Cindy Jacobs is not just any slightly wacky televangelist. Ms. Jacobs is the slightly wacky televangelist who shared a stage with Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli last year, and who's back now with a singular theory for why blackbirds have been falling from the sky -- the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Transcription from Right-Wing Watch:
According to biblical principles, marriage is between a man and a woman, so we have to say "what happens when a nation makes a decision that's against God's principles?" Well, often what happens is that nature itself will begin to talk to us – for instance, violent storms, flooding. And you know there are actually some patterns that you can see where a nation will make a decision that is contrary to the principles of God and after that there is some kind of answer that God gives - being the God of creation, the God who created nature - but we don't always understand what He's saying.
Well, there's something interesting we have been watching -- let's talk about this Arkansas pattern and say, could it be a pattern? We're going to watch and see. But the blackbirds fell to the ground in Beebe, Arkansas. Well the Governor of Arkansas' name is Beebe.
And also, there was something put out of Arkansas called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" by a former Governor, this was proposed, Bill Clinton.
As so, could there be a connection between this passage [Hosea 4] and now that we've had the repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell, where people now legally in the United States have broken restraints with the Scripture because the Scripture says in Romans 1 that homosexuality is not allowed.
For the record, again, the U.S. Geological Survey says we've seen mass die-offs of blackbirds at least 16 times over the last 30 years, in this country alone. Then again, a hundred jackdaws turned up dead in Sweden last week, and we can all think of reasons Ms. Jacobs' God would be mad at Sweden.
(H/T Grist)
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@Don Q- Didn't I tell you they'd be saying this last week? Omg that's just sadly predictable.
[Looks up from watch and nods.] Yep, that is one train that is never late.
Mickey, Don...would it be insensitive of me to say that not all "nut jobs" reach for a gun, some reach for a microphone. This is just plain crazy.
No argument here.
Well I had made a snide comment about the dead birds were going to be tied into DADT repeal and Don had replied that he was setting his watch to it. The fact that it actually happened is just sad...and pathetic. I am sorry that for you true Christians you have to put up with nutjobs like her being attached to your faith. I have to imagine you feel about her similarly to how I feel when I see an extraordinarly butch woman sporting a mullet.
LMAO! If you made that call, MickeyM, that was pretty good. I was wondering what that woman on the View who thought the earth might be flat was thinking about it (the birds) but never thought that anyone would be blaming it on the DADT repeal.
Found it:
maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/04/5763766-dead-blackbirds-found-in-louisiana?pc=25&sp=50#discussion_nav
From Tuesday of last week on page 3 of "Dead Blackbirds found in Louisiana":
Blogger Cyndi in Denver writes- Ok, THIS IS SARCASM. Tornadoes, Dead Birds, Dead Fish in Arkansas. Must be the wrath of God, maybe he isn't just mad at people in Haiti and other places where the population is people of color, lol.
My Response- Hah- that brings up a good point! Remember when the tsunami hit and everyone was saying they saw God in the title waves? The tsunami hit because they were godless heathens? Lord, how long will it be before the you-know-whos start running around with their signs screaming "the birds are dying because DADT was repealed"?
Don's Reply to My Comment- [checks his watch and cocks his ear for mention of Pat Robertson]
So in the infamous words of Stephen Colbert- I DID IT!
MM, Sweetie, don't fret unfortunate style. There's gold in them there hills!
Just take photos, get her some professional help, and then be blissfully happy together. Just be prepared to present the evidence of your superior aesthetic later if she gets too big for her newly hot britches and forgets who's boss. ;)
As for the wingnuts... sadly, you can't fix stupid with a better haircut. :(
Lmao I was wondering how long it would be before I got flack for saying that ;-) Ooooh I love my lezzies, no worries ;-)
Many of my best friends are lesbians.
MM: :) No flack, only love. :)
DQ: Well, good for you. LOL. None of mine are.
You didn't have to prove it! I believed you. I just thought it was very, very funny. I am in a place right now where claims like hers are not that unusual. But it is amazing how small the world can be with the internet!
:-)
Shouldn't this chick be at Westboro Baptist planning for the next funeral protest?
Westboro is for Christians who thinks she's is too soft and wish-washy.
I have to wonder where people like this women get this crap? It can't actually be from the Bible. Maybe from the Iliad, where gods do spectacular things all over the place and the heroes yawn? Miracles are actually rather like irony: they're not what you expect to happen.
And, actually, now that I'm thinking of Classical subjects...the claim that birds falling out of the sky are a sign of God's wrath is actually very similar to Greco-Roman divination: reading entrails, monstrous births, bird signs!!!
Very pagan, actually.
(And I'm so happy with my snark right now I could plotz.)
No lessons learned here; let the scare tactics continue. Saints preserve us.
foam-up then fund-raise baby!
I know some birds with some full bladders who would like to speak with Ms. Jacobs. And her car.
Hopefully, the one that got my shoulder the other day is headed her way! I'd like to think it is, just for S&Gs (Sh#ts & giggles).
I knew there was a Scientific Explanation for birds dropping from the sky. John McCain & Louie Gohmert were correct repealing DADT was the end of civilization Does it really matter according to Harold Camping it's all over in May of 2011 anyway.
Ms. Jacobs wackiness is for the birds.
Nobody gets it. Nobody. These are all signs of the Maya Apocalypse next year. Read the Codex. The People of the Jaguar foresaw it all. [BTW, have you noticed that Jaguar cars are now going to be made by - - - the - - - Chinese!!!]
Crazy is as crazy does --- Forrest Gump
I get that many people believe homosexuality is wrong because of their religious beliefs. Trust me, I get it. Don't many (most?) of the same people believe it is sinful to lie, too?
Many people hated DADT because it didn't allow for the public, open scorn of gays any more. Even worse, it let them hide in their very midst. (Boo!)
Does it not then follow those people as well as their god should be ecstatic DADT has now been repealed?
If Then Syntax Error
Jesus and his 12 apostles and ONE woman?
Either gang rape, or an early gay community.
Six gay couples and one f** hag. No offense intended.
You can not educate someone who has substituted belief (in anything) for fact.They will simply cherry pick the facts to fit their own ideology.Their solution is their core belief .They are lost to the voice of reason.This woman is way out there in the wilderness with no compass.
ah-hah! Ikea!!!
Doesn't the Bible say somewhere that woman aren't to preach but remain silent??? Thomas or something?? Shouldn't she be taking heed of that passage for fear a do-do bird will fall on her head??? By the way, that hair do would make a nice bird's nest!
You should have seen her hair a couple of years ago... she had EvanGELical hair.
These people only pick and choose what scriptures they want to listen to and they sure leave Jesus, love, forgiveness and grace out of it all. I think that nullifies them as christians if I got that right.
They can only get forgiveness once and that's to join up to be a member of their email and prayer group.
I have never seen a laps of intelligence as big as this.
My Lord.
She would have to be from Dallas. We now have Louie Gomer, Rick Perry, GWBush, and now this nitwit.
Penalty for believing this tripe is to be put into a room with her and Sarah Palin and let them preach to you for an hour nonstop. Those two voices would stop a train.
Do these people ever get punished or looked down upon when they say utterly asinine, childish remarks like "God is killing the birds as a sign that He isn't happy with the repeal of DADT"? What kind of example is this setting for children? Never mind the "pro-family" bullcrap, how about "pro-using your damn common sense"? Never mind the "culture war", how about you fight the "war on brains"? I wouldn't think twice about letting my children be around a gay person (although they wouldn't really be able to help that) but I would make absolutely sure that they never come into contact with people like Cindy Jacobs. They are poison, they rot the mind from the inside out.
Yes, but what you're forgetting in this whole equation is that you're Canadian ;-)
LOL Don't you worry, Mouser, there are plenty of nut jobs up here to be wary of. Just last week, the chair of the board of trustees of the school board I was educated in said that they were banning GSAs because they were incompatible with Catholic teachings, like Nazis and hate groups. She actually put GSAs and Nazis/hate groups in the same category. This is where our tax dollars go, Ontario folks. >.<
You can't even laugh about these people because this is the sort of thing that gets new bills written.
I just had this discussion with my children, about how right-wingers in particular use ANY event or natural happening to prove their case. They take credit where credit isn't even logical.
You do know that since no one knows how tides work (well Bill O'rielly anyway) that that is proof of God.
I know why the tides work. There is this gigantic titan out in the middle of the ocean to whom the ocean is a bath tub and he rocks himself in it. The tide is just waves in his bathtub...everybody knows that.
Hey, didn't another one of the righteous, bible-thumping Baptists leaders just fall by prey to the Devil's influence and have to resign after it was discovered that he, too was unfaithful to his wife? Name alludes me, but I think it was in the news this past weekend.
My old church hung on every word this lady said. eeeee I came from this crap. Thank "God" I'm a survivor. I tried so hard to conform my thoughts to this kind of thinking. It just can't work - it's impossible. There are thousands and thousands of people trotting after her and her like. Swallowing everything they say whole without any question. These are the kind of people that do anything they think "God" is telling them to do. This is SO SCARY!!
It's akin to mental illness if not down right mental!!!
The sad thing is that there are so many that actually believe this garbage and she knows that what she is 'preaching' is dead wrong .... if she does not know that then she is a bigger fool than I thought.
Why sould she not want to preach truth and love, if she is a 'prophet'?
so why didn't birds die in mid-flight when DADT was instituted?
or is she saying DADT was just a new name for an old policy to keep gays & lesbians out of the military, like Intelligent Design is to Creationism?
that's exactly right.
whatever could God mean with gay chimps, gay penguins, gay sheep, bisexual dolphins, cheetahs, elephants, buffalo, lizards, tortoises, snakes, frogs, ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior
(oh, and finches shacking up with finches of a different race!)
because God is always, always angry about something. He only sends plagues, earthquakes, violent storms, flooding, etc. and never ever smiles on anybody or anything. like Cindy Jacobs does; she's a very "Godly" woman. :>
Society is something of a Rorschach test. The human brain is wired to see patterns. But whether a pattern is deemed real or not depends on what kind of evidence a person considers evidence...if they consider any evidence necessary at all.
This is why I'm a skeptic when it comes to conspiracy theories. They always seem to seek to demonize someone. And people are impressionable when they're shown a pattern. Especially when it reinforces something they already believe. And even more especially when they have a mental illness.
What's frustrating is people being more inclined to accept patterns that are describe as intentional rather than patterns emerging as a matter of unforeseen consequence. I mean, the same person who thinks God intentionally made birds fall out of the sky because DADT was repealed would refuse to believe that a rise in hate crimes committed against gay people has anything to do with hate speech.
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants... because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." — Susan B. Anthony
just saw this on Twitter, too:
MattChandler74 "Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God". - Luther
I seriously doubt that they believe any of what they preach. They worship money; M O N E Y is god!
Whatever brings in the M O N E Y is what gets preached. Similar to some politicians; if it will get me a vote; I'll swear to it. I can deny it later.
Mammon. Christ refers to it as Mammon. We saw 11 people sacrificed to it as well as a whole eco-system and a whole economy during the BP Disaster.
Pattern recognition was more helpful when we lived in caves. Today, it inspires conspiracy theories and bad public policy.
Red moons, giant cabbages, and dead birds? Please.
Yes now we have computers to recognize patterns, call them crazy...
So it was in Beebe, AK. And Beebe is the name of the current governor of AK. And DADT was put in place by the former governor of AK. I see where this is going. God is mad at Kevin Bacon.
AK is the abreviation for Alaska.
Good God!