This group of people have the right to speak their opinions. (I'm not so sure they have the right to brainwash their children, but that's a topic for another day.) But freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism. What these adults are doing to this child is evil -- no ifs, ands, or buts. They are warping this young boy's mind with delusions of self-righteous superiority. You see, he won't have to focus as hard on being a better person, because he can always count on being fundamentally better than another group of people.
May 30, 2012
Westboros Among Us
I don't know why my mind boggles when I view this video -- I really shouldn't be surprised. I guess I've known all along that we have large numbers of Westboro Baptist Churches, not just one anomalous example of poisonous hate. (...and if looking forward with joyous self-satisfaction to the day when another group of people will be viciously and incessantly tortured for all eternity while you bask in splendor doesn't fit the definition of hate, I don't know what does.)
This group of people have the right to speak their opinions. (I'm not so sure they have the right to brainwash their children, but that's a topic for another day.) But freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism. What these adults are doing to this child is evil -- no ifs, ands, or buts. They are warping this young boy's mind with delusions of self-righteous superiority. You see, he won't have to focus as hard on being a better person, because he can always count on being fundamentally better than another group of people.
This group of people have the right to speak their opinions. (I'm not so sure they have the right to brainwash their children, but that's a topic for another day.) But freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism. What these adults are doing to this child is evil -- no ifs, ands, or buts. They are warping this young boy's mind with delusions of self-righteous superiority. You see, he won't have to focus as hard on being a better person, because he can always count on being fundamentally better than another group of people.
May 21, 2012
The Evil Within, cont.
You know, some folks get really upset about the violence that is preached in some mosques and impute that to Islam in general. I wonder if we should treat this little tidbit similarly:
So, again I call on all Evangelicals to denounce and renounce this kind of rhetoric. I call on you to demand censuring of such rhetoric in your congregational meetings, in your evangelical conferences -- everywhere two or more of you are gathered in His name. If you don't stand against those who advocate mass murder, what would you stand against? What would you stand for?
So, again I call on all Evangelicals to denounce and renounce this kind of rhetoric. I call on you to demand censuring of such rhetoric in your congregational meetings, in your evangelical conferences -- everywhere two or more of you are gathered in His name. If you don't stand against those who advocate mass murder, what would you stand against? What would you stand for?
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