Have you heard about these nutjobs - Texas Taliban

[AggieTool]

http://www.repentamarillo.com/

I'm sure Jebus would be totally behind these nutz.:D

[Okla-homey]

I don't have a problem with it. I'm quite sure the Apostles' contemporaries thought they were crazy as hell too. Lord knows, they executed most of them.

[Leroy Lizard]

Faith, Prayer, and the Word are my weapons of warfare.

They're not professing a violent approach to worship from what I can tell. They just like the "Onward Christian Soldiers" theme.

It's all good.

[AggieTool]

I saw these dimwits when I ran the Race for the Cure.

They were holding up a giant photo of a dismembered fetus. Classy.:mad:

Here's an event for breast cancer, (my mom, mother-in-law, and aunt are all survivors), and these inbreds were causing folks to puke during the run.:(

And I'm a pro-lifer at that.:)

[Leroy Lizard]

I saw these dimwits when I ran the Race for the Cure.

They were holding up a giant photo of a dismembered fetus. Classy.:mad:

They're not shooting for classy.

[AggieTool]

They're not shooting for classy.

Agreed. That would involve higher thinking.

[sooner59]

Geez...

[Leroy Lizard]

If I was their marketing guru, I would tell them that targeting breast cancer rallies is not a wise choice. I understand their rationale, but you have to pick your battles very carefully and they're not doing a good job with that one.

[TUSooner]

The theology is not mine, but as long as the military stuff is only a metaphor (or anaogy or whatever), I have no great alarm. But I gotta think the breast cancer and abortion link is pretty dodgy. So yeah, may be they are a tad to the nutsy side.

[Okla-homey]

But I gotta think the breast cancer and abortion link is pretty dodgy. So yeah, may be they are a tad to the nutsy side.

The only thing they could possibly be referring to is the fact that women who have not borne children are more prone to breast cancer. I think it has something to do with breastages shifting during pregnancy to the primary purpose for which they were initially installed on female people. Ergo, if you aborted your babies before said shift, logically, you would fall into the category of wimmen who have not undergone said physiological shift with its attendant anti-breast cancer beneficial side effects.

Other than that, I got nuttin'

[JohnnyMack]

Just a marketing gimmick. They look like they're like a radical version of Tulsa's Guts Church.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

if you are ever in Amarillo and you need to know where all the strip clubs are in town, their site and can lead you right to em

[JohnnyMack]

if you are ever in Amarillo and you need to know where all the strip clubs are in town, their site and can lead you right to em

What time are you picking me up?

[OklahomaTuba]

Next thing you know they will be shotting up military bases and trying to blow up planes and times square.

Oh, wait...

[stoops the eternal pimp]

What time are you picking me up?

thats me outside honking

[Leroy Lizard]

The only thing they could possibly be referring to is the fact that women who have not borne children are more prone to breast cancer.

I think it has more to do with stem cell research.

[AggieTool]

Next thing you know they will be shotting up military bases and trying to blow up planes and times square.

Oh, wait...


...or killing doctors in church.

Well we do know that those nutjobs also do what their god tellz 'em.

[OklahomaTuba]

...or killing doctors in church.

Well we do know that those nutjobs also do what their god tellz 'em.

you don't need God to do that kinda stuff.

Atheism has way out performed us religious types up on that, time and time again.

Infact, its not even close! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism)

[JohnnyMack]

you don't need God to do that kinda stuff.

Atheism has way out performed us religious types up on that, time and time again.

Infact, its not even close! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism)

You really are an idiot. That or you're just dishonest. Or ignorant. Go ahead and pick one.

[soonerscuba]

Can't we all just agree that any time evangelicals try to co-op something popular (rock, the military, x-games, etc) they come off looking epically lame?

[Leroy Lizard]

It comes down to membership. It if drives memberships up, that's what matters.

[StoopTroup]

Turning this thread into a thread about Strip Clubs and titties was starting to work.

Pay attention people!

[JohnnyMack]

Turning this thread into a thread about Strip Clubs and titties was starting to work.

Pay attention people!

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-texas/AmarilloCrystolPistol.jpg

[Leroy Lizard]

Classy looking joint.

[AggieTool]

you don't need God to do that kinda stuff.

Atheism has way out performed us religious types up on that, time and time again.

Infact, its not even close! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism)

Oh I don't disagree there, but don't make it like nutjob fundies only apply to Muslims.

Right now, at this time in history, it's fundies that are causing most of the pain and suffering in the world.

Whether it's fostering hate, or molesting kids, it's the fundies of all types that are the problem.

'Cept for the Amish, they keep to themselves pretty good.:D

[Leroy Lizard]

Oh I don't disagree there, but don't make it like nutjob fundies only apply to Muslims.

Right now, at this time in history, it's fundies that are causing most of the pain and suffering in the world.

Not even close.

[AggieTool]

Not even close.

That is fundies of all faiths in case I wasn't clear.:O

Fundie Muslims - violent and intolerant on a large scale, Fundie Xtians, violent on a small scale and also a fair bit of intolerance.

Moderates of all faiths aren't the problem.:)

[Leroy Lizard]

That is fundies of all faiths in case I wasn't clear.:O

Fundie Muslims - violent and intolerant on a large scale, Fundie Xtians, violent on a small scale and also a fair bit of intolerance.

Moderates of all faiths aren't the problem.:)

Maybe, but their response would be: Moderates of all faiths are not even truly committed anyway, so they may as well be atheists.

Well, that's how *I* would respond.

[AggieTool]

Maybe, but their response would be: Moderates of all faiths are not even truly committed anyway, so they may as well be atheists.

Well, that's how *I* would respond.

If you were any more like Jesus....wounds would appear in your hands & feet.:D

[Leroy Lizard]

If you were any more like Jesus....wounds would appear in your hands & feet.:D

Okay, let me phrase it more clearly:


Maybe, but their response would be: Moderates of all faiths are not even truly committed anyway, so they may as well be atheists.

Well, that's how *I* would respond if I was a fundamentalist (which I'm not).

[AggieTool]

Okay, let me phrase it more clearly:
:)

[olevetonahill]

Why aint the Hard Anti Christian folks treated like the weird Fundamental's of any faith

It seems to me that those who are so anti religion are just as Nutty if not more so than those few that are strict in their belief's :confused: :rolleyes:

[Turd_Ferguson]

Why aint the Hard Anti Christian folks treated like the weird Fundamental's of any faith

It seems to me that those who are so anti religion are just as Nutty if not more so than those few that are strict in their belief's :confused: :rolleyes:Concur. Especially the ones that spell Christian with an X. What a ****tard.:rolleyes:

[Leroy Lizard]

Why aint the Hard Anti Christian folks treated like the weird Fundamental's of any faith

It seems to me that those who are so anti religion are just as Nutty if not more so than those few that are strict in their belief's :confused: :rolleyes:


And shrill.

[JohnnyMack]

Why aint the Hard Anti Christian folks treated like the weird Fundamental's of any faith

It seems to me that those who are so anti religion are just as Nutty if not more so than those few that are strict in their belief's :confused: :rolleyes:

I'm not Nutty, I'm just right. :D

[Leroy Lizard]

Well, someone is. We all find out in due time. :D

[olevetonahill]

I'm not Nutty, I'm just right. :D

They Named This after you ya Nut :D
http://eatingbirdfood.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/nutty1.gif

[olevetonahill]

Well, someone is. We all find out in due time. :D

fIHEW_fazQA&feature

[olevetonahill]

Well, someone is. We all find out in due time. :D

Like i just posted
Only our Dying will tell :D

[Leroy Lizard]

In My Time of Dying?

Hey, I think I can make that into a song. Maybe Jesus can help me with the lyrics.

[AggieTool]

Why aint the Hard Anti Christian folks treated like the weird Fundamental's of any faith

It seems to me that those who are so anti religion are just as Nutty if not more so than those few that are strict in their belief's :confused: :rolleyes:

Good thing I aint "Hard Anti Christian".:rolleyes:

I am "Hard Anti Nutjob Fundie Christian" though...you know....like protesting soldier's funerals, killing doctors in church, molesting kids, insisting on fairy tales in text books, showing butchered fetuses at breast cancer events,.....stuff like that.:)

I guess I just wish some Christians were more "Christ-Like".

And I wish more Muslims were more...well....."Christ-Like" too....:D

[AggieTool]

Concur. Especially the ones that spell Christian with an X. What a ****tard.:rolleyes:

Jesus sees you 'playin with yerself.....better stop or he will smite thee!:mad:

:D

[OklahomaTuba]

I guess I just wish some Christians were more "Christ-Like".
Yeah, sorry all +2 billion of us aren't perfect.

And I guess I wish more atheists would be more "atheist" and less like the intolerant bigots they usually are.

[JohnnyMack]

Yeah, sorry all +2 billion of us aren't perfect.

Might makes right.


And I guess I wish more atheists would be more "atheist" and less like the intolerant bigots they usually are.

Like how tolerant your little suburban church is of queers and towel heads?

[picasso]

I saw these dimwits when I ran the Race for the Cure.

They were holding up a giant photo of a dismembered fetus. Classy.:mad:

Here's an event for breast cancer, (my mom, mother-in-law, and aunt are all survivors), and these inbreds were causing folks to puke during the run.:(

And I'm a pro-lifer at that.:)

Perhaps you should read more about the Susan Komen foundation and then you might not look so stupid.

[soonerscuba]

Perhaps you should read more about the Susan Komen foundation and then you might not look so stupid.Like how they provide services through Planned Parenthood as a result of it usually being the only women's clinic in low income areas? The horrors.

[picasso]

Like how they provide services through Planned Parenthood as a result of it usually being the only women's clinic in low income areas? The horrors.





I'm not advocating holding up signs of a dead fetus or anything but Planned Parenthood has one very obvious agenda on it's plate.

Without even knowing it, your point also illustrates the need for those areas to require those poor uneducated kids to look and read what they are actually doing when they get an abortion. Something Planned Parenthood is completely against.

[StoopTroup]

What about that gal in Florida that had all those kids and wasn't taking care of them?

Planned Parenthood obviously didn't work for her? They never helped her p[lan anything. Should she go to hell or jail because she was given the ability to produce chidren that she couldn't care for?

I think the Floroda Courts were leaning towards sterilizing her. Not sure that would fly. Problem with Planned Parenthood is that they teach gals like this to misuse their bodies IMO. Yes...if you really feel you are going to have complications and or you can't live knowing that you brought a kids into this World and gave it away because of your own selfishness...you should have the right to slaughter the fetus and go on about your merry way. Where I have a problem is when they come back time and time again like abortion is a form of contraception.

I've met very few Women who've had an abortion that didn't feel bad about it immediately after they had the procedure or later in life. It's a sign that somewhere inside of us is either this morale compass or as many of us believe a moral compass that was given to us via a higher power or God Almighty. I'll leave it for you to choose which as God gave you that too. :D

Abortion is something that Man and Woman have figured out how to do to save a Mother in crisis during a hard or difficult pregnancy. I do not nor will I ever believe that it was meant to be some form of contraception.

I also believe it would be easier on a Woman mentally to have a child and put it up for adoption than to have an abortion. I always will. I think most people feel that way too. Everytime I see a Family trying to adopt a child from another Country I think how sad it is that we as a society think how awesome it is for them to be doing something for children while at the same time our society is tossing dead babies out with the trash.

I'll never understand it or condone it.

It's just how I'm wired I guess.

[Leroy Lizard]

Without even knowing it, your point also illustrates the need for those areas to require those poor uneducated kids to look and read what they are actually doing when they get an abortion. Something Planned Parenthood is completely against.

Out of real interest to know, does Planned Parenthood show pictures of dismembered fetuses in their literature? How "reality" is their literature?

[StoopTroup]

Yep...a video of the procedure should be a must.

[Leroy Lizard]

Absolutely. Otherwise you are hiding the truth.

At the risk of being accused of arguing, do they actually show these things?

[OhU1]

Atheism has way out performed us religious types up on that, time and time again.

Infact, its not even close! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism)

Sigh, does this merit a reply? :O What the hell, it's a message board.

A-theism is merely the absence of a belief in theistic claims (A = without a theism). Atheism in itself has no dogma. There is not an ISM in atheism. Atheism is only a response to a theistic claim regarding the assertion that gods exist. Contrary to what is often claimed, atheism is not necessarily the positive claim that gods do not exist. The atheist does not believe that gods exist. (To claim you know God does not exist is so called "strong atheism" which seems rather rare as I've never heard anyone claim they could disprove God). Another semantic point, atheism is not about whether God is knowable or unknowable which is an entirely different question than whether you believe the claim of God’s existence.

That being said it is true that some individuals who are atheist can have a dogma, be shrill, Christian hating, ect. People that happen to not believe in a god are as varied as those that do.

In my view the problem with a dogma that holds that the State is supreme (communism, Nazi's, North Korea) is not that there is too much skeptical inquiry and non-belief. There is too little. The communist and Nazis are as dogmatic as any religious belief, except that God is replaced by the State.

I am not making the argument that a "faith" mindset may make these types of governments possible - but I dispute that skeptical rational non-belief explains or is in any way logically connected to these State centered dictatorships. I've heard Hitler was a vegetarian AND a virgin. It seems as likely to me that Hitler needed to eat a steak and get laid. :D

[AggieTool]

Yeah, sorry all +2 billion of us aren't perfect.

And I guess I wish more atheists would be more "atheist" and less like the intolerant bigots they usually are.

Actually I'm Deist, but don't let yer assumptions and bigotry get in they way of reality.:)

I just don't minimize the creator of the know universe to a human form that doesn't like us "touching ourselves", and doesn't want women wearing short skirts.

The height of arrogance is creating god in our own image.:rolleyes:

Which is exactly what almost all Judeo-Christian religions have done.

[OklahomaTuba]

Actually I'm Deist, but don't let yer assumptions and bigotry get in they way of reality.:)
Actually I never assumed what you were, was just making the obvious observation of how intolerant (and violent) atheism in general is, especially towards Christians.

[JohnnyMack]

Actually I never assumed what you were, was just making the obvious observation of how intolerant (and violent) atheism in general is, especially towards Christians.

OK listen little slappy, as soon as you acknowledge that the Baptists nuked Hiroshima and that the Methodists fire-bombed Dresden, I'll accept that Atheism is behind the exterminations carried out by Stalin. The violence we saw from the Soviets and Mao was an advancement of a political agenda, not a religious (or non-religious) agenda. Again, you're either ignorant, obtuse or a liar. Pick one.

[OklahomaTuba]

The violence we saw from the Soviets and Mao was an advancement of a political agenda, not a religious (or non-religious) agenda.Ahh, gotcha, so its all just one big coincidence that the great genocides of the modern era are by the Godless??

[JohnnyMack]

Ahh, gotcha, so its all just one big coincidence that the great genocides of the modern era are by the Godless??

I'm not trying to be funny here, but I really don't think you get it. I think there's some sort or real or artificial disconnect with you.

[Leroy Lizard]

Sigh, does this merit a reply? :O What the hell, it's a message board.

A-theism is merely the absence of a belief in theistic claims (A = without a theism). Atheism in itself has no dogma.

It has no scripture. But atheists can take on common attitudes, just like religious folk. And these attitudes can be beneficial or harmful.


There is not an ISM in atheism.

????

[Leroy Lizard]

Actually I'm Deist, but don't let yer assumptions and bigotry get in they way of reality.:)

I just don't minimize the creator of the know universe to a human form that doesn't like us "touching ourselves", and doesn't want women wearing short skirts.

The height of arrogance is creating god in our own image.:rolleyes:

Which is exactly what almost all Judeo-Christian religions have done.

Your argument would hold more water if we ascribed characteristics to God that conformed to animal instincts. But quite the contrary: We place numerous constraints on our own behavior because we think God disapproves.

In other words, if what you say is true, then we would have pictured God as a fornicator who looks at porn all day and drinks booze, belches, and pees in public.

[KC//CRIMSON]

After the overwhelming ovation he got at the commencement address at Army he figured he would get more dick sucking and ball washing in Chi-town..

That's not very Christian of you.....

[JohnnyMack]

In other words, if what you say is true, then we would have pictured God as a fornicator who looks at porn all day and drinks booze, belches, and pees in public.

Wait....Mongo is God???

[OhU1]

It has no scripture. But atheists can take on common attitudes, just like religious folk. And these attitudes can be beneficial or harmful.



????

To explain my "there is no ISM in atheism" line; -ism is a suffix generally indicating a belief or movement. Atheism is a term describing lack of a theism. There are no positive claim, rules, dogma, or organization in atheism. Because the word atheism has an -ism at the end I think many people improperly ascribe attributes to atheism as if it was another form of religion or a negative religion. Atheism is nothing more than a rejection of a claim. Some individual atheist are dogmatic but atheism itself has no structure.

[AggieTool]

We place numerous constraints on our own behavior because we think God disapproves.

In other words, if what you say is true, then we would have pictured God as a fornicator who looks at porn all day and drinks booze, belches, and pees in public.

This is exactly my point. Since we are incapable of comprehending god in reality (the human brain cannot factor out/conceptualize infinity), WE assign our image, thoughts, hangups, and fears to him/her/it.

That's where evil truly lies.

Remember, just a very short time ago, the only explanation for flight, fire, and light was god. Even with the Catholic church's campaign against science, we managed to figure these things out.

[JohnnyMack]

Remember, just a very short time ago, the only explanation for flight, fire, and light was god. Even with the Catholic church's campaign against science, we managed to figure these things out.

Don't know if you saw this, but the Catholic Church FINALLY got around to burying Copernicus. That only took them 500 years.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7134341.ece

[Leroy Lizard]

This is exactly my point. Since we are incapable of comprehending god in reality (the human brain cannot factor out/conceptualize infinity), WE assign our image, thoughts, hangups, and fears to him/her/it.

You have it backwards. We developed the morality from God; we didn't assign God our morality.

Again, animals don't say prayers before eating. (Well, I don't think they do. You never know.) Animals fornicate pretty much at free will. To say that we ascribed to God our own ideologies is absurd because Man is not righteous by nature.

[AggieTool]

Don't know if you saw this, but the Catholic Church FINALLY got around to burying Copernicus. That only took them 500 years.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7134341.ece

Well he WAS a heathen....:mad:

:D

[AggieTool]

You have it backwards. We developed the morality from God; we didn't assign God our morality.

Really? How'd that happen?:(


Again, animals don't say prayers before eating. (Well, I don't think they do. You never know.) Animals fornicate pretty much at free will. To say that we ascribed to God our own ideologies is absurd because Man is not righteous by nature.

Righteousness is a human concept. Nature dictates the behaviors necessary for a species to survive. E.g. "Thou Shall Not Kill" etc....

We say our ideologies are "divine" (from God), because to the indoctrinated, that removes any argument...ergo a control mechanism.

Do you really think God cares what we eat for dinner on Fridays, or which way we point our arse when praying? Only humans could've come up with such diminishing concerns of the deity.

The bottom line is we cannot understand what God's thoughts/desires/wants are no more than a bacteria grown in a petre dish can know what the scientist's thoughts/desires/wants are.

To assume as much is the basically dumbing God down to level we can understand...for our own twisted purposes most of the time.

...now where's some snakes, so I can go dancing.:D

[Leroy Lizard]

Really? How'd that happen?:(



Righteousness is a human concept. Nature dictates the behaviors necessary for a species to survive. E.g. "Thou Shall Not Kill" etc....

I'm not so sure about that. The very notion of "indecent behavior" is not necessarily inherent in us. Not cheating on wives is, for example, not inherent in us. We have to struggle not to do it (and some don't quite make the cut).

Remove all religious experience from humans and you are probably left with an animal that has little conscious and only gains it by learning from those who have developed it.


Do you really think God cares what we eat for dinner on Fridays, or which way we point our arse when praying? Only humans could've come up with such diminishing concerns of the deity.

Think about it: Why would Muslims create an arbitrary need to travel to Mecca yearly so that they could then ascribe it to God? Why would they create an artificial need to pray in a certain direction?

So you are claiming that God woudn't be so petty as to demand its followers pray in a certain direction, but that begs an even more obvious question: Why would humans place these constraints on themselves for no good reason?

If the religious scriptures say, "Thou shalt chase after one's hot neighbor's wife," you would have a point. Man wants to do it; why not create a God who commands to do it? But flying to Mecca every year?


The bottom line is we cannot understand what God's thoughts/desires/wants are no more than a bacteria grown in a petre dish can know what the scientist's thoughts/desires/wants are.

Except for these pesky creatures called prophets, who come down to earth to tell us what God wants.

Don't forget the prophets in this. It isn't like we just dreamed up the Bible on our own. These men were sent to Earth exactly to "dumb down" God's wisdom for his followers.

[StoopTroup]

You have it backwards.

It always seems that everybody seems to have it backwards per you...have you noticed this trend?

[Bourbon St Sooner]

OK listen little slappy, as soon as you acknowledge that the Baptists nuked Hiroshima and that the Methodists fire-bombed Dresden, I'll accept that Atheism is behind the exterminations carried out by Stalin. The violence we saw from the Soviets and Mao was an advancement of a political agenda, not a religious (or non-religious) agenda. Again, you're either ignorant, obtuse or a liar. Pick one.

But aren't we told by obnoxious pricks such as yourself that if there were no more religion, then there would be no more terr'ism, no more mass murders, no more genocides, no more Paris Hilton, no more almonds fouling up my Hershey's chocolate bar.

[Mongo]

Wait....Mongo is God???


I appreciate your seggshual pet names for me, but the blaspheming is a little too much

[StoopTroup]

Do you get an email or text everytime "Mongo" shows up in SF.com threads? :D

[Mongo]

no, I still read this cluster sometimes:D

[Leroy Lizard]

It always seems that everybody seems to have it backwards per you...have you noticed this trend?

It's lonely at the top.

[AggieTool]

Except for these pesky creatures called prophets, who come down to earth to tell us what God wants.

Don't forget the prophets in this. It isn't like we just dreamed up the Bible on our own. These men were sent to Earth exactly to "dumb down" God's wisdom for his followers.

Ah prophets....I see....

So God needs prophets eh?

So if I tell you I'm a prophet, and then I proceed to tell you what God wants (lord knows the creator of the universe "wants" stuff), then you're fine with that I suppose.:D

What if God really want's internet service that doesn't slow down during peak usage hours.

I don't think even God could get that.:D

[AggieTool]

It always seems that everybody seems to have it backwards per you...have you noticed this trend?

I think you have it backwards...

[Leroy Lizard]

Ah prophets....I see....

So God needs prophets eh?

So if I tell you I'm a prophet, and then I proceed to tell you what God wants (lord knows the creator of the universe "wants" stuff), then you're fine with that I suppose.:D

Sure, once you pass the Prophet Test. It's rigorous. If you can pull it off, not only will you be my shepherd but James Randi will fork over a cool million dollars.



What if God really want's internet service that doesn't slow down during peak usage hours.

I don't think even God could get that.:D

Not a problem for Him. Posting on SoonerFans at 2 am... not so sure.

[JohnnyMack]

But aren't we told by obnoxious pricks such as yourself that if there were no more religion, then there would be no more terr'ism, no more mass murders, no more genocides, no more Paris Hilton, no more almonds fouling up my Hershey's chocolate bar.

I don't know all the answers. Hell I barely know any of the answers. But I just simply don't take things at face value. When presented with all the extraneous variables of culture, history and science, an organized religion custom fit to my particular situation just didn't fit for me. That's all.

[Harry Beanbag]

But aren't we told by obnoxious pricks such as yourself that if there were no more religion, then there would be no more terr'ism, no more mass murders, no more genocides, no more Paris Hilton, no more almonds fouling up my Hershey's chocolate bar.


Blasphemer. The Hershey bars with almonds are the only ones fit to eat.

[Leroy Lizard]

I always order the Almond Joy over the Mounds Bar. I like the candy without the almond, but I figure that I can take the almonds off and now I have a Mounds Bar with a couple of almonds to boot.

[47straight]

Don't know if you saw this, but the Catholic Church FINALLY got around to burying Copernicus. That only took them 500 years.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7134341.ece

Copernicus was already buried, in a cathedral no less.

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/catholic_church_lets_copernicus_out_of_hell?utm_so urce=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+%2540The+ Daily+Register%2541#When:05:00:48Z

[SoonerAtKU]

Mounds bar is dark chocolate, man. Worlds apart. It's like I don't even know you anymore.

[Leroy Lizard]

We have drifted apart.

[SoonerAtKU]

It's nobody's fault, really. Just time marching on...

[Leroy Lizard]

Will I ever see your posts again?

[sooner KB]

It's all good.


An evangelical Christian hate group called “Repent Amarillo” is reportedly terrorizing the town of Amarillo, Texas. Repent fashions itself as a sort of militia and targets a wide range of community members they deem offensive to their theology: gays, liberal Christians, Muslims, environmentalists, breast cancer events that do not highlight abortion, Halloween, “spring break events,” and pornography shops. On its website, Repent has posted a “Warfare Map” of its enemies in town.

Calling Repent an “American Taliban,” blogger Charles Johnson notes that the group’s moniker “Army of God” is a rough translation of “Hezbollah.” Led by a man named David Grisham, a security guard at a nuclear-bomb facility called Pantex, Repent first gained media attention in Texas following a campaign to boycott Houston for electing a gay mayor. The group, which is associated with Raven Ministries, collaborates with other Christian groups as well as forced pregnancy advocacy associations like “Bound 4 Life.”

According to a new exposé by the Texas Observer, Repent set out earlier this year to destroy a discreet club of swingers they discovered in town. On New Years eve, the harassment began, with Repent members, almost exclusively young men, showing up in military fatigues and bullhorns, blaring Christian music at the swingers’ club building. The swingers, made up of “regulars” of middle aged, working class couples, were then stalked at every following visit to the club. Repent not only took video of each member, but obtained the swingers’ license plates and dug through their trash, informing neighbors and coworkers of what was once private.

Check out the spiritual warfare map (http://www.repentamarillo.com/map.php) and all of their targets.


They’ve posted a “Warfare Map” on the group’s Web site. The map includes establishments like gay bars, strip clubs and porn shops, but also the Wildcat Bluff Nature Center. Repent believes the 600-acre prairie park’s Walmart-funded “Earth Circle,” used for lectures, is a Mecca for witches and pagans. Also on the list are The 806 coffeehouse (a hangout for artists and counterculture types), the Islamic Center of Amarillo (“Allah is a false god”), and “compromised churches” like Polk Street Methodist (gay-friendly).

[Leroy Lizard]

Check out the spiritual warfare map (http://www.repentamarillo.com/map.php) and all of their targets.

So they have issues with gays, strip clubs, and Islam. Didn't we already know that?

[JohnnyMack]

So they have issues with gays, strip clubs, and Islam. Didn't we already know that?

So when are you moving to Amarillo?

[Leroy Lizard]

When I turn into a strip club patron or Christian fundamentalist.

[olevetonahill]

When I turn into a strip club patron or Christian fundamentalist.

So yer Islamic ?:pop: