{"id":20805,"date":"2011-04-19T17:20:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=20805"},"modified":"2011-04-19T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:20:29","slug":"bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-spiritual-cooties-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-spiritual-cooties-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Fischer Is a Dolt (Spiritual Cooties Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18159\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bryanfischer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18159\" title=\"Bryan Fischer, Dolt\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bryanfischer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bryanfischer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bryanfischer-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bryanfischer-75x56.jpg 75w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bryanfischer.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Fischer, Dolt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bryan, why are you so afraid that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afa.net\/Radio\/show.aspx?id=2147490466&amp;tab=audio&amp;audio=2147505473\">Muslims are going to give Christian churches Allah Cooties<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would never participate in interfaith dialogue with a Muslim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s not at all surprising, Bryan, after all the things you&#8217;ve said about them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You  have all these Christians out there, these pastors, wonderful interfaith  dialogue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to hear that there are Christians out there not like you, Bryan &#8212; people willing to reaching out to others to share, be kind, understand.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus didn&#8217;t just hang out with nice, faithful, orthodox Jews, y&#8217;know.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have pastors allowing Muslims to come in and hold their  worship services in their church buildings, which in my mind is just  compromising those places spiritually.  So there is no way that  Christians ought to open their sanctuaries to those that are serving  Allah.  Allah is a demon God. He&#8217;s not the true god.  You&#8217;re inviting  all of the spirits that are associated with Islam, that further Islam,  that promote Islam, you are inviting them into your building and  compromising your building spiritually in doing that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy Moley!\u00a0 It&#8217;s true!\u00a0 It&#8217;s <em>Allah Cooties!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; but wait a sec, Bryan.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t God &#8212; the Christian God you worship &#8212; isn&#8217;t He all-powerful?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t He the only True God? How could a place dedicated to Him, protected by Him, raised in His name, be spiritually sullied by the followers of some monkey moon demon, or however you&#8217;re characterizing Islam this week?\u00a0 That actually makes it sound like Allah might be more powerful than Jehovah, Brian, in some cases.\u00a0 In fact, it sounds positively Manichean. Which, of course,\u00a0 would be heretical.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the true church is where the worshipers gather.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=matt%2018:20&amp;version=NIV\">Jesus himself taught<\/a>, &#8220;For where two or three are gathered in  my name, there am  I among them. Nothing that evil, nasty Allah can do about that, right, Bryan?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the biggest danger of interfaith dialog and Christians reaching out to Muslims and others is that people might actually find common ground.\u00a0 Might find a way to make each others&#8217; lives better.\u00a0 Might find a way to bring the Kingdom of Heaven a little closer.\u00a0 Why, everyone concerned might begin to actually see each other as <em>human<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We certainly can&#8217;t have that.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s another preacher who talked kindly about those adherents of enemy religions.\u00a0 Even tried to convince his audience to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke%2010:25-37;&amp;version=NIV;\">think of them as their <em>neighbors<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Fortunately, some strong, upstanding, protectors of orthodoxy &#8212; just like you, Bryan &#8212; put him in his place.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Bryan, I can see where you&#8217;re coming from. After all, when the only time you ever entered a mosque, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/fischer-only-time-ive-been-mosque-was-pray-god-would-destroy-it\">you prayed that your spiritual forces would destroy it<\/a> &#8212; well, I understand where you might project that same hatefulness onto Muslims coming into a Christian church.<\/p>\n<p>Stay classy, Bryan!<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/fischer-i-would-never-participate-interfaith-dialogue-muslim\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>Some might wonder why I spend so much time on a dolt like Bryan Fischer.\u00a0 Were he just a no-name idjit spreading his loathesome hate in obscurity, no, it wouldn&#8217;t be worth the bother.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s not.\u00a0 This is a guy with columns and radio shows put on by a major conservative organization. who gets invited to speak at major conservative shindigs. This is a guy who&#8217;s been visited, on that very radio show where he puts out the fatuous bile like that above, by Republican presidential hopefuls like Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Rep. Michele Bachmann, and Haley Barbour.\u00a0 Other guests have included Sen. Jim Inhofe, Sen. Jim DeMint, Rep. Lamar Smith, and various other GOP congresscritters.<\/p>\n<p>They take him, and his influence, seriously enough to associated with him. That says something about them, and about him, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan, why are you so afraid that Muslims are going to give Christian churches Allah Cooties? I would never participate in interfaith dialogue with a Muslim. That&#8217;s not at all surprising, Bryan, after all the things you&#8217;ve said about them. You have all these Christians out there, these pastors, wonderful interfaith dialogue. It&#8217;s good to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-spiritual-cooties-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bryan Fischer Is a Dolt (Spiritual Cooties Edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,99,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dolts","category-elections-2012","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25224,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-girl-leader-cooties-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":20805,"position":0},"title":"Bryan Fischer is a Dolt (Girl Leader Cooties! 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Originally shared by +Ginny Gibbs: Bryan Fischer Is a Dolt: Hebdo BlasphemyHat tip\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49408,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/the-afa-has-belatedly-fired-bryan-fischer-dolt.html","url_meta":{"origin":20805,"position":3},"title":"The AFA has (belatedly) fired Bryan Fischer, Dolt","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jan-15 9:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently some folk in Israel -- to which the American Family Association was paying for a trip by Reince Priebus and a large number of Republican National Committee members -- got a bit out of sorts when they discovered that the AFA's public face and \"Director of Issue Analysis\" was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/15\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-presidential-distaff-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":20805,"position":4},"title":"Bryan Fischer Is a Dolt (Presidential Distaff Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Aug-16 3:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"Everyone's favorite Conservative Christian Pundit, Bryan Fischer (former Director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association, and blogger and radio host in AFA media) is back, declaring the real reason why you and everyone else should be voting for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/bryan-fischer-i-dont-believe-women-should-be-entrusted-high-political-office'\"That's always the pattern in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23295,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-no-really.html","url_meta":{"origin":20805,"position":5},"title":"Bryan Fischer is a Dolt. 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