THAT’S the view of aging New Zealand-born evangelist Winkie Pratney, who will be spending New Year’s Eve in hospital after being struck down by an aneurysm.
He is being kept at a New Zealand hospital and is said to be “doing well” by his son, William Pratney.
No surgery seems to be needed. He has just eaten a meal and they said his brain will probably fix itself. He will be kept in observation for 3 days.
He contracted a superbug, so has been moved to a private room. Praise God and thank you everyone for your prayers and messages.
Here is the ridiculous Winkie Pratney in action:
Meanwhile we learn that 2009 has also ended on a bum note for American evangelist Rick Warren, who has recently been frantically distancing himself from fellow homophobes who egged on the Ugandan government to enact draconian anti-gay legislation.
Evangelist Rick Warren desperately needs cash
Warren’s Orange County Saddleback megachurch has run out of dosh and looks like starting 2010 in the red to the tune of $900,000 dollars.
This prompted the pastor to issue an urgent appeal to the faithful, asking them to dig deep into their pockets to help bail out the church, located 65 miles outside Los Angeles.
With 10 percent of our church family out of work due to the recession, our expenses in caring for our community in 2009 rose dramatically while our income stagnated.
The “bottom dropped out” of the Church’s finances when Christmas donations plummeted. Lamented the preacherman:
On the last weekend of 2009, our total offerings were less than half of what we normally receive — leaving us $900,000 in the red for the year.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
December 31st, 2009 at 10:49 am
“Winkie Pratney”! Is it incumbent upon evangelists to have a stupid name?
I can immediately see: I Pin Wanker Yet!
December 31st, 2009 at 10:53 am
I’m welling up.
December 31st, 2009 at 11:01 am
Did you notice how Rick Warren is another master of the use of euphemism, just like so many of his fellow-evangelicals? Propagating his own particular brand of bigoted, reactionary fundamentalism throughout American society instantly becomes “caring for our community”! Cool Hand Luke again: “I wish you’d stop being so good to me!!”
December 31st, 2009 at 11:13 am
Am I the only one who snickers when they hear “saddleback”? It evokes vague images of gay porn.
December 31st, 2009 at 11:44 am
I posted a comment about Rick Warren’s use of euphemism , and it has disappeared again. What I would like to add to that statement is the fact that evangelicals do this all the time. We were talking here the other day about the infiltration of schools by religious proselytizers, and the indoctrination of children with religious ideology in Sunday School, and I have to confess to being guilty on all counts in the past. We used the self-same euphemisms of “doing something for the community” as a cloak for the shameless propagation of religious propaganda, in an effort to swell the ranks of the local church, and I am now ashamed of my part in such chicanery. Many people are genuinely taken in by this perversion of the truth, and see these people as being truly motivated by a selfless desire to do good, rather than by an overwhelming desire to further their own interests!
December 31st, 2009 at 11:50 am
In reality if they both just faded away it would be it would be no great loss to the human race
December 31st, 2009 at 11:58 am
Winkie Pratney – if that doesn’t take the biscuit (communion wafer?) for a name that makes it’s evangelical owner sound like they should be illustrated by Quentin Blake, I don’t know what does.
December 31st, 2009 at 12:04 pm
That’s a very good point that Winker Watson makes there, though I notice that he’s actually quoting someone else! “I know that God is not a figment of my imagination because He’s not at all the way that I imagined that He would be.” I don’t consider that my Christian belief was the result of any mental illness, as some propose, as I never imagined that “God” really appeared to me, or “spoke to me” in any discernible way, other than by influencing my thought processes by various means (and that should be a doddle for someone who had created the Universe!). I was merely choosing to believe in the existence of a being whom I had been told about. However, you do have to ask whether it makes any more sense to believe in someone who is the figment of another person’s imagination!!
December 31st, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I see now that it’s C.S.Lewis who is being quoted here (I thought it might have been): a very cunning wordsmith, highly respected by “intellectuals” amongst the evangelical brotherhood, but whose arguments, when closely examined, have little substance. He was no philosopher.
December 31st, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Now you’ve got me started, BarrieJohn!
Winkie Pratney = Wanker In Piety!
December 31st, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Prat by name, prat by nature. So he has had to go into hospital to get his brain fixed because his immaginary friend can’t fix it for him. Funny how all these idiots rely on medical science.
December 31st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
“God” always guides the doctors in these cases, Angela! Still, if you had read more closely, you would see that, thanks to everyone’s prayers, his brain is able to “fix itself”!!
December 31st, 2009 at 2:20 pm
I hope Warren’s church doesn’t go under. It sure has been the source of much fun on this site and others.
December 31st, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I think that’s the best one that’s there, Robert!
Winkie Pratney = I Type In Wanker
December 31st, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Saint Winkie Pratney.
Pope Winkie Pratney.
The Gospel according to Winkie Pratney.
Teller of truths,Winkie Pratney.
Doesn’t really work does it?
What the hell,one more time:WINKIE PRATNEY.
December 31st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
There once was a preacher called Winkie
Who had such a very small pinky;
When he took it out
It made people shout:
“Gor, blimey! It is very dinky!”
December 31st, 2009 at 8:12 pm
He wouldn’t be known as Pope Winkie, @funkybarfly, as, in common with other professional con-men, they are not known by their real names. He would choose some other suitable name, say Pope Pinnochio, to express his personality and aspirations.