Preacher's "If you were to die tonight" sermon in dark movie theater causes panic/ police response

[Demovictory9]

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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/04/christian-preacher-terrorizes-audience-at-avengers-screening/

A Christian preacher terrorized a movie audience by screaming about God and “a passage to heaven” during a screening of the new film “Avengers: Infinity War.”

According to multiple reports, Michael Webber, a 28-year-old preacher with Truth and Triumph Ministries, sent a movie audience into a panic after beginning to scream about God and heaven towards the end of the movie screening at the Harkins Mountain Grove 16 theater in Redlands, California, on Friday night.

CBS News reports:

Armed officers rushed to the Harkins Mountain Grove 16 theaters in Redlands, where people had just finished watching the latest installment of the “Avengers” franchise, fearing there might a gunman inside. Witnesses said when the movie was over, a man stood up and started yelling in what sounded like a preacher’s sermon.

Susie Arias told CBS News:

I think when he said, ‘If you were to die tonight, would your passage to heaven be guaranteed?’ — something along those lines — I think that’s when people started panicking.

Arias said that the preacher’s screaming sent audience members into a panic, with many people yelling and running for their lives, believing that Webber was a terrorist.

Commenting on the scene, witness Adrian Arias said:

That’s when the kind of chaos happened in the little exit, where people were jumping over the railings, and kind of falling over, twisting their ankles and hitting their head.

The Daily News reports at least two people were seriously injured trying to escape the deranged preacher’s out of control rant about death and dying.

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Michael Ray Webber, 28, got out of his seat at the end of the movie on Thursday
He threw his hands in the air and started preaching about God as others fled
One terrified woman jumped over the railings of a balcony and fell 20ft
She was trampled by others who desperately tried to escape as Webber spoke
It led to false police reports that '30 to 40' shots had been fired inside
Webber said he was confused by all the fuss and that he regularly preaches at the end of movies
The incident unfolded at 10pm at the Redlands Harkins Theater in San Bernardino, California

Webber was confused by the crowd's reaction and said he intentionally held his hands up to show that he was not armed.

He said he regularly preaches about God during film screenings and did not know why this time in particular caused panic, Mercury News reported.

He was arrested at the scene and police later checked his home to determine if he was a threat.

Webber was arrested for 'offensive language likely to cause a violent reaction'.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5669563/Preacher-sparks-mass-panic-movie-theater-end-Avengers-screening.html#ixzz5FPJYDyiu
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[CurtEastPoint]

1. Idiot smug prick

[Demovictory9]

2. very obnoxious thing to do... attend movies with the intent for forcing audience to listen to

unhinged screaming about HIS religion.

[Major Nikon]

5. The next worse thing to farting in an elevator

[GeorgeGist]

3. Sounds like terrorism to me.

[NutmegYankee]

4. Suicide bombers often hold their hands up in the air just before they detonate.

Idiot should be charged with disturbing the peace if not worse for his reckless actions.

[unblock]

6. everyone knows it's illegal to yell fire and brimstone in a crowded theater

[Control-Z]

13. Excellent point! 😂 eom

[suffragette]

7. "If you were to die tonight" Pretty much same effect of yelling fire and should be charged in

similar way for endangering people.

People are more likely to stay through the credits for Avengers’ films since they have post credit scenes. Scummy guy knew exactly what he was doing.

[Demovictory9]

8. people say he was waving his arms and screaming. idiot

[jmowreader]

9. It's a good thing he did this in California

I can just imagine what would have happened if he'd have done it in Oklahoma...

"Mr. Smith, please explain to the jury what happened the night of May 12, 2018, when you were at the Roxy Theater."

'Yes, Mrs. Prosecutor. Me and Annie - Annie's my wife, she's right over there - go to the movies every Saturday night. Well, we're sitting in the theater watching this movie, and enjoying ourselves thoroughly, when this little wormy-lookin' guy gets up and starts screaming about Jesus and if we were sure we were going to heaven if we died right now. Everyone in the theater started acting like this guy was going to commit a mass shooting right then and there. Ma'am, I consider myself a good, God-fearing man. I have no doubt that if I died right now I would go to heaven...but I am not in a rush to get there, if you know what I mean. So I drew my concealed pistol and ended the threat.'

"Mr. Smith, please also explain to the jury why you shot Mr. Webber 90 times."

'Ma'am, I was just making sure.'

[davsand]

10. Smug little asshole might get shot by a good guy with a gun pulling shit like this.

Can't say I'd mourn overmuch if he did. He needs to be charged and convicted on a count of endangerment for EVERY person present in that theater. F***ing asshat.

I really hate these people.


Laura

[IronLionZion]

11. And police didn't shoot him dead

or charge him with terrorism

[Iggo]

14. Not enough melanin, wrong fantasy god.

Or should I say, wrong prophet of the same fantasy god?

Same thing either way.

[procon]

12. Give him an PS award for demonstrating why people should to avoid religion.

Then charge him, put him on trial, convict him and lock him up. Every person in that theater who was injured, terrorized and panicked because of this nutters crazy idea of proselytizing should sue him and his fake church for every penny they can get. He should have been banned and never allowed to keep returning to the theater after the first time he disrupted the show for all the other movie goers.

[Guilded Lilly]

15. Purposeful troublemaker. Punk.