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electric-eye Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:14 PM
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That church across the street
Edited on Sat Jan-01-05 09:15 PM by electric-eye
There is a baptist church nearby with a marquee outside and all. I've had to pass by this church every day for the last 2+ years I've lived where I currently live.

During the 2004 campaigns, they put up a message on their marquee that described the choice between candidates as a choice between the good and the wicked. Below that they advertised their series of "meetings" where "issues" like the " protecting the sanctity of marriage" were discussed. One guess as to who the "wicked" was in their message.

Tonight I noticed that same church now has rows of little white crosses on the lawn. There’s a small billboard next to that display reads something like "Each little cross represents 10 of the 2600 babies murdered every…" I didn't’t catch it all.

The marquee nearby now preaches something about God saying he "knew you before he put you in the womb."

I want to ask these people - one day, in the middle of one of their sessions, I want to just walk in and ask them how they feel about the tens of thousands of babies and children and women and men who have been murdered in Iraq for no other reason than george w. bush’s insistence that it be so. I’d say, show me Christ in that, you sanctimonious fakes. Tell me what "wicked" means to you, hollow impostors. Let's talk about right and wrong -

I fucking hate hypocrites.

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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:16 PM
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1. Sneak over there some night
and put up 130 crosses on the lawn, with a sign explaining that each one represents 10 dead American soldiers. See how long that display lasts.
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imenja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:18 PM
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2. add red crosses for the dead Iraqis
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:18 PM
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3. Masturbation is a serious waste of lives to them as well :-) n/t
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:20 PM
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4. Maybe they wouldn't be so mean and ornery
if they masturbated more.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:21 PM
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5. When I lived in the states, I always reported churches w/ political
messages to the IRS.

If I saw an even remotely political message on their marquee, I called.

Not sure what good it did but I always called and complained about churches practicing politics. I do know marquees were changed a time or two...
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Sandpiper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:25 PM
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6. Change the Marqee to read "Ye shall know them by their fruits"
Followed by,

The "Fruits" of George W. Bush:

Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Lies, Graft, War
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Is It Fascism Yet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:31 PM
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9. lol, good one
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Locut0s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:29 PM
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7. My post to a similar thread in another message board.
Original Poster:

"
In the past 16 months. . .
(Each + represents 8,000 human lives)
Capital Punishment killed 98 Americans .
War in Iraq killed 100,000 people + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Abortionists murdered 1,750,656 American infants + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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My response:

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I'm not going to get into a discussion of weather abortion is murder, that is a hopeless discussion that neither side will end up winning. But if you want to be appalled and outraged there are plenty of more urgent matters that need our attention.
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I didn't hear from the OP after that.
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Is It Fascism Yet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:30 PM
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8. yeah, i am with you
live encircled by such churches myself, the entire town sits in for those sermons, if we confronted their hipocrasy, they'd tar and feather us, run us out of town on a rail, and say it was god's will.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 10:11 PM
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10. Approximately 10 million abortions per year in China
So let's all go shopping after church and support abortions in China by filling our carts with cheap imported goods from China at Wal-Mart. And while you're there, don't forget the clothing department, where you'll find a wide choice of fashionable attire made by children in third world sweat shops.

Hypocrites, every one of them, never put their money where their mouth is. Never.
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