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Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone
It comes as no surprise that Margie Phelps of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church has already declared the church's intention to picket Steve Jobs's funeral. What is interesting, is that she did so using an iPhone. The 142 characters of wrath read: "Westboro will picket his funeral.He[sic] had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin. MT @AP: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died at 56."
Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell.God created iPhone for that purpose! :)
She's just confirming what Apple fans already knew: God works at Apple.
That's a bittersweet reminder of my Roman Catholic upbringing. Whenever I did something good like played the trombone well or scored well on a test, I was instructed to pray to Jesus for working through me to do something so good. Whenever I screwed up, well, all those powerful forces like God and the Devil were suspiciously absent and the fault was solely mine.
My work here is dung.
Nothing but attention whoring, they shouldn't be given press at all.
This space for rent.
Even a Westboro Baptist idiot has to realize the irony...
Westboro Baptist Church doesn't want to incur the wrath of hardcore Apple fans. They just don't know it yet.
And get mobbed by hundreds of Steve Jobs and Apple supporters. And everyone including the the WBC will be carrying iPhones. Zealot on zealot action at 11!
"HELL IS INSANELY GREAT"
"GOD HATES VISIONARIES"
"BLACK TURTLENECKS CAUSE CANCER"
Unfortunately, these are probably 'way more intelligent than what these assholes will really display.
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Posting stories on Slashdot / Putting it on CNN is only helping them get what they crave : Attention.
Some problems are best ignored - then they'll fade away out of frustration when they realize they're not getting the attention.
Blah blah - free press - I get it. I'm not asking for a law but common sense to take place.
People love dirty laundry - D. Henly.
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
What attention wh**es. They are like the Kardashians with a bible instead of a sex tape.
Why do people help these people spread their vile?
"Vile" isn't a thing one can metaphorically spread.
Unless you're talking Vegemite or Marmite - that shit is spreadable vile incarnate.
All we need are the Patriot Guard in black turtlenecks to even up the numbers.
www.patriotguard.org
Ganty
Don't you look at these people, who cheer when others die and think - wish I had a military drone of my own on stand by?
You can't handle the truth.
I'm sorry your childhood was rough.
I'm sorry if I lead anyone to imply my childhood was rough. That was merely an anecdote about how people "with faith" often see a given event or action. Then after the event or action is prescribed to be "good" or "bad" (often subjective in and of themselves) they will say that it was "God" or the "Individual" at work. This often perplexed me as a child and, like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, its place in the toolbox of control became very clear to me later in life around age 16. I do not call this abuse of any kind, I see this as a method of control that was particularly effective with me.
Please, don't attribute that kind of harsh upbringing to a religion.
Good sir, there was nothing harsh about it. It is, however, a core concept of (nearly all) religions. An eye in the sky that can magically be anywhere and everywhere at once? That knows everything? That is free to judge me without fear of judgment of itself? A being I cannot communicate with? A being of somehow infinite goodness that is so powerful and unknowable that it's okay to let children in Africa starve to death -- children who have never had the opportunity of knowing Jesus? I have often mused that Roman Catholics would rather you believe in Satan (or Shai'tan or whatever) than God as fear will keep you in line. As a child, I definitely feared God more than anything else. And I assume you're a god-fearin' man.
Now that, my friend, will keep a young boy in lock step. It did for me and I'm not opposed to rear my children the same way until they are 16 and the same books that fell into my hands start falling into theirs.
My work here is dung.
so the in crowd can head nod and act all smug with their belief that all Christians or people of faith are really like this. For no other reason is such a person newsworthy, it is very much like the bit on Scary Movie, The press only wanna interview the most ignorant person they find.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
You clearly misunderstand: God created iPhone, therefore Steve Jobs is God, and that means that they picketing God's funeral.
It cannot go "all the way back" because in reality Genesis (from its first word in Hebrew, Bereshit) is one of the later books to be added to the canon. It is a convenient reference of creation myths of several Middle Eastern societies, put in by a society that really wasn't that interested in how things started. It was the Catholic Church first, and then the Protestants, that gave it an authority it did not have.
That's why in the "real" Bible, all that original sin and guilt stuff is missing. David goes off and totals a load of Palestinians and they make him king. A couple of spies get into a city with the assistance of a kindly (if dim) prostitute, and nobody thinks to try to get her to mend her ways ("While we're putting this city to the sword, just have a read of this tract about raising fallen women"). The writer of Ecclesiastes is close to pessimistic atheism. Many of the people who get a good Press in the Bible are mass murderers (who had good scriptwriters.)
I'm sorry, you cannot blame the Jews for the idiocies of Christians and Muslims. And Islam postdates the start of the Catholic Church. I, as a one time student of sociology of religion, put the blame squarely on the Romans, and the rules they invented to keep the Plebians under the thumb of the Patricians.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
http://objectiveministries.org/creation/propaganda.html
Some choice quotes (since it is a long article):
"the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! "
"Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. "
"Consider the name of the company and its logo: an apple with a bite taken out of it. This is clearly a reference to the Fall, when Adam and Eve were tempted with an apple by the serpent."
"This OS -- and its Darwin offspring -- extensively use what are called "daemons" (which is how Pagans write "demon" -- they are notoriously poor spellers: magick, vampyre, etc.) "
"to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?"
Considering their attention-whoring targets are the likes of military funerals and Mr. Rogers, it would be a fucking honor to have made these douchebags' lives miserable enough to justify them picketing my funeral. Sic semper cuntannis.
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