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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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This post will dovetail nicely with the update from earlier today about cult leader Johnny Robertson and his “Religious Review Multimedia”. Which after tonight I have to ask aloud: has anybody heard Robertson or Oldfield mention this ever before the last two months? Because I’ve been keeping my eye on the “Church of Christ in Name Only” cult for a few years now, but “Religious Review” didn’t enter into Robertson’s public vernacular until November 2008. And from hearing him use it now, you’d think that it was always a part of his operation.

In comic book terminology, that is what is called a “retcon”. Who’da thought that we’d see it play out in real life (apart from pro wrestling)?

Tonight two friends were over at the Knight Casa. Let’s call them Friend #1 and Friend #2. One of them had read the post earlier today and just before ...

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(With kindest regards to Bill Maher for coming up with such a great new word that I couldn’t help but apply it to another bunch of loonies that he would probably laugh at as well…)

In late November this blog reported on local cult leader Johnny Robertson – of what I call “the Church of Christ in Name Only” – employing the services of what he referred to on his live TV show as “Religious Review Multimedia Group”, and Robertson heavily implied that whoever “Religious Review Multimedia Group” was, that they were an independent outfit covering matters of faith.

Except the whole thing was something Robertson made up. And in the footage that he aired, that’s his own teenage son who’s now following in his old man’s footsteps with the hidden cameras and “in yo face” confrontations.

“Religious Review Multimedia Group” was, as is so often with Johnny Robertson and ...

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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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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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We missed it by three days, but I don’t think most people will mind if we “honor” it belatedly!

Yes folks, this past Friday, August 1st, was the thirtieth anniversary of a certain somebody going all nuts in a convenience store in east Texas, pulling out a revolver and threatening to kill the store’s owner, then making off with a ridiculously tiny sum of money before being apprehended following a twenty-minute high-speed car chase… in a Ford Pinto.

(Was this same young man suicidal in addition to being an idiot?)

For that little stunt, Our Hero spent two years locked up in the prison at Huntsville (the one used for death sentences) before getting out and spending the next few as a paroled convicted felon.

And that’s just the beginning…

More coming soon....

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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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He did. It’s true. I’ve got it documented.

And in Charles Roark’s words: “I don’t care… Take me on.”

Just thought y’all should know.

So how is this different than what happened the other night? I never used Robertson’s image.

Am glad that I didn’t, now.

EDIT 5:08 p.m. EST: Roark talked about this on his “warm-up show” on WGSR this afternoon at 4:30. He’s trying to spin it as if…

– I called Robertson out first.

– I told WGSR not to use my likeness at all.

Both are false. In fact, both are pretty much blatant lies.

Robertson wanted to debate me first. My only thing so far as “instigation” goes was to ask a theological question. He answered it. I was satisfied. Then Robertson announced that he was going to talk about me on his show that week and that I wouldn’t debate him.

So I ...

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