Nut-job preacher

[Laura902]

Maybe some of you have seen him on T.V, he was on an HBO special I guess:

Jumping up and down, getting hit by chairs and telling girls they are fat is hardly the image of a Catholic preacher. But for Justin Fatica, a 29-year-old unordained priest and leader of a nonprofit called Hard as Nails Ministries, that is exactly the point.


Fatica targets teens with his preaching, and his methods of spreading his brand of the Catholic message have brought him both admiration and criticism.

Fatica said he found Christ at the age of 17, on a Saturday afternoon when he stepped out of confession. This moment planted the seeds for what he believes is his mission to grab the attention of young people and spread the Catholic faith. While he acknowledges that he is "not the smartest tool in the shed," he believes that he has been chosen to preach Catholicism to young people in this way.

A graduate of Seton Hall University, Fatica went on to teach at Catholic schools before before becoming one of the founders and directors of Ministry for Hard as Nails. The organization's Web site states its vision is to "bring the message of Jesus Christ in intense and dynamic ways."

Just what everyone needs: more brainwashed youth
This guy makes millions with this, I've met him because my parents are Roman Catholic (I'm atheist) and I helped out at a fundraiser at their church a few years ago.
I would never do that again after meeting this lunatic :o

[farmout rightarm]

1. Priest + hard as nails = a bit frightening

:scared:
:evilgrin:

[niyad]

2. not to mention his focus on girls.

[derby378]

3. self-delete

[RevCheesehead]

4. An unordained priest?

:eyes:

[catbyte]

5. He's a tool, alright! N/T

[CurtEastPoint]

6. My thoughts exactly. If you're a priest, you're ordained. If you're not ordained, you are laity, n

not a priest.

Just a loose cannon.

[YOY]

7. Well then...he isn't really a priest is he now?

I remember a CCD Catholic Retreat in my teen years that were the straw that broke the camel's back.

This young priest (newly ordained) that talked to us about life was damaged goods. The guy was obviously unhinged. Apparently in another life he was a college football player. Drank a lot, listened to Lead Zepplin (Who he claimed was only one guy), and (gasp!!!) slept with girls!!!

This guy was so busy atoning for his imagined sins and inability to engage in moderation that he was screaming and yelling at us.

It was like a trip into Evangelist land for Catholics.

Sorry...homey don't play that tune. This guy was nuts.

[ChadwickHenryWard]

9. "Lead" Zeppelin?

Is that how he pronounced it, "Leed" Zeppelin? They spelled is without the "A" for a reason - because they were concerned Americans would mispronounce it.

[YOY]

10. That was my mispelling. Should be "Led". He claimed it was a guy. As in a single guy and not 4.

n/t

[DeSwiss]

11. Ordain....

Main Entry: or·dain
Pronunciation: \ȯr-ˈdān\
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English ordeinen, from Anglo-French ordener, ordeiner, from Late Latin ordinare, from Latin, to put in order, appoint, from ordin-, ordo order
Date: 14th century

transitive verb 1 : to invest officially (as by the laying on of hands) with ministerial or priestly authority
2 a : to establish or order by appointment, decree, or law : enact <we the people…do ordain and establish this Constitution — United States Constitution> b : destine, foreordainintransitive verb : to issue an order


:eyes: - Aren't pedophile priests ordained???

[laconicsax]

12. Shhhhh!

Ordination magically bestows priests with impeccable morality.

You should really be more sensitive to people's deeply held fictions. :P

edit: capitalization

[DeSwiss]

13. "You should really be more sensitive to people's deeply held fictions."

I've been told that.

- And more than once......


"Help him-a be more sensitive-a
to us Jesus-ah...."

[RevCheesehead]

14. do you honestly think I don't know the meaning of "ordained?"

The unordained cannot be a priest... they are laity.

[DeSwiss]

17. No Rev. Cheesehead.....

...I knew you would know -- what with you ministerial background, and all.


- The conferring of a particular "special club member" status among the sanctified. I think it's nice for the old guys to have a hobby.....

[blueworld]

8. Well, he's already giving out great clues about education

Seton Hall used to be a fantastic school. He must have skipped a few classes.

"Not the smartest tool in the shed"? Huh? I assume he means "Not the sharpest tool in the shed"? And yet another reason I'm glad I don't pay for HBO. I have enough fun watching the local preachers.

[onager]

15. He's "self-ordained," according to the HBO plugs.

Which of course, in the Roman Catholic hierarchy, means he has the same power/authority as any other nut ranting on a street corner.

Where I grew up, in the rural South, we had self-ordained wowsers running around all over the place. Useless Trivia of the Day: the local name for them was "jackleg preachers."

They belonged to various zingy Protestant denominations, of course. In my 'hood, Catholics and Jews were about as common as Martians.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll check HBO On Demand if I need a laugh.

Worth looking up: the 2001 HBO documentary "A Question of Miracles." It dealt with the faith healers Binny Hinn and Reinhard Bonnke.

I almost did an Elvis on my TV as I watched Hinn pushing a very poor family to put his "love offering" on their credit card. Their son was born with inoperable brain cancer and was never going to get any better. Yet they dragged the poor kid all over the country, following Hinn and his faith-healing circus. The child died while the documentary was being filmed.

One of Bonnke's "miracle services" in Africa drew such a frantic mob that a couple of people were killed in the crush. He denied any responsibility, of course.

The documentary's director, Anthony Thomas, told the New York Times: "If I had seen miracles, I would have been happy to trumpet it...but in retrospect, I think they do more damage to Christianity than the most committed atheist." (Quote from Wikipedia.)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

16. Let's send him a toilet seat cut in half for a present........

:evilgrin: :rofl: :rofl: