Christian con man Jim Bakker told his audience — seriously, how does this guy have an audience? — that America is under a curse because of our sins and that God let 9/11 happen to get our attention. I especially like how his voice breaks to show how emotional he is about it all.
Sep 23 2012
Bakker: God Let 9/11 Happen
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Nick Gotts (formerly KG)
September 23, 2012 at 10:11 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
God LIHOP? So, why isn’t God in Guantanamo Bay, awaiting a military tribunal after undergoing “enhanced interrogation”?
Ace of Sevens
September 23, 2012 at 10:14 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Is he sure God is upset with America over abortion and secularism and not over adultery and accounting fraud?
Ace of Sevens
September 23, 2012 at 10:16 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And rape and covering it up.
thalwen
September 23, 2012 at 10:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So God, instead of being an all-knowing, omnipotent being, is nothing more than a right-wing terrorist who kills people through acts of terror and natural disasters.
bahrfeldt
September 23, 2012 at 10:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Bakker’s god lets lots of stuff happen. One has little choice in such matters when one does not exist.
dingojack
September 23, 2012 at 11:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Uh Jim – You actually believe in an invisible sky-fairy right? This alleged invisible sky fairy is omnipotent, right?
BAKKER: “God let 9/11 happen”.
Everyone: UUUUHH DUUUHHHH!*
Dingo
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* That’s ‘talking to wingnut’ speak for: the conclusions you draw are a demonstrably trivial consequence of your idiotic premises, you complete and utter moron!
StevoR
September 23, 2012 at 11:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Because as, I think ’twas P.T. Barnum (?) said :
There’s a sucker born every minute?
StevoR
September 23, 2012 at 11:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Although even then .. yeah, pretty amazin’
StevoR
September 23, 2012 at 11:11 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Reminds me of :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgU5B2TZIA
This was the dude related to / married to Tammy Bakker right?
(Crowded House – “Chocolate Cake”)
dingojack
September 23, 2012 at 11:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
‘Hmmmm… Chocolate cake, rrrrrrrrrrakkk!!!’ [/Homer]
Dingo
mikeinohio
September 23, 2012 at 11:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The best part of the whole thing is the pitch at the bottom of the screen for the “fuel-less generator” that’s up there anytime he’s not citing some ridiculous statistic or bible verse. Expect any moment to see “if you call in the next 20 minutes, you’ll get a free prayer hanky personally anointed by Jim Bakker’s phlegm”.
desoto
September 23, 2012 at 12:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I really wish there was a hell for pieces of shit like this this particularly foul piece of shit. If the religious idiots believed their own literature, they would be rejoicing that these people are now in heaven (or hell). He is doing it for donations. What would sending money to this scumbag do that a believer couldn’t do on their own?
whheydt
September 23, 2012 at 12:12 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re; #9.
Married.
I saw a tee-shirt some years ago. It had smears of bright colors which, when you looked at it, you realized were a sort of spread out face. The caption was: I ran into Tammie Faye at the mall.
–W. H. Heydt
busterggi
September 23, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Aren’t these the same right-wing nutcases that went apeshit when they heard Rev. Wright said almost the exact same thing?
dan4
September 23, 2012 at 12:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@1: “God LIHOP.”
Huh?
typecaster
September 23, 2012 at 1:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Let It Happen On Purpose, I think. It’s not one of the commoner acronyms.
Nick Gotts (formerly KG)
September 23, 2012 at 1:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes, Let It Happen On Purpose. “Bush LIHOP” is a slogan used by the moderate wing (!) of the “Truther” movement.
tbp1
September 23, 2012 at 1:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Aargh. He’s starting to look a lot like my best friend’s father, someone I really admired. Bunches of cognitive dissonance there.
timgueguen
September 23, 2012 at 1:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Funny how blinkered Bakker and his ilk are. They think God is utterly obsessed with the US. Canada is more liberal than the US is many ways, such as allowing gay marriage. Yet for some reason God doesn’t bother punishing Canada, even though by their reasoning he should be even more pissed off with Canada than the US. You could say the same thing about numerous other countries.
dan4
September 23, 2012 at 3:18 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@16 and @17: Thanks for the clarification…and I’m usually pretty good at deciphering unfamiliar acronyms when I look at the context in which they’re used (not this time!).
Anyway, it sounds like Bakker is denying the concept of free will with his “God let it happen” comment.
teawithbertrand
September 23, 2012 at 5:07 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My favorite part is how they assumed that their audience wouldn’t know the word “reprobate”.
d cwilson
September 23, 2012 at 6:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes.
But Bakker is white, so it’s totally different for them.
tommykey
September 23, 2012 at 9:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They think God is utterly obsessed with the US. Canada is more liberal than the US is many ways, such as allowing gay marriage. Yet for some reason God doesn’t bother punishing Canada
Tim, that’s because America was founded as a Christian Nation and the USA is an important part of God’s special plans, so he has to beat up on us once in a while so that we don’t stray from the plan.
sunsangnim
September 23, 2012 at 10:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So the hijackers were carrying out God’s will? Bakker apparently is encouraging jihad.
As if we needed further evidence of the similarities between extremist Christians and extremist Muslims.
donalbain
September 24, 2012 at 3:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
God hates you for your freedom!
lpetrich
September 24, 2012 at 6:22 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What does he think that God could have done? Grab those airplanes and put them down in airports like what we’d do with toy airplanes?
Raging Bee
September 24, 2012 at 11:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
These idiots practically equated George W. Bush with God while he was in office; so in that sense, Bakker is right: their stand-in for God really did let 9/11 happen, despite explicit warnings that some sort of attack was imminent.