http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/134372
It seems a church decided to do a little play about jackbooted thugs rounding up all the Christians… but they didn’t tell the Christians that it was just a play. Now they’re being sued for $2 million, because a young woman was a) terrorized and b) brutalized in the process.
Har har har har.
Are you sure the woman suing is not really a Scientologist?
Why would she be a Scientologist?
Heck, I’d sue.
I have no trouble imagining the church I used to go to arranging such an event and thinking it was a good idea.
But I don’t go to that church any more.
I hope the girl wins.
You let Baptists get their hands on Velcro handcuffs, and nothing good can come of it.
Or the stupidity of those there. :rolleyes:
From the article:
Being manhandled, blindfolded, handcuffed, and driven to an undisclosed location by individuals wearing gas masks is a “positive activity”?
I think if I was living in that parish I wouldn’t advertise my birthday, just in case the congregation decided to do something “positive” to help me celebrate. You know, like castrating me or something.
Now when I went to church camp as a youth, we played a similar game called “Romans and Christians” but it was not NEARLY this violent.
I hope she wins, too.
IDBB
Sounds kinda kinky.
Come here you little pagan. Let me Bapistize you.
ROTFLMFAO, Wolfian.
No…the counselors would seperate the youths into groups with one counselor as the leader of each group. The rest of the counselors would disperse to various parts of the camp and would act as either a Roman (who would send you to jail) or a Secret Christian (who would give you directions to the secret worship site somewhere on property…usually in the woods).
IDBB
What I utterly fail to understand is why Jesus wasted His time talking about love, forgiveness, and the need for reconciliation with God when He really ought to have been weaving elaborately paranoid persecution fantasies.
The idiots in GD at the moment and now this–yep, Christianity sure has the answers to life’s most urgent questions.
AMEN! 
Yeah! Sounds a lot like terrorizing and kidnapping to me.
Can I get a halleluyah? 
Sure. They’re on sale at the corner market. A dozen for $3.50.
YOU’RE BUYING HALLELUYAHS? A DOZEN LASHES WITH CAT-O-NINE TAILS, YOU PERVERT!!!
:ROLLEYES:
Poly, you’re the Xan I most respect( my parents are a very close second ), and I am glad you have found comfort and hope in the Xan religion, but to me the whole things sems so gol-danged out of wack and illlogical that if I were seeking God, I wouldn’t look there.
Christianity itself isn’t the problem here. Just the people at that particular church.
I am Christian and I shudder at people like this. Some of us do believe in the love and forgiveness shtick above all else. I have a hard time believing that God wants us to hate anyone.
Ava
I know there are nice Christians, but right now I have had a bellyful of assholes like Reactor and His4Ever telling me how sinful and horrible I am merely because I am different. I am growing fatigued at constantly having to defend myself.
I find that the Christians’ behavior in the linked article is unintentionally telling about their lack of faith.
“One chance to deny Christ or you will be killed”–how is that any kind of threat to one who beleives in eternal life? C’mon, if you believe that you have received salvation through the Atonement and Resurrection, why would you fear being killed? It’s just a momentary sting before you enter Paradise, so what’s the big deal.
In the Left Behind series, the authors have scenes where the Christians are in a dither about taking the Mark of the Beast or being guillotined. Hey, if I believed in that crap, I’d go smiling to the guillotine, testifying about the mercy of Jesus all the way.
That the Christians in the new story see death as such a terrible thing only shows me that they don’t believe their own propaganda.