I’m amazed that it has taken this long for people to realise that Angus Buchan is a snake oil salesman, but it looks like the penny is finally dropping.

This recent reckoning began when he declared that Cape Town’s drought was due to God being angry with the Mother City.

We are all morally bankrupt, you see – more on that here. Now normally when we knock Angus we are set upon by his online defenders, but this time around it was exactly the opposite.

Rather than come to his defence, it seems that everyone is gatvol of this man and the tripe that comes out of his mouth (this spectacular email aside).

You can add Matthew Winfield’s name to the list of people tired of Buchan’s rhetoric, the NGO Project Facilitator writing a piece on Huff Post SA.

Shots were fired:

Buchan plans to paint Cape Town as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, and its people as moral indigents. Thus he will add racism to his brand of already sexist, homophobic evangelism. The cost of Buchan’s reckless demagoguery, meanwhile, will fall squarely on Cape Town’s water-users…

Buchan is well known for openly admitting to sexism and homophobia…In 2016, it was reported that Scottish Borders Council denied Buchan access to their country, citing his abhorrent views on women and homosexuality.

It is therefore unsurprising that the drought should strike Buchan as proof of his own views on morality and “good” behaviour – as opposed to a complex issue in which many are embroiled and implicated. Those who tend to see themselves as history’s protagonists often elide facts in favour of a thin salvation narrative…

Buchan’s racism is in full view in the video in which he touts his national prayer gathering. He quips off-hand that “gangs” will protect the attendees, likening the venue (Mitchell’s Plain, which is as big as it is diverse) to a place worthy of God’s wrath; in need of God’s salvation.

Besides that, Buchan’s prayer meeting lets companies, statespersons and Capetonians all shirk their civic duty, choosing faith in divine will over unity and civic responsibility. It allows Buchan to shirk qualms about bringing hundreds, if not thousands, of his devotees into a city already stretched to capacity.

And to finish:

Cape Town needs water and it needs prayers. It does not need fire and brimstone.

Yup, and it certainly doesn’t need some opportunistic bigot running his mouth so that he can capitalise on desperate farmers and citizens.

This is the kind of chap that smears the name of decent religious folk, of which we all know many.

Hey Angus, why don’t you sommer voetsek?

[source:huffpost]