Criswell's speech called 'inappropriate' (media="tools of Satan")

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14382264&BRD=1426&PAG=461&dept_id=528208&rfi=6

Tuesday's Volunteer Center of Collin County lunch was not the appropriate place for former longtime local TV news anchor John Criswell to make statements about personal religious beliefs, the center's executive director said.


Criswell's speech also linked the news media to Satan. Until the media stops portraying people of faith as "crackpots and dangerous zealots no different from fanatics who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center...the fight is not over," he said

Referring to an earlier linguistic comment that listeners infer, but speakers imply, he added, "Did I just infer that some in the media in America are acting as the tools of Satan? No. Remember, you infer, I imply," he said.


Criswell said only one person approached him stating that his speech was offensive to her faith. "I, of course asked, if her indignation is limited to Christian speakers or she would also complain if the speaker had been open about being Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or atheist," he said in an e-mail. "It was not a pretty moment, but I made my point. It seems these days it is perfectly fine to be anything except openly Christian, and in fact very much in vogue to attack Christians. What a shame that "tolerance" can be so selective."

this simple fuck is out of his gourd.

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The first thought I had was that Criswell, too :thumbsup:

As for

"Criswell's speech also linked the news media to Satan. Until the media stops portraying people of faith as "crackpots and dangerous zealots no different from fanatics who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center...the fight is not over," he said..."

:puke:

"Portray?" Nuts is as nuts acts and speaks.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

newyawker.:toast:

This place and Smirking Chimp are islands of sanity.

ilk, or gives the republi-CONS an ongoing platform from which to blather, unchecked and unquestioned and unchallenged, or acting as an enabler of the republi-CONS and messers delay, frist, santorum, and gingrich, and the pnac and the rest of these vile schmucks, and offers no counter-weight to the lies of the Pox "News" network, it IS a tool of Satan.

"Orgy Of The Dead"

http://www.phillyburbs.com/edwood/orgy.shtml

I actually have the novelization of that. Apparently its worth a coupla hundred bucks.

(how do you novelize a bunch of bad striptease acts? Leave it to the master...)

Oh man, I'll bet that's a scream. That was one of the best movies I ever saw. Criswell is almost falling down drunk and may have gotten into some of Bela's leftover stash for all I know. An Ed Wood Classic!:rofl:

In other Criswell-related stuff, anyone here ever hear Mae West singing "Criswell Predicts"? It was on an LP she put out in the 60s.

The West song is hilarious, they were great pals apparently...

some years back I directed a flick based on one of his other novels, complete with Cris-clone... I took the Criswell dialogue from a lot of his insane books and newspaper columns to get that authentic dementia:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198417/

pretend to be people of faith, I'll get upset-but not at the media, at them. And yes, if a Muslim or Jew or other non-Christian had a hate-filled speech, I would call them on it-call them to go back and read the teachings of their faith.

...anything except openly Christian" Are you fucking kidding me?

"Until the media stops portraying people of faith as "crackpots and dangerous zealots no different from fanatics who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center...the fight is not over," How about I compare them to people who blow up abortion clinics? Or maybe I should compare them to the guys that shot a muslim friend of mine in the head after 9/11 cuz she wore a scarf.

with all the "persecution complex" these days? Is this something new, or am I just noticing it?

& should I care?


Keith’s Barbeque Central

exactly.

SlavesandBulldozers post of the day award. congratulations.

Or shall I just bask in the unexpected glory of the honor?


Keith’s Barbeque Central

but you can never again leave the chair in front of your computer - for that is the price of immortality.

Was a local news anchor in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. This qualifies him as the flimsiest of local celebrities in this area (mostly in his own mind.)

As a talking head he had no outstanding qualities outside the obligatory great head of hair.

Say, aren't Catholics and Protestants two part of the Christian family? He's putting Catholics in some non-Christian category here. I love it when the weasels start to feed on one another.

"(is her)indignation ... limited to Christian speakers or she would also complain if the speaker had been open about being Catholic,..."

So he excludes Catholics from Christianity, do I read that correctly?

church near Hillcrest?

Plano. Surely you know it, it looks like an airport hangar. Way out in North Plano, to the West of the Tollway. It is Park I think, maybe Parker.

That was a church? It did look more like a hangar.

Hear that, conservative Catholics? You listening?

and smell the snake oil used by the moronic RW Protestants. Ya know, the TRUE Christians ain't Catholic Earl?

Hilarious! <eg>

She gasped in horror when I told her Jeb Bush is Catholic. It really has been quite an education living next to this person and her family :scared: :crazy:

Do they actually think the liberals and everyone are part of some secret plot to persecute them forever more and their beliefs?

Collin County...the same county where Sam Johnson made his "I'm going over to nuke Syria" joke <yeah, sure> at a local church get- together..for some reason the hateful neocons feel more than comfortable running their mouths here, thinking that EVERYone is going to sit back and applaude, nodding in agreement.

So what should have been a uplifting, feel good, thank the community volunteers event was turned into a "my God is better then your God/Allah/etc.." conference.

Seeing as how the Catholic population is an ever growing group in this county, is it any wonder things hit the fan..a HUGE John Paul II private Catholic school is due to open in the fall..it holds 1200 kids. PLUS people from all walks of life volunteer, so overall he was not very bright in giving his hatefest speech.

I know this guy is not known outside the metroplex, but I posted the incident here because WHAT he said to a large community gathering made my head spin andn ot b/c of WHO he is..and it seemed right in step w/ what is happening on a national level with hateful right wing bastards...

The "tools" part is dead on. I take issue with his definition of Satan, though. He needs to look in the Offal Ovice.

:evilgrin:

That he considers Catholics to be nonChristian and lumps with atheists. WE know they do this (do not consider Catholics as Christian) but many people, including many Catholics do not. And if you do you should and mention the church he belongs to. Maybe some enterprising reporter will call the minister for a comment.

the Bible is the inspired word of God, every word of it."

I'm a Christian myself, but I don't believe 'every word' in the Bible was inspired by God... considering the fact that a repressive church and The Holy Roman Empire single-handedly had too much power over the Bible for at least 1500 years!

I think Criswell needs to study some history.

People like him scare me. They are a direct threat to our country, to MY religion and to our welfare.

since he used to be in the media himself