Here’s a hint.
CHAPLAIN:
Let us praise God. O Lord,…CONGREGATION:
O Lord,…CHAPLAIN:
…ooh, You are so big,…CONGREGATION:
…ooh, You are so big,…CHAPLAIN:
…so absolutely huge.CONGREGATION:
…so absolutely huge.CHAPLAIN:
Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here, I can tell You.CONGREGATION:
Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here, I can tell You.CHAPLAIN:
Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying, and…CONGREGATION:
And barefaced flattery.CHAPLAIN:
But You are so strong and, well, just so super.CONGREGATION:
Fantastic.
That’s pretty much a pitch-perfect imitation of Louis Giglio, the icky creepy pseudo-scientific preacher who has been picked to put on a piety show for Obama.
You’ve never heard of him? You’re lucky. You might want to give this video a pass then, because, oh man, he is so treacly stupid he might make you gag.
Here’s the Giglio schtick. He shows a Hubble space telescope photo. It’s really, really big. It’s huge. This thing is gigantic. And our god created it! Therefore our god is really, really, really big. He’s the biggest god ever! Here’s a diagram of the laminin molecule. IT’S SHAPED LIKE A CROSS! Aaaaaaaah! <swoons> <Meg Ryan imitation> <audience cheers wildly>
The man is a gushing idiot. And this is the clown who’ll be praying at the inauguration. Well, I won’t be watching any of it, anyway.
But at least they didn’t pick one of those ranty anti-gay homophobic conservative pastors, right?
Hey, wouldn’t it be great if someday a president just said, “No, we’re not going to bring one of those embarrassing loons onto the stage at all…let’s just have a secular ceremony”?