I heard about this last night and i was sickened by the level of hate in this pastor’s voice.
The protester who attended the town hall with the AR 15 goes to this guys church, i wish i had the words to say more but words fail me.
Takes a minute to get to the pastor but here’s the clip.
No. I’m not clicking on your stupid video link. I’ve got porn to watch and a finite amount of time in the day.
If you’re going to motherfucking post in the motherfucking Pit, put some motherfucking effort into it and tell us why we should be Outraged.
Motherfucker.
First, I was going to be all: fuck yeah! Tell us you fucking dick!
Then I was all: well, maybe there’s something hilarious/worthwhile/interesting/entertaining on this video link, and really, I shouldn’t discount his opinion offhandedly.
Then I clicked on the link and say that the motherfucker was ten goddamn minutes long and the first few have already been wasted with a huge fucking logo with some masturbatory acronym and I was all: TL;DR.
Poor Pitting.
Here’s what I saw on Digg earlier: Pastor Of Gun-Toter At Obama Event Prayed For Obama To Die
The guy who went to that Obama event carrying firearms went to a sermon the day before. The sermon was titled ‘Why I Hate Barack Obama’ and in it, the pastor said that he didn’t obey Obama and hoped he melted like a snail.
Chunk of quote from the linked article:
The pastor is quoted as telling the protester to make sure he didn’t break any federal laws and denies that he encouraged violence. He’s quoted as saying, “I’d rather have him die of natural causes anyway, that way he’s not some martyr. I’m praying for him to die just so he gets what he deserves.”
Do we really want to start talking about whose pastor said what? Because we all know where that can lead.
Do snails generally melt? I didn’t know that. Seems like a pretty cool way to wish a pox on someone. I’m going to use that sometime.
When you pour salt on them, they melt…well, I don’t know exactly what chemical reaction takes place, but they do dissolve into goo slowly.
Either that or the pastor is a big fan of French cuisine and escargot.
The pastor was using some passage in the bible that talked about pouring salt on a snail, and then said that the passage is actually talking about abortion, because the doctor uses a salty solution to melt the baby. So he was saying that he wants to pour salt on Obama so he can melt like a snail, since Obama performs so many abortions.
Made perfect sense to me. :rolleyes:
Is it to Disneyland? I’d like to go to Disneyland.
I’ve done a moderate amount of dabbling, Bible-wise, but don’t recall anything about snails at all, much less salting them. Perhaps it was a later addition from the Catholic Church?
Yes, that’s it, its a Pope Urban legend!
I don’t recall Wright ever wishing death on someone.
Psalms 58
Oh, hey. Just realised this is the same pastor that was reportedly beaten and tazed by border patrol peeps a few months back.
For reference:
Psalm 58
Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.
1Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods?
Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
2No, in heart you work unrighteousness;
On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.
4They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
5So that it does not hear the voice of charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.
6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD.
7Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.
8Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.
9Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
10The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11And men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely there is a God who judges on earth!"
Jeezum, I’ve heard of assuming someone would go to hell, but actively praying for it? Yikes.
Bayard posted some of the highlights from here in another thread in the Pit. I’ll just steal what he posts as seems a pretty good bunch of highlights (from link above):
It’s so nice to know that the pastor also has some doubts about warfare. Or something. It only came at the tail end after his insane death threats and ‘save the babies’ crap. That’s it, I guess, how abortion access turns people into nutters. They need something pure and good and true, and they know they won’t find it in living people, not even (especially?) their religious leaders.
So it’s one of those poetic image/bad science things. It would be an interesting image if a snail’s slime trail actually diminished it until it was gone. You’d end up with a lot of empty snail shells blowing in the wind. The only safe snail would be an immobile snail. Of course, then it would starve. Poor snails.
Dancing?
Time for another reeducation session, it seems.
That, or it’s in the recipe section in the back.