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Evangelical sues Jewish Faith for plagiarism
By cheapthrill
12 December 2006
I know Ted Haggard is kinda old news now a month later, but had been playing with this idea for a awhile. I was torn between a Queer Eye for the Straight Church parody and what I eventually wrote below. After the incident involving Haggard I had been reading up on him and Evangelicals in general. Alot seem to err towards fairly homophobic, racist and unsurpisingly anti-semitic beliefs. So in the end I went with the portrayal of ignorance below. Hope you like.

SOURCE(NeuteredNEWS): At JFK International Airport Rev Tom Prattard, former leader of the Evangelical Christian Coalition for New Lives for Evangelical Christians Who Belong to the Coalition(ECCNLECWBC), announced today that he would be filing a plagiarism lawsuit against the whole Jewish Faith. He told reporters how, after spending a night with a Hebrew-to-English dictionary and a copy of the Torah, he had been shocked at how rampant the pilfering of verses from the Old Testament was within the Torah.

"These guys don't even try and hide the fact they are copying us. Half the names they use sound exactly like the names in the old testament" He went on to say, stating Yeshayah(Isaiah), Yirmyah(Jeremiah) and Yechezqel(Ezekiel) as examples.

Asked what reparations they would ask for if successful in winning the case, Rev Haggard suggested that "the Jews" would have to give up their "well known grip on the government,  media and also cease the general jewry that has led to unrelenting rise in sinful behaviour such as homosexuality, masturbation, pornography, drugs and listening to satanic rock and rap music".

When it was suggested that this was nothing more than a publicity stunt to draw attention away from the recent scandal that Rev Prattard had been caught up in, which involved paying a male prostitute to dress up as a French Maid and then to dust the skirting board while the Reverend watched, he replied

"My Lord is a forgiving God and has already appeased me of my sins, he told me this himself last week when I was praying to him."

Before boarding his plane he went on to explain he would be flying to England to find King James and hopefully bring him in on the case as a fellow plaintiff.

"I think I'll start looking in LIE-CESTER, hopefully one of the locals will be able to give me directions."

A airport Barnes & Noble cashier told reporters that the Reverend had bought a copy of The Latin Bible and a Latin-to-English dictionary before boarding his flight saying "Lets see what these guys are up to".

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Written by Phil (6683 comments posted) 12th December 2006
Very interesting piece. Politicised evangelicals are a much ignored group who are growing in influence in American and British society. Very scary people if you ask me. They preach what they like and twist an old book to justify their claims and beliefs. When they are shown to be hypocritical liars they can repent and say God forgives them and to err is only human. They have the arrogance of assumed truth. This a model of belief that breeds right wing extremist views and behaviour. 
 
Before anybody thinks I'm knocking the Christian faith, I'm not. I'm knocking all who assume they have the only truth. Many Christians do not assume that. 
 
Head stuck over the parapet, I shall now retire. 
 
Enjoyed. 
 
All the best, Phil. 
 

Written by cheapthrill (30 comments posted) 12th December 2006
Thanks Phil. 
 
"... arrogance of assumed truth ..." I like that description. 
 
Having attended various Church of England schools and Catholic schools I have first hand experiences of a lot of lovely people who happened to be very religious. While in general they were more caring and considerate than almost anyone you would meet on the street, there were times when you would be faced with situations where they couldn't reconcile their faith with what I guess you could call more modern views. Sex education was sorely lacking at the catholic school for example and on a worldly scale I feel the catholic church is doing a huge disservice to the problem of HIV in Africa by condemning the use of contraceptives. 
 
At the same time these establishments are far removed from some of the puritanical nut jobs evangelicals you will find(I like to call them the Christian Taliban) and Islamofacist nut jobs, in fact I think the Church of England is the most progressive religious establishment you could hope to find.

Written by Phil (6683 comments posted) 12th December 2006
I think you're right, most of the established church are far removed from what I was referring to, but they do have their moments. I'm glad you brought up other faiths too. 
 
I don't think there's any prerequisite for faith to show kindness, care and consideration. 
 
CofE. All things to all people. Only progressive because it can't find any single direction to follow. I quite like that about it. 
 
Phil.

Written by ellipinnock (1753 comments posted) 13th December 2006
For me thought provoking rather than laugh-out-loud funny...but that may well just be me! I agree with Phil about the general scariness of politicised evangelicals as well. Interesting. 
 
Elli

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