Morans shoot out windows at a Unitarian church...

[Archae]

They even left a note behind, notice the spelling of "Muslim" and "Socialist."



Arkansas Church Says It Welcomes All, Gets Window Shot Out

The Unitarian Universality church in my hometown of Mountain Home, Arkansas recently published a letter in the local paper letting the community know that they welcome everyone at their church regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation.
The reaction? The church had its windows shot out one night and were left this note:

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/arkansas-church-says-it-welcomes-all-gets

[uppityperson]

1. Obama graduated to not just muslin, but now is a scholiast?

[ballyhoo]

19. I think the person meant scholar, as

a scholiast makes commentaries on classic writers, which Obama doesn't. The person was merely trying to dress the noun a little.

[dballance]

26. I think the moran meant Socialist. /nt

[ballyhoo]

29. Yeah, you're probably right.

[christx30]

27. He said muslin,

which is a very thin fabric. Maybe he's praising how open and transparent President Obama has been in his administration. Like when my sketchy neighbor if I want him to be honest with me, he'll ask if I want some "crystal", as in crystal clear. I always say no, because I know I listen to loud music sometimes.

[MoonRiver]

31. I WISH!

[KingCharlemagne]

50. Before he became Editor of the Harvard Law Review, President

Obama was known to spend late nights with the works of St. Thomas Aquinas.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. A dream of mine is to take some of these losers to...

a black church on thanksgiving where the members have agreed to welcome them with love. And food.

An asskicking would be so tempting, but confusing the shit out of them, and the slim chance of getting them to think a little, is so much more gratifying.

Then, next week we go to the gay church.

And the Latino one...

And it goes on.

[shenmue]

4. You are a braver person than I

I just want to go live on Mars.

[Nay]

11. Me, too. Jesus. And they wonder why I hate people......

[RufusTFirefly]

32. Personally, I have my heart set on Saturn. Sounds beautiful.

Packing my bags -- going away
To a place where the air is clean
On Saturn
There's no sense to sit and watch people die
We don't fight our wars the way you do
We put back all the things we use
On Saturn
There's no sense to keep on doing such crimes

[LuvNewcastle]

33. I've always wanted to go to Saturn.

It's such a beauty. I dream that one day Saturn will be hospitable to life and I'll be able to live there. Looking up in the sky and seeing those rings would be awesome!

[KingCharlemagne]

51. Me, I'm going to follow Ray Davies' advice:

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[heaven05]

21. they wouldn't do the same for me

they wouldn't even bury me in their cemetery, they'd let the dogs pick my bones after one or more their good christians had killed me, probably more because they are the lowest form of coward. I don't know about all that.

[TreasonousBastard]

39. Of course not-- that's the point...

we're better than they are and we shove it down their throats.

Well, OK, that's not really the idea either.

But, there are times when you want to overwhelm the enemy with kindness and other times you want to kick their sorry asses. The point is that we have options they don't have.

[sir pball]

56. You're a far better person than I..

..my dream is an overwatch in the church steeple, with a very accurate very powerful rifle.

I'm not a nice person when push comes to shove.

[shenmue]

3. What's a scholiast?

[tanyev]

17. A commentator on ancient or classical literature.

But I don't think that's what the note writer intended.

[Quayblue]

38. failed spell checker??

[JHB]

40. A guy who plays a Scholiao.

It's like a Fender or Stradivarius, but for electric zithers.

[JaneyVee]

5. That person voted.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. This^^^^

[CanonRay]

6. Another good Christian

[LanternWaste]

8. Another good American...

Another good American...

[csziggy]

7. Accusing President Obama of being a "scholiast" is somewhat ironic

Given the meaning of the word:

Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from Greek σχόλιον "comment, interpretation&quot are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments, either original or extracted from pre-existing commentaries, which are inserted on the margin of the manuscript of an ancient author, as glosses. One who writes scholia is a scholiast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholia

Or maybe they meant this alternate use: "At Balliol College, Oxford, "Scholiasts" is the classics-oriented drinking society."

[derby378]

10. Does he have enough brain power to wipe his own ass?

If not, he shouldn't be too hard for cops to find.

[Mz Pip]

53. I doubt he has the brain power

to know he's supposed to.

[hifiguy]

12. There are just too many imbeciles,

[niyad]

13. beam me up, scotty. there is NO intelligent life down here!

[Thor_MN]

14. Does "we ... know where you live" rise to terroristic threat?

I would say it does.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. All the cops have to do is go undercover in a redneck hangout and claim they did it....

Then accept free drinks until the actual person comes forward to call them a liar.

[christx30]

28. That's if the perp is not

some sherriff's cousin or a deputy's brother-in-law. Small towns have very close ties to law enforcement. Can't really trust them to do a very good investigation.

[hifiguy]

37. Why would you think the perps aren't cops themselves?

Police departments in certain areas of the country were full of Klansmen back in the 1950s and 1960s. Who's to say they still aren't? Though they usually don't call themselves the KKK anymore.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

47. True, if you reported a cross burning the sheriff was usually the one that struck the match.

[irisblue]

16. spell check MORAN spell check!

The members of all UU churches can spell.

[customerserviceguy]

55. That's what makes this suspicious to me

Especially the 'muslin' reference. It wouldn't surprise me that someone was trying to make the local community look stupid in the eyes of the wider public.

[heaven05]

18. this is what fox snooze

rush limbaugh and the rest of the RW BS machine has wrought. God, these are some stupid, ignorant folks posing as human beings. I will visit My Unitarian Universalist church soon, sunday probably. I can't just keep shaking my head at the totally ignorant people that won the mid terms for the Reich wing in such large numbers. They are emboldened like I haven't seen in decades, they are nothing but the brown shirts that started creating such hate and brutality right after hitler took power in 1933. Same thing, except this time.................

[LuvNewcastle]

35. You know, I haven't been in a church in years,

but I might find the local Unitarian church and attend. If they raise the ire of these kinds of people, they must be doing something right.

[blkmusclmachine]

20. Iz wee edukated yeht?

[KamaAina]

22. The odd thing is that Mountain Home is all white

at least it used to be when I spent summers in the Ozarks.

[Initech]

23. Obvious home scholers.

[NightWatcher]

24. These people are threatened by the idea of tolerance

They hate any church that does not hate the same people they hate.

I have fundie family members who, although tone down their language, spew such vitriol whenever they see this bumper sticker.



The idea that maybe we should all get along and the idea that their religion is the same in order of importance and credibility as all these others, leaves them frothing at the mouth.

[world wide wally]

25. TIFW

Too ignorant for words (let alone spelling them correctly)

[SoapBox]

30. This is your brain on FuksFakeNews.

[MoonRiver]

34. There are no words which can describe the monumental STUPIDITY of these fools!

[Not a Fan]

36. Moran

My mother's maiden name is Moran. Her family is quite extensive. Sad to think they might be related.

[LiberalEsto]

41. This is so depressing and frightening

Why do stupid, crazy vicious people like this have access to firearms?

[etherealtruth]

42. .... and the voting booth

[Feron]

43. I don't know...

There are people like this out there, but the note seems to be a bit too cliched. Other than the Muslin sign that became an internet meme, most right-wingers can spell that and socialist correctly.

I know that a Unitarian church has been attacked before, however there's just something about this that doesn't pass the smell test based on the information given.

[chrisa]

44. ScholiastUnderground.com now accepting members

[Archae]

45. We got a new word!

Scholiast!

"Obummer iz an scholiast!"

"He's a what?

"Shut up you hipee scun!"

(On one message board I was called a "hippee scun," once.)

[linuxman]

46. My money is on fake/staged.

[AverageJoe90]

48. Do these dumbasses also want the South to secdee?

What morans, indeed.

[Odin2005]

49. Muslin? This HAS to be some kind of prank, it has to be...

[Scootaloo]

52. Agreed.

Muslin? Scholiast? These are freeperisms we've been laughing at for a long time now. You ask me, it's some asshole trying to look like wingnuts did this.

But then... poe's law.

[Recursion]

54. "Scholiast"?

Unitarians are a lot of things, but that's a new one...

[DFW]

57. This is the kind of person that lurks in every town

It's just that in some parts, the local atmosphere emboldens some of them to act out what's on their sick minds.

This is the kind of person who thinks the cast of Fox and Frauds is composed of well-spoken intellectuals.

[applegrove]

58. Vibes to all.