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Must be time for him to do his Jimmy Swaggert confession at the pulpit!
You were so, so close to posting something without a typo, without a grammatical error, without a spelling error, oops, "Swaggert" is correctly spelled "Swaggart". Such a nice try though.
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Did you see when he tearfully confessed on TV then?
Too bad your hero will never do the same.
You would cry a lot too, if you knew it was going to effect your bank account... Brother Glen
Mammon over Salvation! To tell you the truth, we can never expect Caesar to do Christs workYou would cry a lot too, if you knew it was going to effect your bank account... Brother Glen
Jesus has nothing to confess!
OK wise guy... I was referring to Trump
My hero is not trump...
Yes I did and It was truly pitiful...I thought of the Italian opera Pagliacci - the Vesti la Giubba aria
I do wonder if he had confessed to his wife at all before that happened...
???
Before jimmy did his falling upon his sword, did he tell his wife what he had done?
I don't know.
His entire behavior seemed to me to be someone who was doing their verybest not lose their Formal ministries, TV and Semirary and all...
Well, I did sense a pain of soul in his tearful remorse.
Sometimes it takes the sword of the Spirit to pierce through the inner core of a man into his heart
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
So probably his anguish started out as "I got caught" but ended like David "I have sinned" with godly sorrow and repentance.
I remember watching him the very night before he "got caught" and when he looked upward as if speaking heavenward and publicly said "alcohol has never touched these lips" i felt trouble was brewing.
Many of us have been there as well - maybe not for the selfsame sins but God has a way of publicly revealing our secret sins.
Be happy if you have not been down this path.
Proverbs 3
5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
I believe that he was sincere at that time, but also do wonder if he refused to accep theprobationary period of the AOG, as was afraid that cause him to lose his ministry?
Good question, yes he probably was at least in part motivated by self interest - just as any of us probably would.
Study: Majority Of Americans Now Say It Is OK To Punch A Grammar Nazi
September 26th, 2018
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U.S.—Is it O.K. to punch a grammar Nazi? This question has been floating around the internet after footage of an attack on a well-known, self-professed “grammatical purist,” Shawnton P. Middesmith, went viral on Friday.
According to a new study, the answer among Americans is an overwhelming “Absolutely.”
Middlesmith, who identifies as an “alt-writer” and describes himself as a “grammartarian,” was punched in the head by a person clad in black as he was being interviewed by a journalist from ProofReader Monthly. At the time of the attack, Middlesmith was explaining some of his controversial beliefs, such as far-right justified indentations, a distaste for Times New Roman Black, Nominitive Case-baiting, the annihilation of 99% of all ellipsis use, intransitive verbaphobia, anti-semicolon, and dedicated to the spreading of the Oxford comma. Video of the attack shows Mr. Middlesmith’s glasses reeling to one side under the force of the blow and his attacker darting through a crowd after landing the punch.
Mr. Middlesmith later reported he was spat on, kicked in the pants, and epithets were hurled at him such as, “commanist,” “Neo-sentence capitalist,” “semi-colonialist,” “apostrophobic,” and “Question marxist.”
Video of the attack quickly inspired a flood of jokes and memes online, some of which set the punch to songs like “Word Crimes,” by Weird Al.
There was little substantive debate online about the ethics of punching the grammar Nazi. Opponents of the punch were hard to find. Supporters tended to say the punch was funny, and more than a few compared Middlesmith’s attacker to famous Nazi punchers from pop culture, like Indiana Jones and Captain America. All in all, one study found that 97% of the country supported punching annoying grammar Nazis.
“All nazis should be punched in the face, and that includes grammar nazis, even soup nazis,” said one person on Twitter. The tweet had over four million likes and retweets.
For the record, Shawnton Middlesmith says he is not a Grammar Nazi. In an interview on Saturday, he said he was a member of the alt-write, which he calls “a movement toward grammatical purity, favoring the upper case, with a goal toward write supremacy.” Middlesmith said he chooses not to use the term "grammar nazi "because “it doesn’t resonate” and because he says “my views are more complex. The tax I am most concerned with is syntax. The authoritarian regime I support is Funk & Wagnall’s. German National Socialism is a historic movement of the past. It arose at a very particular time and had particular motives and ideas and policies and styles that had little to do with grammar. Besides, Mein Kampf is full of grammatical errors.”
Middlesmith says he is worried about being punched again. He says he doesn’t feel safe leaving his seedy duplex anymore. People on the internet say he should be scared. “I don’t think any kind of nazi should feel safe walking the streets of America,” said one tweet. “I’m all for the proper use of punch-you-ation.”
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September 26th, 2018
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U.S.—Is it O.K. to punch a grammar Nazi? This question has been floating around the internet after footage of an attack on a well-known, self-professed “grammatical purist,” Shawnton P. Middesmith, went viral on Friday.
According to a new study, the answer among Americans is an overwhelming “Absolutely.”
Middlesmith, who identifies as an “alt-writer” and describes himself as a “grammartarian,” was punched in the head by a person clad in black as he was being interviewed by a journalist from ProofReader Monthly. At the time of the attack, Middlesmith was explaining some of his controversial beliefs, such as far-right justified indentations, a distaste for Times New Roman Black, Nominitive Case-baiting, the annihilation of 99% of all ellipsis use, intransitive verbaphobia, anti-semicolon, and dedicated to the spreading of the Oxford comma. Video of the attack shows Mr. Middlesmith’s glasses reeling to one side under the force of the blow and his attacker darting through a crowd after landing the punch.
Mr. Middlesmith later reported he was spat on, kicked in the pants, and epithets were hurled at him such as, “commanist,” “Neo-sentence capitalist,” “semi-colonialist,” “apostrophobic,” and “Question marxist.”
Video of the attack quickly inspired a flood of jokes and memes online, some of which set the punch to songs like “Word Crimes,” by Weird Al.
There was little substantive debate online about the ethics of punching the grammar Nazi. Opponents of the punch were hard to find. Supporters tended to say the punch was funny, and more than a few compared Middlesmith’s attacker to famous Nazi punchers from pop culture, like Indiana Jones and Captain America. All in all, one study found that 97% of the country supported punching annoying grammar Nazis.
“All nazis should be punched in the face, and that includes grammar nazis, even soup nazis,” said one person on Twitter. The tweet had over four million likes and retweets.
For the record, Shawnton Middlesmith says he is not a Grammar Nazi. In an interview on Saturday, he said he was a member of the alt-write, which he calls “a movement toward grammatical purity, favoring the upper case, with a goal toward write supremacy.” Middlesmith said he chooses not to use the term "grammar nazi "because “it doesn’t resonate” and because he says “my views are more complex. The tax I am most concerned with is syntax. The authoritarian regime I support is Funk & Wagnall’s. German National Socialism is a historic movement of the past. It arose at a very particular time and had particular motives and ideas and policies and styles that had little to do with grammar. Besides, Mein Kampf is full of grammatical errors.”
Middlesmith says he is worried about being punched again. He says he doesn’t feel safe leaving his seedy duplex anymore. People on the internet say he should be scared. “I don’t think any kind of nazi should feel safe walking the streets of America,” said one tweet. “I’m all for the proper use of punch-you-ation.”
Brought to you by: BABYLON BEE