Religous Family Quits US Gets Lost at Sea

[LiberalElite]

Source: ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/religious-family-leaves-us-lost-sea-19926919

A northern Arizona family that was lost at sea for weeks in an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion will fly back home Sunday.

Hannah Gastonguay, 26, said Saturday that she and her husband "decided to take a leap of faith and see where God led us" when they took their two small children and her father-in-law and set sail from San Diego for the tiny island nation of Kiribati in May.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/religious-family-leaves-us-lost-sea-19926919

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They allege "state controlled" churches in America. These people are beyond ignorant.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Kiribati? They were going to make the 5,000 mile trip with a child and an baby.

They should be charged.

[LiberalElite]

4. I'm sure they'd say

God's in charge...

[kardonb]

21. Kribati

that just shows you how demented religious fanatics are .

[Plucketeer]

106. I could see jailing folks for being stupid

over jailing folks for carryin' a joint!

[secondwind]

130. I be they will be charged... this is unconscionable

[HeiressofBickworth]

2. If by "state controlled" they mean

they aren't allowed to beat their children or refuse them medical care, kill their neighbor for eating shellfish or wearing cloth of different fabrics, or refuse to pay taxes, then they are right. But otherwise, if they decide to worship the divinity of a cockroach, as long as they aren't breaking any laws, they can do as they wish.

[hobbit709]

3. you're insulting ignorant.

These people were out and out STOOPID.

[Heather MC]

13. Maybe they will find Noah's Ark

[perdita9]

5. An atheist wouldn't be so foolish

Trusting an invisible sky fairy to watch over you while you do something stupid, is the height of ignorance.

[rurallib]

25. height of ignorance or arrogance?

[paleotn]

28. Yes. (nt)

[roguevalley]

40. anyone who would do that is an idiot, aethiest or no

[TriEssent]

110. Consider Yourself

And what do you believe? You Probably believe that the universe came from nothing, and that all of life started from a one celled animal in some primordial soup! Is that what you trust in?

[perdita9]

112. Yes I do

[Sky Masterson]

6. WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

(hides) I keed,I keed. Atheist power!!!

[RKP5637]

30. LOL ... their god took them in one fucken circle!

[wordpix]

54. and got them lost way out of the shipping lanes

[Rozlee]

117. That's what they get for not paying attention to Exodus.

At least they weren't lost for forty years.

[Berlin Expat]

7. Just sit right back

and you'll hear the tale
The tale of a fateful trip,
that started at this tropic port
aboard this tiny ship.

They're lucky they're still alive. Like the old saying goes, "God watches over drunks, fools and children".

[itsrobert]

8. Probably recovering addicts

blaming their vices on the devil.

[msongs]

9. well their god led them to...the promised land :-) nt

[RKP5637]

32. +1, n/t

[snort]

10. Please people, living in Arizona

prepares one for a journey at Sea. Gawd!

[csziggy]

11. So they opted to go to the most vulnerable place in the world for climate change?

In June 2008, Kiribati officials asked Australia and New Zealand to accept Kiribati citizens as permanent refugees. Kiribati is expected to be the first country to lose all its land territory to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president Anote Tong said that the country has reached "...the point of no return." He added, "To plan for the day when you no longer have a country is indeed painful but I think we have to do that."[19][20][21][22]

In early 2012, the government of Kiribati purchased the 2,200-hectare Natoavatu Estate on the second largest island of Fiji, Vanua Levu. At the time it was widely,[23][24] but incorrectly,[25] reported that the Government planned to evacuate the entire population of Kiribati to Fiji. However, in April 2013, President Tong began urging citizens to evacuate the islands and migrate elsewhere.[26]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati

Great plan!

[MADem]

29. I think that leap of poor judgment should have Children's Services interested in them, at a minimum!

[deutsey]

81. Climate change is a hoax by the Devil!

or socialists or something.

[csziggy]

118. !1!!!

[Gormy Cuss]

12. They'll write a book and make a gazillion.

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That'll be the new plan. Can't wait to hear what message God was giving them that ultimately had them back where they started in the United State-Controlled Churches of America.

At least they didn't send the kids adrift in a balloon.

[Quantess]

75. They are way too stupid to pull that off. However,

someone else might write their story for them, and make some bucks.

[broadcaster75201]

14. In the words of Bugs Bunny . . . what a bunch of ultra maroons. nt

nt

[longship]

64. Must have made the wrong turn at Albuquerue!

[freshwest]

67. Oooh! That was one of my faves.

Along with his defeat of Marvin the Martian and Yosemite Sam... My hero.

[livingwagenow]

15. Horus only guides the boats of patriots. k&r nt

[drm604]

16. Reckless, irresponsible, unfit parents

She said they wanted to go to Kiribati because "we didn't want to go anywhere big." She said they understood the island to be "one of the least developed countries in the world."

This couple, with a baby and a 3 year old in tow, were deliberately trying to settle in "the least developed country in the world", and it's only through sheer luck that they and those children (who had no choice in the matter) didn't drown or die from exposure.

These two are not fit to be parents. They'd probably say that I'm trying to interfere with their precious religious beliefs when I say that, but too bad. They took a real and grave risk with the lives of those children because of their baseless feelings of persecution.

At the end of the article they're quoted as saying that they're going to return home and make a new plan. I hate to think what their new plan will be.

[theHandpuppet]

24. +1

I hope Social Services will soon be paying them a visit. Those children deserve better.

[Cronus Protagonist]

73. No they don't

It's not their fault, but Darwin awards are nature's way of saying, "your parents fucked up".

[sakabatou]

39. +2

[freshwest]

68. Glenn Beck and Joe Barton's freedom and liberty development, no doubt.

[Quantess]

76. Gastonguay said the family will now "come up with a new plan."

More upcoming child endangerment to follow, is what she is saying.

Some people really are too stupid to raise children. The poor kids will be lucky if they turn out to be normal adults.

[sakabatou]

132. I hope to hell those children will be alright.

[jtuck004]

17. Hannah Gastonguay said the family will now "go back to Arizona" and "come up with a new plan.".

And they have now ordered 4 lawn chairs, 36 surplus weather balloons, some sandwiches and a BB gun. And a new bible, 'cause God took the last one back at sea, not wanting any evidence around that she had a damn thing to do with their first silly plan.

[W T F]

18. They didn't make it, so I guess God didn't want them to go.

[Lugal Zaggesi]

20. God is sending them to Arizona now

while he tries to think of a new, better plan.

[center][/center]

[Tom Ripley]

61. That must mean he must be very very displeased with them

[Lugal Zaggesi]

19. Among other differences, she said they had a problem with being "forced to pay these taxes

that pay for abortions we don't agree with."
I have a problem paying taxes that pay to rescue idiot Americans that risk their children's lives.

Their flights home were arranged by U.S. Embassy officials. The State Department was not available for comment.

This family is getting billed for those flights, aren't they ?

[theHandpuppet]

35. And of course, the homosexual plague was upon them

excerpt from article...

Hannah Gastonguay said her family was fed up with government control in the U.S. As Christians they don't believe in "abortion, homosexuality, in the state-controlled church," she said.

I'll bet we could raise enough money to send their asses elsewhere that's more to their liking. Maybe they could ask Putin for asylum.

[Lugal Zaggesi]

58. Actually,

they might feel right at home in Russia, where they are actively trying to increase their population, stamp out homosexuals (or at least keep them hidden), and allow the Russian Orthodox Church to flourish once more - independent of the State, of course.

Can they sail there from Arizona ?

[Bay Boy]

103. How do you...

...not believe in abortion or homosexuality? They are real things. Maybe they don't approve of them.

I might also have said: "If you don't approve of abortion don't have one. If you don't approve of homosexuality don't do that".

[Turbineguy]

22. God is flying them back

to this vale of tears.

Maybe that's a positive sign.

[Squinch]

77. No. It's your tax dollars flying them back. And the evil gubmint.

[Turbineguy]

91. It's the price of living in a civilized country.

Although it's probably pearls before swine.

[Squinch]

92. I agree. But I can't help but wonder what the next "project"

they're talking about will cost us.

The next project where they try and get away from all that they think the government is costing them.

What a bunch of maroons. To quote a wise rabbit.

[ZombieHorde]

23. I'm glad the children are safe.

I know many people gain some benefits from literal, religious journeys, but I don't think children should be taken on them if there is greater than normal danger. God will not protect them, or anyone for that matter, so parents need to be the protectors. The first rule of protecting someone is to not put them in needless danger.

[Katashi_itto]

101. I think the DNA is very shallow at their end of the pool. Pity they werent simply lost.

You can't cure stupid. A waste of taxpayer dollars on people that think Govt and Liberals are evil anyhow.

[rurallib]

26. makes me wonder what kind of schooling they had

that would lead them to such a stupid decision

[Squinch]

78. Probably home schooled by equally ignorant parents.

[Bossy Monkey]

27. Deadliest kvetch n/t

[MADem]

31. Best post of this thread!

The brevity and the wit, together-a winner in my book!

[Bossy Monkey]

83. Thanks! nt

[Tom Ripley]

34. Beautiful!

[Bossy Monkey]

84. Thanks! nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

46. .

[Bossy Monkey]

85. Thanks three! nt

[Ash_F]

66. Oh dear.

[Bossy Monkey]

86. Thanks four! nt

[Arugula Latte]

99. Damn you!

I wish I'd thought of that ...

[Bossy Monkey]

111. Hell, I was surprised, too! :)

[1ProudAtheist]

33. Only Someone Stupid

Enough to actually believe in sky spooks and trolls carrying pitchforks would even consider doing something this ignorant. Religion kills.

[Lugal Zaggesi]

59. That's why they stuck in that

"be fruitful and multiply" clause.

Because if you have a big litter, a few of them might live to reproduce:

[tonekat]

36. I Would Have Preferred That They

had been dropped off in Kiribati. We have more than enough fanatics screwing things up for the rest of us.

[theHandpuppet]

95. Why would you wish that on the people of Kiribati?

Those poor folks have enough on their plate as it is. No doubt, that family of kooks are also climate change deniers. If they ended up in Kiribati they'd have to build an ark.

[Lucky Luciano]

37. I see a Darwin Award in their near future. nt

[TNNurse]

38. Great moment for teaching

After evaluation by Children's Services, someone should teach them that the only people in this country who are interested in a "state controlled church" are right wing Tea Party fanatics and that the rest of us know that they are 1)wrong, 2) ignorant 3)not really following Christian teaching and that the separation of church and state thing is really very much necessary.

But I am afraid that they are past help. You might explain to them that I do not like my taxes going to support right wing organizations, corporate bailouts and tuition for congressional employees children....just to name a few.

[1monster]

41. So, if they don't want to live in this country any more, why are they accepting the evil

government's help to come back here?

I'm sooo confused! (Or they are.)

[Mariana]

89. Because when the gov't is doing something for THEM

providing something that THEY want, it's doing Gawd's will. When the gov't gives some assistance to someone else, someone they don't approve of, then it's evil and is doing the devil's work. You see? It makes perfect sense.

[SheilaT]

42. So why exactly did they get rescued?

At the risk of sounding rather heartless, they should have been left where they were. Okay, maybe rescue the children and leave the parents to get along just fine with no government interference.

What makes me so freaking crazy about people like this is that they simply define "government interference" to mean anything at all they don't happen to agree with. Well, guess what? There's a LOT our government does that I totally disagree with, starting with dumb illegal wars, continuing with every bit of black box funding there is, on through no universal health care and all sorts of other things that don't come immediately to mind. But I keep on hoping we can elect people who will make sensible changes in how the government spends its money (naive, I know) and meanwhile I understand how many basic things governments at all levels actually provide that I use and care about. Libraries. Streets. Sewer systems. Schools. Some health care.

[struggle4progress]

53. A Venezuelan ship sailed by and wondered WTF they were doing in the middle of nowhere

[pitbullgirl1965]

127. Good question.

Attitudes like this are infuriating. They should have been left where they were. Freaks.

[Jefferson23]

43. With parents like that who needs enemies?

“We were in the thick of it, but we prayed,” she said. “Being out on that boat, I just knew I was going to see some miracles.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/family-leaves-us-on-sailboat-over-religious-concerns-to-start-new-life-becomes-lost-at-sea/2013/08/10/c8826fd8-0208-11e3-8294-0ee5075b840d_story_1.html

Yea, she just knew.

[Safetykitten]

50. Baby Jesus took the form of a baby Dolphin. That kind of miracle?

[Jefferson23]

51. Did you see the face of the three year old in the photo?

My guess she is hoping for a miracle too..that she wakes up and has non wacko parents who won't
terrify her again with their next plan.

[Jamastiene]

93. Even the baby in the woman's arms looks miserable and tired of it already.

Kids from wacko families like that rarely ever smile.

Source: I live in the Bible Belt. It's a miserable place.

Once, at a stop sign in East Rockingham, in the middle of winter, a baby wearing nothing but a diaper, crawled out of his sooty* yard, knocked on the car door and asked to come home with my aunt and me.

Talk about heartbreaking. Knowing he would spend the next several years crawling around in the yard every day, alone, in the extreme heat of summer AND in winter (which was when he asked to come home with us, it was 40 degrees outside), we didn't know what to do.

We got the address and called the cops and begged them to go to that house and help that kid. We never heard anything else and the kid was out there the very next day. I know this because I worked in a house across the street. It took my aunt and my boss and my boss' husband to hold me back from becoming a kidnapper that next day and the days after that. The kid wore nothing but a diaper in that cold and was outside all day every day crawling around in that soot and half burned trash. The cops would do nothing about it. It broke my heart to see it and know the cops wouldn't put a stop to it. Worse yet, I could do nothing about it legally either.

This is the same area of Rockingham where they pride themselves on how Christian they are. They used to burn down a house or vandalize it if a black family (or Latino family) moved there, and the children never smile. The kids there have a haunted look in their eyes that turns into pure hatred by the time they are adults.

*They burn their trash in East Rockingham every day. Pretty much everyone over there does it. All of the yards over there are full of soot and half burned trash. To me, it is one of the most disgusting places on Earth and should be a Superfund site.

[Jefferson23]

113. omg, that is horrific and unjustifiable. The law should have had social services there, but I

am guessing from what you've described, they have their own standard of horrific. I am almost afraid to know what it
would take for authorities in that area to respond.

[Nine]

129. Whuh? (nt)

[awoke_in_2003]

97. This is what kills me about believers...

even when their god fails they still believe.

[Jefferson23]

44. Uh, who are these two? Odd spot comes up on Google:

THE GASTONGUAY FAMILY
Prescott Valley, AZ
about
My wife Hannah, our daughter Bernice, God rest her soul, and myself Sean. Broke, homeless and driftin' playin music for the half drunk rounders roamin' the high plains of the Arizona desert.
music +
upcoming shows +

http://www.thesixtyone.com/TheGastonguays/#/artist/TheGastonguays/about/

[SwissTony]

72. They've already lost a daughter and they put two more at risk???? n/t

[Jefferson23]

90. I know, it's so bizarre..not sure what to make it. Hopefully, child services will look into

what is going on.

[redwitch]

123. They are very sad people.

I hope their living kids are ok.

[KittyWampus]

45. They sound mentally ill.Something isn't right with them.

[xfundy]

47. They pissed off Baby Jesus™!

Had they stayed and voted (R), they'd have been blessed with minimum wage jobs, lack of healthcare, GMO foods, hatred to gays, and all the rest of the Godly Republican platform!

They done did something to piss off the Baby in the Sky™.

Baby Jesus™ says "HA!"

[Safetykitten]

48. Kinda like that Christian dating service ad on TV. Find God's match for you...well if God

wanted to you meet your match, he would not send you to an internet site.

He would hook you two up. No middleman involved.

[Squinch]

79. These peoples' god needs a lot of technological help. And attention. And ego stroking.

He's kind of high maintenance.

[SunSeeker]

49. These parents should be charged with child endangerment.

Get caught smoking a joint and your kids get taken away. But an unhinged couples completely separated from reality takes their kids on a life-threatening 5,000 mile trip by small boat...and they keep their kids?! Why are they not at least being hit with child endangerment charges?

I mean, this alone should have resulted in charges:

The family moved in November from Ash Fork, Ariz., to San Diego, where they lived on their boat as they prepared to set sail. She said she gave birth to the couple's 8-month-old girl on the boat, which was docked in a slip at the time.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57597994/religious-family-abandons-u.s-gets-lost-at-sea/

Those poor kids...

[davidpdx]

114. +1

The kid's well-being, health, and safety is important.

[struggle4progress]

52. With all the seamanship they learned by living Arizona, how could they have gotten lost?

And it's only 3300 miles or so from San Diego to Kiribati, not much difference between the distance from Miami to Vancouver which anybody can do in two and a half days

[Hassin Bin Sober]

62. Maybe next time they'll try driving.

[freshwest]

69. As the bat flies, yeah. IRL, not so much.

The last scene shows Dracula and Cindy, transformed into bats, on their way to Jamaica. If only the couple had gotten their wings first. Squeak, squeak!

[rdharma]

55. Hmmmmm! Is this the modern X-tian thing to do?

Take your kids on a very unsafe journey to find your ...... "gawd"?

"US couple in jail after fleeing to Cuba with kids

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Florida parents charged with kidnapping their boys from their grandparents and sailing to Cuba on a boat called "Salty" to elude authorities are facing a judge for the first time since they were forcibly returned from the island nation.

Joshua and Sharyn Hakken make their first appearance in court Thursday to hear the charges they're facing, including kidnapping, child neglect, false imprisonment, burglary and interference with custody.

Four-year-old Cole and 2-year-old Chase are now with their grandparents, who planned to talk about the ordeal publicly Thursday morning.

The couple arrived with their sons in Florida early Wednesday morning, accompanied by federal, state and local authorities after being handed over by Cuban officials.

[Tien1985]

56. Noooo!!

We were so close to ridding ourselves of these whack jobs!!! Why didn't we send them to Kiribati instead?

Actually, since the people of Kiribati are going to be evacuating and whack nuts like these folks don't believe in climate change, can't we just offer to trade our wacknuts for their evacuees? They can have their own little fundie island to enjoy without driving everyone else insane.

[lunasun]

57. Kooky for Kiribati

[Tom Ripley]

60. I like that fact so that many government entities were involved in their rescue; I guess their

god was on vacation at the time.

[tofuandbeer]

63. Kids! We're going to live on Christmas Island, where there are no gay marriages.

[Ash_F]

65. Sounds like their adventure cost US taxpayers a pretty penny.

Not to mention a few other countries. Including our arch-nemesis(according to Republicans and some DUers) the Venezuelans.


It sounds like they are not going to be forced to pay for any of it. I bet the irony is totally lost on them.

[SwissTony]

70. What on earth made them think they'd be welcome in Kiribati?

'In June 2008, Kiribati officials asked Australia and New Zealand to accept Kiribati citizens as permanent refugees. Kiribati is expected to be the first country to lose all its land territory to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president Anote Tong said that the country has reached "...the point of no return." He added, "To plan for the day when you no longer have a country is indeed painful but I think we have to do that."'

'More recently, President Tong has spoken of climate-change induced sea level rise as "inevitable". "For our people to survive, then they will have to migrate. Either we can wait for the time when we have to move people en masse or we can prepare them—beginning from now ..."'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati

Edited to add: csziggy included the first extract.

[freshwest]

71. Actually, I thought the RWR and RWNJ destination of choice was Cuba:

Police: U.S. couple who fled to Cuba with kids vowed "journey to the Armageddon"

Joshua and Sharyn Hakken seemed to have a charmed life, doting on their two young boys, buying a comfortable home and building successful careers as engineers. It all derailed last year when police in Louisiana found the family inside a hotel room with drugs, weapons and promises from the parents to take "a journey to the Armageddon."

The couple is now jailed on charges they kidnapped the boys from their grandparents in Florida and sailed to Cuba on a boat called "Salty" to elude U.S. authorities. The family arrived in Florida early Wednesday morning, accompanied by federal, state and local authorities after being handed over by Cuban officials. Four-year-old Cole and 2-year-old Chase are now with their grandparents and their parents in jail, closing a bizarre ordeal that began with an Amber Alert and ended with diplomatic intervention.

Friends of the couple said the family seemed happy and had no marital problems. "This is a train that went completely off the tracks, and I don't have any explanation for how it can go off the track that badly basically in a year and a half. It's very bizarre," said Darrell Hanecki, who employed Sharyn Hakken for nearly a decade at Hanecki Consulting Engineers...

The blinds at the Hakken household were drawn tight Wednesday. An "infowars.com" bumper sticker was pasted on their mailbox, a reference to conservative radio personality Alex Jones' Web site. A white SUV was in the driveway where neighbors said they usually saw a small boat parked. The boat was such a common presence that it was noticeable when it disappeared last week, said neighbor Simon Castillo...

Read more:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57578940/police-u.s-couple-who-fled-to-cuba-with-kids-vowed-journey-to-the-armageddon/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014450461

[Douglas Carpenter]

74. "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple."

(Luke 14:33 KJV).

"Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matthew 10:37


Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. Luke 17:33

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:26

Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
John 12:25

If one was to take many words from the Gospels literally - It does not seem that far out - to go and do something completely crazy.

[Squinch]

80. I think a little good family therapy for those apostles could have prevented a lot of trouble.

[Rain Mcloud]

82. Definition and origin of the word Cretin also Cretinism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretinism

[rpannier]

87. They chose to go to a country that is slowly depopulating

In 2008, the government requested that Australia and NZ accept it's citizens as refugees as Kribari will likely be completely gone in our lifetime due to global climate change. The government also purchased land from another country to move some of their population as well

Maybe God forced them back because their decision was idiotic

[wandy]

88. So lets see if I got this stright. Wishing to leave a godless............

country, you pack up little children in a boat that you most likely have only the smallest idea how to deal with. You get yourself lost at see and by some magic are rescued by people who probably have a very different idea of the invisible cloud being than you do.
And to top it off the godless country's state department has to arrange you're travel back to the godless country.
Where you will most likely bitch and moan about the godless country.

Yup. god sure does work in strange ways.

[PD Turk]

94. They once were lost...

.... but now are found

[UpInArms]

96. I wonder if the American taxpayers mind paying for the flight home and for the assistance

rendered by the American Coast Guard.

I protest paying taxes for dumbasses such as these.

[Arugula Latte]

98. Don't worry. It's all part of Gawd's plan. He's playing eleventybillion-dimensional chess.

I'm sure there's a reason...Ours is not to question or to know, blah de blah de blah ...

[valerief]

100. They're a perfect illustration of Shit for Brains. nt

[radhika]

102. In a way, Gawd did provide......

in the form of an organized and staffed Coast Guard, search helicopters, Venezuelan boats, international communications --- all human-created entities as I recall.

I wonder if they have the self-awareness to even contemplate the universal concept "Seeing the god in everything"?

Namaste!

[timstephens13]

104. ...

This just proves my point that god makes a much better cruise director than a ships captain.

[Diclotican]

105. LiberalElite

LiberalElite

I do not believe they know what a "state-controlled Church" really is - and have no clue what so ever about what type of control a true state controlled Church is all about.... No clue what so ever...

But then again - I'm afraid to say - many americans seen to have little knowledge about most things.... But they sure is proud of the little they know...

Diclotican

[Quantess]

108. Haven't you heard of the Mooslim obamaray?

It's an infrared signal emanated from the WH, that contains subliminal messages. AKA, the state controlled church-ray. Totally real.

[Diclotican]

109. Quantess

Quantess

Never heard about it before now But im are in no doubt that some belive that too...

Diclotican

[Quantess]

116. I wouldn't be surprised if

a few of our right wing stalkers will believe what I wrote! "An infrared obamaray with subliminal muslin brainwash messages? I KNEW IT!!"

[Diclotican]

121. Quantess

Quantess

I would not be surprised about myself.. I guess we have to wait a few days - and get to know by some of the more extreme right wing groups out there, who believe it to be true...

After all - the President of the United States is a communist, marxist - fascist, Nazis, Kenyan born Islamic and terrorist.... So why not this too?

Diclotican

[Mass]

107. They put their kids in danger because they believe lies?

[ozone_man]

115. TJ says it best.

"It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one . . . But this constitutes the craft, the power and the profit of the priests. Sweep away their gossamer fabrics of fictitious religion, and they would catch no more flies." - Thomas Jefferson

[jmowreader]

119. They speak a different language than you and I

To them, "state control" of churches means the church is not allowed to have total control over the government.

Except for the part about having to give up Christianity for Islam, the Gastonguays would feel right at home in the Taliban.

[jasond54231]

120. What a bunch of stupid fundie whackos

They'll make plenty of money from this publicity stunt, I reckon. Maybe that was their plan from the beginning?

[PasadenaTrudy]

122. This had to happen

while Bill Maher is on Summer break, too

[Snake Plissken]

124. The people on the Venezuelan fishing vessel that rescued then must have been

atheists who were not in communication with God, and didn't realize he was trying to thin out the herd of morons

[DeSwiss]

125. In case you were wondering where Kiribati is......

...it's prit' near the bottom of the world:



- Poor things. I guess it looks closer when you Google it than when you actually have to go there.....

[pitbullgirl1965]

126. They should be forced to pay back the cost of their rescue.

I despise hypocrites!! And religious nuts.

[darkangel218]

128. OMG, this is scary!! i hope they lose their parental rights

The kids are NOT safe in their hands.

[Snake Plissken]

131. Sure their extremely reckless actions almost killed their entire family but,

it's not like tried to smoke a joint or are in a gay or lesbian relationship, beside we are talking about actual children here, and not fetuses.