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To certain “ministers” in this area who frequently visit this blog:

Quit going around harassing decent folks at their homes and their churches. You’ll no doubt stay healthy longer for it.

Incidentally, why are you giving much of your congregation’s money to a fornicating sexual deviant? Doesn’t sound very much like being a good steward of the Lord’s provision, but maybe that’s just me.

Neither does it seem very consistent with your alleged piousness when one among you isn’t even a married man but is driving around with women’s underwear on display in the back seat of his car....

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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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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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Last week it was news of an elementary school in New Jersey that had forced its students to chant a song of praise about Barack Obama.

And now there’s this video, made at Sand Hill Elementary School in Asheville, North Carolina (one of my most very favorite places that I’ve lived, incidentally)…

What the heck is going on here?

Actually, that’s a very rhetorical question. Because I do know what’s going on here. I’ve watched it build and grow for the past seventeen years, at least. It’s not just a cult of one person. It’s a cult of executive power: worshiping the President of the United States as if he were the living seat of divine government. I saw the warning signs during the Clinton era and was utterly appalled at how too many Christians were eager to imbue the same qualities onto George W. Bush. What’s going on now ...

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As if he couldn’t get any lower (this being the man who has already accused two churches, with no evidence whatsoever, of child pornography).

Tonight on his What Does the Bible Say? show on WGSR, Johnny Robertson – the demented cult leader of the Martinsville Church of Christ – has thus far during the broadcast done nothing to discuss and expound upon his own beliefs.

Instead Robertson has chosen to… attack an eight year old little girl.

What the hell is wrong with this man?...

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More and more, I’m finding that this “cult of Barack Obama” to be less laughable and more disturbing. No elected official in the United States should ever be the subject of a praise song. Not even the President. That position is merely the most important of a body of public servants.

But watching this video shot at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey this past June, I’m reminded too much of young Russian children who got instilled with the belief that Josef Stalin was a god on Earth to be adored and worshiped. Or Kim Jung Il’s cult of personality in North Korea…

And here are the lyrics…

Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must all lend a hand
To make this Country strong again

Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay

Hmm,

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