We live in an amazing world where we learn new and fascinating information every day. We recently discovered a new species of dinosaur, NASA is developing a survey satellite to search for exoplanets, bats have been found to jam each other’s echolocation to compete for food, and it has been “confirmed” that AIDS and Ebola come from ?oral-rectum love-making? with animals.
When you think of crazy religious leaders who regularly beat science with a crowbar, usually names like Pat Robertson or the late Fred Phelps come to mind. But there’s more of them out there, and sometimes, it seems as if they are competing for the gold medal in the Asinine Olympics. Allow me to introduce you to ?Dr.? James David Manning, the chief pastor at the ATLAH (All the Land Anointed Holy) Worldwide Missionary Church based in Harlem, New York. (He prefers the Dr. title, but admits on his own website that he ?holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree? for studying at his own ?unaccredited educational institution.?) Manning is known for statements so unscientific, he makes Ken Ham look like a studied disciple of Carl Sagan. Here are some of the highlights from interviews, videos, and even the sign in front of his church:
??Starbucks is Ground Zero for Ebola, and you need to stay away from there because many sodomites like to hang out in that watering hole.?
?I further believe that Barack Hussein Obama is the son of Satan; a one of a kind emissary of hell. If he is not, surely the Bible declares one is on the way… The Bible? declares, when the days of Obama arrive the whole world would become his whore, and the church his madam (Mt. 24:24).?
?I’m convinced that when Jesus returns, one of the first things that he will do is, even before he goes after the false religions, is to assign everybody who has been united in a same-sex union to a burning cauldron of hell.?
?Obama has released the homo demons on the black man. Look out black woman. A white homo may take your man.? (Church sign)
?All churches & members that support homos cursed be thou with cancer HIV syphilis stroke madness itch then Hell 1 Cor. 6:9? (Church sign)
I could go on listing examples for days, but the point here is that this man’s tenuous grip on reality has earned him quite a bit of publicity.? While I’m sure mental health professionals could build a career off of Manning, surely there’s a point, right?? He can’t be completely insane.? And even if he is, we can just ignore him.? It’s not like he’s dangerous or anything.
?Many of the sodomites orally make love to a man’s rectum, and that is where AIDS and Ebola originated, but there must also be the addition of a mammal or animal blood contained in the blood of the man, and people who do that.?
Well, I stand corrected.
The biggest issue here (besides the fact that ?Dr.? Manning clearly doesn’t know that humans are mammals, too) is that Manning is spreading dangerous misinformation. AIDS is frequently transmitted via unprotected sex and is not limited to homosexuals. Ebola is transmitted by coming in contact with the bodily fluids of an infected individual. Through his statements, Manning is simultaneously overstating the threat of Ebola while significantly understating the threat of AIDS. The Ebola panic has already been blown out of proportion thanks to people who don’t understand how the virus works, and there are already enough people who think that they could never be infected with HIV or AIDS. By perpetuating myths about both problems, Manning is creating a clear and present danger to anyone who listens to and believes his pseudoscientific deceptions.
If you know someone who follows the ?work? of ?Dr.? James David Manning, do yourself, and them, a favor: take them to Starbucks, explain how Ebola and AIDS really work, and while they drink their latte, avoid mentioning that Manning thinks that Starbucks? secret ingredient is the ?semen of sodomites.?
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