I guess religious nuts aren't all Muslims...

[lazs2]

soooo... who's head did she cut off?  

lazs

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Seagoon
Actually linked to and discussed multiple times:

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176724&highlight=phelps
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176265&highlight=phelps
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=175983&highlight=phelps

For the record Ack, Neither Fred Phelps nor his equally graceless daughter (the woman in the video) represents any major religion. They are members of a cult composed of one angry man and his extended family:

"Mr. Phelps' group started protesting funerals last summer with a variety of placards including one that read, "Thank God for Dead Soldiers." Mr. Phelps, who had theological training at John Muir Junior College in Pasadena, Calif., started his Westboro cult in 1955 after a Baptist church kicked him out; Westboro is not associated with any Baptist denomination. Since then Mr. Phelps' group has grown around his family's 10-home compound in Topeka; he doesn't allow members to marry outside of the congregation."
( http://www.worldmag.com/articles/11769 )

- SEAGOON

Whether or not they are party of any mainstream Christian movement, they are still fanatics and evidence that religious fanatacism isn't just something found in the Islamic world.


ack-ack

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

I don't recall anyone saying Muslims had cornered the market on fanaticism. Much as anyone with common sense despises the Phelps group, they have yet to blow themselves up trying to kill anyone.

Seems some people here are bent on showing that religion of any sort doesn't have the market on hate cornered either.

[X2Lee]

Well damned, I thought we had weeded out all the nuts.
WTG akak on setting me straight anyways.
I better not go to church this moning, what with all the wackos there wishing me well and praying for me. And God forbid anyone of those nutcases offers to buy me lunch

Oh and I saw this auger dweeb in the arenas the other day augering just like they used too
Theres some evidence that those nutcases are still found in the
mainstream  also,
just a heads up...


Oh and BTW
hello Gents.
TommyLee

Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Whether or not they are party of any mainstream Christian movement, they are still fanatics and evidence that religious fanatacism isn't just something found in the Islamic world.


ack-ack

[moot]

Sixpence, he's pointing out that religion is nothing to be argued, as its reasons don't need to be consistent..
Pink elephants, Green martians, Bearded Pa/Matriarch, you name it, then build as much reason and rationalizing as you may, it still will not be consistent because of that one unarguable element, no matter how small it is proportionately to the rest of the rational construct.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Whether or not they are party of any mainstream Christian movement, they are still fanatics and evidence that religious fanatacism isn't just something found in the Islamic world.


ack-ack

Wow did you just NOW figure this out?

[midnight Target]

There are other examples.

Baptist Inquisition/ex-Communicates Democrats

 East Waynesville Baptist asked nine members to leave. Now 40 more have left the church in protest. Former members say Pastor Chan Chandler gave them the ultimatum, saying if they didn't support George Bush, they should resign or repent. The minister declined an interview with News 13. But he did say "the actions were not politically motivated." There are questions about whether the bi-laws were followed when the members were thrown out.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/05/06.html    

(click on the video)

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by moot
Sixpence, he's pointing out that religion is nothing to be argued, as its reasons don't need to be consistent. Pink elephants, Green martians, Bearded Pa/Matriarch, you name it,then build as much reason and rationalizing as you may, it still will not be consistent because of that one unarguable element, no matter how small it is proportionately to the rest of the rational construct.

Pink elephants, Green martians, black holes, white dwarfs, the big bang.

Again, my point is that irrational depends on your point of view. His black and white logic would say life outside of earth is irrational

[lazs2]

and... I don't have to do what she says right?

lazs

[expat]

my word!!! did you really think that religous nutjobs were just muslims?
hell.... talk about pot n ketlle !!!!

[Gunslinger]

I love this part coming up.  Its the ever repeated argument that the fringe groups of christianity are compared to the so called "religion of peace" and argued that they are of the same scale in both measure of evilness and size.

[Yeager]

I dont like anybody telling me what to do, and I dont like Christians who feel they need to write their personal religious beliefs into common law that I must obey, but I do not now, nor have I in the past, and I do not expect to ever in the future fear any Christian.

On the other hand, I have seen what islamic extremists do.  I have read their testimonies and heard first hand their expressed views about what to do with all who do not share the same specific beliefs in their prophet.

For people to compare these two religions as even remotely capable of being similar demonstrates a truly pathetic build of reality.  Just my opinion of course

[SirLoin]

Originally posted by Yeager
I dont like anybody telling me what to do, and I dont like Christians who feel they need to write their personal religious beliefs into common law that I must obey, but I do not now, nor have I in the past, and I do not expect to ever in the future fear any Christian.

On

Well check out the Christian fundamentalists that have taken over the White House.

I do fear Islam more i agree...Don't see any moderates in that side of the theocratic theatre steppin up.

They just a few hundred years behind the times with today's technology.


Everyone should be scared for sure.