Moment of Epiphany

I may just have to create an honorary award category just for this guy. In case you don’t know who James “Death” Ray is, he’s the guy that ran a sweat lodge in Sedona where 3 people died.

I am of the opinion, that if you are the guy that puts on the show, you’re ultimately responsible for whatever happens at your show. Yes, there are things that are beyond your control, but if people come to an event at your behest, you are responsible for them.

That’s just my opinion.

Anyway, 3 people died at Sedona while Death Ray was in charge, and let’s not forget Colleen who died at another James Ray event in San Diego a couple of months before Sedona, but I digress.

Why James “Death” Ray earned the Douchebag of the week award

First, his lawyers and PR people put out these white papers that try to explain what happened from Ray’s point of view. These “white papers,” called such probably to evoke a sense of academia, confirm several things:

1. James Ray has a thing for death. Why else would he have shirts that say things like “Death to Death” and whatnot
2. No amount of thinking will turn a pizza into a salad, much like no amount of PR will turn a meat head into scholar
3. James Ray played God

There are other gems, that I won’t get into because Salty Droid already eviscerated the toilet papers. As if these papers aren’t enough, Ray decided to get interviewed by the New Yorker, while surrounded with his lawyers and PR people.

To say that the interview was tepid, would be giving the interview too much pizazz. Let me save you the time and summarize the interview for you: Ray says you should read the white papers and surprise, surprise, admits to having done nothing wrong.

You know why I think Death Ray has a thing for death?

Because of the law of attraction.

James said in the informercial known as “The Secret” that the universe is a genie waiting to give you what you most want. With all the death surrounding him, and all his known talk of death, it’s only natural that the universe would give him more death.

Isn’t that how the law of attraction works?

Credit: Salty Droid

Anyway, for these reasons I award James “Death” Ray the douchebag of the week award for January 27, 2010.

Congratulations!

I’m sure you’ll be winning many more of these awards in the future.

Note: this was previously posted on another one of my sites

At first, I couldn’t believe my eyes, so I had to listen to it for myself.

The message that I saw said that “Pat Robertson said that the reason there was an earthquake in Haiti, is because Haiti made a deal with the devil to separate from France.”

I thought, no way he said that.

He says something similar to that at the 6:15 mark in the video below.

He doesn’t flat out say that the earthquake is some kind of divine retribution, but he does say that the reason Haiti has suffered one catastrophe after another is because they made a deal with the devil to come out from under “the heel of France.”

Basically, the entire nation of Haiti made a deal to serve the devil, and because of that, bad things have happened to them and not to the country they share the island of Hispaniola with. If I understand Pat correctly, bad things will continue to happen to Haiti until they turn their backs on the devil and turn to Christ.

So, God wanted Haiti to remain “under the heel of France?” or did I get that wrong?

Pat, I think it’s great that there are people in your organization that are willing and able to help.

I think it’s great that your organization is able to help people in need whenever and where ever disasters occur. I believe that you believe that you’re right in your assessment of why the earthquake happened.

Here’s where you and I diverge, I know you’re old, but I don’t think you were there when the alleged deal with the devil happened so how do you know it’s true? Even if it were true, how do you know that all of the bad things that have befallen Haiti are a direct result of that deal?

I think it’s natural for us to question why natural disasters occur. I think it’s natural, specially for someone in your position and with a platform like you have, to try to justify or explain to people why natural disasters occur. People always want to know the why and the how of things and will look to people in positions like yours for answers.

Having said that, I don’t think that it’s appropriate for us, as Christ followers, to question or justify why something happened from a divine perspective. Divine Will is precisely that, and it’s far beyond any human’s comprehension, or place to try to explain it.

If I’m following you correctly, only good things happen to people that believe in God. In light of that, care to explain why all those horrible things happened to Job?

A natural disaster like this will cause many people to question why a loving and benevolent God would allow something like this to happen. It’s not your place to answer, or hypothesize, on His behalf.

So why did this earthquake happen?

I dunno.

We can look at the geology of the region and deduce how the earthquake happened. I think we can also look at the socioeconomic history of the island of Hispaniola and see that there are factors for why one side of the island is in fairly good shape and not the other.

As a whole, we’ve gotten good at determining the how of things, it’s the why that eludes us.

Still, justifying the why in light of an alleged deal with the devil in the far past is just plain douchebaggy at best.

No one can say why this happened, we can only explain the how.

So, Pat Robertson, I award you the first Douche bag pastor award of 2010 for trying to explain that the Haiti earthquake may have happened because Haiti made a deal with the devil to gain their independence from France.

Side note: IF you’d like to help out the people in Haiti, please make a donation to the Red Cross or some other organization.

Note: this post was previously published on another one of my sites

According to Crazy Rudy, there were no terrorist attacks on US soil while Bush was in office. You read that right.

The man that said 9/11 almost every other word when he was trying to get win the republican party presidential nomination, is now claiming that 9/11 never happened. The anthrax attacks didn’t happen either.

I used to be mostly indifferent to Giuliani. I thought he was simply being opportunistic by wanting to wrap himself up in the flag and claim some kind of glory for himself, but now, he’s really just gone bat shit crazy.

What are you smoking when you can delude yourself as much as Giuliani has? I’d award Rudy a douchebag marketer award, but he’s not a marketer.

So, I came up with a solution: A New Douchebag Award.

Giuliani earns the first ever douchebag politician award issued by me.

Congratulations Rudy, you’ve definitely earned it.