Yeah...I saw that too. Thanks for the link.The pics are from the protesters' blog. They are the "Official Street Preachers."
http://officialstreetpreachers.blogspot.com/2012/07/official-preach-report-on-dearborn-stan.html
The same or similar pics are available on the Dearborn Free Press website.
I noted in looking at their site that this is far from being their first brush with asshole-ism:
I can only conclude that this moron is trying to become the next Westboro Baptist Church, but with less of a singular focus on a particular issue.
I find it very difficult to believe Jesus Christ would have approved of this expression of faith in Him.
What's your problem...are you butt sore about something?
Good.You were fairly eager to defend these guys earlier. Or perhaps not so receptive to a comparison of the Muslim gathering in question to the promise keepers. However, it's not clear that protesters at promise keepers organized events have been as in your face as the guy in the picture...
that's all.
... Jesus would also have not been that close to a pig head...since pig is treif and Jesus was Kosher through and through. Invoking the name of Jesus and holding a pig head is quite silly.
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:awe: I like your line of thought there. :thumbsup:
It's their right to do so, no? Throwing rocks at people is illegal, provoking using pigs' heads isn't. I don't really think having pig's heads on spikes is equal to throwing rocks, do you?
Yeah...I saw that too. Thanks for the link.
Morons pervade every nook and cranny of our culture. Believe it or not...some people are so stupid that they actually believe that these particular morons are a fair representation of Christianity. Go figure.
You need to go educate yourself on the Civil Rights movement or the Women's Suffrage movement. Read what people wrote, read about the reactions to those movements and then see what people said about those marching and causing problems.
After you do that, see which side you most sound like and then reevaluate yourself.
While it is true that Kosher laws do not apply to the Goyim (per the Council of Jerusalem), they certainly did apply to Jesus.
I agree with you in principal. However, if a faction of Christians were killing people on a regular basis, I would definitely expect them to be far more vocal. But this is not the case.Well, I don't necessarily believe that and I do agree with you--but I also believe that it is incumbent on the larger Christian community to become far, far more vocal about disavowing these people. This is a minority--an extremely vociferous and attention-grabbing minorty (like teabaggers, for example)--but as such, it's difficult to control the perceptions of those outside the so-called Christian fundy movement when this is the only message they hear.
It is the same charge that Christians levy on Islam as a whole--to be more vocal about disavowing the terrorists and fundies in their community (Islamists are much more active in this venture, tbh).
The pics are from the protesters' blog. They are the "Official Street Preachers."
http://officialstreetpreachers.blogspot.com/2012/07/official-preach-report-on-dearborn-stan.html
The same or similar pics are available on the Dearborn Free Press website.
I noted in looking at their site that this is far from being their first brush with asshole-ism:
I can only conclude that this moron is trying to become the next Westboro Baptist Church, but with less of a singular focus on a particular issue.
I agree with you in principal. However, if a faction of Christians were killing people on a regular basis, I would definitely expect them to be far more vocal. But this is not the case.
In this particular situation...the likilihood of the Christian community apologizing for these fools is quite remote...almost as remote as the probability of the Muslim community apologizing for those who threw rocks at the protesters.
the more I think about it...the more I think they are pretty much equal. Pretty much the same level of savagery.
...which is fine until you create a disturbance, like these protesters were doing. The police asked them to leave because they were creating a disturbance, and THAT was what they were going to arrest them on - something completely illegal and totally justified to arrest them on.
Don't be daft, the pigs head on a stick was there for one reason. People protesting for civil rights is completely different. In one example you are asking for a change in the order of things in the other you are just there to go "Yaa boo, you suck. *rable rable*".
A pig head-wielding jesus man is hardly the same sort of profound ignorance and brain washing as a jacket bomb-wielding terrorist. /facepalmI wouldn't say it's a regular basis, but a faction of them do bomb planned parenthood facilities and murder clinicians.
(PP being the one institution in this country that greatly limits the number of abortions performed in this country. This disconnect among fundies is the same sort of profound ignorance and brain washing as displayed by pig head-wielding jesus man and all the jacket bomb-wielding terrorists.)
A pig head-wielding jesus man is hardly the same sort of profound ignorance and brain washing as a jacket bomb-wielding terrorist. /facepalm
If you think so, how about we test it. You go stand with a pig or whatever animal head you want on a spike in front of me, and then I'll throw rocks at you. Afterwards, we can reconvene and you can reconsider if they are the same level of savagery. Hint: one is illegal and assault, the other is not, it is merely offensive to some.
The more I see / hear about these jackasses, the more clear it is that they are like westboro wannabe's. What jerks.
Of course that doesn't change the fundamental issue that jerks or not, their rights are just as valid as anyone else, as the scotus ruled in the westboro case.
their rights were completely upheld. How were they not?
Allowing someone to be assaulted without holding the assailant accountable is not exactly upholding their rights. That's like saying "sure, you're free to say whatever you want, but we will not uphold the law and hold those who engage in assault afterwards accountable. Go ahead, exercise your rights, but don't expect equal protection under the law because we don't like what you're saying!".
the more I think about it...the more I think they are pretty much equal. Pretty much the same level of savagery.