# Jimmy Swaggart advocates killing people for looking at you the wrong way... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 19, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054 "2004-09-19T23:02:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/1 "2004-09-19T23:02:26Z")
…and then [denying responsibility on Judgement Day](http://www.canada.com/search/story.html?id=14720245-d930-4ebe-ba58-4205816266e9). > [@](#): > > I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry, and I’m gonna be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died. Here’s a Windows Media Player/IE stream of the show. (Skip ahead about 36 minutes.) I’m not sure what to make of his folksy disclaimer-- “I’m not knockin’ the poor homosexual.” ("I just think they want killin’) WTF? Don’t worry, Jimmy- Nobody wants to marry a hydrophobic, black-hearted huckster like you. Oh, and if you ever invite me to tea I’ll rip your entrails out through your ass and tell God you farted. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking the poor pharisees, they need love too. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/2 "2004-09-19T23:50:04Z")
Now let’s see, when I was in Sunday School they taught me that God knows everything. So how in the heck can Swaggart, as a so-called Christian, say he’s going to “tell God he died”? Wouldn’t God know that already? I echo your sentiments. I can’t imagine a _woman_ looking lustfully at ol’ Jimmy, much less a man. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/3 "2004-09-19T23:54:09Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I can’t imagine a _woman_ looking lustfully at ol’ Jimmy, much less a man. At least one that’s not being _paid_. Who listens to this windbag anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/4 "2004-09-20T00:03:10Z")
Hydrophobic? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/5 "2004-09-20T00:09:01Z")
I suppose it’s a golden opportunity to rant, but find it in your hearts not to rag on the poor guy – he’s obviously terribly afraid of his own humanity. And for the things he’s said, presuming that Jesus’ words in the Bible have any validity to them, he’s going to find himself terribly, terribly surprised, and not in a good way. But you know, the idea of _lying to God_ is one that some of Jimmy-boy’s favorite Old Testament stories speak of, and strangely enough, it doesn’t work, Jimmy. Give our regards to Osama when you get there, y’hear! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/6 "2004-09-20T00:08:55Z")
“Hydrophobia” used to be another word for rabies, hence “Hydrophobic” = “Rabid”. I don’t know why it came to mean that, but it did. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/7 "2004-09-20T00:16:37Z")
He then mentions how God calls homosexuality an “abom-nation” (or something like that). He kinda frowns on killing too, I thought. Guess I misread the Bible or something. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/8 "2004-09-20T00:25:29Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > “Hydrophobia” used to be another word for rabies, hence “Hydrophobic” = “Rabid”. I don’t know why it came to mean that, but it did. Hydrophobia was a major symptom of rabies in humans, and thus the name was popularly applied to the disease itself. > [@Oxford English Dictionary definition of hydrophobia](#): > > 1. Path. A symptom of rabies or canine madness when transmitted to man, consisting in an aversion to water or other liquids, and difficulty in swallowing them; hence the disease of rabies, esp. in human beings. > > 1547 BOORDE Brev. Health 122 Hidroforbia or abhorynge of water… This impediment doth come…of a melancoly humour. 1621 BURTON Anat. Mel. I. i. I. iv, The most knowne are these, **Lycanthropia** , Hydrophobia, Chorus sancti viti. 1646 SIR T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep. IV. xiii. 231 margin, Upon the biting of a mad dog there ensues an hydrophobia or fear of water. 1752 Phil. Trans. XLVII. 412 Isaac Cranfield…was received into the infirmary…with an hydrophobia upon him. 1837 M. DONOVAN Dom. Econ. II. 95 Its [Mus giganteus] bite is dangerous, and sometimes produces hydrophobia. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 399/2 Hydrophobia,…is the disease caused by inoculation with the saliva of a rabid animal, and is so called from the violent and suffocating spasms of the throat which occur when the patient attempts to drink. 1893 H. DALZIEL Dis. Dogs (ed. 3) 96 Man inoculated by the rabie virus of a mad dog suffers from the terrible disease called popularly hydrophobia, from a dread of water and inability to swallow liquids being a main feature of the malady, but more accurately the disease is known in man also as rabies. As an aside, some writers also believed that rabies caused lycanthropy, acting like a dog or wolf. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/9 "2004-09-20T00:27:24Z")
I read “hydrophobic” as “too scared of water to bathe”, and it fit in the OP pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/10 "2004-09-20T00:30:24Z")
I’ve always been surprised at how many otherwise reasonable, intelligent people believe that an acceptable response to a homosexual come-on would be violence. People, you don’t have to either fuck or fight some guy just because he flirted with you. Either have enough confidence in your sexuality to say, “No, thanks,” or admit your curiosity and evaluate the proposition on its own merits. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/11 "2004-09-20T00:50:14Z")
“It’s crazy! Can you imagine first of all what it would be like if women got to kill guys whenever they made a pass at one of us? I know there’d be a matriarchy in Italy, for one thing … But go ahead. Plead the ‘unwanted homosexual advance defence’. Because you’re gonna lose, and you’re gonna go to jail, where you will discover TRULY what an ‘unwanted homosexual advance’ IS.” - Maggie Cassella ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/12 "2004-09-20T00:53:49Z")
…Of course, however, you know perfectly well that if we tell him we _wouldn’t_ make a pass at him if the universe were undergoing heat death because he’s a pasty, over-gelled, hit-in-the-face-with-a-scoop-shovel, melting-candle-looking, doughy-assed, homophobic, issue-ridden twatscoop… he’d get all offended that way _too._ Can’t win for losin’. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/13 "2004-09-20T02:01:32Z")
Twatscoop? As a twat-owner, I’m insulted. I think. As for Jimmy Swaggart . . . people actually still listen to him? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/14 "2004-09-20T02:29:45Z")
“Yeah, I’d like two scoops-One butter pecan, and one twat. And could I have sprinkles with that, please?” ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/15 "2004-09-20T02:36:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Now let’s see, when I was in Sunday School they taught me that God knows everything. > > So how in the heck can Swaggart, as a so-called Christian, say he’s going to “tell God he died”? Wouldn’t God know that already? That’s what I thought too. So basically, he’s just admitted he wants to murder somebody for no reason at all, and then lie to God about it. That’s two Commandments broken. Am I missing any? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/16 "2004-09-20T03:26:49Z")
Yes, the 12th one: Thou shalt not become redundant. Is it me, or do televangelists choose “interesting” looking women? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/17 "2004-09-20T03:53:15Z")
The scary part is that, in the video, his congregation actually applauded and shouted hallelujahs when he made that comment. Swaggart also said … “I thank God that President Bush has stated we need a constitutional amendment that states a marriage is between a man and a woman!” Now that he has endorsed President Bush, I think it’s time that the tax exempt status of his ministry be re-examined. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/18 "2004-09-20T07:07:40Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > The scary part is that, in the video, his congregation actually applauded and shouted hallelujahs when he made that comment. The fact that the place wasn’t immediately hit by lightning should be proof to all of the non-existence of a merciful god. Was there one righteous person in that church? Well, maybe a cameraman. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/19 "2004-09-20T12:53:33Z")
:: sudden, blinding light strikes :: I have seen the light! _I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT, BROTHERS AND SISTERS!_ The Jimmy Swaggarts of this sorry, sinful world, the spewers of hate and screechers of foulness in God’s Name, the congregations of the faithful to a faith that denies God’s Love and Compassion, all, ALL shall be gathered together and gathered up in that Day of Judgment that they beseech God for, in their incessant, ant-whining prayers. Yea, verily, they shall all be gathered as one seething mass of True Believers in a god they have made in their own image, brought before the Throne of Judgment, spat upon by the angels and spurned by the cherubim for their profanation of the Holy Word, and flyng into the darkest Pits of Hell! The Lord hath spoken it. :: halogen lamps turned off :: ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/20 "2004-09-20T13:08:29Z")
I just don’t get it. Why do guys like him get so het up about gays? Why so violent? I know it’s probably just cliched unprovable psychobabble, but every time I think about it I just can’t help wondering if maybe deep down they’re just an eensy bit lavender, no? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054.md?page=2)