And yes, it is clearly a joke. It’s not a funny joke. It’s not an appropriate joke. But it’s a joke, nonetheless. Does anybody really believe that Furtick thinks God added entertainment to the Bible because He felt bad for Leviticus? Seriously? Come on.

I’m not really bothered so much by him joking about God apologizing for something in the Bible (although that certainly is an odd thing to joke about). I’m more concerned with him, as a leader, showing no interest in Leviticus.

The Moses tweet was strange, as well. “Glad that Moses is dead”? “Man crush on Joshua”?

What?

Score one for you.

I’m glad you think it was a bad tweet, but I didn’t challenge that part of what you said. You said it was a joke, so I asked how you knew.

You also said that it was wrong to attribute the words to SF. That’s debatable, but obviously I disagree. He tweeted the comment because he agreed with it and believed it himself. Is it an an observation from his own reading? Clearly. He’s reading the same things as his wife, so he knew what she was talking about.

It’s a big, big statement. God is apologizing for the Bible. It is fair to hold him accountable for that.

Here’s the thing, though. That quote isn’t the whole argument. It goes with other disrespectful observations he’s made, and it seems to have given a green light for his staff to publicly display the same foolishness.

Did you even read my comments?

I only ask because I’ve already stated twice that this was an inappropriate thing for Furtick to say (or more accurately, to quote his wife as saying). I’ll say it a third time to make it clear: Furtick shouldn’t have made that tweet.

Duncan, you could have made a decent post questioning Furtick for repeating his wife’s poor joke. Instead, you not only edited the actual speaker (Holly) out of his quote, but you then introduced the misattributed quote by claiming that they were Furtick’s actual words! “Furtick’s tweeted observations from his own reading are both revealing and horrifying”.

But they weren’t “Furtick’s observations”.

And you knew that when you wrote this post.

And you purposely left off the part of the quote that would have made it obvious to your readers that these weren’t Furtick’s words.

He owns it. He heard it from his wife and agreed with it sufficiently to repeat it to the thousands around the world who wait breathlessly for his every tweet.

If he didn’t agree with it, why is he embarrassing his wife by repeating her silly thinking? At least I tried to protect her reputation.

How do you know it’s a joke? Even if it is, doesn’t the fact that he finds humor in disrespecting God and his Word a big red flag?

James Duncan still misquoted it to make it sound worse.

It’s this kind of post that keeps most people away from Pajama Pages. This site could be useful at advancing God’s kingdom. Sadly, Pajama Pages is mostly a gotcha game.