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Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Starting last Thursday, right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau streamed a nightly series of videos on Periscope in which he commanded Hurricane Irma to change its projected path away from Florida, ordering the storm to dissipate and turn out into the Atlantic Ocean. That obviously did not happen, but that didn’t stop Wallnau from streaming …

Last night Charisma News, our favorite one-stop shop for anti-witchcraft tutorials, published a lengthy last-minute how-to on stopping these hurricanes which are sent by God to punish us. The piece is authored by “messianic rabbi” Curt Landry. An excerpt: If we don’t understand the cause and effect of nature with God, and our responsibilities with the dominion that we have …

Hemant Mehta reports at the Friendly Atheist: For some reason, Christian “Prophetess” Kat Kerr thinks she can stop Hurricane Irma by “taking authority over it” and using her scepter to crush the weather. Because Jesus. “I make a ruling that storm will leave this area, will leave the coast. I will not tolerate its presence anywhere on the coast of …

“One thing we know about hurricanes — and all weather — is that this is not Mother Nature in a bad mood. This is a spectacular display of God’s immense power. And when He puts His power on display, it’s never without reason. There’s a purpose. And we may not always understand what that purpose is, but we know it’s …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Extremist anti-LGBTQ pastor Kevin Swanson declared on his radio program today that the Supreme Court should immediately reverse its Roe v. Wade and Obergefell decisions before God unleashes his judgment on America in the form of Hurricane Irma. Swanson, who just last week said that Hurricane Harvey was the judgment of God on …

Just as they did before Hurricane Harvey, a slew of scamvangelicals have issued last-minute prayers for God to command Hurricane Irma away from the United States. Here’s a few of them. Landon Schott: Father, we come to you in the name above every other name, the name of Jesus! We plead the powerful blood of Jesus over Florida and that …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing columnist, commentator and conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin is fully committed to the idea that there is a massive global satanic pedophile ring run by high-ranking government officials, powerful business executives and celebrities that regularly engage in the ritual sexual abuse and murder of children. Crokin encouraged viewers to “look very closely at …

Creationist Ken Ham, who was most recently in the news with a transparent ploy to scam Kentucky out of sales tax, went on a hurricane-themed tweetstorm this morning. According to Ham, hurricanes (and – presumably – all natural disasters) are the direct result of so-called “original sin” and it’s totally not God’s fault that he is forced to lovingly murder …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has joked that his hands are “too big” while helping to serve food to victims of storm Harvey at a shelter in Houston. Video broadcast by US networks of President Trump’s visit to the NRG Center shows him putting on gloves to help with the hand-out at a food serving line before turning to where …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Last week, “firefighter prophet” and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor appeared on Sheila Zilinsky’s radio program, where he warned that the Freemasons and the Illuminati are using a Satanic frequency to change people’s DNA in order to make them oppose President Trump. “I believe what happened on November 8 is the enemy has …

This took longer than usual. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: End Times radio host Rick Wiles used his “TruNews” broadcast yesterday to declare that the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey is God’s punishment for Houston’s “affinity for the sexual perversion movement.” “This is a proud city that, in recent years, has boasted of its allegiance, its dedication, its …

Law Newz reports: A group, lead by Ohio attorney Joni Turner, is organizing a class action civil lawsuit which they claim will be a “legal takedown” of CNN for “defaming,” and spreading “fake news.” Turner announced the effort on Periscope, and has since set up a website asking for class action members to sign up. #OurTakeDown claims that “it is …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Friday said that “few, if any,” other administration had been as productive in its first seven months as the Trump administration, citing the White House’s progress on job growth and other non-legislative achievements. His tweet came just minutes after he criticized Senate Republicans for not passing more bills, calling on them to get rid …

Pastor Frank Amedia, who is most famous for his claim that he personally prayed a tsunami away from Hawaii, first appeared on JMG last year when he described how Jesus sent him a vision of “demonic hornets” stinging Americans with the sin of “lustful homosexuality.” Since then Amedia has led the “POTUS Shield” campaign to envelop the White House with …

Scamvangelical Kenneth Copeland, who flits around the country speaking in tongues aboard his $20 million private jet, says that America will win the Afghanistan war now that God His Damn Self has put Donald Trump in charge. This, despite Copeland’s February 2016 declaration that Ted Cruz had been “anointed by God” to be president. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Televangelist Paula White, who has for years been a key spiritual adviser to Donald Trump, was the guest on Jim Bakker’s television program again today, where she said that President Trump is under relentless spiritual attack because the demonic spirits know that if he is able to make just two more Supreme Court …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing prepper pastor Jim Bakker interviewed televangelist Paula White, who is one of President Trump’s key spiritual advisers, on his television program today, where she declared that opposition to the president is opposition to God and explicitly praised Trump for not sounding or acting presidential. “Thank goodness,” she said. “In other words, he’s …

CNN reports: Sam Clovis, Donald Trump’s pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, has argued that homosexuality is a choice and that the sanctioning of same-sex marriage could lead to the legalization of pedophilia, a CNN KFile review of Clovis’ writings, radio broadcasts, and speeches has found. Clovis made the comments between 2012 and 2014 in his …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is pointing fingers over Charlottesville. Who is he blaming? Dem. Governor Terry McAuliffe and Charlottesville mayor Michael Signer. In a Sunday appearance on Fox & Friends, Gohmert called for a Department of Justice investigation on McAuliffe and Signer because…um…who knows, exactly? “The way forward’s not gonna be easy,” Gohmert said. “And I think the …

“The path of this total eclipse of the sun is remarkable, in that it crosses over the entire continental United States, almost perfectly bisecting America from the Northwest to the Southeast. And in that path, the sun will be perfectly blotted out, by the ruler of the night, plunging all of America in its path into virtual total darkness. Satan, …