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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSouthern Baptist Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress: '50 Shades of Grey' Is a Sign of the End Times
Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress is out with a new book, Countdown to the Apocalypse: Why ISIS and Ebola Are Only the Beginning, and shared with Janet Mefferd yesterday some of the signs, besides ISIS and Ebola, that we are witnessing the Last Days. One of the signs of the impending End Times, according to Jeffress, is the success of the gay rights movement, which he claimed is making people desensitized to the persecution of Christians and will pave the way for that future world dictator, the Antichrist, to persecute and martyr Christians without any repercussions whatsoever. According to Jeffress, gay marriage has incontrovertibly driven down the marriage rate and is therefore undermining society. It is absolutely no coincidence that last year the marriage rate in the United States was the lowest its been in 93 years, and the reason is very clear, he said. If marriage is anything you want it to be, why bother to get married at all? Whenever you counterfeit something, you cheapen the value of the real thing, and gay marriage is a counterfeit marriage. What youre doing is youre causing all kinds of societal problems where there is not a stable family situation, where there are no marriages, partners come and go, and trying to rear children in that kind of involvement is a prescription for disaster. Jeffress and Mefferd also agreed that the book and film Fifty Shades of Grey or as Jeffress called it, Fifty Shades of Perversion is are signs that we are seeing the End Times. - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jeffress-gays-ushering-antichrist-fifty-shades-grey-sign-end-times#sthash.HjV356v3.dpuf
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)But a poorly written book is hardly a sign of the End Times.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)n/t
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)a movie that is 20% sex scenes just like everybody else that intends to see it.
Warpy
(111,261 posts)so yeah, it's a symptom of the end times of our culture.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)detailed wardrobe descriptions. Plus, on the one page I read, someone's brain laughed or screamed at them, forget which.
Yikes. Not a world-changer, that's for sure.
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Sadly, I grew up with people like this. Thank God, I escaped!!!!!!
big_dog
(4,144 posts)and make the contribution plate coffers go up a bit
ChosenUnWisely
(588 posts)in a traditional fashion, like feeding them to lions in front of a live audience.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)ChosenUnWisely
(588 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)We really need to get the lion population up. This would have the double benefit of there being more cool big cats, which cats can also double as wingnut dispose-alls.
ChosenUnWisely
(588 posts)kill off the lions
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)This is no shit:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-09/bubble-meet-25-million-grilled-cheese-truck
This is from The Grilled Cheese Truck's investor information at http://www.thegrilledcheesetruck.com:
The company has a market cap of $100 million. They have four trucks.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)It should be something you endure only to make a baby and that's it.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, the Flatlanders
Archae
(46,327 posts)Their AIN'T going to be no "rapture," Jesus is not coming back, no "antichrist," none of that bullshit.
Period.
And it has been shown by modern theoretical physics that no laws are violated because there is something and not nothing.
Rave on, you witless religulous drones
JCMach1
(27,558 posts)Vinca
(50,273 posts)Maybe he's got himself a basement dungeon or something.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)a nation never fails to amaze. Dumber than a sack of hammers.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Who needs more than 2 anyway?
tanyev
(42,559 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I wasn't planning on it before, but now I am.
Nay
(12,051 posts)years didn't do a thing? It's this crummy fake bondage movie? OOOOOOOOOKAY
rug
(82,333 posts)never mind.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)with sex.
neither is anything new.
get over it.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)Along w/ his delusion.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)is a sign of the "end times". They have a captive audience who follows them like lemmings and also vote.