I don’t know, I feel like this is a bad title for a book at any time, but especially coming from 50-something reverend Billy Graham in 1969 (apparently when it was published). Mind you, I don’t see it in the list of books in his Wiki entry, so I don’t know if it just got left off the list or is another book retitled. Whatever the case, something about this thing gives me the ick…
Furious Christians Sue Dr. Phil Over $500 Million Fraud Claim
Talk show guru and ICE champion Dr. Phil has become embroiled in a legal battle so dramatic that it might have made for a compelling episode of his eponymous old talk show.
On Tuesday, the world’s largest Christian TV network accused Dr. Phil and his production company of fraud and breach of contract as part of a “years-long fraudulent scheme” to enrich the TV personality.
Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) alleges that Dr. Phil, whose full name is Phil McGraw, overpromised and underdelivered when he struck a $500 million deal with TBN to produce and distribute his show after he left CBS in 2023. […]
Those new episodes were supposed to be 90 minutes each and be filmed over six to seven months.
However, the network claims that the new episodes never arrived, despite TBN building a new state-of-the-art production space in Texas expressly for their production. […]
A spokesperson for McGraw denied the new allegations to The Hollywood Reporter, claiming that 214 new episodes of Dr. Phil Primetime aired on Merit TV. “To say otherwise is false,” the spokesperson noted.
I gather that Merit TV is part of the company he and TBN formed to make these hundreds of new episodes, and that it has in fact recently filed for bankruptcy and filed its own suit against TBN for not fulfilling its side of the deal. I don’t know which side is the more mockable here, cos McGraw is grotesque trash who needs a good beating, but, frankly, so are TBN, which spent decades promoting prosperity gospel bullshit. Phil screwed them out of half a billion dollars? How much have TBN and the people they exhibit screwed out of their audiences in the half-century or so that they’ve been around? Amazing how these cunts are full of the Bible but they always pretend this story isn’t in there…
Well, that’s ANOTHER apocalypse I’ve lived through, and I didn’t even know this one was coming. However, in an interesting twist, this particular doomsday prophet is actually denying being one:
Renowned preacher Prophet David Owuor has distanced himself from viral claims suggesting he prophesied the end of the world would occur on August 2, 2025.
In an official statement released by the Ministry of Repentance and Holiness on Friday, the church dismissed the circulating reports as false, misleading, and deliberately twisted to damage the reputation of the preacher and undermine his ministry’s message.
“The leadership and congregation of The Ministry of Repentance and Holiness strongly denounce the recent spread of false and misleading information about The World Ending on August 2nd, 2025,” the statement read.
“Prophet Dr Owuor has always been very categorical on the fact that nobody knows the day or the hour when the Messiah will return, as the Bible clearly states in Matthew 24:36,” it added. […]
This was not the first time such news emerged online.
Last year, similar claims attributed to the prophet also went viral, claiming that his prophecy had pointed to November 2, 2024 as doomsday.
We should be fair and note that this denial was also published before this putative apocalypse was supposed to happen so, unlike Harold Camping, for example, he’s actually not going for a post-facto rationalisation of an event that conspicuously failed to happen. Dave is so not wrong about something he supposedly said, he never even said it in the first place! Unless, of course, he was right nonetheless and the world DID end… but only in Kenya. That’s a possibility, I suppose…
So Swaggart kicked the bucket at last, clearly holding on to life with grim determination for two weeks after his impending death was announced. Hopefully we may see his fellow scumbag Jim Bakker, who Swaggart described as “cancer” before his own downfall—wow, WE were a paragon of moral uprightness and superiority to our fellow Christians, weren’t we? Not wrong about Bakker, but Swaggart really was the last person who should’ve been sniping at him—HOPEFULLY, I SAY, we may see Bakker follow him sooner rather than later. For his sake, of course; may the Lord bless him by saving him any more embarrassment at having to hawk those fucking food buckets for the apocalypse on his show so much…
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart hospitalized
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart went into cardiac arrest at his home Sunday morning and is in intensive care at a hospital, his son said Sunday evening. […]
His son Donnie says Swaggart went into cardiac arrest around 8 o’clock Sunday morning and “has never regained consciousness.”
He said paramedics responded to Swaggart’s home and were able to get a heartbeat before rushing him to a local hospital.
“Right now he is in ICU and without a miracle, without a miracle, his time will be short,” Donnie Swaggart told the congregation during a special prayer service held Sunday evening at their church in Baton Rouge.
His time is short? His time has been ninety fucking years, Donnie. Per Wikipedia, he started as an evangelist in 1955, started on radio in 1960, and then on TV in 1971; he’s had DECADES to screw people out of their money (which family business you’ve carried on yourself) and he’s been doing it up to now. Everyone’s time comes, Donnie. Mine will, yours will, and it looks like your fraud of a father’s time is upon him too. I know how hard it to lose family members, I’ve lost too many of mine over the last five decades of my own existence, but… you know. Just… fuck Jimmy Swaggart.
“We’re going to give the Lord an opportunity to work,” he added.
Well, why did you send the old cunt to hospital, then? You could’ve let God prove himself by making him intervene directly, instead of letting the hospital do all the work but giving God the credit if it does in fact go all right. Why yes, I am in thoroughly mean spirits at this news. I really can’t summon up any sympathy for anyone here.
Terribly sorry for being so late in announcing the latest apocalypse about to end everything, I know it doesn’t give you much time to get ready, but I only just saw this nonsense now in the PIAT Facebook group… I gather this is Ching Hai (vegan), and there’s been some debate on Reddit about whether or not she’s a cult leader… and despite never having heard of them until now, I’m going to say “yes she fucking is”; let’s face it, most normal organisations don’t refer to their CEO as their “Most Compassionate Supreme Master”. Can you imagine Macca’s calling Ray Kroc that? And as a general rule I don’t think most businesses of that sort issue proclamations about the world coming to an end… that sort of shit’s bad for the bottom line. I think it’s probably safe to call Ching Hai (vegan) some sort of cult leader, then… and yes, they DO keep specifying that she’s vegan (kind of like the “peace be upon him” in Islam?) on her official website, per which “the Worshipped Son of God Jesus Christ” was a mere vegetarian; I presume that business with the loaves and fishes disqualifies him from full enlightenment or something.
I’m just not sure quite how being vegan will actually improve your chances of surviving a months-long solar storm, which I feel would be statistically likely to include a number of vegans among its putative death toll… nature doesn’t really discriminate like that, I don’t think. Also, she says in another video on her site that God told her the Earth would explode during the dates specified, which is a somewhat different affair… it’d be a weirdly slow explosion for one thing, but also I presume there would be no Earth left at the end of it, which would kind of wipe out all the vegans, wouldn’t it? However, I do notice the day the chaos apparently ends will be my birthday! So, assuming I’m not one of the 67% that gets killed in it before then, I wonder how many corpses I’ll wind up getting to mark the occasion…
I hate this shit. Not only because it’s bullshit, not only because it’s specifically antisemitic bullshit (our author being an avowed Palestinian Muslim), but it’s LAZY. “The new Pope is a Jew.” That takes NOTHING. That nonsense I posted the other day about him being the Antichrist actually required some imagination and effort on the part of the lunatic that came up with it (someone in the Puzzle in a Thunderstorm group, where I found that, claims to have tried it and said that idiot gematria actually did work, too). But then something even better came up:
Yeah, not only is Pope Bob the Antichrist, he’s trans as well! Apparently “Skull & Gait” is one of these transvestigator idiots who are determined to prove everyone of any note is actually transgender and a puppet of the NWO or the Illuminati or something like that. It’s every bit as psychotic, if not even more so, than the Antichrist religious silliness. And it took effort, again. This dickhead had to come up with spurious diagrams! “The new Pope is a Jew” requires no such effort. Just a lazy bit of racism that I presume is based on Bob’s nose being a certain shape. And I hate it for that, among the other reasons mentioned above. Any dickhead can call the Pope a Jew, but it takes special dickheads to come up with that other crap…
Well there you go, not only is Pope Bob the epitome of “wokeness”, he’s also the fucking Antichrist. I’m genuinely impressed by how quickly the mental illness at work in whoever came up with this bullshit (cos needless to say it is precisely that) operated to produce this thing.
Well, the verdict is in from the people whose opinions really matter…
MAGA is not happy about the Vatican’s decision (these were, indeed, all posted by someone on Bluesky before I went to bed last night), nor indeed terribly informed about it; the new Leo has spent much of his life doing church stuff in Peru, where the official language is Spanish so OF FUCKING COURSE he’s going to post en español. I found that out with a quick squiz of his Wiki page last night when the news broke. It’s basic fucking research of the kind that takes seconds to find out just why he might be speaking Spanish. And if this guy’s bothered by that, wait until he finds out Bob made his first speech as Pope in Italian…
Just seeing the Papal conclave is already over and the church now has its first North American Pope, one Robert Prevost, or Leo XIV… that was faster than I thought it might be. Slightly concerned that I can’t currently find much information on the guy, though, his Wiki entry doesn’t actually list any of his particular positions on things at the moment, so I don’t know yet if he’s likely to be a good bad or indifferent thing… I suppose we’ll find that out in due course, though. He apparently has copped some flak for not dealing properly with sexual abuse reports, but that’s kind of par for the course, I’d be more surprised if someone high up in the Catholic church was doing something useful there… but he has also been snippy at the current US regime too:
“Ordo amoris” is a point on which J. Divans and Bob’s predecessor disagreed:
Vance, a Catholic, had in a late January interview invoked an “old school … Christian concept” he later identified as the “ordo amoris,” which he said teaches that one’s “compassion belongs first” to one’s family and fellow citizens, “and then after that” to the rest of the world.
“[Y]ou love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world,” Vance said.
Writing to the U.S. bishops on the topic of migration, the pope wrote Feb. 10 that “an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized,” which he said “does not impede the development of a policy that regulates orderly and legal migration.”
However, “this development cannot come about through the privilege of some and the sacrifice of others,” Pope Francis said.
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” the Pope wrote. […]
Writing at the National Catholic Register, commentator Father Raymond de Souza opined that Pope Francis, far from advocating open borders, rather condemns “a closing of the heart to immigrants, a denigration of their dignity and the political exploitation of their plight.”
“[T]he conflict between the Holy Father and Vance is likely more about language than theology. It is difficult to hear in the Trump-Vance rhetoric love for the immigrant, whether properly ordered or not. Francis insists that even those refused entry, or returned, are to be treated with dignity and fit within the ordo amoris,” Father de Souza wrote.
Mind you, given his recent response to Mushroom Cock’s picture of himself as the Pope, I suspect that the erstwhile Mr Bowman probably doesn’t give much of a shit for what the Pope thinks, whoever he may be…
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