Do you have the WILLIAM Tapley email ?

Ha, ha, fascinating, Jenny H! And I definitely began to think I was reading the GOP platform when I got to the your expounding on Saints B & V. 😀

Wow! Interesting stuff. I’d assumed he was Protestant too.

Sorry it took so long for your comment to be approved. You’re an approved commentator, but the anti-spam software puts a hold on comments from approved commenters that have more than one link in case you tricked me into approving you with a normal comment then used that status to spam the site. And, I’ve been away so haven’t been around to release held comments from purgatory.

Re my response to Diane G, which was remove, I read this in your comments guidelines:
” Comments I find offensive will either not be approved, or removed as soon as I find them. My decision is final and I will not enter into an argument about whether or not it’s fair or reasonable.”

Understood and accepted. However it’d be nice to have an explanation (in general or re the particulars) as to why my observations were removed. I haven’t the slightest idea what was so offensive about my remarks, which were made simply to elucidate her question.

Berlet himself has long been notorious as an apocalyptic conspiracy monger.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1243

I just posted a few remarks re Diane G’s comment, which, I’d written before I read your comments on what I’d posted. Given Tapley’s declared homiletic lineage, they have relevance to your comments on right wing/religious homophobia. And yeah, the politicians and preachers who vehemently attack homosexuality are invariably the ones caught toe-tapping in public toilets. Maybe they’ll find Tapley tapping his toes in one of the bathrooms at the Denver airport. I’ll definitely check out his other “research” on phallic imagery.

Not long after I posted the above, but before you’d posted your comments on mine, I listened to an excellent interview with the investigative reporter Chip Berlet on the “Sunday Show” on KPFA my local Pacifica station, hosted by Philip Maldari, which has relevance to all these matters. In the first portion of the interview, Berlett discusses the apocalyptic strain in the Christian right and how it fits into the Trumpian and greater Republican political agendas. This sheds light on Tapley’s theology, which, however nutty, does fit into current deep-end, right-wing Christian politics. Then it turns to a discussion of the history of the use of the word “political correctness” (how it was first used by progressives, then satirized by progressives who were against doctrinaire thought, then co-opted by the right), and it goes on to discuss various related matters including some conspiracy theories. This is an excellent and wide-ranging, yet cohesive interview. Whatever one’s politics may be, there is much to be learned and to consider here. https://kpfa.org/episode/sunday-show-july-24-2016/ (second hour). He also touches on the revival of the Red Heifer, something else to keep one’s eye on, crazy though it may seem. Those chiliasts ain’t chillin’, they’re busy finding ways to hasten the End Times, be it breeding red heifers or helping stir up trouble in that little portion of the Near East that has been contested in the name of one deity or another from time immemorial.

Your comment, however facetiously made, piqued my curiosity, though I’d already posted a comment about Tapley. I’d fully expected to find that it referred to some eagle in the Apocalypse since a recurrent rhetorical device of that book has to do with enumerating groups of beings (such as the Four Horsemen) that are either agents of the divine or of the devil. However, attempting to follow that premise proved fruitless – I find no mention of a group of eagles in Revelations. Then I went to his website and find his explanation exceedingly curious. First off, he’s not a Protestant fundamentalist (as I’d also assumed), but a wacko Roman Catholic – the soi-disant Third Eagle in the line of two medieval preacher saints: St. Bernadino of Siena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_of_Siena “Bernardino’s legacy was far from benign: of fanatical moralizing temperament, he preached fiery, intransigent sermons against many classes of people. His sermons were riddled with ostensible anti-Semitism, misogyny, and homophobia. He demonized many women as “witches”, and called for homosexuals (or “sodomites” as he called them) to be either completely isolated from society or eliminated from the human community. He thus became a major exponent of what historian Robert Moore has called “the persecuting society” of late medieval Christian Europe”; and St. Vincent Ferrer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ferrer who was bent on converting Jews. Given the Republican platform on homosexuality despite Trump’s declaration to protect the LGBT community (notice that Trump spoke only about protecting gays and gay rights with respect to Islamic homophobia, not Christian), and the thinly veiled anti-Semitism in much of the right wing, one could imagine Tapley tapping into this regressive vein of Christian fundamentalism, even though with regard to End Times prophecy, many Protestants still regard the Catholic Church as the Whore of Babylon and the Pope as the Antichrist or his emissary.

Vaccination made him susceptible to the poisons in those chemtrail but a steady diet of organically GMO-free food will arrest further damage.

I find it fascinating too where these people find confirmation of their theories. There are three Tapley videos about Denver airport – one is even more phallo-centric. It goes on and on about the horse’s mane which is apparently made up of dozens of penises as well as giving more details about the baggage handling area.

It’s like the religious extremists who rail against homosexuality that are so clearly loving every second of it it’s obvious they’re gay themselves whether or not they realize it. I often feel quite sorry for them that being brought up in an extreme religious environment has meant they can never have a normal adult sexual relationship with someone they love. Then they go and call for all gays to be killed and thus kill most of my sympathy.