Wow, you have to see this bizarre video. It’s Lou Engle speaking to a bunch of teenagers who are part of an anti-gay youth ministry, bonding with them by talking about how much he loved The Avengers because it teaches how to stand up to demons. And that the holy spirit moved him to tears because he loved the Hulk so much. No, I’m not making this up. And it’s really just creepy.
Jul 08 2012
Lou Engle Wants to Be the Hulk
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No One
July 8, 2012 at 11:10 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Now you really think I’m crazy!”
Modusoperandi
July 8, 2012 at 11:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So he wants to team up with Thor? Thor?
iariese
July 8, 2012 at 11:13 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Two thoughts: 1) when did Thor become a xtian? and 2) gamma radiation creating the Hulk is as true as most of the Wholly Babble.
Pierce R. Butler
July 8, 2012 at 11:14 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Aargh! Hulk evangelize!”
TCC
July 8, 2012 at 11:26 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s easy: just tell him to change his last name to Ferrigno.
raven
July 8, 2012 at 11:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Lou Engle claims to be a New Apostle, appointed by god, and having superpowers.
AFAICT, those superpowers seem to include lying a lot, saying silly things, and looking like a loon to normal people.
Not impressed.
grumpyoldfart
July 8, 2012 at 12:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Teenagers sitting cross-legged on the floor listening to fairy stories. Can they not see how they are being manipulated?
Larry
July 8, 2012 at 12:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The Avengers teaches how to stand up to demons?? WTF?
He claims to learn how to stand up to mythical creatures from fictional comic book characters that were created by a human author. Why not just worship that person’s wisdom?
dblbassbill
July 8, 2012 at 12:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
to be fair, i also want to be the hulk.
Chris from Europe
July 8, 2012 at 12:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Modusoperandi
I guess he concentrated on Captain America in his tight costume.
harold
July 8, 2012 at 12:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If this guy isn’t drunk, he sure knows how to do a good impression of a drunk.
Teenagers love to see adults acting drunk.
timgueguen
July 8, 2012 at 12:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I wonder if he knows Stan Lee is Jewish.
cycleninja
July 8, 2012 at 12:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Captain America is the perfect American superhero–he got a stack of rippling muscles without having to work for it, just like we all imaging we can.
butchpansy
July 8, 2012 at 12:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Engle better check himself: the Hulk is MINE!
reverendrodney
July 8, 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Use violence. Kill things. Be a Christian.
nedchamplain
July 8, 2012 at 1:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
WOW that was hilarious. I can see him being moved by the movie, all the characters were ficticious, just like his religion.
Robert M.
July 8, 2012 at 1:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yet another time a fundamentalist can’t distinguish fantasy from reality.
Aspect Sign
July 8, 2012 at 1:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I am always struck by how xian youth ministers use the same kind of approach with kids as pedophiles, feigning shared interest that other adults think is crazy but “we” understand, while shifting its meaning step by step where they want it to go, often done while kids are separated from other adults.
I remember once when my kids were young a local pastor coming to the door with a neighborhood friend of my daughters and a couple of his zombies in tow. I gave him my usual neutral but polite “no I don’t believe your nonsense and don’t want to hear about it and went to close the door but he kept on, asking would I let my daughter come to their church.
I asked him why I would want my child going to learn something I thought was wrong, he answered he didn’t care about my lack of belief that lots of kids in the area came to church without their parents that they sent a van around to pick them up Sunday mornings. I just looked at him and asked (getting annoyed at this point) what kind of parent would send their children off unsupervised with a bunch of strangers. He looked at me like, well like I had accused him of being a pedophile which I suppose I had. I shut the door in his face then.
I found out the church gave the kids in their sunday school prizes for supplying them with names and addresses of kids that they knew who didn’t go to church.
Later I found out they were sending people through the area proselytizing only to unattended children. When I saw one of them at it I called the cops and reported him as a suspicious man talking to young kids in the area, I doubt it stopped them but they did stop coming down my street.
coleopteron
July 8, 2012 at 2:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’ve always loved reading comics – Thor being my favourite. As fictional as the bible, but considerably more interesting and nobody insists that I believe they’re historically accurate. If religion was more like that I could at least see the appeal.
I’d say I was surprised that he didn’t mention Thor as being blasphemous or something, but from his barely coherent babbling about angels and demons I’m not sure he was really paying close attention to the movie at all.
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
July 8, 2012 at 2:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Jeebus turned over the moneylenders’ tables in the temple. So he was kinda like the original Hulk.
Modusoperandi
July 8, 2012 at 3:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
cycleninja “Captain America is the perfect American superhero–he got a stack of rippling muscles without having to work for it, just like we all imaging we can.”
But he got them from the government!
Robert B.
July 8, 2012 at 3:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Chris from Europe @ 10:
Or Hawkeye. Hawkeye was hot in that movie.
Seriously, though, this is just the usual manipulative thing of coopting someone’s interests in order to sell them something totally unrelated.
dogmeat
July 8, 2012 at 4:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Kind of ironic, but while I was reading the comments on this post I noticed an ad on the sidebar. The add has a picture of someone with a massive “JESUS” belt buckle and asks if Jesus is God. For reasons I cannot explain, beyond self-hate or self-punishment, I clicked on the link. What is amusing is that their claims read much like a comic book, a series of questions “answered” by unfounded or unsubstantiated assertions, all from their magic
comic bookBible. T’was perfect timing for this post.michael kellymiecielica
July 8, 2012 at 6:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Some needs to inform Engle that the Avengers was written/Directed by Joss Whedon, who is an atheist and supports gay marriage.
satanaugustine
July 8, 2012 at 7:09 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Modusoperandi@21
You’re right! Captain America is a total welfare queen!
montanto
July 8, 2012 at 8:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Of course one could argue that one of the messages of the Avengers was that when confronting “Demons” all you need is a gun. No faith necessary.
WMDKitty (Always growing and learning)
July 8, 2012 at 9:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So… is eye-candy the only reason to see “Thor”, or should I expect a plot?
sc_83020c6545a7be5f12c0e4cf645fd913
July 8, 2012 at 10:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Define irony: a right-wing evangelist trying to draw people in to Christianity by referencing a movie written and directed by a well-known atheist.
andrew
July 8, 2012 at 10:56 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This gentleman really needs to be in therapy.
And I don’t say that because he’s yelling about the Hulk and Jebus.
He has some really severe emotional and sensory issues. I’ve worked in orphanages for lots of years among really severely handicapped and deprived kids–this rocking back-and-forth motion that he does? I’ve seen that hundreds and hundreds of times. It’s *always* a sign of something pretty badly wrong with you–and I mean that as an actual neuro-physiological problem and not just ‘believing crazy things.’
lorn
July 8, 2012 at 11:22 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What pedophile doesn’t want to have the super power ability to flex their muscles and have their clothes fall off? Being green, powerful and attractive to young boys are also right up his alley. Give it time. He will have his luggage lifting, wide stance, moment in the spotlight.
criticaldragon1177
July 9, 2012 at 1:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed Brayton,
I agree with you, it is bizarre. I wonder if he realizes that the hulk has anger management issues. : )
dingojack
July 9, 2012 at 2:30 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So this guy wants a god who likes to say ‘Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like when I’m angry’ – oh wait.
:) Dingo
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Is it just me or is the intial still of the video a little worrisome.
A bunch of pre-teens watch on as a middle-aged man does an extreme pelvic thrust with a genital ‘peekaboo’ gesture. (Note the reaction of the kid on the far left).
Over his genital area is the play button (for modesty?).
Nah – nothing creepy ’bout that.
eric
July 9, 2012 at 9:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s “just the usual” when one adult does it to another. Its creepy, exploitative, and arguably immoral when an older adult does it to a teen.
birgerjohansson
July 9, 2012 at 10:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Send in The Authority.
Peferably with The Midnighter up front, along with his husband Apollo to rein him in so he will not actually beat the old manipulative creep to death.
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In a few years, Lou Engle can be Mr. Herbert, the creepy elderly neighbour of the Griffin family (although no one in Family Guy has superpowers).
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“Captain America is a total welfare queen!”
Is this like, you know, firefighters and cops are just freeloaders who have unions to get totally too much paid by the taxpayers money?
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
July 9, 2012 at 10:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Jesus:
Engle:
baal
July 9, 2012 at 11:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ok, that was scary.
I really don’t want to expose my son to folks like this guy; not even as an example of how the xtian belief system leads to delusional ideas.