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Originally posted by MAINTAL
LoL Don't flatter yourself, I got invited here .
Originally posted by MAINTAL
First of all YOU need a permit to assemble in a demonstration so MEL is wrong. Secondly, every damn one of you would have felt terrorized had this taken place at your place of business or while you were standing in line at a bank and people with masks dressed like they were dressed with weapons and then an alarm goes off. NOT TO SMART!
Meanwhile, with the guards pre-occupied by the distraction, over a dozen queers had put on their Sunday-best and infiltrated the church’s
congregation. At the signal that the guards had been lured outside, the
infiltrators sprung into action.
A group stood up, declared themselves fags, and began screaming loudly.
Upon hearing the loud interruption, other affinity groups went into
action. A team that had been hiding under the pews in the closed-off
balcony dropped a banner and pulled back the curtains to reveal “IT’S OKAY TO BE GAY! BASH BACK!”. Another group threw over a thousand fliers to the entirety of the congregation. The fire alarm was pulled. Queers began making out in front of the pastor. And within a matter of minutes, everyone had evaded the guards and made their escapes.
Originally posted by angel of lightangelo
When did they call themselves terrorists? I may have missed that, I can admit it.
Originally posted by melatonin
What I did find interesting is that Bash Back do say that a number of them grew up in that particular church.
[edit on 22-11-2008 by melatonin]
Originally posted by angel of lightangelo
Anyway, back in the real world. I still do not agree with going into a church and disrupting a private service, the more this is explained in detail, the less it qualifies as terrorism. It may have been in bad taste and if you really want to stretch it, pulling the alarm could have caused some real trouble but it did not. No masks, no guns. What exactly was so terrorizing?
Originally posted by angel of lightangelo
So if the point is moot then why are you addressing me with it?
I agreed that it was wrong of both sides so what is your point?
I acknowledged there are churches with security. I asked why this one does and was told churches just do. Fact is, not around here. So it is not just because churches do that is it?
Let me run that back by you, in God's own words, "There is no distinction among people, since all have sinned... whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point is guilty of breaking all of it."
Looking at your avatar Enki, sticking up for a cross has never been your style but attributing blame to the victim in this case, now that is typical of someone who has been nothing less than a Christian antagonist who spends his time blaming Christians for everything all the gays peoples miserable lives.
Tolerance is for people who want to seek the approval of the politically correct. I don't tolerate that and I don't have to either.
This is Black and White and whammy is right. I can't imagine a Circuit Court Judge saying, what you are if they were brought up on charges.
The fact is, the whole bunch of them ought to be before they realize people like you don't seem to care at this current level of agitation. So they well take it a step further and further till one day, someone gets killed.
I am sick of hearing about all this oppression gays have been under by Christians when we don't know who is gay and most of us couldn't care less! As for your silly idea they have had their rights taken from them,,
No law in any state in the United States now or ever has forbidden homosexuals to marry!
The law has never asked that a man prove his heterosexuality in order to marry a woman!!!
Nor a woman hers to marry a man.!
Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the law!
So technically, you can't say they have no rights to marry as long as they do it the way Marriage was intended.
Originally posted by JohnnyElohim
MAINTAL, I can't honestly dissect what in the world you are saying here
but I can say that you've said nothing to support your assertion that this is indeed "black and white".
Being mean and spiteful doesn't add weight to your heavy handed but poorly premised statements.
you think they should all be punished severely
because the logical end of their behavior is someone getting killed.
I don't even see premise and inference for your assertion that the logical end of their behavior is someone getting killed.
Prove it or accept that your claim is totally invalid.
I find it ironic that you start in with the ad hominems talking about how another poster has always been "on the side of the gays",
when the only posts I've seen from you here are stoutly objecting to gay people and black people. Pot, kettle.
Originally posted by Bigwhammy
The specific sin of homosexuality is quite irrelevant.
However, the attitude by homosexuals that they can repeatedly commit this sin - as a lifestyle choice - and be still be forgiven for it - only because they are predisposed to liking it - is dead wrong.
No one disputes all have sinned - what is disputed is that one can remain in sin unrepentently and inherit the kingdom of heaven. Clearly they will not.
Originally posted by MAINTAL
Looking at your avatar Enki, sticking up for a cross has never been your style but attributing blame to the victim in this case,
now that is typical of someone who has been nothing less than a Christian antagonist who spends his time blaming Christians for everything all the gays peoples miserable lives.
However, the attitude by homosexuals that they can repeatedly commit this sin - as a lifestyle choice - and be still be forgiven for it - only because they are predisposed to liking it - is dead wrong.
Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
I am absolutely not condoning or encouraging or supporting or agreeing or being an apologist to these actions; but the Churches have it coming.
It's that simple.
It's historically sound; the oppressed eventually 'fight back' against their oppressors. I prefer the peaceful approach from both sides!
Originally posted by angel of lightangelo
When did I blame the victims? Please show where I once blamed the victims in any way.
I am getting a little sick of you lying about me and ignoring me when I ask you to back of the crap you say about me.
"So what did this church do to get the ire of this group? - angel of lightangelo"
"This is a case of a bunch of unruly, ill mannered folks did a bad thing to a group of people who, unfortunately, were not above deserving a bad thing to happen. " - angel of lightangelo
Please either back up the things you say about me or stop saying them.
Or just admit you are a liar.
Have not learned your lesson yet? I guess God will see through your lack of repentance then won't he.
Originally posted by The Vagabond
My point exactly. It's wonderful that you get that. There is a school of thought that some Christians but not all of them adhere to which treats homosexuality as a worse sin than others. Some people will tell you that a homosexual cannot possibly have given his heart to God.
The point of the argument I presented is to corner such people into putting themselves in the shoes of their victims. We forgive sins we can relate to- like gossip. We say, "the bible says gossip is as bad as murder, but i try not to do it at least and i know that jesus has forgiven me for that weakness". We understand the inability to stop sinning in that case.
But we don't understand the temptation to be homosexual. So we don't understand the inability to stop sinning in that case. So we don't see how such people could be sincere in their desire to follow God. So we turn to the law, which exists to cast light on the nature of sin, and the law forces one to place himself in the shoes of a homosexual, to empathize, and to acknowledge that it is just another sin and every bit as forgivable as the others.
Oh, I guess you don't get it afterall.
You keep committing the same sins over and over again too. We all do.
THERE IS NO DISTINCTION AMONG PEOPLE, dude. We love to classify people right out of humanity. We classify their marriages differently so they dont have quite the same rights, and we classify their sins differently so they don't have salvation, and it's all intellectually and scripturally bankrupt. The lack of respect for the rest of humanity is just sad.
My point is that they are not remaining in sin unrepentantly any more than you or any other Christian.
If you really want to keep going over the scripture I've got more for you, but since you're guilty of homosexual sodomy in the eyes of god there is really not much point in your reading the bible.
You are clearly attempting to conform Christianity to the pattern of the world. You are a humanist. You twist the scripture to fit your need to be of the world.