IN THE good old Old Testament days, anyone who displeased God would be in for an almighty smiting. But nowadays God’s smiting abilities appear to be mightily diminished; the worst one can expect is a missive from Above, expressing grave disapproval.
We know so because God had a plan to alleviate the drought in Texas. His idea was to send “a great deal of rain” to Texas, but this was thwarted by President Obama.
Clearly displeased by the President’s interference, the Almighty penned an open letter of complaint to “John Boehner, Republican Leader Of The House Of Representatives, and All Republicans In the House And Senate”.
And he sent it via his representative on earth, Gerald Polley, who lives in Ellsworth, Maine.
Nutters Gerald and Linda Polley
The letter begins with an apology:
First of all this morning, I have to apologize for our failure to bring the rain we promised to Texas. We thought sure that we were going to be able to bring the storm over Texas for several hours and cause a great deal of rain. But Obama drew an horrendous surge of dark power up from South America, we believe using his union supporters, and pushed the storm east … Not that we didn’t take advantage of it, but still we would’ve liked to get the rain to Texas. It is obvious this foul creature still has power, though it is weakening.
God blathers on incoherently for another six paragraphs – (was he totally bladdered when he sat at the keyboard?) – before cutting to the chase:
There are times to sit and do nothing. There are times to stand and fight. This is the time to stand and fight! Use the power I pour through you to organize The Christmas Buyer’s Strike. Tell the world it is my servant that leads it. Tell the world we can stop Obama. But such evil must be fought with drastic action. He will not let you accomplish anything because he must promote his filth. He is dragging the human race into oblivion.. Only a bold leader like my servant can stand against him. But he will need men of power with him. He will need my sons as well to empower my daughters, to give them the strength to become beacons in this Darkness. I ask you to be that power!
What we can deduce from this letter – you can read the thing in full here – is that Mr Polley is a total basket case. And so, apparently, is his wife Linda who, according to Wiki, shares his “religious and political views”.
Mr Polley founded something called “Spiritism” – a religion based on a faith that originated 500,000 years ago on a planet named Hades and was brought to Earth by extraterrestrial colonisers, who died in a cataclysmic event remembered as the Great Flood.
Mr Polley claims to be in contact with God, as well as Jesus and Mohammed. Oh, and John Lennon, whom he says is still writing songs, and channeling them through him.
One of the songs Polley received from a dead musician – it’s unclear whether it’s yer actual Lennon who penned it – attacks Hillary Clinton and contains the line:
If you want your sons wearing skirts and panty hose, with lipstick on their faces and shiny nail polish that glows, then vote for Hillary.
Mr Polley decided to try and run as a Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 elections, taking pro-choice and anti-homosexual stances and calling for tougher laws against hiring illegal immigrants.
North Dakota Republican Party Chairman Gary Emineth commented in 2007 that he was unsure that Polley was a suitable candidate.Gerald Polley’s presidential campaign ended on October 1, 2008; the following year he announced his plans to attempt another bid for president in 2012.
Hat tip: Denis Watkins
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September 13th, 2011 at 8:17 am
Time and again when I think I have experienced the furthest shores of the weird and the wonderful I have to admit, “I ain’t seen nothing yet.” And this one here really is special. What makes the description of these loonies so riveting is not just that they take themselves seriously but they have inveigled others, sane people, to examine their claims.
Mr Polley is the perfect, perhaps ultimate, example of what religious belief is able to do to the human mind. Of course, he is basically an extreme right wing Republican and he calls on his crazy religious views to support what I suppose must pass for political opinions. Mr Polley has completely by passed reason, never mind common sense, to invent a God of extraordinary banality.
As the man said, “You couldn’t make it up.”
September 13th, 2011 at 8:25 am
So… this guy believes Obama is more powerful than his god?
September 13th, 2011 at 9:16 am
On my way into work this morning, I noticed lots and lots of Alpha Course posters have been plastered all over everywhere. There isn’t a mention of religion, cult or god on any of them, just a vague invitation to ‘explore life’.
With retards like Polley around to aptly demonstrate just how crazy religiots can be, no wonder the people behind Alpha shy away from revealing who and what they really are.
September 13th, 2011 at 9:38 am
“Only a bold leader like my servant can stand against him.”
Make yer bleedin’ mind up.
September 13th, 2011 at 10:10 am
A sad case.
Some revealing background from the Wiki reference sources followed by a link to a rather fabulous letter he received from Princess Di (which I cannot recommend highly enough):
……Young Gerald’s life consisted of struggles with dyslexia and a crash that left him with brain damage after a car plowed into his bicycle at the age of 11……At 17, Polley emerged from a night of drinking and got into a fight with a man……The fight ended when Polley pulled out a gun and shot him……It was right before serving a three-year prison sentence for this incident that Polley said he discovered his powers to speak to the afterlife…..He said an angel-like being came to him while he was in county jail awaiting his sentence and bestowed him with knowledge of his special powers…..”One moment you don’t believe in anything……The next moment you believe in everything”…….
http://www.voicesfromspirit.com/V23N10/p21.htm
Perhaps we shouldn’t laugh but it’s hard not to.
September 13th, 2011 at 10:12 am
The sad thing is, the only difference between him and half the other republican candidates is, he hasn’t learned to keep his mouth shut on personally held idiot beliefs, the rest of them probably think similarly, but know better than to be so vocal for the sake of the votes,and try to appeal to more mainstream idiot beliefs instead.
September 13th, 2011 at 10:21 am
God may have been a right bastard in the Old Testament, but I have to say his speeches were better back then. Did he write this missive from a Betty Ford clinic?
September 13th, 2011 at 10:40 am
No dafter than any of the other religions out there.
September 13th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Mr Polley decided to try and run as a Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 elections, taking pro-choice and anti-homosexual stances and calling for tougher laws against hiring illegal immigrants.
North Dakota Republican Party Chairman Gary Emineth commented in 2007 that he was unsure that Polley was a suitable candidate.
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How did he come to that decision?
EDIT: Oh, I see. Pro-choice. Weird.
September 13th, 2011 at 11:53 am
@Broga,
I suspeect that this isn’t a case of what religion can do to the mind. More likely it’s a case of a man with a serious mental illness who expresses himself (and his fractured mental processes) with religious ideas and terminology.
Whilst I realise that many of the more evangelical/fundie folks come out with some deluded rubbish (like Charlie in the previous entry on the blog), this fella’s outpourings seem led by his mental illness.
September 13th, 2011 at 11:56 am
If this guy was not using religion for his claims he would be locked away.
Truly, even by USA right wing conservative christian standards, this man has raised the bar on religious insanity.
What’s the chance of him being asked to run, for the Republican’s, in the forthcoming election?
September 13th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
@Ivan: I agree with you on Princess Di’s letter to Demetrius, otherwise known asMr Polley, being one not to be missed. Mr Polley seems to have held in abeyance his sexual revulsions in the hope of making a bit of money via Elton John. I am surprised that Elvis Presley does not figure somewhere.
The question arises as to whether Mr Polley is at the extreme edge of USA Republican, religious fundamentalism or whether he is clinically insane and paranoid. But how can anyone tell any more? It is not possible, with any confidence, to separate the mad from the fundamentalist religious. In the past, at least in the UK, the crazy beliefs such as talking snakes and eating bread made flesh, were mostly kept for Sundays. In the USA the virus of religious belief has infected ordinary life and is producing politicians, supported by dotty followers, who seem, for whatever reason, to be one sandwich short of a picnic.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Take an unintelligent, uneducated and possibly mentally ill person, add religion and observe the result above. I expect these two have “followers” who feed their delusion.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
With his direct contact with god, this guy reminds me for all the world of Joseph Smith, the charlatan founder of the mormons, who also claimed that god had told him what rational things he should do to save humanity (like marry as many wives as you want and claim that all black people were direct descendants of Lucifer).
September 13th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
The Histrionics of Mr Polley.
This man is clearly mentally ill. I read this morning that the new Libyan state is to be based upon “moderate Islam”. Be that as it may, does anyone understand why a state needs to be based upon any religion at all?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14894264
September 13th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
@Angela_K: Good people to good things and bad people do bad things. It takes religion to make good people do bad things.
September 13th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Gerald Polley = Pled Allegory
September 13th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
In the 1970′s sit com in the US titled
“All in the Family” the wonderful lead character Archy Bunker called the state of California “The Land of Fruits and Nuts”
It looks as though that statement now applies to the entire US.
I hope the US disease of insanity is not catching as we in Canada live far too close.
By the way I believe “All in the Family” was based on the British series
“Till Death Do Us Part”
September 13th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
It was, dogon, but not anywhere near as tame as “All in the family” from what I’ve seen. As for Mr Polley, well, definitely not the full shilling.
September 13th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Broga, yes an excellent quotation from Steven Weinberg; in full for those who don’t know:
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
September 13th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
http://vimeo.com/15118673
Enjoy
September 13th, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Very good, Angie.
I still maintain that it is ideology that is the problem, and not religion per se. There is yet another letter on Ceefax tonight claiming that Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot did more harm than any religiots in history even though they were “atheists”. How many times has that argument been answered?
September 13th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
It doesn’t matter how many times it’s answered, they’re not listening.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:18 am
Poe’s law is alive and well.
I don’t think that Betty Bowers at her best can top this guy.