2009.10.27
"Our proud American history of burning people in effigy."
The religious right wants you to celebrate Halloween this year. No, not in all its pagan glory, in all its damning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to hell glory.
At overturnroe.com, they urge good Christians to download a pdf of the Democratic duo (warning, 4 mb), head to Kinkos to print out a large version, and burn it in effigy on Halloween.
I suspect they would have included President Obama in the fun, too, but there's a law against threatening the president. Then again, as the host says, "No, this is not a threat to their body, but it is a threat to their soul."
I know this shouldn't be funny, but the video instructions and sample are hilarious. Do yourself a favor and watch.
"If you win this battle over health care but you lose your soul, it's a bad deal."
I can't wait to check back next week to see the best videos America's Christians submit. The grand prize is an expenses-paid weekend in Washington during the Roe vs Wade anniversary, Jan 22-24, including pro-life training seminar, and the full Insurrecta Nex television series. With that up for grabs, competition is sure to be fierce.
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That was funny and man these people need help.
I can see Stephen Colbert using this one should be good.
Comment by Bill Hudson — October 27, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
Will the health care bill pay for the psychological help this dude obviously needs?
Comment by Blue John — October 27, 2009 @ 5:42 pm
If this is the 'religious right' doing this, what denomination is sponsoring it? Baptists? Catholics? Methodists? Oh. No religion is sponsoring burning people's souls in effigy. Guess that means it's not the religious right doing it.
Nice try, though.
Comment by Suzie — October 27, 2009 @ 9:00 pm
@3 Suzie, did you actually look at the site and its material? The cross and 10 commandments is a good hint. Then there's the fact that site is run by The Society for Truth and Justice whose founder and president is religious conservative Randall A. Terry.
Nice try, though.
Comment by C. Trejbal — October 27, 2009 @ 10:06 pm
Christian,
Anybody can say they're anything. You call them religious, but no religion is sanctioning this.
Let's instead be concerned about the godless left that actually destroys little humans instead of just effigies.
Comment by Suzie — October 27, 2009 @ 10:42 pm
Well, the fires will certainly let reasonable people know where the spooks live. For an adult activity the video seemed to be addressing an audience having an IQ or age in the single digits, and another argument for every pregnancy being planned and executed only through artificial insemination. The scariest part of this YouTube is thinking these "stars" might be breeding.
Comment by NRV Citizen — October 28, 2009 @ 6:34 am
I went to the website and looked some of the material. Suzie is absolutely right. Anyone can say that they are a Christian. After 9/11, we keep hearing that it was by extremist Muslims and that the rest of the Muslims are alright. Why can't anyone believe that there are extremists who claim to be Christians?
A religious conservative does not want anyone to burn in hell. Even though we may not agree with those who promote abortion, we are concerned about their souls. We hope and pray that someday they will be convicted of the sin of taking the lives of innocent babies and that they will come to know Jesus as their Saviour so that they will avoid hell.
The website is offensive, but this article is offensive to religious conservatives. You should be ashamed to label Christians along with these extremists!
Comment by Wilma — October 28, 2009 @ 7:05 am
Oops! The above post should have read "...looked at some of the material."
Comment by Wilma — October 28, 2009 @ 7:07 am
I just have a question, what exactly would be in a pro-life training seminar? I can;t imagine it would be more than about 30 seconds long.
'Don't have sex until you're married. When you do have sex after getting married, don't use any contraception. When you get pregnant, have the baby and either keep it or put it up for adoption. Class dismissed.'
They must be talking about something else during the seminar, I can't imagine that holding people's attention all that long.
Comment by Other John — October 28, 2009 @ 8:27 am
Aside from this being either a really well-done farce or a very scary window into the mind of a nutjob, I do agree that however you slice it, these folks do not represent the mainstream Christians I know. There are fanatics and extremists in every religion (except maybe the Jains, I've never heard of them getting militant), and if these folks are serious and sincere in what they have published, they fall into the category of the lunatic fringe. Even if this was some sort of a joke, the fact that it's simply been done to this degree tells me that these folks are just flat nuts.
Comment by Other John — October 28, 2009 @ 8:47 am
@9 I don't think that's the sort of pro-life seminar they are talking about, Other John. Randall Terry was the founder of Operation Rescue and is known for pulling juvenile stunts to protest abortion. This was they guy who, for example, was arrested at Notre Dame during President Obama's commencement speech for violating a no-trespass order and who immediately issued a statement after George Tiller (the abortion doctor in Kansas who was murdered at his church) saying he didn't deserve to be the victim of vigilante justice, he deserved to be executed through the judicial system as a mass murderer.
The training would be how to be better (and I use that term loosely) crusader against a woman's right to choose.
Comment by C. Trejbal — October 28, 2009 @ 8:47 am
Oh, that guy. Ok, yeah, now that and the videos makes more sense knowing who that guy is. Well, no, they don't much make sense to me...but I can see where the lunacy comes from. Someone needed to hug this guy a bit more when he was a kid.
Comment by Other John — October 28, 2009 @ 9:09 am
Christian #11
woman's right to choose
Oh, now I see your problem. You think abortion is about what a woman wants. It isn't. It's about a human being's more important right to live. Now, if you don't mind, please stop speaking for women!!
Comment by Suzie — October 28, 2009 @ 9:47 am
@13 Suzie, when did I ever say I was speaking for women? Now if you don't mind, please stop putting words in my mouth!!
Comment by C. Trejbal — October 28, 2009 @ 10:05 am