Fucking assholes and shitheads are coming out all over the 'net to exploit and slam Roger Ebert. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
Ram a thousand lubeless thumbs up your balconies, sideways.
Rayturd Comfort’s usual creepy input, gotta exploit death for his own sick, attention-seeking, deathcult facebook fapping:
On a respectful note, George Takei’s site has wonderful condolences being offered. George Takei
Oh FFS, he admitted a few months after that debacle that he probably wasn’t familiar enough with video games to have fairly made that statement. People need to let it drop. (Not to mention that I think “because he criticized my hobby” is probably at the bottom of the list of “things I would wish death upon people for”).
It’s interesting that belief in this God and of redemption and of ultimate, supreme, infallible good, and eternal life and happiness, has not turned some people away from being unrepentant assholes to those who don’t have such a belief.
Seems like being correct would be reward enough, if they were correct. Instead, they’ve got to also dance on the graves of people who entertain rational skepticism.
You thought about things? Ha! You deserve to burn.
I have to say… As a public figure who put his own beliefs out there. I feel like people had the right to criticize him. However, do it when the man is alive, you chicken shits! I found all three of the examples you posted (the two links and the one cut and paste paragraph) all strangely offensive.
“Rayturd Comfort’s” strange babblings about how he will be in a better place because of what he believes, while Ebert will be damned to some strange “not heaven” because of what he believed is just a waste of space. All it really adds up to is someone using Ebert’s death to proclaim their own religious beliefs and leanings. For the life of me, I’ve never understood why people feel a need to do this.
The other two were just rambling rants, again written after the man can’t defend himself if he so chose, or tearing them a new asshole in print, something that he was especially good at.
I was not a huge fan of his, however that’s irrelevant now. He’s dead, he gets to rest in peace. As far as I know, he committed no crimes or atrocities against his fellow man or children, so piss off and leave him be.
People truly have too much time on their hands.
I’m a Christian myself, and I don’t have strong feelings either way about Roger Ebert, but I really don’t like this sort of approach. I just can’t see a motivation for these sorts of responses to the deaths of others as anything positive.
Though I don’t personally believe in hell, for those who do, I could see saying some well accepted evil person is burning in hell and using their actions and beliefs in life as an example of what not to do. At least to me, the worst that Ebert is guilty of is some bad reviews and having different religious opinions from his detractors. It just makes the people saying he’s going to burn in hell look like they enjoy pissing on his grave.
Really, is that how they think we’re supposed to live our lives? That Roger Ebert is such a obvious example of living a bad life, but the people condemning him, wherein all I know is their hypocrisy, is a positive example? If anything, all it will tend to do is alienate the people they are trying to convince. It’s not like any atheist out there hasn’t heard what essentially boils down to Pascal’s wager countless times. You’re not going to convince them by taking a, benign at worst, example of an atheist as a negative example, it undermines you and makes you look like an idiot and a jerk.
Seriouly, the guy just died. Maybe if he lived a controversial life, like when Michael Jackson died, I can kind of understand public evaluation of his personal life and how it affects his place in the history of film, but he didn’t. If you really do believe he went to hell, this should be a time of mourning, that a man who made enormous contributions is now suffering. No one should take the least amount of joy in the suffering of others.
On a personal level, I’m actually glad to see that he had some faith that gave him comfort and helped him face death without fear. In my mind, that’s as enviable of a state of mind as any man can have. And though I’m not a particular fan of him, I never saw or didn’t see a movie based on his review, I do have a great deal of respect for his work because I imagine he probably did help improve the quality of film that I did see over the course of his career.
In order to reassure themselves that they are superior, and will be treated as such after they die. It really shows that those who write this drivel have a lack of faith themselves - they are trying to convince themselves that their religion is the one true way.
Another explanation for “why” people have said Ebert is going to hell:
It puts atheists on notice that if they are “out” and dare to express themselves in public, that they will be pilloried and pissed on in public after they die. It’s a method of getting atheists to shut up.
Ironic, as atheists would seem to be the absolute last group of people to give two shits in the wind about what happens after they die. (Well, I guess everyone wants to be remembered well. Still, though.)
God hates FAQs
Now that Ebert is dead I feel I can finally say this. Fuck that atheist asshole! I hope Satan himself is ramming red hot steel i-beams up his atheist asshole and that he still has his stupid face de-jawed so he can’t even scream.
Whew, ok I fell better now. Carry on.
I don’t even think it’s that for the likes of many of these folks. I don’t for one second believe that many of the leading lights of Christianity in the US believe in anything at all–but talking about Hell, among other things, ensures they’re the ones who die with the most toys.
It’s a question of whom you’d like to remember you well. If Ray Comfort ever has cause to remember me well, I’d have to give serious thought to whether or not I had been a decent human being. Well, as much serious thought as a dead person can give, anyway.
Nice try, but you spelled atheist correctly.
Y’know, they’re called “I”-beams because the cross section looks like a capital letter I.
The collapse of the WTC was because they used i-beams. That hovering part has no strength at all.
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Rayturd Comfort’s usual creepy input, gotta exploit death for his own sick, attention-seeking, deathcult facebook fapping:
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Non-Ebert related, but his rambling on Ebert’s death follows a few days after his bibliophile incident. I can’t figure who’s the bigger moron: the brainless Comfort or his Growing Pains acolyte.
FYI - Cameron the Nippleless has a traveling marriage-saving seminar series he flogs throughout the country, there’s a flock of (paying!)morons that it attracts.
Ha!
IOW, I appreciate your joke.
Also, here’s a review of one of Kirkie’s seminars: Nonreligious Questions (missed the edit window…)
It’s common, in my experience, for believers to think that atheists convert when faced with death. The canard “there are no atheists in foxholes” is still used, despite plenty of examples to the contrary.
In my opinion, it’s good when atheists publicly state that they will not undergo a deathbed conversion, as it shows conviction. It would be easy, if embarrassingly silly, to try to get right with the afterlife, if only to comfort believing friends and family. Hitchens made a statement prior to his death spelling out that he would not renounce his naturalistic views, despite which there were still claims that he converted and accepted Christ.
I think that it is offensive to some believers that not only do some people think belief is merely a pack of pretty lies but that they can face death armed only with maturity. Or, in Hitchens’ case, cussedness.
Beyond that, when famous people die people pay attention and remark upon it. Hitchens commented unkindly when Jerry Falwell died, calling Falwell a “vulgar fraud” among other things. Ebert, a gentler yet still opinionated man, probably also commented on similar occasions, just not as a public jackass, ala Hitchens, Comfort, or that dickweed gamer.
God bless Rayturd Comfort and Roger Ebert always!!!
I always found it ironic that the guy that wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens would have the balls to critique anyone else’s movie work.