[via Holy Weblog]

Michael Ventre:

Many, if not most, Christians understand the true message of Jesus. But there is a frightening number of so-called Christians who can be best described as creepy, rigid, arrogant, cruel, know-it-all, pompous, obnoxious and treacherous -- better known by the acronym C.R.A.C.K.P.O.T. ...

The now-infamous SpongeBob video — or as it is more commonly known now among CRACKPOT Christians, "The Insidious Perpetuation of the Undersea Gay Agenda By Animated Phylum Porifera" — also features such notable characters as Barney, Winnie the Pooh, Bob the Builder, the Rugrats and others. By their participation, I have to assume they are targets as well. The CRACKPOT Christians will ask, "Why is it we never see Barney with a girlfriend?" Or "Is Winnie’s preoccupation with honey just a smokescreen?" And "Exactly what type of 'tools' is Bob the Builder busy with these days?"

This situation might be funny if it wasn’t so insane.

Yet rather than dump on the CRACKPOT Christians for placing their heads in an anatomically impossible position, I feel a little sorry for them. By turning SpongeBob into a controversy, they’re destroying the miniscule amount of credibility they might have had in the eyes of real Christians and others. These CRACKPOT Christians have succeeded in doing something I thought would be impossible:

They’re giving Jesus Christ a bad name.