"Dr." Ron Carlson - A Lying Bigot for Christ

There is not much more that one needs to know about "Dr." Ron Carlson than is summed up in the following blurb from Amazon's Editorial Reviews section about a book he "co-authored" called "Fast Facts on False Teachings". That blurb is this: "World–renown cult experts Ron Carlson and Ed Decker combine their extensive knowledge to give readers quick, clear facts on the major cults and false teachings of today. Short, informative chapters contrast the cults’ theologies with the truth found in God’s Word. Readers will discover the key facts on—

* Atheism
* Buddhism
* Evolution
* Hinduism
* Islam
* Satanism"

Leaving aside the fact, for this post at least, that anyone who would ally with "Ed Decker" of the "I'll tell any lie and use any deceptive technique I can to Trash Mormons Deckers" is a dirt-bag, and an appalling blot upon Christ's reputation, Carlson outdoes his repugnant self here.

One may note with amusement, as does Baal, that "major cults" include: Atheism, Buddhism, Evolution, Hinduism, Islam, and perhaps nearest to my heart, Satanism. Now as I despise the man, and pray for his early and painful demise at the feet of an angry god whereupon he will undoubtedly come face to face with Satan, I will say this much: It takes a great deal of gumption to found a phony-baloney organization called "Christian Ministries International" which claims to be "strongly committed to historic Biblical Christianity and the Word of God. Our heart is for evangelism through Christian apologetics and training Christians to gracefully 'Contend earnestly for their faith,' Jude3" and take yourself seriously.

Right. Lumping Hinduism and Buddhism in alongside Satanism is very "graceful". It doesn't make you a hatemonger bigot at all.

For instance, Baal will take a shot at evangelizing "Dr." Carlson here. Hey buddy, the Christian Bible is a load of horse crap and your long haired hippy freak boy who was deservedly nailed to that tree was powerless to save himself let alone anyone else. You should come out of the false and delusional belief system you are trapped in and follow the true God. Isis. That is correct. Isis is the Goddess of this world not your friend Jebus. A good primer for you that might help you one day (although it is probably too late) into the presence of the gods is "The Book of Going Forth by the Day" more commonly referred to as the "Egyptian Book of the Dead". It has a great deal more to recommend it than your "Bible" and far more in common with it that you could ever wrap your tiny mind around.

There. That should convince you to ditch that false idol jesus christ.

Next time: more reasons to hate Ron Carlson.

Oh...by the way

Baal finds that Mr. Carlson went to spread his hatred at an odious little place called Shelter Cove Community Church. Readers are urged to call them at 209 567 3200 and politely let them know what a disgrace it is for people claiming to be "Christians" to be having such a bigoted, anti-Christian hatemonger speak at their church. Alternately you might politely write them at Shelter Cove Community Church, 4242 Coffee Road • Modesto, CA 95357. Or lastly, politely comment in the form at http://www.cometosheltercove.com/blog/news-and-events/dr-ron-carlson-coming-shelter-cove

We here at Evangelical Christianity is Evil sincerely hope the lousy economy is devastating to the ill-informed bigots of Shelter Cove Community Church as a result of their promulgation of Carlson's hatred.

David Barton is a fascist hatemonger...and maybe David Limbaugh too..

In this post we will spotlight one of the most infamous examples of Christian Hatred. After this event took place, many evangelical "ministries" rose to the defense of these "people":





So much for Christian "love". If Jesus wasn't crying he would spit at them for using His name to carry out such an atrocity.

This is what the fraud historian, hatemonger, probably racist (he certainly covers all the other bases), evangelical golden boy (he appears at evangelical conferences, on radio shows, writes for prominent evangelical sites), author of best selling (to the evangelical moron audience) lie infested books to distort American History had to say about our Hindu Chaplin and his opening prayer:

WallBuilders president David Barton is questioning why the U.S. government is seeking the invocation of a non-monotheistic god. Barton points out that since Hindus worship multiple gods, the prayer will be completely outside the American paradigm, flying in the face of the American motto "One Nation Under God."

"In Hindu, you have not one God, but many, many, many, many, many gods," the Christian historian explains. "And certainly that was never in the minds of those who did the Constitution, did the Declaration [of Independence] when they talked about Creator -- that's not one that fits here because we don't know which creator we're talking about within the Hindu religion."

In case you were in some doubt about what a crappy "historian" David Barton is, the following item of which he was somehow unaware, should confirm in your mind that Barton is a Fascist, Hatemonger, Moron, and Liar. I mean, given the fact that he claims to focus on the religious heritage of America, you might of thought he would have known about this:


Prayer before the U.S. Senate - 1975

by Frank Fools Crow, Old Lord of the Holy Men
Ceremonial Chief and Medicine Man of the Lakota Nation

"In the presence of this house, Grandfather, Wakan-Tanka, and from
the directions where the sun sets,
and from the direction of cleansing power,
and from the direction of the rising un,
and from the direction of the middle of the day.
Grandfather, Wakan-Tanka,
Grandmother, the Earth who hears everything,
Grandmother, because you are woman, for this reason you are kind,
I come to you this day.

To tell you to love the red men, and watch over them,
and give these young men the understanding
because, Grandmother, from you comes the good things, good things
that are beyond our eyes to see have been blessed in our midst
for this reason I make my supplication known to you again.

Give us a blessing so that our words and actions be one in unity,
and that we be able to listen to each other, in so doing,
we shall with good heart walk hand in hand to face the future.

In the presence of the outside, we are thankful for many blessings.
I make my prayer for all people, the children, the women and the men.
I pray that no harm will come to them,
and that on the great island, there be no war,
that there be no ill feelings among us
From this day on may we walk hand in hand
So be it.

http://www.indigenouspeople.net




Unfortunately, David Limbaugh, brother of Radio host Rush Limbaugh appears to be an avid follower of a number of these evangelical bigots. And lately when I do get to hear Rush, I can hear more and more of the extremist evangelical rhetoric from him. He is certainly not as blatant as a Brannon Howse (a nut case to be profiled in a future post) but far more reserved and subtle.

David has links to many of the hatemongers on his site like these listed under "Faith and Freedom". Barton's Wallbuilders and Howse's Worldview Weekend are listed.

It is my contention, that via his brother David, Rush has begun parroting the Nazi comparisons, Socialism meme, and Saul Alinsky rhetoric that Howse has hammered for years.

There is little doubt that if David Limbaugh is not an evangelical hatemonger and bigot, he certainly loves to hang out with them.

More stupid from an evangelical...

Lately there has appeared a new "examiner" on the site examiner.com. This site likes to think of itself as an outlet for citizen journalism. By all appearances it is owned by the Clarity Media Group from Denver Colorado. A part of the same company that owns a number of proper newspapers.

The CEO was/is a man named Michael Sherrod who was quoted and paraphrased as saying:

"We are not looking for people who are inwardly focused,” says Sherrod. Rather, he wants people who are experts in their field, whether that is real estate, restaurants, parenting, sports, technology, or business."

Which is nice. I guess.

But it makes it strange that they pay a bigot called the Knoxville Evangelical Examiner to write on theological issues. Particularly strange given his own biography:

Dan received his BA in religion and education at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee. With more than 40 years of both personal and academic study in the Bible and related fields, Dan is uniquely qualified to provide intellectually challenging insight into all topics concerning religion and spirituality.

I mean, you can just about see the train wreck coming. The Knoxville Evangelical Examiner writes a whole page of useless tripe, aimed, ultimately at proving his point that Christianity is the only valid world religion. That is his prerogative, although it seems rather narrow minded of a journalist, private citizen or otherwise. Our interest in this piddle is confined to one small section of this page. To wit:


GOD’S WORD WAS NOT WRITTEN IN AN HISTORICAL VACUUM!

PLURALISM vrs. UNITY

1. Hinduism 1500 B.C. India 851,291,000 18%

The Vedas

The Rig Veda

The Saman Veda

The Yajur or Black Veda

The Upanishads

2. Buddhism 563 B.C. NE India 375,440,000 8%

The Gospel of Buddha

The Bhagavad Gita

Zoroastrianism 630-550 B.C. Persia 2,605,000

The Zend-Avesta

The Bundahishn

The Visperads

The Avesta-Yasna

The discerning reader will note "examiner" Daniel's placement of the Bhagavad Gita as one of the great and seminal texts of Buddhism. The same Daniel Hopkinson who is reputed, in his own biography, to be a graduate of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee. The same Daniel Hopkinson who has "...more than 40 years of both personal and academic study in the Bible and related fields". The same Daniel Hopkinson who is "uniquely qualified to provide intellectually challenging insight into all topics concerning religion and spirituality."

The same Daniel Hopkinson who identifies the Bhagavad Gita, one of the great seminal world religious texts, A HINDU TEXT, identifies it as a great Buddhist text. Ooops.

Well, you might say, probably just an editing error, he obviously meant to include it in the section on Hinduism.

Let us just look a little further, for say, Danny's explanation:

Entry: Major World Religions Overview revised
Posted/Updated: 07/25/2009 10:02 PM
A Buddhist - The Bhagavad Gita is not a Buddhist text. There are many Buddhist scriptures. The wikipedia on Buddhism does a descent job of giving an overview of the religion.

A Buddhist: I am sorry for that, although that is not my opinion, but the information that the Bhagavad Gita was a Buddhist writing appears in many of the writings and sources online that I have encountered. When it appeared so many times in those other writings I was working through, I felt it necessary to include it in my reading and study as well. Thank you for clarifying this fact for us all. Wikipedia calls it “an important Sanskrit Hindu scripture”. If you feel that it does not do a descent job of giving an overview of the Buddhist, is it religion or philosophy, then why not consider writing a better overview for Wikipedia; they used to solicit clarifications and updates right on the site itself.

So, our uniquely qualified examiner, using internet sources misidentifies one of the world's greatest and most important religious texts? It seems Danny, besides being an ignorant dolt using this site to promote his agenda that Christianity is the only truly relevant religion, is not the brightest light ever to graduate from Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee. He also does not know anything about proper research techniques. Citizen Journalism takes quite a hit from Mr. Hopkinson's inept scribbling.

As for the rest of that mess of a page on world religions? It reveals his true intentions:

The accepted scholarly practice of dating religions by the date of the writing of their sacred books is deceptive, especially since scholars assert that history was transmitted orally BEFORE the development of written languages. The truth is that the sacred writings of these other religions do not deal with the beginnings of man, the earth, and the universe. It is only through the “interpretations” of those sacred writings that such topics are dealt with.

One scholar in particular who studied the sacred writings of the East noted how “superior” the Christian Bible is compared to the sacred writings of the other religions. (emphasis mine)

These other sacred writings have historically been interpreted figuratively-symbolically-allegorically as opposed to literally and this practice was adopted by the rabbis of the Mishraic Period and the early church fathers, and became the norm in the Catholic Church.

Danny also likes to quote annonymous "scholars", and believes as the excerpt above demonstrates that the Catholic Church is complete bollox as far as its interpretation of the Bible goes. In later posts he makes clear his hatred of Freemasonry too, taking on Albert Pike's "Morals and Dogma". However, given the complexity and stream of consciousness nature of the writing in Pike's book, and his freedom in borrowing from an imense range of sources dealing with myriad religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism, it is obvious that the task is way over Danny's head.

So, like any bigot determined to prove his point, he deletes posts which prove him to be incorrect in his interpretations of Pike's work and its meaning.

He seemingly used his attack on the Masons to increase the number of hits to his page as they reported his numerous errors, only to have many of their posts deleted. Danny does not like to be shown to be wrong. You see Danny gets paid for "hits" and "advertising":

These writers are vetted and paid based on how many pageviews and advertising clicks their articles can produce. The pay is not a lot. It starts at a $2.50 for every thousand pageviews. The median amount each examiner s making right now is $25 a month, although Sherrod has written a check for as high as $1,700. Anschutz is bank-rolling the whole project. He is the only investor (the amount is not being disclosed)

So attacking some group to garner responses as Google News gets spammed by examiner.com, like Freemasons, or Catholics, or Hindus, or Buddhists, drives up Danny's hits and makes him more money.

Very Christian of you Dan. Perhaps you better do some more reading up on that too.