Southern Baptist Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress: '50 Shades of Grey' Is a Sign of the End Times

[big_dog]

Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress is out with a new book, “Countdown to the Apocalypse: Why ISIS and Ebola Are Only the Beginning,” and shared with Janet Mefferd yesterday some of the signs, besides ISIS and Ebola, that we are witnessing the Last Days. One of the signs of the impending End Times, according to Jeffress, is the success of the gay rights movement, which he claimed is making people “desensitized” to the persecution of Christians and “will pave the way for that future world dictator, the Antichrist, to persecute and martyr Christians without any repercussions whatsoever.” According to Jeffress, gay marriage has incontrovertibly driven down the marriage rate and is therefore undermining society. “It is absolutely no coincidence that last year the marriage rate in the United States was the lowest it’s been in 93 years, and the reason is very clear,” he said. “If marriage is anything you want it to be, why bother to get married at all? Whenever you counterfeit something, you cheapen the value of the real thing, and gay marriage is a counterfeit marriage. What you’re doing is you’re causing all kinds of societal problems where there is not a stable family situation, where there are no marriages, partners come and go, and trying to rear children in that kind of involvement is a prescription for disaster.” Jeffress and Mefferd also agreed that the book and film “Fifty Shades of Grey” — or as Jeffress called it, “Fifty Shades of Perversion” — is are signs that we are seeing the End Times. - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jeffress-gays-ushering-antichrist-fifty-shades-grey-sign-end-times#sthash.HjV356v3.dpuf

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. It is a sign of lousy ficiton.

But a poorly written book is hardly a sign of the End Times.

[big_dog]

5. the pastors real fear is that millions will go see the crappy movie

n/t

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. Freedom of speach, fuck the pastors, they can stand in line to see

a movie that is 20% sex scenes just like everybody else that intends to see it.

[Warpy]

28. A dumbed down culture is a culture in steep decline

so yeah, it's a symptom of the end times of our culture.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Too many "f"'s in those names-- that's the real effing End Times.

[djean111]

3. Oh, to me it is just Harlequin-scrubbed awkward soft porn, with a hilarious amount of pointlessly

detailed wardrobe descriptions. Plus, on the one page I read, someone's brain laughed or screamed at them, forget which.
Yikes. Not a world-changer, that's for sure.

[whatthehey]

4. Nah that's Twilight. Definitely Twilight...

[LongTomH]

6. Is there ANYTHING THAT ISN'T a sign of the End Times to these people!?!?!?!?

Sadly, I grew up with people like this. Thank God, I escaped!!!!!!

[big_dog]

9. it gives them something to rail against in a small town

and make the contribution plate coffers go up a bit

[ChosenUnWisely]

8. I hope at some point before the dictator takes over we get to actually persecute Christians

in a traditional fashion, like feeding them to lions in front of a live audience.

[jmowreader]

12. Tigers are prettier. Can we feed them to tigers this time?

[ChosenUnWisely]

13. Sure why not! Polar Bears and Snow Leopards too!

[hifiguy]

21. So many wingnuts, so few lions.

We really need to get the lion population up. This would have the double benefit of there being more cool big cats, which cats can also double as wingnut dispose-alls.

[ChosenUnWisely]

24. Vicious Rabid Marmots can be the back up plan just incase we are stupid enough to

kill off the lions

[jmowreader]

10. Wrong! The fact there is a gourmet food truck industry is a sign of the End Times

This is no shit:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-09/bubble-meet-25-million-grilled-cheese-truck

This is from The Grilled Cheese Truck's investor information at http://www.thegrilledcheesetruck.com:

The Grilled Cheese Truck, Inc. is an American entrepreneurial “emerging growth” company with a brand and menu that is widely followed throughout the nation. We believe that gourmet grilled cheese is the “new pizza”. Americans have grown up with this “culinary common denominator”, and the grilled cheese sandwich is the epitome of comfort food. The Grilled Cheese Truck is a fast growing, early mover in the gourmet food truck industry. Management believes that we are one of the most followed gourmet food trucks on Facebook, and we believe we are the only known gourmet food truck verified by Twitter.

The company has a market cap of $100 million. They have four trucks.

[Major Nikon]

11. Sex is a dirty, filthy, nasty thing which should be saved for marriage

[HappyMe]

14. Yup, sex is icky bad.

It should be something you endure only to make a baby and that's it.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

16. in the words of Butch Hancock:

"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, the Flatlanders

[Archae]

15. It's been 2,000 years now.

Their AIN'T going to be no "rapture," Jesus is not coming back, no "antichrist," none of that bullshit.

Period.

[hifiguy]

20. So true.

And it has been shown by modern theoretical physics that no laws are violated because there is something and not nothing.

Rave on, you witless religulous drones

[JCMach1]

17. He may actually be right... but not for the reason he thinks

[Vinca]

18. I'm always suspicious of people who protest as vigorously as this guy.

Maybe he's got himself a basement dungeon or something.

[hifiguy]

19. The stupidity surplus in this open air lunatic asylum we call

a nation never fails to amaze. Dumber than a sack of hammers.

[Lars39]

22. Barn door admonition... I'm betting at least half the women in that congregation has read it already

[NightWatcher]

23. Money says this guy owns at least 4 ball gags.

Who needs more than 2 anyway?

[tanyev]

25. So jazz and cigarettes are officially off the hook?

[bluestateguy]

26. i plan to go see the movie

I wasn't planning on it before, but now I am.

[Nay]

27. So all that really gross, horrifying porn that has been produced the past 50

years didn't do a thing? It's this crummy fake bondage movie? OOOOOOOOOKAY

[rug]

29. Whoever wrote that book shold be bound and gagged and . . . .

never mind.

[one_voice]

30. It's a movie.

with sex.

neither is anything new.

get over it.

[Panich52]

31. Gays' "counterfeit marriage"? Pastor's willful ignorance is showing.

Along w/ his delusion.

[Lint Head]

32. These asshole are always claiming everything and anything

is a sign of the "end times". They have a captive audience who follows them like lemmings and also vote.