Via the Christian Post:
Pentecostal televangelist and self-professed prophetess Juanita Bynum has sparked curiosity among some Internet users and the Christian community for several comments on the minister’s Facebook page where she appears to type “in tongues.” In a series of posts published on Aug. 17, on one of Bynum’s many Facebook pages, the minister typed messages where it was believed by commenters and critics that the she was praying in tongues.
Uh, OK. Here’s an extract:
GIRD THEM UP IN THE SPIRIT…GIVE THEM A MIND TO PRAY LIKE NEVER BEFORE….WE CALL ON YOU JESUS….YOU ARE OUR HELP AND OUR HOPE!!!!!!!!NDHDIUBGUGTRUCGNRTUGTIGRTIGRGBNRDRGNGGJNRIC YOU ARE OUR HELP AND OUR HOPE….RFSCNGUGHURGVHKTGHDKUNHSTNSVHGN YOU GOD……YOU ARE OUR HELP AND OUR HOPE!!!!!! OUR HOPE IS IN YOU FATHER……OUR STRENGTH FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS IS IN YOU FATHER……HELP US NOW……LORD WE DONT ASK FOR HELP FOR JUST THEM….THIS IS US….THIS IS A PART OF OUR OWN BODY…..
Amazing
It would probably have looked more credible if she had copied and pasted random bits from the Amharic Wikipedia article on Jesus:
http://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%A2%E1%8B%A8%E1%88%B1%E1%88%B5
koo koo
“LOOK AT ME!” Pretty much sums it up.
…and yet, she still makes more sense than the average Andrew Sullivan post.
Looks more like “typing in thumbs” to me.
NTTAWWT.
Derb (Bradlaugh around here) sometimes likes to write about “the old, weird, America.” Well, here it is, just using a different medium.
For an unbeliever, I get quite a bit of entertainment out of religion.
Well, I’m not drunk, though I do happen to have a nice vodka and lime to hand. But…let me see what happens if I pretend to be drunk and collapse on the keyboard:
fsjleklk,sdrpldf
Okay. I’m ready for my ministry, Mr. DeMille!
Which raises the question: If one types in tongues, does one have to type with one’s tongue?
Not gonna go there.
Given that all the letters in the “speaking in tongues” are close to each other on the keyboard, she must be praying to the God of Qwerty.
Two thingies…1) this is a whole new level of fraud and 2) did dude sound the fakey fake words out to make fakey fake typing tongues phonetically, or is it un-phonetic gibberish. Awesomeness.
Kriss
I try never to laugh at anyone’s religious beliefs. So I regard Ms Bynum and her followers as a personal challenge.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.