Richard Abanes: Professional Apologist or Ad hominem Attack Artist??

The hate that Richard Abanes has for Christians is despicible

rabanes Says:
April 8th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
INGRID SCHLUETER – Our Modern-Day Jezebel Strikes Again.

From C?RN.info
Calling Ingrid Jezebel, then mocking her legitimate concern:

So, I need to know you stand so I can write your name down in blood on magickal parchment for the monthly list I send to the Pope. He, of course, forwards it on to the head honcho in charge of this whole diabolical mission I’m on (I can’t say his name, just call him The AC, wink-wink).
RA

He hates Ken Silva, even has two pages of lies on his own website about him:

Rick, LoL. Ditto. We cool as far as I can see. I’d love to get into a fight with you about Ken Silva over a cup of Starbucks

He also HATES Dr. John MacArthur, and slanders him:

I just visited the website of John MacArthur to see how the website of a dedicated, God-fearing, Bible-centered, doctrinally-sound Christian should look. And Chris P is right, it’s sooooo different from mine!
There is a BIG huge picture of John MacArthur at teh top of the page, just like my site has a picture of me at…..oh, wait….
Well, there’s big images of MacArthur’s books with links to them just like my site has…oh dear…uhm…..hold on a second…..
Okay, there’s also links to his radio messages, and articles, and TV broadcasts, just like my site has various links to……HEY!!!…OH NO!!!….gasp….
I’m shocked by the self monument to himself he calls a website. Goodness, just look at it! It should be sufficient to understand where he is coming from. He is a pastor? Spare me.

Dang, MacArthur’s picture of himself is bigger than mine.

Not only does he specialize in ad-hominems…but he compares what Rick Warren is going through on the bloggosphere to crucifixion…

rabanes Says:
April 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
And now we have Warren actually being crucified over at, of all places, PHOENIX PREACHER — they’re actually taking the same line Schlueter has taken: i.e., Rick Warren lied and said he is not against Gay Marriage.
CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD!
RA

On Street preaching:

RA: Yeah, or how about just going out to a quiet lunch with a Mormon bishop and sitting there for 3 hours without a PA and loudspeaker — actually talking to them, sharing with them, loving them, listening to them, hurting for them, trying to understand them, showing the scriptures to them, and praying for them. No cameras. No fighting. No drama.
I suppose it’s not really as glorious or glamorous as standing on a beach and screaming at babes in bikinis while being able to feel so very holy, but not truly interacting with anyone — but then again, where else are you going to see babes in bikinis?
RA

Accusing our motives of being less than Godly….

RA: It’s interesting, at least to me, that you’d choose to go to a beach where you could see a bevy of bikini-clad nubile young things scampering around uninhibited. Oh well. That’s another post, I suppose.
Now, as for your methods, they are unbiblical. You reflect neither the teaching/preaching style, nor the evangelism style, of Jesus Christ — the best preacher who ever lived. You don’t even mirror John the Baptist.
John did not run around to where unbelievers were trying to relax and then scream at them like an insensitive nut. The people WENT OUT TO SEE John (Luke 7:25).
Jesus primarily spoke to people (preached/taught) on a person-to-person, relational basis as he traveled from city to city. And when he did indeed speak to large crowds, again, these people came to hear him.
Even if what you did were actually biblical, then I fail to see why you and your friends found it necessary to scream & yell at people. Why didn’t you simply:
- express your own faith in God,
- talk about or own testimony,
- tell everyone about the PERSON of Jesus Christ and share some of the things he did in the Bible,
- do a comparison of different religions and finish about the uniqueness of Christianity….
There are dozens of ways to do what it seemed you were attempting to do. I didn’t hear an ounce of love, compassion, tenderness, joy, peace, kindness, understanding, hope, or anything else vaguely Christian in all your ranting and raving.
You and others like you seem to feel that getting people upset, hurting people, making others angry, and making sure they hate you is biblical. It’s not biblical — it’s twisted and sick. And, more importantly, it harms the spreading of the Gospel and misrepresents Jesus.
So, I would ask that you stop using the Bible as an excuse to be obnoxious. And also stop using the need for evangelism as an excuse to soothe your own psychological itches that can only be scratched when creating “persecution” for yourself via insensitive barking at people.
That’s not Jesus. That’s not biblical. That’s not evangelism. That’s not God-honoring.
Congratulations, btw, you just made those people even harder to reach for Christ now because when they think of “Christian,” they’re going to see you and that asinine stunt you pulled. All they wanted to do was get a break from life and enjoy God’s creation — maybe see a street juggler or an amateur magician. Instead, they got you.
Way to go….
RA

Richard Abanes used to be a credible apologist. Now he has gone the way of cheap insults and ad-hominem attacks. He spends his time (when not defending Rick Warren for his continual flip flops) assassinating the character of Christians with whom he disagrees.

I am waiting for a call from his attorney so he can try and shut my site down….