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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#1 - 2014-03-16 19:21:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
This is the only time in my life I will cheer a person's death.

These jerks ruined a funeral for a friend of mine in San Fran.

They've ruined funerals for our soldiers.

Good Riddance.

Son says Fred Phelps Sr. of Westboro Baptist Church is near death

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Anya Klibor
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2014-03-16 19:45:41 UTC
A friend of mine, Steve Gutowski, came home in a coffin. Specialist Gutowski was KIA in Afghanistan. These assholes showed up and picketed his funeral. Every cop with-in three towns distance was there, around the pricks, partitioning them so the family wouldn't have to see them or hear them. We did everything we could to send out brother off properly, without worrying that these animals would be heard.

Personally, I would have put the bullet in his head long ago. People like him are the reason religion is treated so poorly nowadays, especially when it comes to Christianity. These people are not Christian and never had been; a Christian believes in the primacy of the New Testament, after all. They do not and never have. So these things will crawl back under a rock without Fred to lead them.

He is a cult of personality, and every personality cult draws in those lacking self-esteem. Part of my prays that another Ruby Ridge would happen to them, but that's jacked up.

Leadership is something you learn. Maybe one day, you'll learn that.
Marie Hartinez
Aries Munitions and Defense
#3 - 2014-03-16 21:45:47 UTC
I'm willing to bet that they'll cry the loudest when people picket his funereal.

Surrender is still your slightly less painful option.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2014-03-16 22:21:36 UTC
I acknowledge the existence of this thread but ignore the event it mentions.

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-03-16 22:25:40 UTC
“I feel sad for all the hurt he’s caused so many. I feel sad for those who will lose the grandfather and father they loved. And I’m bitterly angry that my family is blocking the family members who left from seeing him, and saying their good-byes.” -Nathan Phelps

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
#6 - 2014-03-17 09:27:29 UTC
Worst closet case ever.
Aspalis
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2014-03-17 10:41:21 UTC
Anya Klibor wrote:

Personally, I would have put the bullet in his head long ago. People like him are the reason religion is treated so poorly nowadays, especially when it comes to Christianity. These people are not Christian and never had been; a Christian believes in the primacy of the New Testament, after all. They do not and never have. So these things will crawl back under a rock without Fred to lead them.


People like Phelps has certainly not helped the Christian image in America and worldwide. But neither have religious Americans done a great job either, using guaranteed right in the constitution of religious freedom as a religious entitlement to exempt themselves from this or that.

Like this nugget of gold. Whatever you think of “Obamacare,” you have to have your hackles raised by the idea that someone can entirely avoid obeying the law of the land simply by claiming it’s against some tenet of his particular religion.

Marcus Gord: "Aspalis is an onion. Many layers, each one makes you cry."
Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#8 - 2014-03-17 11:19:06 UTC
Marie Hartinez wrote:
I'm willing to bet that they'll cry the loudest when people picket his funereal.


And the people who picket his funeral to demonstrate against picketing funerals will do so oblivious to the irony.

Full circle.

The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity.

Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#9 - 2014-03-17 12:01:08 UTC
Aspalis wrote:


People like Phelps has certainly not helped the Christian image in America and worldwide. But neither have religious Americans done a great job either, using guaranteed right in the constitution of religious freedom as a religious entitlement to exempt themselves from this or that.


In the 30 years or so I've been familiar with him and his church, not once has any local or nationally known preacher stood up and denounced this terrible and ideologically incorrect looney bin of a church. No protestant preacher has ever said anything bad about him publicly. EVER.

And I ask "why not ?"

As far as I'm concerned, preachers like the overly friendly Joel Osteen are complicit in the damage done over the years.

Aspalis wrote:
Like this nugget of gold. Whatever you think of “Obamacare,” you have to have your hackles raised by the idea that someone can entirely avoid obeying the law of the land simply by claiming it’s against some tenet of his particular religion.


Well, up until last week, some in Arizona whipped this out as an excuse not to assist "my kind" in obtaining pizzas, flowers, and wedding cakes. They claim to be "red-blooded Americans" but are so far removed from the true idea of "American" their final "goal" I believe is something that needs to be watched, and even investigated for possible treasonous actions, especially if they get persistent and really arming themselves, etc. (brief tinfoil hat there).

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#10 - 2014-03-17 12:12:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
addendum:

And it's not just churches and preachers.

Nationwide Irish groups who conduct local parades absolutely will not allow Irish Gay support groups to march in their St. Patrick's Day parades.

Not even in the one in San Francisco.

This has been a point of contention for decades that is finally getting attention.

Samuel Adams, Guiness, Budweiser and others have pulled their parade sponsorship over this from all parades, especially in New York and Boston. New York Mayor DeBlasio has denounced the New York parade and is not attending this year.

Just thought I'd bring this up as it's not that well known of an issue.

And it's the only point on which the Irish disappoint me, utterly. Shameful.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2014-03-17 12:14:05 UTC
Marie Hartinez wrote:
I'm willing to bet that they'll cry the loudest when people picket his funereal.


Of course not, all they want is attention and they'll be ecstatic to see that people actually payed attention to them. If nobody even batted an eye I bet they would've just gone away

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#12 - 2014-03-17 12:17:05 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Marie Hartinez wrote:
I'm willing to bet that they'll cry the loudest when people picket his funereal.


Of course not, all they want is attention and they'll be ecstatic to see that people actually payed attention to them. If nobody even batted an eye I bet they would've just gone away


I wish that were true. But even after they were restricted to being 1/4 mile away or something (can't find article with exact distance) they just kept on going with it.

Religious zealotry does not stop once initiated except by cataclysm (Branch Davidians / Waco).

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2014-03-17 16:25:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Reaver Glitterstim
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
In the 30 years or so I've been familiar with him and his church, not once has any local or nationally known preacher stood up and denounced this terrible and ideologically incorrect looney bin of a church. No protestant preacher has ever said anything bad about him publicly. EVER.

And I ask "why not ?"
Well you've also got to realize that the King James Old Testament exists in only one religion, which is Protestant Christianity. The rest of the Christian religions and even some of the related outliers such as Catholicism are all about forgetting that book, and many teach that it is approximately the Book of Judah (which bears a shred of truth). But the Westboro Baptist Church is following the Old Testament Ideals more closely than most Christian churches follow the New Testament. I think perhaps Protestant pastors feel a sort of longing to be able to have the sort of courage they do. I grew up in a Protestant church fellowship and they spoke often of our duty to go teach to the world and leave our imprint on it. They would have praised the WBC I think, even if they didn't follow in their footsteps.

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#14 - 2014-03-17 19:05:16 UTC
Here's another reason people don't care much for Christians and churches lately:
$600,000 stolen from safe at Joel Osteen's megachurch


$.6mil in the safe waiting to head to the bank, eh? Not too bad. Put your hands in the air and say 'Amen'! (No disrespect to the faithful intended-- only disrespect to Joel).
Desivo Delta Visseroff
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2014-03-17 20:06:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Desivo Delta Visseroff
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Here's another reason people don't care much for Christians and churches lately:
$600,000 stolen from safe at Joel Osteen's megachurch


$.6mil in the safe waiting to head to the bank, eh? Not too bad. Put your hands in the air and say 'Amen'! (No disrespect to the faithful intended-- only disrespect to Joel).



Nobody seems to pay attention from this little snippit: "Incredibly, all of the money was from one weekend's donations, the church says."

one weekend

$600,000


ShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShocked


On topic edit: F*********** the WBCAttention

I was hunting for sick loot, but all I could get my hands on were 50 corpses[:|]..............[:=d]
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#16 - 2014-03-17 20:54:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Slade Trillgon
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
[quote=Krixtal Icefluxor]The rest of the Christian religions and even some of the related outliers such as Catholicism


Catholicism is an outlier of the Christian chriches Shocked More like all the outliers are offspring of the Protestant Reformation's push away from the Catholic Church.

The evolution of the current primary monotheistic religions goes like the following.

Judisim - Speculated as significantly earlier than the following 2 Lol

Christianity - 10-30 AD

Islam - 600 AD

Christianity was pretty much one church up until the early 1000's. The Church of England split off circa 550 AD, but still fell in line with The Vatican in most situations. Then @1050 the church had its first major split into the Eastern and Western Churches, which became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic church. A couple hundred years later came the Protestant reformation circa 1500 AD, after which come all the 'outliers'.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#17 - 2014-03-17 21:49:34 UTC
Angelique Duchemin wrote:
Marie Hartinez wrote:
I'm willing to bet that they'll cry the loudest when people picket his funereal.


And the people who picket his funeral to demonstrate against picketing funerals will do so oblivious to the irony.

Full circle.


Turn about has always been and forever will be, fair play. One does not need to be oblivious to partake.
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#18 - 2014-03-18 08:46:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Baneken
And here I thought that WBC website was a joke site like onion.com, scary that it actually isn't. Shocked
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#19 - 2014-03-18 13:43:36 UTC
Desivo Delta Visseroff wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Here's another reason people don't care much for Christians and churches lately:
$600,000 stolen from safe at Joel Osteen's megachurch


$.6mil in the safe waiting to head to the bank, eh? Not too bad. Put your hands in the air and say 'Amen'! (No disrespect to the faithful intended-- only disrespect to Joel).



Nobody seems to pay attention from this little snippit: "Incredibly, all of the money was from one weekend's donations, the church says."

one weekend

$600,000


ShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShocked


On topic edit: F*********** the WBCAttention


Welp, it's a huge congregation indeed.

Their church is the former show arena called "The Summit"........where I used to go and see everyone from Rush to Prince to the The Cars and even the original Genesis.

It's that kind of venue, and they fill it up over capacity every Sunday. Plus, there is a LOT of money in Houston (think....oil).

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#20 - 2014-03-18 14:30:25 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Desivo Delta Visseroff wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Here's another reason people don't care much for Christians and churches lately:
$600,000 stolen from safe at Joel Osteen's megachurch


$.6mil in the safe waiting to head to the bank, eh? Not too bad. Put your hands in the air and say 'Amen'! (No disrespect to the faithful intended-- only disrespect to Joel).



Nobody seems to pay attention from this little snippit: "Incredibly, all of the money was from one weekend's donations, the church says."

one weekend

$600,000


ShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShocked


On topic edit: F*********** the WBCAttention


Welp, it's a huge congregation indeed.

Their church is the former show arena called "The Summit"........where I used to go and see everyone from Rush to Prince to the The Cars and even the original Genesis.

It's that kind of venue, and they fill it up over capacity every Sunday. Plus, there is a LOT of money in Houston (think....oil).

Wow. I wonder if they manged to get the cannabis smell out before they moved in. Smile

I don't know much about Osteen, except that he's the current TV evangelist superstar. So I'll just assume those monthly millions are going to feeding the homeless or sending Bibles to Buddhists or something. Yeah. Not like Swaggart, Tilton, Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts.... Or even like my ex-girlfriend's dad, scammer associate pastor at the giant First Baptist Church in Dallas.
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