# 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:** 3
**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 20, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/41 "2004-09-20T23:03:50Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > If you truly believe in This God Person and all the trappings that go along with it, is not our condition on this earth pointless when compared to what we do with the time we are given? The answer to this question and many others can be found within the pages of Oolon Coluphid’s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/42 "2004-09-20T23:08:13Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > The answer to this question and many others can be found within the pages of Oolon Coluphid’s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters. 😛 Don’t forget the 4th book in his trilogy: **Well, that about wraps it up for God** ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/43 "2004-09-20T23:14:59Z")
you guys… 😃 Now my bos wants to know why I’m snickering uncontrollably. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/44 "2004-09-21T00:06:33Z")
How exactly does a man “look at you” in a way that communicates “Well, I’m a man, and you’re a man, but let’s get married”? I mean, that’s a lot to communicate in just one look. If all of us have sinned, who’s gonna throw that first stone? I hope J.S. has more relaxed standards for when he gets cut off on the freeway… BTW- Thanks for the \*.wmv link to the show, and how many minutes to skip. From the article, I figured that someone took something out of context, and it was too weird even for J.S., which is wrong. He’s really that odd. For the record, I don’t think there are -any- references to Jesus Christ going out and “killing sinners” and then saying “well, they died” when questioned about it. Rather, He had meals with the “scum of the earth” at the time. (tax collectors, and prostitutes) /end of rant ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/45 "2004-09-21T00:29:32Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > you guys… 😃 > > Now my boss wants to know why I’m snickering uncontrollably. He’s probably hitting on you, the big fag. Rip the door off its hinges and kill him with it! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/46 "2004-09-21T00:31:13Z")
> [@Wonko The Sane](#): > > How exactly does a man “look at you” in a way that communicates “Well, I’m a man, and you’re a man, but let’s get married”? > > I mean, that’s a lot to communicate in just one look. When you’re walking close to God in true faith and absolute trust in your Lord and Saviour, as the dedicated servant of his message of hope and reconciliation toward all makind, he grants spiritual gifts of special insight and discernment. However, I have no idea how it works if you happen to be a self-obsessed, fraudulent, moneygrabbing, philandering liar. ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/47 "2004-09-21T01:17:04Z")
> [@Wonko The Sane](#): > > How exactly does a man “look at you” in a way that communicates “Well, I’m a man, and you’re a man, but let’s get married”? > > I mean, that’s a lot to communicate in just one look. _looks soulfully into Wonko’s eyes_ ---
**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 21, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/48 "2004-09-21T01:21:56Z")
> [@trandallt](#): > > Man I just gotta say the seahorses around her don’t look _nothin_ like that! Oh. Do they look more [like this](http://community.webshots.com/photo/145850906/190170970MfssHy)? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/49 "2004-09-21T01:44:26Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > When you’re walking close to God in true faith and absolute trust in your Lord and Saviour, as the dedicated servant of his message of hope and reconciliation toward all makind, he grants spiritual gifts of special insight and discernment. > > However, I have no idea how it works if you happen to be a self-obsessed, fraudulent, moneygrabbing, philandering liar. That is waaaaaaayyyyy too long to be a sig line! Otherwise, it’s perfect! ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/50 "2004-09-21T01:44:59Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > I read “hydrophobic” as “too scared of water to bathe”, and it fit in the OP pretty well. [SUB]ablutophobic[/SUB] ---
**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/51 "2004-09-21T02:00:59Z")
> [@capacitor](#): > > When I get to see the Jimmy, I am going to blow a kiss to him. > > Being that I am Bubba-sized and may be packing heat, he better think twice about his sermon. Maybe that’s his problem - that he’s pissed off because no nice Bubba-sized guys have bothered to make a pass at him. He’s all insecure and needy. I think if you blew him a kiss it would make his day - he’d be talking about nothing else for weeks! ---
**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 21, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/52 "2004-09-21T02:47:51Z")
> [@xcheopis](#): > > ablutophobic You’re afraid of a [cartoon](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpopeye.html)[character](http://www.mtcnet.net/~bierly/blworst.htm)? (Not to be [confused with **Brutus**](http://www.everwonder.com/david/popeye/brutus.html).) ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/53 "2004-09-21T03:41:50Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > You’re afraid of a [cartoon](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpopeye.html)[character](http://www.mtcnet.net/~bierly/blworst.htm)? (Not to be [confused with **Brutus**](http://www.everwonder.com/david/popeye/brutus.html).) Where did you get the idea that I was afraid of something? ---
**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 21, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/54 "2004-09-21T05:09:39Z")
Or were you saying the OP is a blutophobic? ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/55 "2004-09-21T05:28:41Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Or were you saying the OP is a blutophobic? > [@](#): > > : > Originally Posted by ultrafilter > I read “hydrophobic” as “too scared of water to bathe”, and it fit in the OP pretty well. I was telling **ultrafilter** that the word for “fear of bathing/washing” is ablutophobic. ---
**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 21, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/56 "2004-09-21T05:47:32Z")
Well, yes, I got that, but my scattershot imagination caromed wildly to Popeye’s bete noir. Uncontrolled word association is a perilous thing. Leads to such degenerate behavior as punning and even :eek: Spoonerisms. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/57 "2004-09-21T05:56:30Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Or were you saying the OP is a blutophobic? Wow, **ETF**! To paraphrase Steve Martin speaking of the French, it’s like you’ve got a \*different word \* for _everything_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/58 "2004-09-21T06:11:13Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Well, yes, I got that, but my scattershot imagination caromed wildly to Popeye’s bete noir. > > Uncontrolled word association is a perilous thing. Leads to such degenerate behavior as punning and even :eek: Spoonerisms. Well, he would probably consider scandalous the idea of immersing oneself in olive oil! 😉 ::: flees laughing maniacally ::: ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/59 "2004-09-21T06:28:54Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > :: rueful sigh :: > > Oh, very well. I suppose there’s no denying that there is [one particularly explicit photo of me on the beach](http://community.webshots.com/photo/145850906/189956131Rcoutl) now available on the Internet. > > Ah, the follies of middle age do dwarf those of one’s youth. :o What’s the name of the guy sitting on you? ---
**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 21, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054/60 "2004-09-21T06:33:16Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Well, he would probably consider scandalous the idea of immersing oneself in olive oil! That wouldn’t be an ablution, though, it’d be an annointment. Taken together with his constant repetiition of Exodus 3:14, we must conclude that POP-Π is the messiah, and is really going to give Swaggart what-for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-swaggart-advocates-killing-people-for-looking-at-you-the-wrong-way/265054.md?page=4)