![]() ![]() I wonder now if the leaders in this crowd felt compelled to issue prophecies - or risk losing their flocks to more daring charlatans.Īnd it was Telltale’s utter confusion at Locke’s language that made me realize that it might be useful to people to have Greg Locke’s Christianese translated into plainer English. No ambition’s too great, no lie too small for him.)Īlmost all the big names in toxic Christianity show up in Holy Koolaid’s video. I noticed that even Robby Dawkins showed up for the fun! ( He’s the guy who lied about resurrecting a dead man at a church service. Sommmmmmmehow, Donald Trump would be keeping the presidency for another four years, denying the office to Joe Biden.Īnother video by Holy Koolaid documents the great number of evangelical pastors, prophets, and “revelators” who trotted out the same prediction. In the video, Locke struts around his stage, smirking and offering up the same prediction his peers were making at the time: ( He’s got an entire tag over at Right Wing Watch! Holy moley!) Locke is no stranger at all to outrageous behavior. Major hat-tips to him.Īs you can likely see by the thumbnail, it concerns the habitually-regressive evangelical pastor Greg Locke. “Pastor Greg Locke MELTS DOWN After Capitol Incident.” Uploaded January 14, 2021. So I’m thankful I caught this video a while ago by atheist YouTuber Telltale: Christianese 101 in Session: Prophecy Edition. If someone isn’t familiar with the jargon, the ruse works. They can sneak through a lot of really scary stuff using Christianese. So sometimes I lose a bit of touch with just how incredibly confusing and wackadoodle their jargon really is.Īnd that’s not a design flaw, folks. I’ve been following evangelicals for years professionally. I spent my formative years in evangelical Christianity (in the Southern Baptist Convention, or SBC, and also the United Pentecostal Church, International, or UPCI). You can’t count on any standard English words to mean the same things to evangelicals. Thanks to Christianese, outsiders to evangelical culture can have entire conversations with evangelicals and come away having no clue what the other person thinks transpired there. strangely-placed prepositions that alter meanings, like love on (which is a less threatening way to say love and is used on people who don’t have a close relationship with the speaker).repurposed or redefined words like love (which doesn’t bear any resemblance whatsoever to anything normies call love).made-up words like flustrated (which is a less-angry-sounding way to say frustrated by combining it with flustered, because evangelicals try very hard to ignore big human emotions).“In my twenty years with ALA, I can’t recall a time when we had multiple challenges coming in on a daily basis,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.( Previous Fundagelical U posts.) Sometimes I Realize Anew Just How Weird Christianese Is.Ĭhristianese is simply the name for the bizarre jargon that evangelicals have evolved over the years. The American Library Association said it has recently seen an “unprecedented” rise in book ban requests: it counted 330 books that were challenged as objectionable in the fall of 2021 compared to 156 in all of 2020. “I ain’t messing with witches no more, I ain’t messing with witchcraft…I ain’t messing with demons… I’ll call all of them out in the name of Jesus Christ,” said Locke, as crowds of attendees cheered and applauded in response.Īccording to Tyler Salinas, a photographer who was present at the bonfire, there was one counter-protester, who held up copies of Fahrenheit 451 and On the Origin of Species, and threw a book into the fire that he said was the Bible. Prior to the burning, Locke said in a sermon that he was fighting the “Free Mason devils” and that “I ain’t gonna be suiciding myself no time soon”. ![]() Juliet drew large crowds as participants threw in copies of the Harry Potter and Twilight series, among other books. Locke’s event in the Nashville suburb of Mt. Witchcraft and accursed things must go,” wrote Locke. We have stuff coming in from all over that we will be burning. “We will be in our continued series on Deliverance from Demons. Stop allowing demonic influences into your home,” pastor and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Greg Locke wrote in a Facebook post that has since been removed. “We are well aware what we are stepping into. ![]()
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