behalf of the AUTHORS of Christwire. The majority of people who comment on Christwire are liberals who think you guys are a bunch of douchebags.
“Bigotry against Christians has gone on for far too long in this world.”
You seem to have no problem with bigotry against gays, women, liberals, atheists, Muslims, and blacks, so why are you bitching?
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11:26 am
GOD BLESS…
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11:30 am
//You mean, on behalf of the AUTHORS of Christwire. The majority of people who comment on Christwire are liberals who think you guys are a bunch of douchebags.//
Hell, I think there are conservatives who’ve posted here who say these nutjobs aren’t real. You know you’re fucked if the majority of your side is against you.
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3:57 pm
People who are distressed or angry are many times more likely to post comments on a website than those who agree with the content they read. Just because you and a few others periodically post here, that does not make you a large voice in the Christwire world. There are many people who have faith in Christ who support this website and support our message. And yes, when I wrote “on behalf of everyone at Christwire” I meant everyone. We were appalled at the Times hit piece. It was unfounded and frankly childish. I continue, as always, to receive numerous private letters of support from new friends and old.
As for the homosexuals and other groups, they really have no relevance to the discussion at hand so I don’t know why you’re throwing them into this.
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4:37 pm
“And yes, when I wrote “on behalf of everyone at Christwire” I meant everyone. We were appalled at the Times hit piece.”
Well, you certainly don’t speak for me when you say that everyone was appalled. What I’m appalled at is the fact that you haven’t killed yourself yet.
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11:45 pm
“As for the homosexuals and other groups, they really have no relevance to the discussion at hand so I don’t know why you’re throwing them into this.”
Why not now? It seems like they’re always your (ahem) preferred topic…
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10:45 am
This is impressive in its’ subtlety…I think. Congratulations on creating a site where it’s nigh unto impossible to tell whether it is written by the Onion staff or Wonkette commenters or real live religious nutjobs. At the moment I’m inclined to come down on the side of satire, for the sake of the little hope I have left in humanity.
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10:55 am
Wow. People really don’t get it do they? I mean I almost fell out of my chair laughing this morning over the “Is Your Husband Gay?” piece and the one on “Glee.” Thank you for being the funniest site on the web. You have a lifelong “convert” in me.
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11:48 am
Dear Christwire: Why does my husband keep yelling at other men to “suck on my crucifix”? I mean he doesn’t even own one? Also, he frequently has sex with other men. Starting to wonder if he might be gay. Should I confront him or just hope this is a phase?
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12:11 pm
You collect antique soda bottles too? Cool! I have a bunch of WWII-era coke bottles that were dumped in the jungle by American G.I.s on a remote Pacific island. I wonder if they might have been used by gay soldiers for disgusting purposes, if you follow me. Or maybe not. The U.S. didn’t have any gay soldiers then. Now they are EVERYWHERE. They’re here, they’re queer, and because of them we are going to lose the war. God won’t let us win because of the gays. Dammit.
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3:52 pm
It does not surprise me that those of the liberal left will resort to such childish tactics to mock the faith of the majority of Americans. You can make fun of me all you want, but love and faith will always comfort me.
“Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.” –1 Peter 5:9.
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6:23 pm
//You can make fun of me all you want, but love and faith will always comfort me. //
What love? You’re a 60-year old man who’s never touched a woman, blasphemes every time you try to communicate, and you’ve been all but abandoned by society. You’re nothing more than an angsty teen that’s 45 years too old. Your faith also seems to believe that you’re the only one who’s going to Heaven, because you’re the only one worth a damn. A mass murderer would go to heaven if he was a Christian, but a black man or a gay man who do nothing but help people out and donate to charity and so on, are doomed to Hell, simply because they weren’t Christian.
That’s all Christianity is to you, one big ol’ pass to Heaven no matter what you do. Fuck the word of the Lord, fuck what Jesus was tryin’ to say, if something pisses you off, you’ll try to get’em banned, burned, or otherwise, be it one’s sexual orientation or a race or a religion.
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9:35 pm
That was unnecessarily crude. I am finding your comments here just a bit too harsh and sanctimonious.
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9:48 pm
//That was unnecessarily crude. I am finding your comments here just a bit too harsh and sanctimonious.//
Unnecessarily crude? This coming from a man-child who does nothing but bitch on the internet and hope that some same, sad soul finds his blog and agrees with him. You’re afraid of everything and you hate it. You hate progress, you hate change, you hate how people are taking the Bible and eliminating all of the hate from it, and all because you’re too afraid of change. A Christian who wants to spread love and peace to people of all creed’s is a terrible man in your opinion because he ain’t condemning gay people or wanting to slap a women for ‘being out of her place’ instead of wanting equality and also hating them because they had the common sense to realize that shit from 1500+ years ago don’t work today.
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2:54 pm
If you go to the website of the NYT hit-piece, you can see that the so-called author, Richard Oppenheimer, is AKA “Wisenheimer,” which is defined on his main page as a “wiseacre or smart aleck.” This is obviously meant to be a spoof piece, as the Times devolves from the nation’s newspaper of record to a tacky left wing tabloid selling only at Manhattan Gristede’s and White Fools Market checkstands.
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3:49 pm
Hi Herb, I wish it were that simple, but I do think the Times article was simply mean and pointless. There is nothing “smart alecky” about it. Someone clearly got hoodwinked.
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3:25 pm
There is no way this place is satire. To be a satire, you would actually have to be funny or make people think. This place does neither, therefore it must be genuine.
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6:13 pm
Who are those three men in the picture with the girlish long hair, with their paws all over each other, pressing their cheeks together? This is why I fear for the well being and protection of our country.
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5:49 pm
Nice try!
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10:48 am
I think I speak for many of my fellow brothers in Christ by saying that we need an investigative reporter to write an article revealing whether or not Stephenson Billings is gay. As evidence, I submit his writing in this very article:
“We have found the most wondrous pleasure sharing faith with you…We love you more deeply that you can ever understand…Let us embrace you, do not be afraid.”
(Frankly, I feel like Mr. Billings just made a pass at me.)
I ask that such an article should be written by that famous investigative reporter, Stephenson Billings. Only he can get to the, um, bottom of this.
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11:27 am
@eco2geek
Salutatioins brother – it is not unhelthy to share love with the flock or the sheperd and it does not need to be investigated these things are NATURAL and to be embraced I find the following sentence beautiful..
“We have found the most wondrous pleasure sharing faith with you…We love you more deeply that you can ever understand…Let us embrace you, do not be afraid.”
do not be afraid brother e2g…
Let brotherly love continue. — Hebrews 13:1
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2:53 pm
These are the same people who believe in Darwinism, global warming, Heliocentrism, and plate tectonics, all plots to spread atheism to our hapless citizenry. These are the same people who embolden our Islamist enemies by demanding that we release all of our detainees from Gitmo, Bagram, and the rest of our God-ordained detention centers. These are the same people who claim that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 was a George W Bush plot to kill everyone, and that bankers are responsible for the 2008 recession. These are the same people who believe that Communism is a better ideology in the Islamist world and the Nicaraguan world than Freedom is. These are the same people who want Bill Clinton to fornicate with every woman in the world and force them to have an abortion, and the same people who believe that no child is ready for an education until he has undergone a ritual of being the recipient of the local pedophile’s sperm.
Pay these fools no heed. They know that their own arguments are insincere and in the service of Satan, and what better way to reinforce their delusions than to claim that conservatives and Christians are the deluded ones?
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12:02 am
What better way? Oh, wait, I’ve got one… sit back and watch you dumbfucks screw the whole planet into toxic dust. Oh and by the way when you die? That’s fucking it, you’re just dead.
Sleep tight!!!
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9:48 pm
Oh please, please, please be real. Please make yourselves as visible as possible. Do you have an article on Conservapedia yet? If you get them to take you seriously, this site can really take off!
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10:36 pm
“Hello Claire, please try to use complete sentences and logic if you are going to attack a professional and a journalist.”
That was a complete sentence, and you’re not a journalist.
“I realize you’re not a person of faith, and not even an adult person”
I’ll be 20 in 14 days. You bet your fat, gaping asshole I’m an adult.
“I would love to ask you why you are so absolutely hostile to me? What is your problem? Why do you hate?”
Why are you so hostile towards homosexuals? What is your problem? Why do you hate on gay people?
“I just want to love you? Please email me at my personal account if you want to get into this more deeply and feel free to send your photo if you want.”
Comedian, I think it’s time to contact the authorities.
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10:49 pm
//Comedian, I think it’s time to contact the authorities.//
I’d rather get my hands bloody with this particular case. Sometimes you just gotta beat the sense into people.
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11:01 pm
I have a sword would not be better ?
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11:13 pm
Nah, real men feel the blood on their hands after a battle.
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1:50 pm
Well done – I was waiting for the level of your debateing to fall to just threats of physical violence – if we wanted that we’d go to the You tube. WHen you embrace CHrist you renounce violence its a shame you havent learnt that lesson yet. Talk about intolerance..
“If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth..” SOUND FAMILIAR??
1 Timothy 6:3-5
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11:19 pm
What are you children smoking? Honestly, you are the most poorly behaved infants on the planet. I would cage you if you were a duck on my farm. Outrageous and loud, you all! And Claire, September 20th is your big day! A “Virgo”? Doesn’t that mean you’re anal-retentive and have an addictive personality with egomania issues? I don’t buy into that hocus pocus but I know many of your friends do these days… Well, I hope the day comes with joy and happiness. Maybe I will send you a card and a gift! You do bring so much to my life. That last paragraph of this article I wrote thinking of you. With my love,
SB
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11:32 pm
“And Claire, September 20th is your big day!”
No, September 19th is my “big day”.
“Doesn’t that mean you’re anal-retentive and have an addictive personality with egomania issues?”
Do I care?
“I don’t buy into that hocus pocus but I know many of your friends do these days…”
Actually, no, my friends do not…
“Maybe I will send you a card and a gift!”
How about not? If you do, I’ll either tear them up or send them back to you smeared with cat shit.
“You do bring so much to my life. That last paragraph of this article I wrote thinking of you. With my love,”
SICK SICK SICK!!!!! I think I’m going to go throw up now! Oh gross, I don’t think I’ll eat for a week! How about you focus on your own pathetic existence instead of trying to insinuate yourself into the lives of people you don’t even know, okay?
Christ, I have vomit all over my keyboard!
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12:21 am
“The most poorly behaved infants on the planet” at least have an excuse. Billings and the rest of the most poorly behaved “adults” on the planet have none.
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11:18 pm
“My mother’s diet has nothing to do with anything.”
“Diet” is used to refer to food. Alcohol is not a food.
“Mind your own business.”
I won’t mind my business until you stop sticking your nose into the business of homosexuals.
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11:20 pm
Diet can include the ingestion of liquids and would you leave my poor old momma alone for crying out loud!!!
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11:27 pm
Leave gays alone and I’ll leave your mother alone. Fair’s fair.
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11:55 pm
Funny, you like to put your nose in everyone else’s business. Hard to swallow your medicine Stevie?
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12:25 am
Oh, trust us Stevie, your Momma’s crying out loud, alright…
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4:15 pm
Unnecessarily cruel and painful… I hope you know shame.
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10:07 pm
You obviously know none.
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1:06 am
This is a joke, right Mr. Billings? Because there is no damned way some is this stupid and ignorant of others.
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1:28 pm
That’s too bad. I was kind of hoping this was satire. If it is, it’s bloody brilliant
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3:25 pm
OK, you people. Keep on using hate speech and your awful innuendos at poor old SB! One of these days, he may take his insightful journalism and go off, down some dark, dank, dirt road, never to hear from his insightful, journalistic wisdom ever, ever again!!!
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I love it when people make those images move! It’s fun and I hope you meant all this in the spirit of good will. If so, you have brought some joy to my heart today, young man. God bless!
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2:20 pm
1. ya look like a penguin and 2 . there is a male porn in your hand and 3. ya ugly
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9:29 pm
i propose bethany’s law:
that wherever there is a form of media distribution + plus a person to defecate on it err i mean speak through it, stupid is likely to follow.
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4:23 am
Seriously, you people are pathetic. You don’t realize this is a joke? You think the New York Times just made that part up? It’s so obvious this is satire, although good satire at that. But you people seriously give liberals just as bad of a name as right-wingers for actually engaging with this guy and believing it. Come on, every article on this site is obviously satirical and focuses way too much on gays and minorities and other stereotypical Christian stuff. The Wii sex toy? The Nazi comments on the other article? You people actually believe this is real? Claire you really need to get a life…to think you’ve actually spent this much time arguing with some comedian and getting all pissed off about it, it’s pretty embarassing.
Stephenson Billings (obviously a pen name) you’re the only winner here…great satire, so good that all of these losers actually believe it.
For me the real question is whether or not posters such as Mr. Debonair and Deguello are for real or if they’re satirical as well. Objective Scrutator obviously is, the comments about Gitmo and Bagram gave you away, but the one about the bankers did even more. Republicans are actually much more critical of the financial sector and its responsibility for the financial crisis than the Democrats are. What do you think the Tea Party is about? Who supports the bailouts? Who believes that this is merely a ‘liquidity crisis’ and that it’s no one’s fault? Who reappointed Ben Bernanke as the Federal Reserve Chair? It’s Republicans that believe there should be no bailouts and that the market should correct itself, meaning the bankers who started this would be punished as their business collapses. Ignorant liberal idiots, they’re so confused that they don’t realize their party has abandoned its own ideology.
Anyways, I hope at least a few serious conservative Christians read this site thinking it was real and agreed with Billings wholeheartedly.
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2:03 pm
Dear “Reasonable” Person,
Is this your first time on the internet? It’s a very big world with many different web pages and I know a guy like you will have just a fantastic time exploring it! Let me guess, you clicked over here from the New York Times, which you log on to every morning first thing for your dose of “critical issues” before hopping off to work? Do you share you New York Times talking points with your co-workers on your half hour lunch break or your neighbors when they’re a lull in a Saturday afternoon country club conversation? I know the kind of shallow, gated two-dimensional world cretins like you inhabit. It’s pretty white, by my estimation, in full of people who went to the better second-tier colleges out there, now quite happy with themselves supporting Obama, buying green and working in real estate or banking.
Yes, we all know your type– well I hate to tell you this but there is another world outside of what the Times tells you. It’s found every day in every way on the internet. There you’ll rub shoulders with the grubby masses who didn’t go to Sarah Lawrence or Bennington. There you might even encounter people who believe in something, LIKE JESUS CHRIST! And there you’ll find people of all ages engaged in meaningful arguments, perfecting their sophistry and writing skills. There you’ll find the panorama of beliefs that underlies the TRUE AMERICA and not the America reported in the Book Reviews section of the paper.
I must stand up for my friend Claire here. Your insults are way out of line and quite like the perturbed rants of a Yuppie who has dented his BMW in the inner city. Wait to exchange your insurance cards or jump back on the road to the safe confines of WASPy suburbia? Yes, you’ve gotten off on the wrong exit my friend and the people you’ll encounter here may scare you to death. You need air-conditioning and a light rock radio station. We’re too loud and passionate here for the likes of you. Your pedantic and prissy approach to our community makes me sick. Get back in that BMW my friend and be sure to give your wife Muffy a big kiss when you get home, but don’t kiss her too long or else you’ll start to smell the dank sweat of Geraldo your gardener on her bare shoulders.
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True america ?? you mena the utopia america that you want a christian american a theocracy withotu the Liberal homosexual and black Only white male american ??
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6:15 pm
“I must stand up for my friend Claire here.”
Dude, I’m not your friend, and I don’t need you to defend me.
“Yes, you’ve gotten off on the wrong exit my friend and the people you’ll encounter here may scare you to death. You need air-conditioning and a light rock radio station. We’re too loud and passionate here for the likes of you. Your pedantic and prissy approach to our community makes me sick.”
Billings, what makes you think that I’m on your side in all this?
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7:39 am
Then again, you might encounter people like me who believe in the Church of Google.
After all, there is startling evidence that She is the most god-like thing that actually exists…
http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/
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9:19 am
I see this little coward “Reasonable Man” scurried away when faced with a solid, meaningful argument. Well, you sir are the real “loser” here. Good riddance.
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2:35 pm
//Stephenson Billings (obviously a pen name) you’re the only winner here…great satire, so good that all of these losers actually believe it.//
I’d like to think we’re all winners, we’re all a part of the joke, and it’s the arguments that make it all the funnier.
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10:18 am
Damn, the Comedian isn’t for real either? It’s like finding out there’s no Santa Claus.
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4:10 pm
@a reasonable person – “For me the real question is whether or not posters such as Mr. Debonair and Deguello are for real or if they’re satirical as well.”
Greetings brother ‘person’ – Let me assure you that I am real and ‘satire’ plays no part in the life of a soldier of The Lord as i find humor weakens ones spirtiual centre what with all of the distractions of the modern ‘world’. I live my life by such clearand simple instructions as thus:
‘Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse and prove me now herewith saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
- Malachi 3:10-12
You see?
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lol @ eschewing humor for god
because the bible commands his soldiers have no sense of humor.
is this where we ask is god saying “do as i say, not as i do” while pointing at a platypus?
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4:34 am
Seriously, you people are pathetic. You don’t realize this is a joke? You think the New York Times just made that part up? It’s so obvious this is satire, although good satire at that. But you people seriously give liberals just as bad of a name as right-wingers for actually engaging with this guy and believing it. Come on, every article on this site is obviously satirical and focuses way too much on gays and minorities and other stereotypical Christian stuff. The Wii sex toy? The Nazi comments on the other article? Basketball corrupted by black people? You people actually believe this is real? Claire you really need to get a life…to think you’ve actually spent this much time arguing with some comedian and getting all pissed off about it, it’s pretty embarassing.
Stephenson Billings (obviously a pen name) you’re the only winner here…great satire, so good that all of these losers actually believe it.
For me the real question is whether or not posters such as Mr. Debonair and Deguello are for real or if they’re satirical as well. Objective Scrutator obviously is, the comments about Gitmo and Bagram gave you away, but the one about the bankers did even more. Republicans are actually much more critical of the financial sector and its responsibility for the financial crisis than the Democrats are. What do you think the Tea Party is about? Who supports the bailouts? Who believes that this is merely a ‘liquidity crisis’ and that it’s no one’s fault? Who reappointed Ben Bernanke as the Federal Reserve Chair? It’s Republicans that believe there should be no bailouts and that the market should correct itself, meaning the bankers who started this would be punished as their business collapses. Ignorant liberal idiots, they’re so confused that they don’t realize their party has abandoned its own ideology.
Anyways, I hope at least a few serious conservative Christians read this site thinking it was real and agreed with Billings wholeheartedly.
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4:37 am
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5:39 am
Hehehe! It’s as though the comments on this page were all set up to make my day brighter. Anyone that thinks that Billings (or whatever his name is) needs to ‘provide evidence of his journalistic qualifications’ is a straight-up idiot. No journalist HAS to prove that they’ve written articles before- what is this, a job interview? And since when does a piece of paper make you a good journalist? There are plenty of qualified journos who’s writing makes me want to chew my own face off (check out The Daily Mail in the UK, Jan Muir aka Satan in a Skirtsuit).
His personal description at the top of this page should make it clear as to the parody going on here. Though I don’t want to say this too openly, as most of the fun on this site is reading the comments from rightwingers and impassioned, but mawkish, lefties! (‘How dare you say that all gays should have pink flowers stapled to their heads and be made to eat Battenburg! Are you some kind of monster? Etc. etc. etc.’)
For God’s sake try to learn what irony is…
I’d like to end with a question: to the author.
Stevenson, what is the best antique soda bottle in your collection, and why? Please respond.
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5:53 am
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE ANTIQUE SODA BOTTLE?!!?
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9:23 am
I have some beautiful Moxie bottles and the evolution of Coke bottles over the years is quite exciting to see (they printed the dates and locations of creation on the bottoms of the older ones). The 50s 7Up bottles have a great style that is reminiscent of that solidly humane era. On the other hand, the 19th century bottles– in blues and browns and even lavender– are wonderful. There is a big debate in the community about condition. Many you see on eBay have been recovered from old garbage dumps and washed up– these lack the same value as those kept indoors over the years. Some bottles have labels, medicine bottles, etc. even have their antique boxes or even their corks and liquids inside. It’s a pretty diverse hobby. Personally, I love the blue-colored bottles in the large sizes (equivalent to wine bottles) but there are rare to find intact and undug. I keep them by my window to see sunlight pass through them.
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7:35 am
This was all very interesting,but to early in the morning for me.Can’t we all just get along?Isn’t Terry Jones an evangelical?God bless ya’ll.
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10:14 pm
“On behalf of everyone at Christwire, I was deeply saddened to read Mark Oppenheimer’s facile attempt to discredit Evangelical Christianity and this site in particular today.”
fac·ile
–adjective
1. moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
2. easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.
3. easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
Unless you were trying to say his article was moving, or how easy it was to discredit you, wrong word. Did you mean Puerile?
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4:57 pm
Facile in the sense it was simplistic and juvenile.
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5:03 pm
Facile doesn’t mean simplistic or juvenile. Look at a dictionary, I’m sure you’ll have done way more researching in looking up a word than you have ever done with any of your blog posts.
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11:26 am
I dunno about you all, but I think VALVe is cool and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Team Fortress 2 is cool, just spreading the word.
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7:19 pm
Everyone you need to know this is all a joke if they seriously admitted to it being a joke so easily then they would automatically failed to their cause in the biggest troll face in the world so let them be
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11:05 am
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