Lionel Mandrake
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:33 AM
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Fundies spread hate on campus |
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They're at it again. Two or three guys with posters and loud voices warning students that they will go to HELL if they don't show support for Jesus by hating certain groups of people. Today's hate list at Cal. State Long Beach was unusual.
"Child molesters, atheists, and Mormons are the scum of the earth," said one of these clowns. He went on to explain why he hates the LDS church. It has to do with what they believe, not anything they have done. Atheists, of course, are targeted because of what they DON'T believe. Only the child molesters are targeted because of their deeds.
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:36 AM
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:44 AM
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9. No link...he saw them in person. (nt) |
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:37 AM
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2. There was one on my campus |
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University of Tennessee, spouting the shit you'd expect. He spat in a friend of mine's face, so my friend threw a Pepsi on him. The police were called soon after.
Scary that these people still exist.
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:37 AM
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3. Ooo, the quad Gods are out in Long Beach already huh! |
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Once spring arrives in Ohio They'll be out in full force at Wright State as well.
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:39 AM
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Every time warm weather hits, you can't enjoy the oval in peace. Someone's shouting about hellfire and damnation and godless students. :eyes:
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:46 AM
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11. Do you guys get Ranger Rick as we know him? |
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Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 12:46 AM by sasquatch
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:47 AM
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13. Hmm... not too sure who that is |
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We have brother Jed who goes on and on about how great married people sex is and how unmarried sex will kill us all. :P
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:51 AM
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15. We get Brother Jed too |
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:rofl: Man, these guys are a laugh riot.
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:55 AM
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17. Oh, geez, that guy gets around |
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I'm sorry you have to be subjected to that, too. :P
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Tue Feb-24-09 03:12 AM
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Tue Feb-24-09 03:32 AM
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21. That fool is still around terrorizing the Oval!? |
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Jed and Cindy (also known as the disco queen) and some old idiot (who's name I can't remember) used to visit OSU back in the early 80's. I don't think they won many converts considering all they did was call us names and annoy us.
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Tue Feb-24-09 08:29 PM
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30. Brother Jed is still around? |
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I caught his spiel at the University of Minnesota back in the early 1980s. People would take lawn chairs and coolers of beer, soda and sandwiches and heckle him relentlessly. :rofl:
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:39 AM
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5. At my university, we see the same thing, except it's sometimes one group against the other. |
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We don't have counter-protesters per se. Being that my campus happens to be in North Mississippi, Bible Belt Country, it often turns into a pissing match between who is more pure or more correct on interpretation of Scripture. Campus police have been called several times whenever the more inflammatory preachers come around. There have been fist fights over this stuff. Religious violence on campus--I'd have thought that died out with the Enlightenment.
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:42 AM
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7. Kind of ironic, don't you think. |
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Jesus preached love for one another...but his followers want to duke it out with each other over whose interpretation of Jesus' teachings is "right"
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:45 AM
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10. That and their hatred of socialism never realizing |
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that Jesus was the original socialist.
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:50 AM
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14. Pardon the pun, but they get cross pretty easily over this stuff. |
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Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 12:51 AM by Selatius
A real hit that causes a stir on campus is when somebody walks around with a sign that says, "God hates faggots." That usually brings out a bunch of people who do not necessarily disagree with the sign but disagree with the delivery. Of course, that group excludes the gays on campus who may see the sign.
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Tue Feb-24-09 03:10 AM
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19. Yes, it is very ironic. |
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The most vicious fights were over hair-splitting details. During the Reformation, people couldn't agree about how the wine supposedly changed during the Sunday ritual. If you didn't agree with the local authorities, you were labelled a heretic and likely to be burned at the stake.
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:40 AM
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6. "Child molesters, atheists, and Mormons are the scum of the earth," |
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Are you sure that isn't a DU post????
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:43 AM
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:39 AM
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that sign would read "Child molesters and religionists are the scum of the earth". When, on DU, have you seen anyone calling atheists themselves "scum"?
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:46 AM
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:28 AM
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Ah, you bring back memories...it just wasn't springtime on an Ohio college campus without them marching around in the biggest public forum they could find, telling all the girls in shorts and short skirts that they were going to Hell, and all the guys that they were whoremongers.
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:54 AM
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Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 12:55 AM by Jamastiene
We'll take the atheists, the feminists, the gays, and the rock stars, because we like them, but as for the rest: Hell is full. We are all fulled up. We don't need any more, tyvm. Tell them, they can keep the others. The overcrowding situation down here is getting to be overwhelming at this point. No vacancies. No exceptions.
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Tue Feb-24-09 12:56 AM
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18. The CIA loves Mormons |
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They are the best kind of operative. Language skills, don't drink, don't smoke, loyal capitalists.
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Tue Feb-24-09 03:53 AM
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we routinely refer to the FBI recruitment pool as "mormon accountants from Utah".
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Tue Feb-24-09 02:12 PM
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25. THis is how I dealt with them... |
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Tue Feb-24-09 08:15 PM
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28. Now why didn't I think of that? |
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Actually, I can't dance. But I can play sinful music.
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Tue Feb-24-09 02:27 PM
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26. We had one at my Alma Mater that came around once a year... |
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Usually hung out all day in front of the Student Union Building on a day in Early to mid September when the weather was still warm. The guy was from a fundie church that's infamous in my homer state for pestering people who use the nude beach on the Wisconsin River near Madison.
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Tue Feb-24-09 02:28 PM
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or use the bible against them. quote jesus "Judge not lest ye be judged accordingly." they hate that when you use the bible as smackdown.
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Tue Feb-24-09 08:26 PM
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"Judge not lest ye be judged."
And go easy on the hubris, lest Zeus strike you dead with a lightning bolt.
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