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I’m going to begin calling Johnny Robertson and his “Church of Christ” cult out for what they really are: domestic terrorists.

They just haven’t killed anybody (yet). However in the name of “God” Robertson and his followers have and continue to conspire to deprive others of their right to religion, to peaceable assembly and to free speech.

So are Johnny Robertson, James Oldfield, Mark McMinnis, Micah Robertson and the rest of their ilk enemies of the Constitution of the United States? Yup. And I suppose that means others might also be considered willing collaborators, regardless of whether they are “true believers”. Make of that what you may.

What precipitates this latest report about the goings-on of the Martinsville Taliban? A few things. The previous post seems to have had some effect, because several people noted that Mark McMinnis was struggling to subdue his silly grin during his broadcast this ...

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If the local cult calling itself the “Church of Christ” (which as I’ve stated before has nothing to do with the mainstream Churches of Christ that most people respectfully acknowledge) has any sense at all, then its leader Johnny Robertson had better direct those mysterious attorneys of his to begin filing amicus curiae briefs with the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Shirley Phelps-Roper: his longtime nemesis (among many others) and spokesthing for the infamous Westboro Baptist Church run by her father Fred Phelps.

(Having been in the same room with both of these soulless wretches and witnessed them screeching at each other, I can only begin to imagine what the reaction of either Robertson or Phelps-Roper to that assertion would be like…)

But it’s true: if Johnny Robertson and his followers want to continue harassing innocent people in what should be the comforting environments of their places of ...

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First things first: Earlier this week somebody suggested that we should begin referring to local cult leader Johnny Robertson as “He Who Stalks Behind the Pews”.

It was too good an idea not to go into Photoshop with it…

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Heh-heh. Haven’t done one of those in awhile 😛

Speaking of video cameras, a number of people have informed me that during his four hours of “Religious Review” this past week that Johnny Robertson put the word out to all(?) of his viewers that he wants them to begin covertly video recording all the churches in this area with video cameras, cellphones, iPhones etc. and to send the footage to him.

Between his obsession with Martinsville-based television station BTW, his constant scheming to destroy Baptists and Pentecostals and Methodists (especially Baptists), his harassing innocent people in their own homes and churches and store parking lots, his monitoring ...

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Yah, talking about Micah Robertson, son of local cult leader Johnny Robertson of the so-called “Martinsville Church of Christ”. Someone sent me an e-mail saying that Robertson the Lesser was doing daddy’s show tonight (why is it that Micah seems so ashamed to acknowledge that Johnny is his father?) and I was about to work on a video project and needed some background noise, so I dialed up the Martinsville feed of WGSR for chuckles.

Even while busy authoring a DVD, I was able to poke tons of holes in Robertson the Lesser’s alleged “presentation”.

First of all, I’m not at all convinced that Micah Robertson is completely confident in what he professes to believe. The guy comes across as too nervous, too insecure. He drones on and on like a monotone robot.

Well, when I tuned in Micah Robertson was claiming that pianos and guitars were carved idols and ...

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How long has it been since I’ve posted about those lunatics from the local “Church of Christ” cult? Awhile, at least.

Time to have some fun with them again…

Earlier tonight it was Micah Robertson talking about satanic sex (bear in mind that this is the same young man who recently went on a weeks-long spate obsessing about Abraham’s libido) and Mark McMinnis, who for once didn’t do his whiny act about “…those Baptists made me lose my job in Danville schools!”

But it was the 9 p.m. show with James Oldfield that was so rife with hypocrisy that I literally laughed out loud too many times to count.

James Oldfield – the second banana and second cousin of cult leader Johnny Robertson – ranted for the entire hour about… some caller last week, apparently… who was insisting that Jesus had to be referred to by a specific name ...

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This blog hasn’t had much to report on local cult leader/pathological liar/convicted felon/public menace Johnny Robertson lately. Been almost a month since I posted anything new.

This next item though is sufficiently wacky enough that it screams to be talked about.

Some people have been writing to let me know that Johnny Robertson and all of his followers (those being James Oldfield, Micah Robertson “The Lesser” and Mark McMinnis) have been conspicuously absent from the airwaves of local television station WGSR in recent weeks. Instead What Does the Bible Say? and A Word from the Lord (AKA “The Martinsville Taliban Show” and “A Word from James Oldfield”) have been in reruns, one of which was Oldfield’s two-hour spiel about why it’s a sin to place money in the Salvation Army kettles. That particular screed prompted one person known to this writer to make a fifty dollar contribution to the Salvation ...

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I must confess: it’s entered my mind that the more local cult leader Johnny Robertson harasses others and tries to destroy lives and congregations, the more opportunity he’s providing for others to seriously present what the Bible really says about Christ and salvation because of His grace.

There was much to observe from last night’s What Does the Bible Say? on WGSR. For openers, Robertson validated something that I noted about him last week: that he not only insists upon baptism for the wrong reasons and damns those who don’t subscribe to his belief, but that Robertson also think he controls baptism! It came when a woman called and asked to be baptized and Robertson expressed great hesitancy about it because Robertson suggested that the woman didn’t “understand” why she wanted baptism. He claimed to take her phone number so that he could call her later, so that she ...

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Hasn’t been much to report about local cult leader Johnny Robertson lately. In recent weeks he’s been obsessed with attacking BTW, a competitor television station to WGSR in the Martinsville, Virginia market. Among other things Robertson has been blasting them for promoting shag dancing and “R-rated movies”.

(I for one would like to know where in the Bible does Robertson find a proscription against R-rated movies. ‘Tis a silly thing to fixate upon and it only demonstrates that Robertson is completely ignorant of the movie rating system to begin with, and why it was first implemented.)

Anyhoo, a few things about Robertson and his cult have crossed my virtual desk that I’ve been following up on. Nothing I can tip my hand to at the moment though. However, tonight I did receive the following observation in an e-mail. It’s a very brilliant point, and one that I had not considered ...

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Why is Johnny Robertson dressed like Batman tonight?

(Some have written to me asking if that’s a bulletproof vest that Robertson is wearing on his show this evening. Hey, that might be. I’ve certainly never seen a getup like that worn on live TV before…)

Secondly, does anyone seriously trust any statistics that Robertson and his bunch produce as “evidence”? These people have lied about everything conceivable. Robertson could claim that he’s hired Gallup to run a poll, and he still couldn’t be believed.

And at the moment Robertson is running that clip that I posted on YouTube a little over a year ago.

It’s not just my opinion: Robertson’s broadcasts are descending into madness. And that’s not the local view either: as far away as Pepperdine University (a Church of Christ-affiliated college, interestingly enough) in California, Johnny Robertson and his cult are being derided and condemned as ...

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This has to be one of the most ridiculous broadcasts I’ve ever seen coming out of Johnny Robertson and the “Church of Christ in Name Only”. And that’s sayin’ something…

He started at 10 p.m. tonight on the program out of WGSR’s Martinsville studio, ranting about Bob Lawson (several e-mails came in today saying that Lawson pitched my blog during Charles Roark’s The Local Buzz earlier this afternoon and that neither Roark or Robertson like that at all).

After that, Robertson commenced to launching an on-air crusade against, for some reason or another, a steakhouse.

And now several times in the past few minutes Robertson has insinuated that this might be the end of him on WGSR. It was like watching Oral Roberts back in 1987, when Roberts told his viewers to send him millions of dollars or else “the Lord will call me home”. Tonight Robertson announced several...

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