Comments on: More insanity from the “church” http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/ Trying to stay sane while parenting five kids, working full-time and going college part-time. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:40:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Christine http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-58139 Christine Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:39:22 +0000 http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/#comment-58139 Wow Chris. If you want to call me a radical liberal at least do it on the right post. Perhaps <a href="http://www.thebeanblog.com/2004/08/13/the-governements-in-our-bed/" rel="nofollow">this post</a>. There was no Christian bashing here. Shirley Phelps-Roper is not a Christian. Just because she calls herself one doesn't mean she is one. When my son was a toddler he thought he was Batman. But, in fact, he actually was not Batman. Christians do not protest outside the funerals of children. Christians don't protest outside the funeral of a soldier who fought to protect our country (and, ironically, our freedom of speech). Christians offer love and support to those who are grieving. I wasn't bashing Christians. I was bashing Shirley Phelps-Roper and the church she belongs to. This hatred that Shirley Phelps-Roper is spouting every chance she gets is not part of God and Jesus' teachings. At least it's not part of the teachings we teach the kids in my Sunday School class. Yes, I am a Sunday School teacher. And I am a Christian. Presbyterian to be exact. And I am insulted that Shirley Phelps-Roper and her church are using our God to preach about hatred. Clearly her father warped her brain on what those passages in the Bible truly mean. Some day she will meet her maker and understand that. Wow Chris. If you want to call me a radical liberal at least do it on the right post. Perhaps this post.

There was no Christian bashing here. Shirley Phelps-Roper is not a Christian. Just because she calls herself one doesn’t mean she is one. When my son was a toddler he thought he was Batman. But, in fact, he actually was not Batman. Christians do not protest outside the funerals of children. Christians don’t protest outside the funeral of a soldier who fought to protect our country (and, ironically, our freedom of speech). Christians offer love and support to those who are grieving. I wasn’t bashing Christians. I was bashing Shirley Phelps-Roper and the church she belongs to.

This hatred that Shirley Phelps-Roper is spouting every chance she gets is not part of God and Jesus’ teachings. At least it’s not part of the teachings we teach the kids in my Sunday School class. Yes, I am a Sunday School teacher. And I am a Christian. Presbyterian to be exact. And I am insulted that Shirley Phelps-Roper and her church are using our God to preach about hatred. Clearly her father warped her brain on what those passages in the Bible truly mean. Some day she will meet her maker and understand that.

]]> By: Lis Garrett http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-58135 Lis Garrett Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:36:09 +0000 http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/#comment-58135 Is he serious? Really? Last I knew, Christine, you weren't the one wanting to crash the funeral of an actor who had portrayed a gay man in a movie. Crazy, crazy. I love how he refers to you as a "radical liberal." You may be. You may not be, and politics have nothing to do with it anyway. This issue is about a group of lunatics having no regard for parental suffering over the loss of a child. I think in your post you were simply pointing out how insane this woman's point of view is and how absolutely wrong it is for these people to demonstrate in the wake of this family's personal tragedy. And how did he make the assumption, based on this post, that you are a "Christian bashing" sort of woman? Is he claiming that Shirley is a Christian? Because if she is what Christianity is all about, let me be the first in line to bash it. <em>Lis Garrett's last blog post..<a href='http://melissagarrett.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/where-can-i-get-one-of-those/' rel="nofollow">Exchange-A-Child Day</a></em> Is he serious? Really? Last I knew, Christine, you weren’t the one wanting to crash the funeral of an actor who had portrayed a gay man in a movie. Crazy, crazy.

I love how he refers to you as a “radical liberal.” You may be. You may not be, and politics have nothing to do with it anyway. This issue is about a group of lunatics having no regard for parental suffering over the loss of a child. I think in your post you were simply pointing out how insane this woman’s point of view is and how absolutely wrong it is for these people to demonstrate in the wake of this family’s personal tragedy. And how did he make the assumption, based on this post, that you are a “Christian bashing” sort of woman? Is he claiming that Shirley is a Christian? Because if she is what Christianity is all about, let me be the first in line to bash it.

Lis Garrett’s last blog post..Exchange-A-Child Day

]]> By: Chris Palmenteir http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-58133 Chris Palmenteir Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:49:28 +0000 http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/#comment-58133 "It scares me a little bit that I share the same soil with people like this." She's obviously mentally unstable, but, how do you think we feel having to share the soil with radical liberals like you? You with your Christian bashing are just as bad as she is with her gay bashing. Think about, lib-boy. Intolerance runs both ways. “It scares me a little bit that I share the same soil with people like this.”

She’s obviously mentally unstable, but, how do you think we feel having to share the soil with radical liberals like you?

You with your Christian bashing are just as bad as she is with her gay bashing. Think about, lib-boy. Intolerance runs both ways.

]]> By: Necole http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-58096 Necole Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:14:30 +0000 http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/#comment-58096 I agree with her (cough cough wink wink) I mean come the heck on...you know God is sitting up in Heaven hanging out at the pearly gates waiting with nothing better to do than gay bash. Forget starving kids or those dying of an incurrable disease. It's the homosexuals he has time for. That and the praise from the professional football players who do the point and thank you when they get a touchdown. I am all for freedom of speech. Hopefully most of us know a LOON when we see/hear one. Kudos to Heath Ledger for being such a believable actor! <em>Necole's last blog post..<a href='http://mycrazyeggs.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-am-done-with-television.html' rel="nofollow">I am done with the television.....</a></em> I agree with her (cough cough wink wink) I mean come the heck on…you know God is sitting up in Heaven hanging out at the pearly gates waiting with nothing better to do than gay bash. Forget starving kids or those dying of an incurrable disease. It’s the homosexuals he has time for. That and the praise from the professional football players who do the point and thank you when they get a touchdown.

I am all for freedom of speech. Hopefully most of us know a LOON when we see/hear one.

Kudos to Heath Ledger for being such a believable actor!

Necole’s last blog post..I am done with the television…..

]]> By: Momilies http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-58087 Momilies Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:50:48 +0000 http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/#comment-58087 Unfortunately, my spiritual community (I'm Pagan) has been paying attention to Phelps' activities for many years. Fortunately, they are a small group, and so "out there" that truly, no one is doing anything but laughing at them. They will eventually either be ignored or legislated away, or die out because of inbreeding when no one new joins their church to mate with Phelps' grandchildren. <em>Momilies's last blog post..<a href='http://momilies.livejournal.com/135260.html' rel="nofollow">We Didn't Start the Fire</a></em> Unfortunately, my spiritual community (I’m Pagan) has been paying attention to Phelps’ activities for many years. Fortunately, they are a small group, and so “out there” that truly, no one is doing anything but laughing at them. They will eventually either be ignored or legislated away, or die out because of inbreeding when no one new joins their church to mate with Phelps’ grandchildren.

Momilies’s last blog post..We Didn’t Start the Fire

]]> By: Lis Garrett http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/comment-page-1/#comment-58086 Lis Garrett Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:18:10 +0000 http://www.thebeanblog.com/2008/01/26/more-insanity-from-the-church/#comment-58086 People like her make me want to vomit. <em>Lis Garrett's last blog post..<a href='http://melissagarrett.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/good-news-sunday-3/' rel="nofollow">Good News Sunday</a></em> People like her make me want to vomit.

Lis Garrett’s last blog post..Good News Sunday

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