Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is not the only one who thinks God helps him on the football field.
According to a national telephone survey conducted by Poll Position, 43 percent of people believe that “divine intervention” is responsible for his success compared to 42 percent of people surveyed who think that God has nothing to do with Tebow winning.
Breaking it down into demographics, the Poll Position survey shows that 52 percent of people in the 18- to 29-year-old age range believe that supernatural powers help Tebow, while about 48 percent of people aged between 45-64 believe the same.
Hispanic fans also feel that a holy power is helping the Broncos quarterback as 81 percent of those polled believe God is behind Tebow, compared to 59.5 percent among blacks and 38 percent among whites.
Among party affiliation, 54 percent of Republicans polled believe God is helping Tebow while 48 percent of Democrats think there is no divine intervention going on.
Last night disgraced Colorado Springs pastor Ted Haggard and wife Gayle Haggard graced American living rooms with their first appearance on ABC’s “Celebrity Wife Swap” along with one-time Oscar nominee Gary Busey and Steffanie Sampson. The two women left written “manuals” for each other summarizing their family roles, political and religious views, and their daily routines.
Though Sampson is Busey’s fiance and not strictly a wife partaking in the wife swap, viewers anticipated drama when she traded places with Gayle Haggard and travelled from Los Angeles to Colorado Springs. Sampson describes herself as “not involved in organized religion” and got a little testy with Ted Haggard over the topic of gay marriage.
The Haggards initially told FOX News that they decided to do the show because they wanted to “communicate hope to people.”
“With so many people losing their homes and their jobs and families and so much turmoil going on right now, we thought with our story being the parents of a handicapped child and going through a scandal five years ago, that if people could actually see through the trauma that our family actually grew closer together,” Haggard said.
In the manual Gayle Haggard wrote for Sampson in the episodee, Haggard’s past is referred to as “the scandal.”
The former pastor and president of the National Association of Evangelicals resigned in 2006 from his Colorado Springs-based New Life megachurch after allegations of a sexual relationship with a gay male escort surfaced. Yet the scandal just ended up launching the Haggards into the public eye and the family appeared in an episode of “Divorce Court” in 2009, Gayle Haggard wrote a book entitled “Why I Stayed,” a TLC documentary aired with the title, “Ted Haggard: Scandalous,” and Ted Haggard even made a cameo appearance in “The Waiting Game,” a Christian sex comedy.
He has also since publicly endorsed 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, in part for Gingrich’s own wife-swapping.
Ted Haggard, though he admitted last year to GQ writer Kevin Roose that he used methamphetamine to masturbate to gay and heterosexual porn, told Sampson he prefers to distinguish marriage as between a man and a woman but added that he believes in civil unions.
Christian conservative leader Pat Robertson says he has a secret straight from God: He knows who the next president of the United States will be.
“I think He showed me about the next president, but I’m not supposed to talk about that so I’ll leave you in the dark — probably just as well — but I think I know who it’s gonna be,” Robertson said Tuesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s “700 Club.”
(Video above via Right Wing Watch)
Robertson then went on to recite the message he claimed to have been told by God. According to Robertson, God doesn’t support President Barack Obama’s agenda and says that only “overwhelming prayer” can bring a new leader who will stop the country from “disintegrating”:
Your country will be torn apart by internal stress. A house divided cannot stand. Your president holds a radical view of the direction of your country which is at odds with the majority. Expect chaos and paralysis. Your president holds a view which is at the odds with the majority — it’s a radical view of the future of this country, and so that’s why we’re having this division. This is a spiritual battle which can only be won by overwhelming prayer. The future of the world is at stake because if America falls, there’s no longer a strong champion of freedom and a champion of the oppressed of the world. There must be an urgent call to prayer.
Robertson frequently delves into the political realm with his evangelism.
He earlier counseled the GOP presidential candidates to avoid stepping into radical territory with their campaigns.
“Those people in the Republican primary have got to lay off of this stuff,” he exclaimed in October. “If they want to lose, this is the game for losers.”
Despite this warning, he’s been especially vocal on social issues such as gay rights, which have proven to be quite visible in Iowa. The entire GOP field opposes gay marriage rights, drawing a number of public protests along the campaign trail in Iowa, a state where such unions have been legalized.
Robertson has been more controversial with his comments, recently saying that gays can “un-acquire” their sexuality. It’s just the latest in a string of comments that the gay community has found offensive.
On Tuesday, however, Robertson said that God told him the nation’s downfall would be triggered by an economic collapse. He suggested that God told him this would come about if Obama was elected to another term.
“And God said, this is not my judgment, they are bringing it upon themselves,” Robertson explained.
One of the most popular Hindu Gods, a dashing, daring blue-skinned hero who drove women wild and demons into despair.
KRISHNA is not just a Top Hindu God, he’s practically a superhero. But he had to work for it. Most of his formative years were spent avoiding death at the hands of jealous nasties.
The eighth child of DEVAKI, he and his brother BALARAMA were due to be killed at birth by wicked uncle KAMSA, but VISHNU saved the day by transferring them to a womb with a view in a quieter neighbourhood. Sweet little Godlet DEVA was substituted in their place. Wicked KAMSA would have killed her instead but the Gods whisked her away to Heaven.
Once KRISHNA was safely born, his troubles really began. A succession of baby-killing demons tried their best to dispatch him, but the innocent little lamb was really an indestructible Godly lump with a thousand sneaky demon-dispatching tricks. See what happened to PUTANA, for example.
Once grown up, KRISHNA parted company with his womb-mate BALARAMA and went to chase girls in the countryside. This suited him down to the ground and, with his good looks and charm, KRISHNA soon found himself with 16,000 girlfriends. This was not entirely due to his good looks and charm; he came to the rescue of the lovely maidens and was forced to marry them all to prevent moral complications.
This idyllic lifestyle was cut short when it was revealed that he was really the Eighth Incarnation of VISHNU, and was therefore supposed to be doing important Godly work instead of messing around in the hay all day. So KRISHNA left to start a new career as Demon Destroyer and Hero, pausing only to kiss goodbye to each of his 16,000 wives.
Many tales have been told of KRISHNA’s amazing adventures. How he rescued RUKMINI from a devilish marriage. How he feuded with the villainous SISUPALA. How he grappled with fate and dodged death the way some people dodge the tax collector. How his bones ended up in JUGGERNAUT, the God of Heavy Goods Vehicles. But you get the picture.
KRISHNA is truly a SuperGod. He’s clever, sexy, cunning, and blessed with outrageous good fortune. In the Bollywood of Heaven, he is a rich and famous celebrity. Now the star of epic philosophical action-adventure Mahabharata and creator of the sublime poem Bhagavad-Gita, his name is revered all over the world.
ATLANTA — A Georgia factory worker claims in a federal lawsuit that he was fired after he refused to wear a `666′ sticker he feared would doom him to eternal damnation.
Billy E. Hyatt claims he was fired from Pliant Corp., a plastics factory in northern Georgia near Dalton, after he refused to wear a sticker proclaiming that his factory had been accident-free for 666 days. That number is considered the “mark of the beast” in the Bible’s Book of Revelation describing the apocalypse.
Hyatt, who said he’s a devout Christian, had worked for the north Georgia plastics company since June 2007 and like other employees wore stickers each day that proclaimed how long the factory had gone without an accident.
But he grew nervous in early 2009 as the number of accident-free days crept into the 600s. As the company’s safety calendar approached day 666, Hyatt said he approached a manager and explained that wearing it would force him “to accept the mark of the beast and to be condemned to hell.” He said the manager assured him he wouldn’t have to wear the number.
God definitely moved in strange and unusual ways this past year — at least judging from when and where the Creator of the universe has been seen.
For instance, a couple in Anderson County, S.C., believe they saw the image of Jesus appear in their Walmart receipt, while a woman in Kansas has varicose veins that reportedly spell out the letters “G-O-D.”
People also claimed they saw Christ in pizza, rocking chairs and on the side of an Irish cliff.
Of course, seeing a Christ-like image in odd places — like a glob of melted wax — could be a profound experience to some, and a mere coincidence or simple joke to others.
Nevertheless, there may be a scientific explanation for those who find significance in such sacred sightings.
Social websites including Google and Facebook have been ordered by an Indian court to remove all ‘anti-religious’ and ‘anti-social’ content within six weeks. On Saturday a Delhi Court ordered 22 social networking sites, including Yahoo and Microsoft, to wipe the objectionable and defamatory contents and file compliance reports by February 6, 2012. Additional Civil Judge Mukesh Kumar passed the order on a suit filed by Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi seeking to restrain the websites from circulating objectionable and defamatory contents. Censored? Along with 22 other social networking sites, Facebook has been ordered to remove ‘offensive’ content Qasmi had objected to a number of images on the websites which he complained would cause ‘irreparable loss and injury to the people who are offended by them’. He argued that some of the images defamed Hindu gods, Prophet Mohammed and other religious figures, India Today website reported. The order will raise serious questions about how users’ posts and opinions will be edited, censorship and freedom of expression. IT Minister Kapil Sibal says he is not censoring internet users, but wants to remove degrading images IT Minister Kapil Sibal says he is not censoring internet users, but wants to remove degrading images On December 22 Judge Kumar had issued summonses to the social networking sites, demanding they remove photographs, videos or texts that might offend religious sentiments, the Hindustan Times website reported. The order comes a day after a criminal court issued summonses to the sites for facing trial for allegedly webcasting objectionable contents. Read More
An Asteroid? How is that even Possible? You’re Millions of Years Off!
It’s impossible for a couple of reasons for an asteroid to kill them [dinosaurs], because the asteroid, they say, was millions of years ago. The earth isn’t millions of years old. And second, they’ve lived with man, as is very very evident.
Creationsist Eric Hovind saying he has disproven the K-T meteor theory of dinosaur extinction
Sorry folks, it’s a sad day here at Religion Gone Crazy. Unbeknownst to us, our YouTube account was shut down last night on a copyright infringement claim. We’ve had a number of crazy religious organizations and individuals threaten us and it looks like they were finally able to convince google to terminate our account. Seems they can’t stand and don’t like an opinion that they might be crazy (they are). So yes, just like a miracle brought to you from heaven above (but for evil deeds), our YouTube account of over 100+ crazy religious videos was deleted in a puff of God’s fart.
But not to worry, we will rebuild the asylum! Just like the Rapture, we thought this day might come and saved a backup of every video we posted to YouTube. We plan on self hosting all of our videos so the wrath of the crazy religious cannot break down the walls of sanity again! All of our videos will be here on our site so there will be no chance of this happening again.
Thanks for your support.
May sanity be with you.
RGC
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