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Many people have told me that on Sunday night’s television broadcast of What Does The Bible Say? on WGSR – or as I call it “The Martinsville Taliban Show” – local cult leader Johnny Robertson of the “Martinsville Church of Christ” claimed that there are now four robust congregations of the “Church of Christ” (which is nothing like the mainstream Churches of Christ) meeting in this area. Those would be his own Martinsville group, one at the old post office on The Boulevard in Eden, the one that has been coming together in Reidsville at the Holiday Inn Express, and a group meeting in Ruffin.

Robertson alleged that the Ruffin “Church of Christ” had been meeting for “over a year” (his words).

Curiously, the July 5th 2009 broadcast of What Does The Bible Say? on WGSR was the very first time that Robertson or anyone else with the “Church of ...

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It sure looks that way. I was notified earlier this week about Answering The Church of Christ, a new and rather articulate blog dedicated to taking on Robertson and his local “Church of Christ” cult (which again, has nothing to do with the mainstream Churches of Christ that most people know and respect).

To the best of my knowledge that makes at least four separate blogs – none of which are my own – that have set out to counter Robertson and his gang of ecclesiastical bullies.

(Incidentally, this coming week marks two years since Robertson posted anything new on his own blog.)

And then there’s this YouTube video that was sent to me today, proclaiming Johnny Robertson to be this week’s “Con-Artist for [Another] Jesus”…

I have been told that Robertson and his goons have been harassing quite a number of legitimate churches in the area lately ...

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At this moment, Johnny Robertson of the local cult calling itself the “Church of Christ” (which has nothing to do with the real Churches of Christ) is broadcasting an entire story from ABC’s Nightline about real estate scamming in Martinsville, Virginia as part of his What Does The Bible Say? (or as I call it The Martinsville Taliban Show) on WGSR Star 47.

So let’s look at the first part of the Walt Disney Internet Group’s Terms of Use, with emphasis mine in red font…

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Never in my wildest fevered delirium could I have imagined what the reaction would have been.

Let’s put it this way: since early this morning, I have been in a nearly constant gigglefit about this whole thing.

Here’s a sample of the correspondence that’s come in…

“Brilliant, pure genius with Johnny and his minions.”

“I’m speechless, absolutely without a single bit of speech.”

“Chris, Chris, Chris… this one goes down in the history books: Best. April. Fools. Post. Ever.”

“what a stunt, dude… You know that I bought it for THIRTY WHOLE SECONDS? (even with my knowledge that this was gonna happen – I bought it!) It looks so real! Well done! :-)”

“This is horrible but actually expected. I do hope the boy will be OK. It’s a shame he has to pay for Johnny’s evilness.”

“Bahahah … April Fool’s, eh?”

“Chris, You have written a masterful work

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UPDATE 04/02/2009: Please click here for major new developments in this story!

The damned lunatic has finally gone too far. And not all the pathetic PowerPoint charts on his laptop can possibly save him now.

Local cult leader Johnny Robertson of the “Martinsville Church of Christ” – the very same individual who has harassed many churches in the area and has sought to inflict his own warped brand of “Christianity” with rude force and heartless lies – has been arrested in Vatican City following what is being called a “coordinated and persistent attempt” to threaten Pope Benedict XVI within the very Papal Apartments of the Apostolic Palace!

Behold the front page of today’s New York Post, screaming the over-the-top sins of Henry County, Virginia’s most rabid mad dog for all the world to see…

Robertson’s 16-year old son Micah Robertson is also in critical condition at a Rome hospital ...

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This was among the e-mails awaiting my perusal this morning. I should comment that the same issue has been raised considerably on various forums in recent weeks and months…

“Johnny Robertson and James Oldfield can’t be the real church of Christ because they aren’t obedient to Romans 16:16.”

The writer is of course referring to local cultist Johnny Robertson and his lackey/second cousin James Oldfield, the leaders of what they proclaim is the “Church of Christ” (no relation to the real Churches of Christ). The two men who have been harassing the legitimate churches in this area, and even committing slander against some (like when Johnny Robertson accused one church in Kernersville, without evidence, of child pornography).

And in case you’re wondering what Paul instructs in Romans 16:16, here it is from the King James version…

Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

You ...

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Very strange night of cult leader Johnny Robertson’s usual broadcast on WGSR this evening. The first hour was a recording of this morning’s “service” at Martinsville Church of Christ. And that in itself was notable because to the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that I’ve ever seen Johnny Robertson praying. Except that his “prayer” was straight out of Luke chapter 18, in that it was practically the same as that of the Pharisee in the temple who prays “God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers…” etc. Yes folks, that apparently is the substance of “prayer” among the cult (which again, is not the real Churches of Christ at all).

Then Robertson went on a vicious rant, boasting about how his “church is the most authoritarian!” among other things, and then devoted much of the rest of the “sermon” to evolution ...

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Longtime readers of this blog already know about cultist Johnny Robertson and his self-proclaimed “Church of Christ” (which is nothing like the mainstream Churches of Christ that most people know and respect). About how Robertson, flunky/second cousin James Oldfield and their “Religious Review” charade go around the area accosting the decent (and in my mind, legitimate) churches, and then televise their harassment on WGSR… which is now widely acknowledged, Robertson is the de facto owner of.

Robertson, and what he represents, is not real Christianity. There is no love, no humility, no thankfulness for the grace of God that comes out of what they have been doing. All that Johnny Robertson has ever demonstrated that he is capable of producing is hate, and spite, and division, and… dare I say it? Yeah, I will: evil.

But… why should you have to take my word for that?

During his show ...

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Right when you think that there are no more crazy headlines that this blog can possibly generate…

I just watched James Oldfield, second cousin and henchman of cult leader Johnny Robertson of what many here are calling the “Church of Christ In Name Only”, use the YouTube video of my karaoke performance of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” on live television… to attack the United Methodist Church!

(I’ve already received one e-mail telling me that “whatever this guy is smoking, I want ten pounds of it.”)

During the live television broadcast tonight of his show A Word from the Lord on WGSR out of Reidsville, North Carolina, James Oldfield and some other cultist that I’d never seen before, devoted the program to their latest “Religious Review” hijinks: this time, Oldfield was involved in ambushing not one but two Methodist congregations. And I was already having fun half-listening to Oldfield’s comedic ramblings, ...

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