May 25, 2005

• Do I hear the rumbling echoes of the furore over "Piss Christ" ? I love the smell of hypocrisy in the late afternoon.
• I love people arguing over religion. It all comes down to "my imaginary friend can beat up your imaginary friend."
• Do I hear the rumbling echoes of the furore over "Piss Christ" ? I love the smell of hypocrisy in the late afternoon. posted by chimaera at 01:40AM UTC on May 25, 2005 I agree with you completely. I don't agree with forcing this pastor to take his sign down. Let him keep it up. Let people see it. See how it helps church attendence. Why would we want to help stave off the inevitable loss of membership this prick deserves?
• I am of the opinion that his sign might actually lead to increased membership.
• What was that recent thread where people were arguing about how much humans are superior to animals?
• About Friday or Saturday we will have a new sign," he said. "It should state to some effect 'Where are your treasures? Are they at the flea market or are they in heaven?'" When you have 8-track tapes, knockoff designer bags from Guatemala and cheap T-shirts that say "HEAVEN DOESN'T WANT ME AND HELL'S AFRAID I'LL TAKE OVER" for sale at your shitty church, maybe I'll head over later.
• Wrap your whole identity in an object and someone will want to flush it.
• Well, gee! I hope no one flushes MoFi.
• I think MoFi may safely be considered unflushable.
• >I love people arguing over religion. It all comes down to "my imaginary friend can beat up your imaginary friend." Isn't this kind of the same sentiment as the sign in front of the church? "How stupid many other viewpoints are. Fortunately, we have the correct viewpoints here." I'm not tryin' to start nothin', or nothin'. I'm just sayin', that's all.
• I'd leave a church that put up a sign like that. Of course, I already left the Baptist church for becoming fundamentalist and crazy. As others have said here, I'm a fan of Jesus... just not some of his followers....
• Agree with the idea that this sort of thing may lower church attendance. But this statement is kind of idiotic: "This is the sort of attitude and action that seriously endangers the liberty which lies at the heart of our democracy. It is also a good reminder that just because one may have the legal right to say something, doing so may not be morally, socially or politically desirable." Actually, this is the kind of attitude and action that liberty and democracy allows. How this is a threat to liberty and democracy, I don't think I'll ever know...
• f8x, the simple rule is 'does it infringe on other people's liberty?'. In this case I'd say not quite, they're just a bunch of clowns. But if it escalated and turned into something violent, which it might given the current climate down yonder, then freedom of speech takes a back seat to freedom from burning crosses on lawns.
• SC, agreed. Still, it's a bit extreme to go from words on a sign to burning crosses on lawns in one swell foop. I think we can all keep our billy clubs in our holsters for now...
• there are a lot of things "that seriously endangers the liberty which lies at the heart of our democracy", but this, while stupid, is not in the top million. It's funny that someone brought up "piss Christ" - I wonder what this minister's stance is on that kind of thing, if he supports the right to burn a flag or stick a bible in the toilet. If he did- I might be on his side, since I find reverence for inanimate symbols of any kind silly. And, paraphrase a Matt groening cartoon, "if Allah is everywhere, is he in the toilet?"
• He sure is in Cuba.
• I suspect that bibles with excretement are bound to show up on their door steps.
• Bibles with excrement. What a great marketing idea!
• I grow tired of the endless stupidity of christians.
• I tried to flush mofi, but my powerbook broke the toilet.
• I say we turn that church into a dutch oven.
• Monkeyfilter: Unflushable.
• f8x: The rules don't apply to my side. Loony wingbats say lets flush the koran! Monkeys say what a bunch of loony wingbats. f8x says woah monkeys, now you're just going too far.
• Holy crap.
• Keeping the 'fundament' in fundamentalism. Just wrong.
• The rules don't apply to my side. I said this...when?
• Geez, f8x, I would be concerned about that. I'd be more concerned about what else you said: [C]hurch...is kind of idiotic. ...[L]iberty and democracy...is a threat. ...[G]o to...burning crosses on lawns. I mean, wow.
• argh! *less concerned. That'll teach me.
• Smo: that is probably the funniest thing I've read all day. Literal LOL!
• God damn, Smo, I'm pulling you back out of the toilet for that one.