Thursday, August 31, 2006

"I do not believe that any mental illness exists other than demons, and no medication can straighten it out, other than the power of God."
Pastor Doyle Davidson, who has at least one thing in common with Tom Cruise, testifying at the murder trial of Dena Schlosser, as quoted on the Web site of NBC affilaite KXAN in Austin, Texas. Scholsser is accused of cutting the arms off of her 10-month-old daughter. Her husband, John, also testified he wasn't alarmed and didn't seek medical help when his wife told him she wanted to "give the baby to God" about a week before the murder.

Sunday, August 27, 2006

"Can't you see they're already in hell? Hell is a place in life. In death, everyone is redeemed."
God, in a message to Bishop Carlton Pearson, as quoted in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Pearson reportedly received the message as he watched a news segment on starving Rwandan refugees and asked God "how you can call yourself a loving God and allow [the refugees] to suffer so much and then send them to hell." Since hearing the message, Pearson has preached that Hell does not exist and has seen his congregation fall from a high of 6,000 persons to a few hundred

Saturday, August 26, 2006

"[T]hat lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers. And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren’t involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our founding fathers intended and that’s certainly isn't [sic] what God intended."
Congresswoman Katherine Harris (R-FL) , alleged vote tinkerer and possibly the poorest student of both the electorial process and American history, as quoted in the Florida Baptist Witness

Thursday, August 24, 2006

"Jesus is Love. Transport for Christ."
Mud flaps seen on an 18-wheeler. Transport for Christ is an evangelical group that supports truckers with ministries in truckstops across North America.