{"id":554,"date":"2007-05-31T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2007-05-31T00:00:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T00:00:32","slug":"on-tamakiland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"On Tamakiland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki continues to dream about achieving political power. He fails to understand that New Zealand is very different to the USA, and the urging of his US mentors is only setting him up for failure.
\nIn a splendid example of this self-defeating blindness, he mustered out his Destiny Church to protest against a conference on religious tolerance<\/a>.
\nThe best thing I’ve read about it has been Matt over at the Xenodochian, discussing Tamaki’s claim that New Zealand is a Christian nation with characteristic insight. Go read.<\/a>
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\nMeanwhile, looney-tunes US cultist Fred Phelps<\/a> has for a long time drawn mockery from pretty much everyone for the views his sect promotes. And when you watch this video you’ll see exactly why, once you’ve finished gawping\/laughing in disbelief\/crying\/laughing and crying and gawping all at once. It’s a parody of ‘We Are The World’ called ‘God Hates The World’. And, yes, all of these singers are desperately sincere – the Phelps doctrine is that God hates everyone except Phelps and his circle.
\nEnjoy. And be very afraid.<\/p>\n

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\nOh, just remembered! Courtesy the other moose – a big big article<\/a> about Freaks & Geeks\/Undeclared\/40-Year Old Virgin<\/em> maestro Judd Apatow, concerning his new film. If you are reading this and don’t know any of these references, consider yourself urged to correct that situation forthwith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki continues to dream about achieving political power. He fails to understand that New Zealand is very different to the USA, and the urging of his US mentors is only setting him up for failure. In a splendid example of this self-defeating blindness, he mustered out his Destiny Church to protest … Continue reading On Tamakiland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-8W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}