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Archae

(46,334 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 01:31 PM Sep 2014

Funniest evangelist I've ever heard of!

And he isn't trying to BE funny!

Anyone here ever see "Brother Jed" in action?

#1160: George Edward Smock

A.k.a. Brother Jed

Brother Jed is a wingnut Methodist evangelist who travels around the US to evangelize at college campuses. He is most famous for his anti-gay rants – including his “It’s not Ok to be gay” song (it’s here, if you must) – racism (“The only thing Mexicans contribute to society is burritos and Jewish people are only good at making bagels and running banks”), and for being extremely confrontational about it. Jed also denounces the evils of kissing, bikinis, masturbation (“a masturbator today is a homosexual tomorrow”), sex (“I don’t know how the whorehouses in this town stay open — all of you sorority girls are giving it away for free!”), feminism, liberalism, and – to make sure he stays up to date with the concerns of youths – rock n’ roll.

In short, Brother Jed stands for – and flaunts – everything that is objectionable in fundie ideology, which is why he is liked by freethinker communities and disliked by other fundie groups.

http://americanloons.blogspot.ca/2014/09/1160-george-edward-smock.html

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Funniest evangelist I've ever heard of! (Original Post) Archae Sep 2014 OP

Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. Mencken Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #1

So he's a less caustic version of Phelps? n/t woodsprite Sep 2014 #2

I've Seen Him! Dirty Socialist Sep 2014 #3

I've seen some of his acolytes in action TlalocW Sep 2014 #4

When I was in graduate school shenmue Sep 2014 #5

Jewish running backs ?!? underpants Sep 2014 #6

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

1. Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. Mencken

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 01:38 PM

Sep 2014

woodsprite

(11,916 posts)

2. So he's a less caustic version of Phelps? n/t

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 02:05 PM

Sep 2014

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)

3. I've Seen Him!

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 02:12 PM

Sep 2014

He is every bit as caustic as Phelps. I saw him on campus. Cray Zee! He draws a large crowd of hecklers.

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)

4. I've seen some of his acolytes in action

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 02:20 PM

Sep 2014

Whether they were trained by him or not, they're his disciples in spirit. One of them was my Friday afternoon entertainment one semester as the last class I had got out at 1:30. He was a very strange man who while successful at riling people up was also very easy to piss off as well as opposed to others who tend to lean more toward the smugly unflappable side. Some of the things he claimed included how Clinton was after him (this was the 90s), how he did not sin anymore, and how he could walk on water if it was necessary. He soon stopped making that claim when I started a chant of, "Throw him in the pond!"

TlalocW

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

5. When I was in graduate school

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 02:47 PM

Sep 2014

he was a regular in front of the Humanities building. What a clown.

underpants

(182,826 posts)

6. Jewish running backs ?!?

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 03:47 PM

Sep 2014

Am I missing something?

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