Growing up absorbing US pop (and sub) culture, Copeland looks textbook villain to me.
If he was a horror actor, he easily would make my Top 5 list.
Does televangelism count as a horror genre?
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I think it needs a remix, possibly with a Moog solo track
Didn’t Trump “win” by a negative margin?
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I watched an Estus Pirkle movie last year.
Wipe out humanity now. Start with me.
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Its a scene for the up coming film version of The Apocalypse Codex, isn’t it?
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Presumably Kenneth Copeland also learned that laughter is satanic when he was at Oral Roberts University.
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Copeland and his ilk are all about the mammon. They’ll keep grifting until they draw their last breath. That’s why the are all fired up about Trump. He’s one of their own.
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Neither of you actually read into what I wrote. 
The word “shaman” has been used throughout the history of anthropology to describe indigenous healers around the world. In this outstanding text, Kehoe argues compellingly that the term is misused when applied to practitioners other than those from Siberia, where the term originated. Applying critical thinking techniques as a way of examining assumptions presented as fact, she deconstructs many commonly held notions of what shamanism is and isn’t, closely critiquing widely cited articles and books on the subject.
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I am a bit confused here - probably I am not aware of the extent to which the term has been appropriated.
For me it meant a practicioner of very specific techniques through which they access spiritual world. These techniques are really harsh and require huge amount of determination compared to modern ones. I mostly know about how shamanism is practised in Siberia though, so if the word has been appropritated in the meantime I may be wrong.
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Yes, she points out how the word has been appropriated, and I was likening it to his grifting technique, much in the way Paula White-Cain has appropriated speaking in tongues as a grifting technique.
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I can’t even imagine the mental gymnastics it takes for a deeply religious person (not talking about Copeland - he’s a con man) to support a guy who, outside of weddings has never been in a church, has cheated on all his wives, has coveted his neighbors’ everything, and has more than likely paid for more than a few abortions. I just don’t get it.
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Sure seems like a better idea than faxing them Tuckers.
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This is the bullying mockery that is common among lower elementary grade-school children. Yeah, that’s where I have heard it before, a long time ago.
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That is a creepy laugh. There is a reason why “maniacal laughter,” is a movie shorthand for scary villain. So the question is why his followers don’t have the same reaction of distaste. Is that lack of “step back, this guy is off his rocker,” related to the “authoritarian-seeking” mindset that everybody has been talking about so much for the last few years?
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If you need something Biblical to fight this sort of thing. Look to “False Prophets…”
[Jeremiah 23:16]
Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.
[Matthew 7:15]
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
[1 John 4:1]
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
[Matthew 24:24]
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
[2 Peter 2:1]
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
[2 Timothy 4:3]
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions…
[Mark 13:22]
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
…And many, many others…Go Look.
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I clicked, I expected to be disappointed, I wasn’t.
I expected to have to fight a Sicilian when death was on the line.
Note: there aren’t any land wars in Asia that I would get involved with ATM.
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I knew a guy who went to a pentecostal service once. The spirit moved him and he started speaking in tongues. Everybody else in the service thought he had been possessed by Satan.
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https://twitter.com/chrisan51147433/status/1324184643730591749
Lifted from the comments for
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I saw what you meant.
Here’s one
The possibility of another Armenian genocide probably belongs in the God damn you 2020 thread though.
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