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Evangelist preacher Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle.

But he drowned after walking out to sea from a beach in the capital Libreville in Gabon, west Africa.

One eyewitness said: "He told churchgoers he'd had a revelation that if he had enough faith, he could walk on water like Jesus.

"He took his congregation to the beach saying he would walk across the Komo estuary, which takes 20 minutes by boat.

"He walked into the water, which soon passed over his head and he never came back."

Franck Kabele, DailyRecord 99 Comments [9/1/2006 12:00:00 AM]
Fundie Index: 9
Submitted By: Lasagne
WTF?! || meh
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#70771
David D.G.

FSTDT Darwin Award for this one?


~David D.G.

8/31/2006 3:01:09 PM

#70772
xMinionX

I shouldn't laugh. I really shouldn't.

8/31/2006 3:01:37 PM

#70773
Coffee

Was he wearing lead underwear? Why didn't he float?

8/31/2006 3:04:08 PM

#70777
Papabear

Coffee -- Some persons are so lean they don't float well. My uncles are like that. I've seen them walk on the bottom of a pool. Why the heck this dolt didn't swim before drowning is the real question.

8/31/2006 3:16:14 PM

#70778
Symos

[fstdt=77585]I second that idea[/fstdt]

8/31/2006 3:28:09 PM

#70780
Nekhbet

Darwin Award thirded.

8/31/2006 3:32:38 PM

#70781
Bone_Vulture

I'd agree Papabear, one would think the dolt would've figured that walking on water wasn't going to happen when it was up to his chest.

8/31/2006 3:32:49 PM

#70783
Pike

I wonder if anybody in the congregation was shocked at the outcome?!!

8/31/2006 3:38:20 PM

#70789
Napoleon the Clown

Darwin Award.

8/31/2006 3:45:57 PM

#70796
Randola

One down, so many to go....

8/31/2006 3:58:10 PM

#70800
jay

He literally 'went off the deep end'

8/31/2006 4:11:50 PM

#70810
el nico

i feel so bad about laughing, but it's so funny!!

8/31/2006 4:24:02 PM

#70844
Winston Jen

Surely the lion incident would discourage any other fundies from doing things like this.

8/31/2006 5:04:00 PM

#70853
Lya Kahlo

okay - this guy was a moron for trying to walk on water and for -whatever reason - not stopping when (of should I say if) he realized it wasn't working. However, what about the people watching? Did no one try to help this guy? Did they think they could \"pray\" him some help?

Goodness. What a big pack of stupid this story is.

8/31/2006 5:18:17 PM

#70857
Gargoyle

Sounds that more Xians should try this, as well as the snake-\"trick\", since it seems to work!
To remove them from the gene-pool, that is...

8/31/2006 5:27:27 PM

#70872
E.H.

FSTDT Darwin Award.

Abso-freaking-lutely!

8/31/2006 5:54:25 PM

#70874
NotMe

I saw this on the news this morning and it was really funny. If people try to walk on water when they can't swim, they should start at the shallow end. Not on the deep end.

8/31/2006 5:57:19 PM

#70879
Libkitten

*facepalm*

I feel kind of bad for the guy. How sad to be so incredibly certain of something only to have it kill you in the end. Although... it didn't click that he wasn't walking on water when he didn't... start walking on the water?

8/31/2006 6:07:59 PM

#70882
Yahweh

*** climbs back on chair ***

Fuck, I've read a lot of fundie posts, and this is probably one of the funniest ones I've read in a long long time :)

8/31/2006 6:09:45 PM

#70889
Shannerwren

Determination doesn't make faith true. He sure died trying, though.

8/31/2006 6:23:27 PM

#70897
themann1086

This is just as good [and sad, really] as the guy who yelled \"God will save me, if he exists\" before jumping into the lions' den.

The lions ate him.

8/31/2006 6:56:39 PM

#70913
TDR

this is terrible. Why the fuck didn't anyone stop him, or run in and pull him out?

8/31/2006 8:07:30 PM

#70922
Crosis

Natural selection: 1
Fundie: 0

Darwin Award nthed.

8/31/2006 8:28:07 PM

#70965
whitewater55

Poor bastard, talk about blind faith.

9/1/2006 12:05:46 AM

#70966
Theironpaperclip

And the lord gave Jebus lungs AND gills so he could preach the word to both man and fish.

9/1/2006 12:06:07 AM
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