Preaching Babies
Just after getting home from meeting my new 12-day-old baby cousin for Thanksgiving, I was mighty disturbed to discover, courtesy of a friend, this charming thing on YouTube.
Most fantastic of all is not the video itself, but just how many preaching babies there are in the “Related Videos.” Richard Dawkins might be right about systematic child abuse.
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November 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am
What’s really creepy is the kid made a helluva lot more sense than Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn and a host of other blow dried biblical buffoons who have been “anointed by the spirit” to preach without any accountability and oversight.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I was a preaching baby! lol
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Having accidentally taught my son the f-word when he was 18-months or so, I know that babies imitate emotionally-charged language with uncanny accuracy. No surprise that they pick up on psychotic babble. Slightly less surprising that the congregation still applauds when they hear this stuff for what it is.