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Repent America issued a press release Wednesday. In it, they implied that Hurricane Katrina was a judgement from God on New Orleans, particularly on Southern Decadence, New Orleans' annual queer end-of-summer bash.
Eh, they're just some tiny fringe group, right?
Well, Agape Press, the American Family Association's news service (and nobody can claim that the AFA isn't right in the heart of Christian activism) posted an article misleadingly titled New Orleans Residents: God's Mercy Evident in Katrina's Wake. They don't just imply.
The pastor explains that for years he has warned people that unless Christians in New Orleans took a strong stand against such things as local abortion clinics, the yearly Mardi Gras celebrations, and the annual event known as "Southern Decadence" -- an annual six-day "gay pride" event scheduled to be hosted by the city this week -- God's judgment would be felt.
“New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."
Last I checked, this isn't what Christianity is about. I thought Christianity wasn't about exploiting human suffering.
Show me that it's not. Take a stand.
Repost this. Don't just link it, copy it and repost it. Ask your friends to repost this. Find out where they really stand when they don't.
Eh, they're just some tiny fringe group, right?
Well, Agape Press, the American Family Association's news service (and nobody can claim that the AFA isn't right in the heart of Christian activism) posted an article misleadingly titled New Orleans Residents: God's Mercy Evident in Katrina's Wake. They don't just imply.
The pastor explains that for years he has warned people that unless Christians in New Orleans took a strong stand against such things as local abortion clinics, the yearly Mardi Gras celebrations, and the annual event known as "Southern Decadence" -- an annual six-day "gay pride" event scheduled to be hosted by the city this week -- God's judgment would be felt.
“New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."
Last I checked, this isn't what Christianity is about. I thought Christianity wasn't about exploiting human suffering.
Show me that it's not. Take a stand.
Repost this. Don't just link it, copy it and repost it. Ask your friends to repost this. Find out where they really stand when they don't.
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I'd say, set him down in the middle of that sea of shit and let him see how well his preaching's received.
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Right-o.
Brothers and sisters:
Out of my religion. Like, now. You make the rest of us who are contributing to this terrible time of human suffering look bad. You missed the point.
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It's fucked up, whichever way you look at it.
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Ugh.
and say exactly that. ><#
I barely resisted the urge to punch him. I had to keep reminding myself that it's wrong to hurt others no matter what.
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Sometimes I wonder if these bastards hand in their human empathy as part of the admission process to the One And Only True Faith.
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"So God killed thousands of people, made thousands of others homeless, men, women, and children, so that the naughty faggots would stop being uppity? You need to go read the gospels and this time, pay attention."
A friends mother is a fundamentalist (and religiously insane, having even spent time in hospital being treated for the more extreme of her delusions, but that's beside the point), and happens to be a millionaire because her husband left behind a legacy. Her home in the affluent suburb northeast of New Orleans was utterly destroyed.
I wonder if she thinks that God destroyed her million-dollar home because of the nasty fags being all uppity. Scratch that. I know she does not. Even as out of touch with reality she is, that's still to insane for her.
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And they ain't leaving, so the Christian Right better start reorganizing its priorities unless they want Agwe paying them a visit, too.
Pev
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...On the other hand, given the course of human history, no, they probably wouldn't learn any such thing, even then.
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That just don't compute, pastor.
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That's one of the things I like about you: your unquenchable optimism.
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Just like it's strange how commonly church steeples were struck by lightning before the invention of the lightning rod - _if_ you presume that God, and not buildup of electrical charge, is responsible for directing said lightning.
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He was asked about why it took so long to get people together and he mentioned that if it was an emergency the military could be gathered in 24 hours...
I just can't believe the spin off this shit!
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But now, I've been redeemed for another week of my witchy work!
*grins*
I LOVE being contrary to their expectations. Of course, THIS witch is mostly praying a lot for the people of New Orleans, which seems to be a hell of a lot more (pun intended) than this "preacher" is doing.
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Just like always, I spend almost all of my time commenting on other people's LJs rather than in my own. Remember, I'd gone for ages doing just that before the wish to reassure you that I wasn't some fandom stalker nudged me into making my very first post (http://sinick.livejournal.com/373.html).
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*INTRUDER ALERT*