Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has thrown our city’s hat into the ring of cities courting Google to test their new fiber network with the launch of a site, a Twitter page and a Youtube video.
“Google’s “Fiber to the Home” experiment would deliver the Internet at speeds 100 times faster than what most people now have access to, with blazing download speeds of 1 gigabyte per second.”
His YouTube pitch is a bit dry, but the last part is actually very cool, utilizing a bit of Google Earth video.
“This site is not designed for non-Christians, It is designed as a recruitment tool to call certain Christians to spiritual warfare.” – from the Repent Amarillo website.
Repent Amarillo is the name of the group that has made it their mission to piss off the 67,000 who don’t subscribe to the Coo-coo for Cocopuffs flavor of Jesusism.
Quick to point out they are NOT protesters, “Army of God” (sound familiar?) soldiers perform “missions” of a confrontational nature to groups or through one-on-one “witnessing”.
Funny, because the “witnessing” sure looks like “harassment” to me, as seen in this 3 minute video taken by the owner of a private, adults-only swingers club. Repent Amarillo showed up in military fatigues and bullhorns, blaring Christian music.
The swingers, made up of middle aged, working class couples, were then stalked at every following visit to the club.
Repent not only took video of each member, but obtained the swingers’ license plates and dug through their trash, informing neighbors and co-workers of what was once private.
But they don’t stop at swingers clubs…no, no, no! Their website says they are much more open-minded than that…they will harass people at:
1. Gay pride events.
2. Earth worship events such as “Earth Day”
3. Pro-abortion events or places such as Planned Parenthood
4. Breast cancer events such as “Race for the Cure” to illuminate the link between abortion and breast cancer.
5. Opening day of public schools to reach out to students.
6. Spring break events.
7. Demonically based concerts.
8. Halloween events.
9. Other events that may arise that the ministry feels called to confront.
As my friend Dave is fond of saying, “You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.”
I never thought I’d have the Evangelical Christians helping fight against Glenn Beck, but it appears so.
“Glenn Beck has gone too far!” says the website of the New Evangelical Partnership. Based on my research of the group, they’re a new partnership, predominately evangelical in nature. The website has the words “Nuclear Disarmament”, “prison reform”, “Muslim-Christian Dialogue” and “creation care initiatives” emblazoned at the top.
I’m not sure what creation care initiatives are, but I do know what’s got them all riled up…something Beck said about “social justice”…
“I beg you, look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, the idea, hang on, am I advising people to leave their church… yes!… If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish.”
I haven’t looked through their whole website, but I gather from their reaction that you might find these words a few times.
Their plan to take down Glenn Beck? Of course….raise $5000 to produce a YouTube video.
I was looking for a different commercial when I stumbled upon this one. Nice enough, until about halfway through when they put poor Frosty the Snowman and all of his snowman friends into the chipper. Why does Coke hate Snowmen?
Wednesday, March 10
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