Spiritual health advisory: AME pastor spreads deadly spiritual virus
Its our urgent duty to inform you that Dr. Teresa Brown, the assistant pastor at New Bethel AME church in Lithonia, GA is spreading a deadly disease called SIV. The Spiritual Immunodeficiency Virus is a highly infectious spiritual disease which disables an individual’s ability to know truth and defend themselves against false teachings. The consequence is those who are infected, infect others and can kill the spirit. SIV is an equal opportunity killer and those who do not embrace God’s truth are at high risk.
Brown, also a professor at the Chandler School of Theology, told NBC’s progay, African American flavored newsblog The Grio multiple lies and distortions about homosexuality, the bible and the church [source].
The article itself attempts to do in the “black church” what political homosexual activists have done in the military with the Dont Ask, Dont Tell policy. As we have told you before, the church activists have the same agenda as the political activists. Tear down any and all barriers to homosexuals gaining unrestricted access to positions of power within the church.
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Not content with being bigoted, anti-science and just plain stupid, Gay Christian Movement Watch needs to find a way to differentiate themselves from the other fundies--I know! Let's add "tasteless" to the mix!
Wouldn't that mean she is NOT immune to spirituality?
Oh wait. The only thing you people know about AIDS is that people die and the ebbil gheys cause it (which is not true, by the way).
"The Spiritual Immunodeficiency Virus is a highly infectious spiritual disease which disables an individual’s ability to know truth and defend themselves against false teachings."
Herf a durf, aren't you clever
"SIV is an equal opportunity killer and those who do not embrace God’s truth are at high risk. "
So is it "equal opportunity" or does it just go after those rejecting god?
Isn't it about time we classified fundamentalist Christianity as a communicable mental illness? One that spreads via human contact and coerces people to believe in and follow it with threats of eternal punishment or eternal reward. It then replicates itself when that person feels compelled to convince others to be Christian.
Also "God's truth" = "My ridiculous made-up religious superstitions, not anyone else's."
Argh no!
Do the usual fundie stuff, wail, sling mud, call names, stomp your feet and claim you are being persecuted. Abuse your damn capslock key, have an opinion on everything you don't understand, hate people you never met. All you want.
But for the love of all that is good and holy! Do not attempt to be clever. This made my eyes bleed.
> The Spiritual Immunodeficiency Virus
I'll take back all of the times I've said "now you're just making things up" on this site, because all of those cases simply made me acknowledge that there might be a tiny shred of truth in the claim. I can however easily see that this particular innovation was clearly made out of whole cloth, and nothing less.
> [source]
Indeed! But do you have a [citation], which is [needed] too?
This was just funny. My favorite part was the "African American flavored newsblog". Now, how exactly does African American taste? Are we talking Thai spicy, or just Mexican spicy? Does it make the newsblog taste any better? Does it add to the flavor, or just cover up some deficiencies? And, is this SIV like magick? Does it work by rote, incantation, or full blown ritual? These are important questions I need answered, as it adds to the humor of this obvious paranoid, delusional bullshit.
"Its our urgent duty to inform you that Dr. Teresa Brown, the assistant pastor at New Bethel AME church in Lithonia, GA is spreading a deadly disease called SIV. The Spiritual Immunodeficiency Virus is a highly infectious spiritual disease which disables an individual’s ability to know truth and defend themselves against false teachings. "
In other words, she's evangelizing Christian 'teachings'.
SIV, technically, stands for "Simian Immunodeficiency Virus." A disease that affects monkeys. Veiled racism?
And, wow. "These people don't agree with me 100% so they must be EVIL!!!" Grow the fuck up, GCMW.
I read the comments section: all the way down to the idiot spouting about devils etc.
What is it about fundies that haven't caused them to evolve out of the dark ages? They spout things that Transylvanian peasants spouted in 1850?
"Spiritual health advisory: AME pastor spreads deadly spiritual virus"
And we Atheists have the cure:
Reality.
Directions: Take one (or more) science book(s) at any time. Before or after meals. Before retiring to bed.
100% effective in purging any & all fundie bullshit.
If symptoms persist, consult your psychologist, science teacher/lecturer, librarian, or own sense of self-cynicism & critical faculties. Does not contain nuts.
All churches should be absolutely transparent - like the Crystal Cathedral. BTW, a catghedral is a bishop's seat/church. Sine there is no bishop in that church, I suppose he must be completely transparent.
And then there is the question of what churches do with their rax exeption funds, not much transparency there, though, I fear.
And as for homosexuality, how's Ted doing these days? Public toilets off bounds for him now? Holy shit! that could be an inconvenience!
Spiritual virus?!
I've been on this site for a while, so I've been exposed to plenty of stupidity recently, but this is one of those few quotes that literally rendered me speechless and caused me to make a real-life O__________O face. So I guess the immortal soul can be killed by microbes now? Or does the Gay Christian Movement Watch (why the hell does that even exist ?) believe in memes... even more literally than Dawkins intended. Oh the irony!
What? What are you superstitious retards on about now?
When I hear phrases like, "positions of power within the church" all I can think about is the guy with the Napoleon costume in the psycho ward. Unfortunately, unlike that monomaniac, you crazies are dangerous enough to get pandered to. This is even true when your leaders' costumes are even more outlandish than "Nappy's", and should be a dead giveaway as to their instability.
If you're going to throw imaginary viruses around, be prepared to discuss the "meat computer" virus that is religious belief as a whole. /rant
SIV is already taken (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus. Causes Ape AIDS- Daddy virus of HIV)
And Gay Christian Movement Watch?
Don't you lovely souls have better things to do in god's name than keep your eye on the homosexuals?
The irony here, is there is a virus called SIV, but it is Simian Immunodefiency Virus, which has similar effects to AIDS, in apes..(It has been argued that AIDS in Man was caused by SIV "crossing species" by mutation...)
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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