Brad Stine's 'GodMen': Promise Keepers on steroids

[donsu]

http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=224


Christian men need to embrace their 'table-tipping' side, says Christian comedian and 'GodMen' founder Stine


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How about a Christian men's group headed by a conservative Christian comedian?

He's a raunchy, raw, Republican devoted to stamping out "political correctness," and he's got the chutzpah to claim on his website that he's "America's favorite conservative comedian" (there are a number of other conservative comedians out there). In 2004, he performed for "R: the Party," an event hosted by Jenna and Barbara Bush during the Republican National Convention in New York City.

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According to OneNewsNow, a news service sponsored by the American Family Association, Stine, who is an oft-featured speaker at Promise Keeper conferences, "states he is on a 'mission' to free his fellow Christians from 'the chains of political correctness.'" "In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal. I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic," Stine told OneNewsNow.

Stine, born and raised in Bremen, Indiana, founded "GodMen" in 2006 and has since held events called "GodMen" conferences in Nashville and Franklin Tenn. They are designed to be "absolutely honest and unconstrained in dealing with the real and difficult issues men face daily that are not being addressed in church," states the website. Issues, according to Stine, that would be less likely to be addressed at a Promise Keepers event.

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Stine's "GodMen" conferences aim to get men to "act like men": According to OneNewsNow, "Stine argues that many men are tired of what he calls a 'sugar-coated and watered-down' Christianity. To counter that, he says, the one-day 'GodMen' events challenge men to embrace the full character of Christ. He cites the example of what he describes as the 'table-tipping Jesus.'"

" the strong Jesus that really deals with masculinity, that men are oftentimes not taught," Stine explained. "We're taught one side of Jesus. He was merciful and gracious and loving and sweet and kind -- and he was all those things, and we don't deny that; we need that desperately. But there was a table-tipping Jesus," he continues. "There was a time when the season was more aggressive and that you were allowed to be angry and sin not."

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Stine has appeared on several stand-up comedy shows including A&E's "Evening at the Improv" and MTV's "Half Hour Comedy Hour," and has been a guest on a number of news programs including FOX News' "Hannity & Colmes," CNN's "Paula Zahn NOW" and "Glenn Beck," and the NBC Nightly News. He has also been interviewed on National Public Radio and has been featured on FOXNews.com and in Newsweek, the New Yorker, USA Today, and several other newspapers nationwide.
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would someone please round him up and take him back to the institution.

that won't happen - bet he has been to the W.H.

[Mythsaje]

1. The "table-tipping" Jesus?

Y'know, I think I'm completely running out of patience for this shit.

[angstlessk]

2. MTV's 1/2 comedy hour??? thought that was the brilliance of faux snooze

that crated that failure???

[madrchsod]

3. dam it`s to late for my christmas wish list! --->

[NoodleyAppendage]

4. Bring it on you sissy Christofascists! Here's a 220 lb 6.2' atheist who will kick your ass.

I'm sick of this bible-thumping, chest-thumping shit. If any christofascists want to get it on for their gOD, then bring it on sissy boys.

J

[bperci108]

5. I've heard him on XM Radio's comedy channel...

If he's popular with the loony Reich-wing, I not sure what that says; either the right is even more fatuous and lacking in any sort of taste than I thought, or the field of RW "comics" is even more pathetic than I thought.

Perhaps both?

In short.....he's a humorless fuckwad.

Another sniveling victim of the eeeeeviiiil secularists. :evilgrin:


I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire. :puke:



(If this isn't yet more proof of the impending demise of nut-job Xtianity in this country!)

[BlueJazz]

6. I've heard him twice. He's about as funny as a bad episode of "Three's Company"

:( :puke:

[annabanana]

7. Jerking off for Jesus?. . . .

(oh goody)