Occupy a park=genius. Talk about God in a park? Not so much.

[dandi]

You can crowd out the visitors in a public park, set up tents, bang drums, shout through bullhorns, spread disease, use drugs, rape, murder, impede the daily lives of citizens, basically turn the place into an open sewer and it's all "righteous" to DUmmies. Don't you dare question their "free speech"!

Let someone go to one and share the word of Jesus for a few minutes once a week and it's The End Of The World As We Know It.

Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Nov-16-11 12:42 PM
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Church targets young skateboarders with skate park sermons
   
Church targets young skateboarders with skate park sermons


It was sundown in a mostly deserted parking lot tucked off Westminster Boulevard. The skateboarders had stopped, as they do every Thursday, to listen to the man with the Bible.

A single lamppost shone over the makeshift skate park, where ramps and wooden ledges sporting the words Gravity Youth covered the parking spaces. Two dozen or so skateboards lay on the ground as their owners sat on the curb. Aaron Morgan asked how many people had come for the first time. One hand shot up.

"All right, guys," Morgan said. "This is skate church, so whether you like it or not, I'm going to preach the word of God to you."

A stack of pizza boxes sat at the end of the curb, but Morgan, the youth leader at the Sanctuary in Westminster, made it clear they wouldn't be opened until he finished speaking. As the sky went from hazy to dark, he held forth about hypocrisy, free will, Jesus' sacrifice and the perils of apathy.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?action=post;board=10.0

Aren't the Dummies, even the atheist ones, always citing Jesus when they talk about greed and sharing and Socialism and whatnot?

RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 12:43 PM
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1. They're like a virus. n/t

Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Wed Nov-16-11 12:49 PM
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6. Yep

piratefish08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 12:44 PM
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2. sick is the only word i can think of.
   
and sad.

okay 2 words.......

Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 12:46 PM
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3. I raised my children to walk away if anyone ever starts preaching to them
   
They aren't to argue, debate or otherwise engage the person, just turn around and walk away.

Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Wed Nov-16-11 01:02 PM
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15. People who walk up to you on the street and try to get you to change religion are sick at best..
   
They have the right to do it, I have the right to think they're crazy and instruct my children that they should avoid obviously crazy people.

Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 01:06 PM
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17. Good way for them to avoid conflict with unstable people.
   
My boys come from a pagan home, a GBLT home. I think I know what is best for my sons welfare.

Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Thu Nov-17-11 02:46 AM
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39. Sorry, with delusional schizophrenics and others who think they have magic invisible friends
   
it's usually better to cut them off before they waste your time with their insane, idiotic babbling.

LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Wed Nov-16-11 01:20 PM
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25. Which is why they put the Pizza out there and won't let anyone have it until they are done
   
Maybe your kid is strong enough to walk away but most aren't

Yeah, you know that magic pizza. It's like crack. They start out with Slim Jims, then move up to Hot Pockets. Pretty soon their out selling their bodies for one more huff on a Domino's box.

southernyankeebelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 12:48 PM
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4. This reminds me of how they got the Hitler youths organized. Bring
   
the activities kids love to do and food and bam you got them. They couldn't get them any other way.

Godwin's Law in four posts. Not a record, but good.

zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 02:14 PM
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35. Injury on top of insult ...
   
I wonder if this guy forcing HIS views upon these kids has views that coincide with the parents' values ...

I doubt it ...

From the photo, it doesn't appear that anyone is being held against their will.

MattBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Wed Nov-16-11 01:13 PM
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20. And the flipside. If I as an Atheist
   
did the same bringing drinks and pizza to a local park and enticed kids to sit and listen to a lecture and reason and rational thought and told them there are no invisible creatures in the sky; how long would it take for the townfolks to come after me with torches?

I don't know. Are any of the parents complaining?

piratefish08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 12:57 PM
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12. why doesn't God give him the courage to wander into a construction site with pizzas and a sermon?
   
because he's get his ass kicked and go home pizza-less........


i see this as preying on the weak and defenseless.

Construction workers are militant atheists? Who knew?

LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Wed Nov-16-11 01:27 PM
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27. I have no problem with this however I don't think any child should be allowed in there...
   
without first providing a permission slip from their parents.

One thing is true - kids love to skateboard and sometimes there aren't enough parks out there for the kids especially since a good skateboard park should carry some sort of insurance incase of emergecy. With state & city funds dwindling, it's nice that the Church is picking up on this. Here in Delaware they found cheap land no one would want - mainly underneath the I95 underpass (gives the kids a roof over their head too).

But they should require that parents sign permission slips and the the notice should inform parents that this is a church run organization and that preaching will occur at certain times during the day.

If I had a kid I would have no problem with them using this but if I knew they were preaching at the same time everyday I'd be there 5 minutes before to pick up my kid and take them home.

Do you have that same standard for teenagers attending local OWS events? If there were you'd be complaining about the "fascist" parents and saying the kids were wise enough to decide on their own.

Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Wed Nov-16-11 02:01 PM
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34. I was in a church that used to pull crap like this all time. Not surprised at all.

In all honesty, I'd like to know what was being preached to my kids in this situation. I certainly wouldn't want them being indoctrinated by some cult group. But this sounds like a straightforward, more or less generic Christian message. It certainly isn't being done furtively and parents can exercise supervision or keep their children away if they want. It's the raging hypocrisy of DUers that truly stands out in this story.

 

[diesel driver]

In all honesty, I'd like to know what was being preached to my kids in this situation. I certainly wouldn't want them being indoctrinated by some cult group. But this sounds like a straightforward, more or less generic Christian message. It certainly isn't being done furtively and parents can exercise supervision or keep their children away if they want. It's the raging hypocrisy of DUers that truly stands out in this story.

But it's THEIR hypocrisy, not ours.   

That makes it OK.   

[movie buff]

Once again, the DUmmies wallow in two of their most dominant and most odious personality traits: Their blind, intense bigotry against anything even remotely Christian in nature, and their massive hypocrisy.
They think the Occupy freaks should be allowed to violate city ordinances, engage in vandalism and violence, sell drugs, rape women, and pimp out underaged teens, but that a minister once a week offering to share a few lessons from the Bible to some kids is a horrible crime that should be punishable by life in prison.

[MrsSmith]

The Bill of Rights gives us the right to demonstrate any way we choose, with as much noise and violence as we like.  We can block parks, streets, and door ways, it's all Free Speech.  But some whacky fundie preaching at us, no where is THAT protected!!  That's forcing a viewpoint on others!!  Especially if they provide food and entertainment.  That's just sick.    [/DUmp "logic"]

[DLR Pyro]

Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 01:06 PM
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17. Good way for them to avoid conflict with unstable people.
   
My boys come from a pagan home, a GBLT home. I think I know what is best for my sons welfare.

[Aristotelian]

It's amaznig how much fear the slightest dash of Christianity can cause among the DUmmies.

Quite literally like a crucifix to a vampire.

[GOBUCKS]

Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 01:06 PM
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My boys come from a pagan home, a GBLT home. I think I know what is best for my sons welfare.

That one post should earn DUmbass Marrah_G a Top Twenty spot in DOTY voting, or a tombstone as a mole.

[Skul]

LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Wed Nov-16-11 01:20 PM
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25. Which is why they put the Pizza out there and won't let anyone have it until they are done
  
Maybe your kid is strong enough to walk away but most aren't

DUmpmonkey doesn't understand that perhaps the message gives a bit of hope.
In this age, it often takes far more moral strength to stay, than to run.
I suspect the message they recieve, is far better than the one they recieve at home.

Of course the pizza is a nice touch.
If he ever started handing out bags of Cheetos, that would be the last straw.

Of course, in their fetid little mind-set, the Ten Commandments creates a hostile home life.

[BattleHymn]

piratefish08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-16-11 12:57 PM
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12. why doesn't God give him the courage to wander into a construction site with pizzas and a sermon?
   
because he's get his ass kicked and go home pizza-less........


i see this as preying on the weak and defenseless.

Oh, you have got to be kidding me.  The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.  Unless it's a DUmp male, in which case the way to their stomach is through their anus.