Famous Fundies: Phil Kidd
Among the ranks of shock-jock evangelists perhaps none have aspired to the verbal exploits of “Dr.” Phil Kid. Popular with many fundamentalist churches of more militant type, Phil is the master of Hair-Raising Sermon Illustration. It’s a rare event when he manages to make it through a sermon without some apocryphal tale of tragedy and gore.
And then there are his screaming rants against all manner of other ungodly things like Nintendo video games and interracial marriage…
Here he is in fine form:
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Kidd is also the one that likes to throw around the N-word. My fav pic of him can be seen here: http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/ijiwaru_sensei/image001.gif
That pic is really too good to miss.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, jj.
Wow that is a scary one. (JJ’s pic and the story.)
Wow, that’s just….I mean….wow.
What a cold, heartless man. The fundy movement is all about how evil and sinful everyone who is NOT a FUNDY. They deflect their own sin by making everyone else more sinful. Did he not talk about how he broke the law by speeding down the hill? He could have caused a deadly accident just as easy as the drunk teen driver. Only difference between the two of them is he didn’t die because of his actions and the young driver, sadly did! Being drunk is no more sinful then speeding. Both actions can cause physical harm to yourself and others.
He would be wise to stop looking under a microscope at everyone elses failures and take a good hard look in the mirror. Perhaps fundies haven’t smoked, murdered anyone, drank an alcholic bevereage etc. That DOES NOT make them any less sinful then the rest of mankind.
“Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet”
You do realize that he isn’t all that well known, even by X’ers that I know. You have to draw the line somewhere and most of the X’ers I’m acquainted with draw it at blatant racists.
However, if you want to go on and on about how disgusting homosexuals are, that’s okay. Even if you say you “hate homo’s and wouldn’t cross the street to witness to them except that you’re commanded to do so.”
Racism (especially of the “they’re fine but I don’t want my sister to marry one” variety) is more prevalent in fundamentalism than many want to admit.
Phil isn’t as far out of the mainstream as one might imagine.
I’m glad he didn’t go into gory details, as promised. *rolls eyes*
I agree, Darrell. Racism among fundies is still prevalent.
I guess it depends on where you live, because I haven’t met very many racist Fundamentalists. I guess that’s because most of the churches I’ve been to were on the west coast, and nobody is really racist over there.
Same here in the northeast.
I also never heard of this guy until now. I googled his name and found his website. A lot of his itinerary for this year is in the south, though he has a handful of meetings in the midwest. I don’t think his kind make it up our way too much.
I would also like to check out his illustration, though that would probably be difficult to do. I’ve always wondered how evangelists always happen to be in the right place at the right time…that is when it comes to illustrations.
I know this post has taken a different path, but I I would be caution everyone about pawning off racism on the South. Isn’t that in itself stereotyping and discrimination? I’ve met northern, mid-western and west coast racists. Just b/c you live in a part of the country where people don’t get attached to a certain flag, doesn’t mean you live in an area free of hate and discrimination.
Failure to see the problem is being part of it.
Right on Sandi. Speeding is one of those “white”, “pet” sins we fundamentalists don’t talk about in our lists. Oh and even divided in half 210mph is still speeding. lol
The lack of compassion in these kinds of shouters and illustrations is staggering. Truth and Love aren’t mutually exclusive…but sadly they seem to be presented as such by these hyper-fundamentalists.
Not all sins are equal. See John 19:11.
Drunkenness is worse than speeding (unless it’s wreckless speeding). Racism is worse than drunkeness.
Sins are only equal in the sense that they all keep us from God.
Mountain, where is the verse that says racism is worse than drunkeness?
Is regionalism better than racism? i.e. thinking that all Southerners are dumb rednick hicks?
Spending one minute lining up sins from acceptable to worst is a collosal waste of time and an exercise in missing the point. Better to spend all our time finding out how to draw near to the God Who will graciously embrace anyone who humbly repents: the drunk teenager in the ditch, the smug, screaming preacher, and the likes of all of us who pretend to know where each one falls in a list of sinners, great and small. We’re all on the list, but there is only one name on it: Mankind.
I wish there was a site where all these Apocryphal sermon illustrations were catalogued according to their “Churchland Legend” status.
what happened to the audio?
Whoops, looks like the audio somehow disappeared off the server.
I’ll try to get it back up.
It’s back up and running.
Was that picture phot shop or the real deal? I’ve actually seen him in person. He wears a trench coat with an American flag on the front by his heart and a confederate in the back just under the trenchcoat neck. Also when he was getting ready to preach he would act like he was getting ready to box-really. Actually it was at that church where Darrell showed the clip of Missionary Updates. Met alot of nice, friendly people while there.