In case you haven’t heard, the financial markets have been a little shaky in recent weeks. And right-wing pastor Kevin Swanson knows why: Gay people. Specifically, a bisexual economist from Britain who’s been dead for 70 years.
John Maynard Keynes was a highly regarded British financial expert who helped shape modern economics as we know them today. He was also bisexual, which Swanson, who once threatened to smear poop all over himself if his son ever married a man, considers to be the same thing as gay. And because of this, the pastor feels Keynes’ ideas should not be taken seriously, lest they result in the world ending.
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While speaking on his “Generations Radio” program this week, Swanson predicted that people will look back on America generations from now and realize that the country was completely destroyed by Keynes, who died in 1946, and the ideas thought up in his gay brain.
“It will be interesting to know that a homosexual ruined the world,” Swanson said. “Somebody will indeed write the story about this in the year 2060 or 2070, no doubt. This will be the great exposé of how the world economies came down all because of a homosexual who was promiscuous.”
But not just promiscuous, Swanson added, Keynes was “perhaps one of the most wicked, flagrantly licentious men who has lived in the modern world.”
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“It makes a lot of sense,” Swanson babbled on. “Sexual nihilism, of course, will produce sexual burnout, and that must be tied to economic burnout and epistemological burnout as well when societies lose the will to live!”
Yes, you read that correctly, folks. Entire civilizations will essentially kill themselves because of one man who happened to have sex with another man sometime during the first half of the 20th century.
The obvious follow-up question to Swanson’s argument, of course, is: How will people even be able look back in the year 2060 or 2070 if humanity has been obliterated?
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h/t: Right Wing Watch
Jay McMinn
The same could be said about King David.
Matthew Farris
How will they look back if the world is ruined?
Chris Tan
This world needs to be ruined long time ago anyway! Thanks, gay people!
CamRon Hastiin Yazhii
poop pastor is loosing his wallet contributors so he’s outraged.
joeyty
Not sure about Keynes. But a homosexual DID ruin the Academy Awards (with that Rob Lowe/Snow White thing..)
Tony Chaplinski
well deserved nick name because he sure is full of it
Brian
Kevin Swanson understands that men have high and constant sex drives. Yes, if they are promiscuous in their behavior, it does demean the nuclear family. Male promiscuity presents a threat to the nuclear family as it means that the male gallivants rather than stays at home with the wife to nurture his family.
So, yes, Kevin Swanson is partly right. However, he is wrong to blame it on homosexuality per se. If the practitioner of homosexuality is wise and restrained, it doesn’t destroy. It’s the practitioner, stupid, and not the homosexuality per se.
It’s interesting to note that Kevin has failed to mention women. It is my view that when women increasingly prostitute themselves, society generally becomes less equal and more licentious. This is great for men in the gay scene who depend on women to enable their own promiscuity as men, but it is generally not a good way to maintain an ordered and equal society.
When gay-identifying men use promiscuous females – often prostitutes – to justify their own promiscuity, that’s when society starts to decline.
Michael Haynes
No Kevin you have it wrong just like y’all always have, People will look back and realize it was right wing fundamental Xtianity that ruined the world, you people are a special kind of crazy that modern psychology can not fix. You are the enemies of the state and of the world
Roy Hortman
He is nutts
David Scrivens
Why even respond to a bigoted idiot
Art G Ramirez
I volunteer !!!!
bottom250
Ohhhh Honey I am a home wrecker and a world wrecker.
gaym50ish
I am not a fan of Keynesian economics, which basically theorizes that a country can spend more to become prosperous. But if that theory does ruin the world, it won’t be because Keynes was bisexual or because he was promiscuous, which he certainly was. There is no more connection between those two things than If I said the “poop pastor” was a wacko because he’s heterosexual.
Personally, I don’t have anywhere near the problem with Keynes’s sex life that I have with his politics. It’s his economic theories that have gotten us to the point of having a $15 trillion national debt.
Brian
Kevin Swanson is partly right but he makes the mistake of confusing homosexuality with promiscuity. They are two totally different words with totally different meanings.
Many Right-wingers confuse the two words, either deliberately or because they lack the ability to think clearly.
If they took time to think logically about it, they would be able to come to a more cogent argument about human sexuality, and one that does not demonize male homosexuality per se.
Bobby French
What ruined the world? The night that asshole’s father did not pull out!
Trent Hultgren
The only thing that will ruin the world is #hate….i.e. This “pastor” (pharisee Sadduce)-he should probably read the bible before he speaks. #judgeyelestyebejudge #withthesamemeasureyoujudgeyiutooshallbejudged
Brian
Here is a great interview with the biographer who wrote a book on John Maynard Keynes. The biographer says that many of the men who were born in the 1880’s lost their virginity with other men rather than with other women.
It further reinforces my point that the advancement of feminism in the 20th century has made it less likely – and more shameful – for men to engage in same-sex activity on a casual, non-gay-identifying basis.
Here’s the link:
http://www.msnbc.com/three-cents/watch/the-curious-sex-life-of-john-maynard-keynes-449290819583
Tom Hilton
Do us all a favour and just ignore this hate-filled man.
Manknee Aeizona
Gothrykke
One day, the world will look back and SMDH at how religion was allowed to terrorize people for so long.
joeyty
@Bobby French: Some people legitimately do think Keynsian economics have screwed things up though.
joeyty
@gaym50ish: He DID warn us about a coming WWII though and turned out to be so right. (But that’s a different subject, I know). Even if Keynsian economics ruined the world, what about Turing and Francis Bacon and (probably) Isaac Newton saving the world ? Etc. His whole hangup is so nutty. (As if so many great men, both homo and hetero, weren’t promiscuous).
KentonForshee
Too late Capitalism already destroyed it.
Brian
Don’t diss Kevin Swanson completely. Through him, we are better able to understand the Right-wing mindset and how it chooses – deliberately or otherwise – to conflate male homosexuality with promiscuity.
We should also understand that the liberal mindset has used identity politics to restrict and segregate male homosexuality away from the mainstream. Liberals fear the notion that male homosexual desire might tempt men away from women, thus empowering men over women.
Both conservatives and liberals are the enemies of male homosexual desire.
Stephen Benoit
Transiteer
Swanson’s proof that religion – especially the Abrahamic ones – are crap, are invented fictions to control people. And that this moron needs professional help. Whats the matter Swanson? Collection plate down? Most people are dumping religion and going with Atheism or Buddhism. Either are far better and happier places than hanging out with you and yours.
J.r. Graff
“A promiscuous homosexual”….. Yeah, because there’s really just one there …. oh, and straight people are NEVER promiscuous ….
Luis H. Lopez
Another lunatic GOP antigay bigot!
Stefano
@joeyty: @Brian: *crickets chirp*
joeyty
@Stefano: Sometimes I do manage to shut everybody up, don’t I ?
paulbear30
I guess he must not believe there is a such thing as a celibate gay or celibate in general because rest assured, that is far more dangerous to his cause of sexual materialism than sexually active gays. In fact, it’s highly unlikely that the very promiscuous won’t at least experiment with both sexes. The sexual nihilists, those who have transcended the bewilderment of sex are not as easily swayed by the primitive impulses of the selfish greed machine, of which heterosexual sex is a pawn.
Michael Hunter
Alan David Smith
yeah the fact that the world blows itself apart, has more acarage of fast fod restuarnts then farmland, made the water un-drinkable. and the air unbreathable. rnviromental disasters, un ending co-operate greed. the suppresian of women all over the planet. they still haven’t found the 200 plus kidnapped by isis 2 years ago. i could go on but i don’t wanna be hear all do. so i will just say. either start doing something to battle actual problems or shut the hell up.
Typhon
@Brian: “Kevin Swanson understands that men have high and constant sex drives. Yes, if they are promiscuous in their behavior, it does demean the nuclear family… So, yes, Kevin Swanson is partly right. However, he is wrong to blame it on homosexuality per se. If the practitioner of homosexuality is wise and restrained, it doesn’t destroy. It’s the practitioner, stupid, and not the homosexuality per se.”
In the old testament marriage was polygamous and men could pretty much have as many women as their tongues could cope with (as they currently can in Islam including child brides cause, you know muhammad had one) be they wives, concubines, slaves, spoils of war and so forth. Promiscuity it seems is perfectly acceptable so long as it is fenced about with theocratic laws to preserve the family. One wonders how homosexual promiscuity (i.e. the “practitioner” of homosexuality as though being gay were some sort of career choice or sporting preference) affects the nuclear family in the absence of children?
“It’s interesting to note that Kevin has failed to mention women. It is my view that when women increasingly prostitute themselves, society generally becomes less equal and more licentious. This is great for men in the gay scene who depend on women to enable their own promiscuity as men, but it is generally not a good way to maintain an ordered and equal society.
Interesting… again given who is speaking i.e. a religious fantasists your comments seem strange given the inferiority of women was instituted by divine mandate in judaism, christianity and islam i.e. inequality hardly comes courtesy of prostitutes.
“When gay-identifying men use promiscuous females – often prostitutes – to justify their own promiscuity, that’s when society starts to decline.”
Now you are starting to sound like Ray Comfort who it seems took the Nuremberg decrees and some of Hitlers choicer speeches, replaced the word “Jew” with “homosexual” and started vilifying and demonising another group to justify his gods dictate against us… after all a loving god wouldn’t condemn gays unless we were willfully evil child molest whores would he?
Muslim majority countries are some of the most hedged about with limits of sexual expression and proclavities yet they are some of the biggest consumers of pornography and hardly the most enlightened and stable of entities. In the Roman empire a male citizen could pretty much have sexual relations with anyone including young boys so long as they were not citizens or someone else’s wife and occupied a lower social rung. The Roman empire lasted for centuries thank you very much and in the West collapsed not long after christianity was declared the state religion with all its anal retentive preoccupation with sex. Greece which gave us the rudiments of science, philosophy and democracy managed all this with in many instances, accepted or institutionalised pederasty i.e. homosexuality and promiscuity are hardly the cause of the downfall of civilisations.
Kevin Swanson would be bettered served looking the abhorrent prosperity gospel that substitutes wealth in this life for any real signs of the existence of his hideous deity. It’s so much easier to have a go at queers than think about what jesus actually spoke about and seemed to give a damn about more than virtually anything else i.e. the lust for money and its misuse. Attacking gays doesn’t cost you anything and certainly doesn’t involve any meaningful sacrifice like that purportedly enjoined by jesus, giving everything you own to the poor.
paulbear30
Uh, let’s not forget that Jesus was likely celibate! Getting really tired of guys trying to latch on to the Jesus thing when they fail to emulate him as well. I highly doubt Jesus would be “sex positive”. There is a reason prostitution is the oldest “profession”. There is a reciprocal relationship that exists between the “goods” and the other “goods”. Sexual materialism is hardly a lifestyle of charity.
paulbear30
I would agree that promiscuous gay sex doesn’t hurt the family. In fact, it provides the perfect motivation for “breeders” to convert. The trick is to not be sexual. That is what scares them!
spemat
the bisexuals are coming back… like ancient Greece, Rome, Persia, Japan and India… better be careful Rev. We ran those empires for centuries.
jamessavik
Wonder how long will be before this asshole gets arrested for illegal use of a teenager or doing something profoundly unnatural at a rest stop with six truckers and a goat.