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In the past week I’ve received three e-mails directing my attention to Religious Review, a newly established blog. And it’s been asked if I’m the person behind it.

I am not. And I didn’t even know about Religious Review until the last several days. But I certainly have to applaud whoever it is who set it up.

As was reported on this blog last month, “Religious Review” is the name of the bogus outfit that local cult leader Johnny Robertson came up with in his continuing bid to harass and intimidate the legitimate churches in this area. He and crony/second cousin James Oldfield have already been known to confront innocent individuals with hidden cameras and such. Now Robertson has recruited his own son to go out in the name of “Religious Review” and do the same.

So what sayeth the real Religious Review?

Folks have been talking about

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Folks, please understand that I am not on a “get the ‘Church of Christ In Name Only'” binge tonight. Heck, I’ve so many projects on my plate right now that I’m pretty much relying on the reports that others have been sending me lately about the cult. Like earlier today when I posted that cult leader Johnny Robertson can’t spell worth a hoot even as he condemns preachers of other (and in my opinion, legitimate) churches in the area.

And now later this evening, it is Robertson’s chief henchman/second cousin who accompanied him from Texas, James Oldfield (heh-heh… bet y’all didn’t know that the two were related, did ya?) who is up to no good.

Who is Oldfield and the “Church of Christ” cult (remember, it’s not the real Church of Christ at all) going after this time? None other than the Salvation Army.

I came in from some ...

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Nobody can take a so-called “preacher” seriously when he chronically mis-spells words like “especially” and “scriptures”…


And Johnny Robertson is saying that another preacher is “confused”?

Kinda funny, isn’t it? That there have been at least two major stories that happened in the area in the past few days, and WGSR general manager Charles Roark didn’t see fit to have either of them reported over the air. The bigger priority at Star News is the illiterate cult leader from Texas: the one that Roark acts like an obedient dog to....

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Before I get to the meat of this particular post, there’s something that I’m gonna share here, that I think is nigh worth passing along…

In the past several days, two individuals – each of whom is a highly respected and admired member of the community in this area – have volunteered to me their opinion of WGSR Star 39: the television station “serving” the market around Reidsville, North Carolina.

The first person said that WGSR is an “embarrassment” and that it “makes the people here look dumb”.

The second person was more precise in their assessment: that WGSR general manager Charles Roark is not a serious broadcaster, that he is only out for “tabloid television” and that Reidsville’s television station never tolerated such “nuts like Johnny Robertson” when it was operating as WAEU Channel 14 several years ago.

I agree, one hunnerd percent. WAEU had a much more professional ...

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Norm Fields, who has hosted one of the three weekly live television broadcasts of the self-professed “Church of Christ” cult in the Reidsville, Martinsville and Danville area of north-central North Carolina and southern Virginia, has been kicked off the air by cult leader Johnny Robertson, The Knight Shift has learned.

Fields, who came to this area from Georgia in 2007 and has been working at the Danville Church of Christ, has been doing the Bible Q&A broadcast every Thursday night at 10 p.m. on WGSR Star 39, broadcasting from Reidsville, North Carolina. For the past several weeks Fields has been conspicuously absent. This past week there was a two-hour broadcast of A Word from the Lord at 9 p.m. to fill in the hour that Fields has usually hosted. That broadcast featured a “debate” between James Oldfield of the Reidsville Church of Christ and Larry Surber of Stoneville ...

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This blog is drawing lots of attention lately from local cult leader Johnny Robertson and members of his so-called “Church of Christ”. Why? Beats me.

But since I have their attention, I’m gonna have some fun with them.

It has to do with something that I’ve thought about for the past several weeks…

Robertson, along with James Oldfield and Norm Fields – who all broadcast for four hours each week on the only television station in the area desperate enough to sell them the airtime – teaches that if a person is not a member of their “Church of Christ” (which isn’t the Church of Christ that most people know and respect, remember that), and especially if that person is not baptized, then that person is going to Hell when he or she dies.

Which brings us to the subject of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, one of the ...

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In spite of not having actively posted about it for two weeks, this blog is still getting visits (and the occasional comment) from people who’ve been following what’s been going on between Yours Truly and the local cult calling itself the “Church of Christ”, especially its power-mad leader Johnny Robertson of the Martinsville Church of Christ.

Speaking of which, lately I’m hearing it asked quite a lot: Why won’t these guys, with all their money, buy airtime on any other television station besides WGSR? Especially when there are other stations in the area with both better studio facilities and broadcast reach? The general consensus is that WGSR’s management was the only one desperate enough to sell airtime to the cult, and that every reputable and “real” station in the market wouldn’t touch The Three Stasi (that’s my latest nickname for Robertson, James Oldfield and Norm Fields) of the so-called “Church ...

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The Lord works in mysterious ways…

I’m content to believe that the strange drama of what has gone on between Yours Truly and Johnny Robertson of “Martinsville Church of Christ” – part of what I call the “Church Of Christ In Name Only” – has finally drawn to a close. It came with this brazen admission by Robertson on the Answering the Church of Christ blog…

“we are here to defeat destroy you and uplift truth”

– Johnny Robertson, June 11, 2008

Johnny Robertson, supposed preacher and “Church of Christ” television broadcaster, has said that it is the mission of he and his followers “to defeat (and) destroy you”.

I don’t have to say anything else or make another video, folks. Robertson has shot himself not in the foot but straight in the chest with this statement.

No doubt that the effort I went through in order to ...

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In the wake of my “extending the opportunity” to “Martinsville Church of Christ” cultist Johnny Robertson on June 1st, WGSR general manager Charles Roark offered me 25 minutes of free airtime on Sunday night in response to Robertson. I took up the offer, even though 25 minutes is not nearly long enough to counter everything that Robertson, James Oldfield and Norm Fields spend thousands of dollars to broadcast for about a dozen and a half hours a week.

And I already knew that it would have been futile to have even tried to counter everything they preach, too. But I never believed that I had to try to, either.

“Christianity is not a competition”, as I said on Sunday night. And I was never out to “beat” Johnny Robertson at anything. All of this began with a simple question…

“Johnny, how is what you are doing showing devotion to

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Yesterday afternoon WGSR Star 39 General Manager Charles Roark devoted the 4:30 “warm-up show” to what happened on Sunday night on the street in front of the station, when I gave Johnny Robertson of the “Church Of Christ In Name Only” the opportunity to debate me on live television. Since Robertson had already declared he was going to talk about me and this blog on his show anyway, and had strongly stated that I wouldn’t debate him, I took him at his word and showed up at the station with my Bible and video camera and gave him the chance to take me on during a live broadcast. He refused, and he couldn’t answer the questions I was asking him either.

Long story short: Charles Roark has offered me 25 minutes of free airtime this coming Sunday night at 8 p.m.

I’m taking him up on it.

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