Bill Schmalfeldt ranting, 2011. (Image via Thomas Anderson at Vimeo)
“Bill Schmalfeldt doesn’t have principles. Bill Schmalfeldt doesn’t have values. Bill Schmalfeldt doesn’t have beliefs. Bill Schmalfeldt has enemies, and then nothing, a black and dank and empty void of sullenness.”
— Ken White, Popehat, Aug. 6
In 2011, Bill Schmalfeldt self-published a book entitled, Can You BE a Tea Party Member and STILL Call Yourself CHRISTIAN?: YES! Thanks to This NEWLY-REVEALED WORD of GOD! To say that this was one of the most wretched, ill-argued, unreadable and un-Christian things ever published would be to praise it with faint damns.
Put it this way: Bill’s book could more accurately be called, A Cry For Help: Please Put Me in a Lunatic Asylum Before I Hurt Myself.
The most important thing revealed by the book, however, is that Bill Schmalfeldt is not a Christian. He is a certain familiar type of dishonest atheist who mocks Christians and attacks the authority of the Bible except when he is (with unintended irony) using the authority of the Bible (in which he does not actually believe) to mock Christians (whom he deeply hates) as fools and hypocrites.
People often ask why I even bother to notice such an obscure failure, but any student of deviant psychology would find Schmalfeldt a fascinating case study and, while I am certainly not qualified to make a professional diagnosis, I know crazy when I see it. What we nowadays call mental illness or personality disorder, the Bible often describes as demonic possession, and if psychiatric treatment can’t fix what’s wrong with Bill Schmalfeldt, perhaps an exorcism could.
On the other hand, perhaps Bill Schmalfeldt is not crazy, but merely evil and, having decided to make war on God, has abandoned all hope of redemption. Keep that in mind when, for example, you read John Hoge’s account of Schmalfeldt’s most recent embarassment: Having boldly predicted Wednesday that the Maryland Court of Appeals would by Friday overturn Hoge’s peace order against him, Schmalfeldt finds his prediction to be mistaken. But did Bill learn anything from his mistake? No, he’s incapable of learning any lesson, or even acknowledging his errors, because he refuses to take responsibility for his own actions, always choosing instead to attribute his failures to wrongs or unfairness he blames on others. Bill Schmalfeldt knows he is doomed to Hell.
Of course @Vermontaigne is actually our good friend Dan Collins, who changed his screen name and photo to Carl DeLong (Kimberlin’s 1978 bombing victim) after Kimberlin sued us. But you see that Schmalfeldt refuses to acknowledge the fact that his “excellent friend” Brett Kimberlin has spent the past 20 years cheating DeLong’s widow out of the wrongful death settlement she won in court.
Meanwhile, Dan makes mocking reference to two of Brett Kimberlin’s most wicked lies: First, Kimberlin has falsely claimed he was secretly exonerated of his crimes. As investigative journalist Matthew Vadum has said, “A record of this surreptitious pardon is bound to surface any day now, delivered by a leprechaun in a unicorn-pulled stage coach.” Second, Kimberlin has falsely claimed that he won a lawsuit against Mark Singer, author of Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin. That never happened, either.
Honest and intelligent people know what Brett Kimberlin did and why Brett Kimberlin did it, but if Bill Schmalfeldt is intelligent — we stipulate the hypothetical — he is provably dishonest. Everybody knew that when Schmalfeldt harassed Aaron Walker and harassed Lee Stranahan, he was doing it to help Brett Kimberlin. For a long time, Schmalfeldt denied this. Then he accidentally admitted it:
Oops. So, what was his motive in harassing my wife in November? I believed at the time that Schmalfeldt was doing this at the behest of Neal Rauhauser, who had expressed interest in learning where I had moved when I left Maryland. If, by his hateful harassment — he sent me more than 200 hostile tweets in 48 hours — Schmalfeldt could provoke me into calling the cops, the police report would list my address and phone number, so that I would have in effect doxed myself.
Instead, I asked for intercessory prayer. Then, Schmalfeldt and his fellow Team Kimberlin members began publicly claiming I had not actually moved, as the basis of accusing me of “fraud.”
Oh. Oh, my goodness, Bill. Oh, my, my.
Then Brett Kimberlin sued and Schmalfeldt claimed I had been “served” in Maryland — a deliberate lie. When challenged to provide what’s called “proof of service” (which his “excellent friend” Brett Kimberlin would have, if it were true), Schmalfeldt was trapped.
This is how people go to Hell, see?
Bill Schmalfeldt hates God and loves evil. He despises truth and embraces lies. And no matter how often such a person is caught, their hatred of God is so deep and their commitment to wickedness is so profound, they will never confess their sins, nor will they repent. You cannot hope for their deliverance, for they scorn the prayers of the faithful. Their satanic dishonesty delivers them to destruction.
Bon voyage, Bill.
