Oh, Gendou, who would have ever thought you'd get a job as a televangelist?

[pacificpikachu]

Sorry to write another entry so quickly, but I feel chatty right now.

THE GENDOU TELEVANGELIST

HE WAS ON TV AGAIN

Okay, he doesn't actually look that much like Gendou. But I associate him with Gendou because of this picture I snapped of him when Zoe and I were watching him and laughing in our room at Anime Expo.






Anyway, this time he decided to sing painfully bad love songs to the Holy Spirit. I mean, he'd constantly be interrupting his own song after a few repetitive lines (to tell us things like "I have a whole room just for the Holy Ghost in my house! You should invite him to come over, too! Clean your house specifically for him!") and he couldn't seem to decide what speed he wanted to sing the lines of the song at, so it sounded like... Well, suffice to say, it was awful. He actually suggested we sing love songs to the Holy Spirit, too. And he specified love songs, too, as if singing to the Holy Spirit by itself isn't bad enough.

I was snorting to myself about some of the lines, too. I'm not even kidding, two of the lines were something exactly like "I want give my love to the Holy Spirit, it makes me so happy to give him pleasure, I feel his love overpowering me" ONLY IT WAS MORE SUGGESTIVE THAN THAT. While I was watching it, I was wondering to myself if I could find the lyrics anywhere online to prove just how...uh...passionate this sounded. I should've written them down, but I was too busy laughing.

To top it all off with a maraschino cherry, once he was done with his godawful song, he tried to sell six entire cassette tapes (why not CDs? This is mystery to me) of his godawful songs about the Holy Spirit. Then six of his books. Apparently he writes one book about the Holy Spirit a month which means all year is NaNoWriMo in his world and then tries to pawn them off to people.

In fact, once he was done trying to sell his cassette tapes/books/DVDs/whatever else, he was encouraging that we just give him money for no real reason at all, claiming Jesus will pay you back tenfold. He didn't even specify it would go to any cause or anything, just "Why don't you donate $200 to me? Jesus will give you something good if you do. In fact, let's say a prayer now so Jesus will pay you even more money if you donate to me."

In summary, it was LULZ. And lots of them.

Comments

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Lots of religious songs are creepily/hilariously suggestive, as I discovered on Mission Trip this summer. D: Have I ever told you about the one I called 'The Orgasm Song' because the chorus consisted of repeating, "Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, yes, LORD! Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, yes, LORD!" about fifty million times with mounting heat and passion?

...I think it was only laughing at things like that that kept me sane that week. XD

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I know--I fail to understand how the people who wrote these songs don't realize how dirty these songs sound. I mean, when you're moaning and talking about passion and heat of love and things like that, what do you think people are going to think?

Hahaha, that song sounds greatly perverse. XD I wish I could hear it!

[hitchi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he does kinda look like Gendou, but he would need glasses to match the look better.

Ugh, I abhor when fundamentalist kooks are so, so stupid and cultlike that it makes all Christianity, and sometimes even all organized religions, look bad. I mean, they probably don't even believe it themselves, and it's pretty haughty for them to think that their spiritual relationship is so stable that they can devote all their time trying to get others to believe the same. So many people our age are turned off when they hear I'm a "devout" Christian, but you guys know me...bleh, there's nothing I can do.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

We should send him some anonymously. XD

See, I have no problem with people being devout, as long as they're open-minded and tolerant like you are. You've never once preached at me, and you accept people for who they are. ♥ But yes, I agree that it's no good when people generalize a whole religion based off just the extremists.

This guy was pretty hilarious, though. I'll give him that.

[hitchi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, based on what you said, I do agree that he's funny, but...for people like me, there's also the "Oi, what is he doing to my religion and why does it seem uncannily like rape?" factor happening simultaneously.