# Omnibus Religious Fucks in the NEWS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066 "2022-02-07T18:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 65
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1281 "2026-08-03T17:31:39Z")
I remember the movie had this 1970s Hammer studios horror film vibe to it… I was expecting Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee to make a cameo as the Pope or some overly militant Catholic local Lord of the Manor or something . ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1282 "2026-08-09T21:06:20Z")
Executions in Iran at morning prayer call. > **[Iran executes protesters in public as regime expands postwar repression,...](https://abcnews.com/International/iran-executes-protesters-public-regime-expands-postwar-repression/story?id=135416756)** > > Public executions returned to the streets of Iran last week as the regime clamps down on public dissent after months of war with the U.S. and mass protests in January. We should all be thankful for regime change. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1283 "2026-08-09T21:32:00Z")
The Trump administration has a lot in common with Iran’s leadership. Ain’t that right, Minnesota? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1284 "2026-08-09T22:25:15Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > We should all be thankful for regime change. I am hopeful for a real regime change (that is, I hope it happens, although I am not optimistic in the short term). Whatever has changed so far, it isn’t the regime. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1285 "2026-09-15T05:01:21Z")
[And the church knew because he told them!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/registered-sex-offender-allowed-participate-110033794.html) > [@](#): > > A registered sex offender who was sentenced to prison in the 1980s after he told authorities that he had molested several boys whom he met through his religious work with Christian youth in [Georgia](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/state-of-georgia) was later allowed to participate for decades in ministry at a [South Carolina](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/south-carolina) church. > > The Brookwood church, a southern Baptist institution in the South Carolina city of Simpsonville, only just disqualified Jerry Sidell from serving there in any capacity, after he joined it in 1999 and fulfilled various ministerial roles. > > The church’s senior pastor, Bryan Jones, told congregants at a Thursday night meeting that Sidell had been “forthright” with Brookwood leaders back then about his previously pleading guilty in Georgia to the crimes of enticing a minor for indecent purposes and child molestation. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1286 "2026-09-15T22:55:02Z")
A Christian pastor delivering a sermon in a church on the Wind River Reservation compared Arapaho traditions to “false idols.” > **[After a pastor’s comments, Northern Arapaho Tribe tells Christian church to...](https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/tribal-news/2026-07-17/after-a-pastors-comments-northern-arapaho-tribe-tells-christian-church-to-leave)** > > After a controversial sermon earlier this month that encouraged tribal members to denounce their traditional ways, the Northern Arapaho Business Council told leaders from Foundations For Nations Church to leave the reservation. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1287 "2026-10-01T03:00:07Z")
[Aren’t Christians supposed to be repentant, compassionate, and emulating the Prince of Peace?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/christian-warrior-candidate-dark-past-170219229.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > A MAGA-backed ministry leader vying to be Colorado’s next governor once laughed about slamming his wife into a door, recounted how he threw his toddler across the room and declared that God gave him a “gift” for violence. > > Marine veteran and martial arts enthusiast Victor Marx has spent years portraying himself as a Christian warrior fighting evil, telling numerous stories over the years about setting people free from “demonic oppression” and performing what he describes as “spiritual exorcisms.” > > In a jaw-dropping interview a decade before entering politics, he even made unsubstantiated claims that his stepfather forced him to kill a man when he was seven years old. > > But fresh videos and posts unearthed by the Daily Beast paint an even bigger picture of a man with a history of explosive anger and violent incidents, raising questions about his fitness for office as the midterm elections loom. > > In a 2021 video, for example, Marx, 61, recalled becoming “infuriated” after his wife told him she no longer needed martial arts training because she was married to a Marine black belt. > > **“She goes, ‘I can handle myself’. I said, ‘You can?’ And I remember grabbing her, slamming her into our front door,” he laughed during an interview on a podcast called Protector Nation.** TLDR: Wife: I don’t need martial arts training for protection. Husband: {Beats her up.} And now for the major hypocrisy. > [@](#): > > In his own podcast in 2020, he also described an incident in which his son, who was then a toddler, pushed his young daughter so hard she started screaming. > > “I reacted so fast and so disproportionately that I snatched him up and threw him across the room,” Marx said, later adding that “he started crying. And I’ll never forget, I went, what was that? I mean, I couldn’t believe it.” So his son made a female cry and “daddy’s” reaction was to, you guessed it, beat the child up. There are more examples in the article. I’ve mentioned this cretin before, and how these anecdotes from him are likely untrue. But the real issue here is he’s proud to say them _and he has supporters who have no problem with believing they’re true_. _And now I have a mission for the Teeming Millionstm:_ _Scour this particular cretin’s social media posts for the following sarcastic comment:_ - _the religion of peace_ - _Prize for the very first poster to find and post a link to that comment here is **bragging rights** (emphsis on right). Sorry, there is only one prize available._ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1288 "2026-10-01T03:06:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Wife: I don’t need martial arts training for protection. > Husband: {Beats her up.} She was sure he’d protect her from harm and he did a pretty convincing job of showing her otherwise. So, mission accomplished I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1289 "2026-10-01T03:43:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Aren’t Christians supposed to be repentant, compassionate, and emulating the Prince of Peace? That’s so 30 CE. The most outspoken ones have long since moved on from those dated ideas. (previously known as 30 AD). (Date approximate due to mythological nature of subject). ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1290 "2026-10-02T12:51:20Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > So his son made a female cry and “daddy’s” reaction was to, you guessed it, beat the child up. That part was unexpected, since the typical conservative response to a son’s wrongdoing is to blame the female victim. He sounds like a family annihilator waiting to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1291 "2026-10-02T13:11:33Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > He sounds like a family annihilator waiting to happen. He sounds like a family annihilator _ **already happening** _. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1292 "2026-10-02T14:33:40Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > That part was unexpected, since the typical conservative response to a son’s wrongdoing is to blame the female victim. I’ve found it’s situational. Of course, where race is involved, the right has believed (for generations) that non-whites are crazy rapists going after white women everywhere. But just in general, the idea that women are weak, subservient, and dependent on men could either make them damsels in distress that you need to protect like an egg, or a weak object that only exists to be exploited. Just different shades of misogyny. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1293 "2026-10-03T02:44:25Z")
I never heard of him, but guess what the first link on Google was? He’s already in big legal trouble, and the election hasn’t even happened yet. > **[Republican nominee for Colorado governor Victor Marx hit with record fine for...](https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/republican-nominee-colorado-governor-victor-marx-record-fine-illegal-campaign-donations/)** > > Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx has been ordered to pay nearly $58,000 for accepting illegal campaign contributions. He probably became a “minister” because he couldn’t get a real job. > **[Victor Marx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Marx)** > > Victor Marx (born July 5, 1965) is an American author, minister, and political candidate. He is the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado in the 2026 election, where he will face the Democratic nominee Phil Weiser. Marx has made several claims about his life and background that have been seen as sensational and controversial, while the validity of many of his claims has been questioned or disproven. He has notably stated he is unsure how many people he has killed. Marx was born to a man n... ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1294 "2026-10-03T04:54:29Z")
Marx is a total nut job. He has no chance of winning but the fact he is polling at 39% is a sad statement on the electorate in this country. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1295 "2026-10-03T05:06:09Z")
Some people will vote for anything as long as it calls itself Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1296 "2026-10-03T05:13:58Z")
True but 39% given the BS this guy has been spewing strikes me as depressingly high. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1297 "2026-10-03T15:04:43Z")
Some people prefer to vote for patently obvious nutjobs, to show their contempt for the whole political process, and/or to make sure everyone else is as miserable as they are. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1298 "2026-10-03T15:47:26Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Some people prefer to vote for patently obvious nutjobs, to show their contempt for the whole political process, and/or to make sure everyone else is as miserable as they are Yes, a lot of this is basically ragebait voting. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1299 "2026-10-06T04:40:37Z")
Replying to myself: Dennis Hastert died over the weekend, and Jim Bakker’s death has just been announced. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. [https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article239283543.html](https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article239283543.html) ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1300 "2026-10-06T13:30:25Z")
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