My friend and ex-pastor Jerry DeWitt runs a monthly secular gathering in Lake Charles, Louisiana called Community Mission Chapel. It’s one of the more successful “atheist churches,” drawing in a sizable number of atheists who appreciate the camaraderie.
Hemant Mehta then reports that the two notes up above were left in one of the attending families mailbox.
Here is what they say for those who cannot enlarge them enough to see:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. You’re little group of devil worshippers isn’t welcome here. Let the love and message of the Lord filter through you and may you escape from the eternal damnation that you have condemned you and you’re innocent children to. Repent you’re Satanistic ways or you will find that the Lord works in VERY mysterious ways. You are against God and are not welcome in this area and we WILL spread his message to the hearts and minds of your innocent children. To deny His word to your children is abuse, and if you do not learn to love Him and His word then we will have no choice but to take action to protect your children from your devil-enabling ways. Do not even try to report this to the police — we are every where and His work will be done in His name thru us, the true beleivers.
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You could not keep away from it, could you? You and your group are infecting this area and driving THE ONE TRUE GOD out. We have warned you before. We are warning you again. We will stop you any way we have too. He has misterious ways. Keep you’re family close.
You know if you feel that you need to threaten people in order to get them to join your religion, you are following the wrong religion.
And yes I am looking at you as welll Islam.
"One true God." Hmmm, seems to me that such statements infer the disavowal of any other gods, thus making atheists of all such fanatics.
ReplyDeleteI love logic.
Hemant Mehta then reports that the two notes up above were left in one of the attending families mailbox.
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They should report to the Postal Office! Mail tampering! Nobody touches or puts things in mail boxes that are not mail! Especially "threat" letters!
Such good xtians.
Bastards.
I hope the church Community Mission Chapel has a lesson on it. "This is how we don't want to act and why we are all gathered here"!
This is a USA and we have freedom to believe or not.
Over 3 peeps gathering can be called a church. Look at Scientology for example. They were not a "church" until recently. Why aren't the bastards putting hate mail in their mail boxes?
100% correct 7:07 ! It is illegal for anyone but Postal Service employees to put anything in or on a mailbox.
DeleteIdentity is just one of the many reasons it is illegal for Joe Blow to walk around opening mailboxes for any reason.
Identity theft
DeleteWow. Somebody sure doesn't know the difference between your and you're.
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DeleteWow. Somebody sure doesn't know the difference between your and you're.
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dear grammer queen troll, please start your own blog and you can show examples of bad grammer and how superior you are for catching them or better yet apply for editorial job somewhere.
This is a blog.
I don't give a flying fuck you're, your.
Shows real intelligence, whomever wrote this.
DeleteYou're - should be your.
Mysterious - should be mysterious.
And those are just two that jumped out at me.
Dear Anonymous7:09 AM,
DeleteSet up your own blog, so you can police and ban grammar comments.
Fundies. They view book-larnin' with deep distrust.
Delete7:09-
DeleteWhy all the anger?
The inability to properly use the English language seems to be all too common among poorly educated fundamentalists and right wing conservatives.
In addition, it makes your (not you're) message that much less effective when you cannot write correctly.
I don't understand why peope get so angry when someone points out a grammar error. They've done it to me a few times and because English is my second language I appreciate feedback, why mangle the language?
DeleteWell now, God works in Mysterical ways and them atheists need protectin, right quick.
ReplyDeleteYes, YOUR so write, and its two bad they don't worry more about there own families' instead of every won elses. They could be using there time to take a spelling and English grammar class (of course, this is Louisiana..maybe they done graduated and all.)
Delete(It was really hard to write that!! I majored in English!)
Sally -
DeleteDidn't you mean English 'grammer'???
In her first Newsweek column following 9/11, the brilliant Anna Quindlen wrote something that has never left my memory, word for word:
ReplyDelete"Anything can happen when human beings allow ideology to trump their humanity, when they elevate an idea above the lives of individuals." Posts of this type of news point out again radical Muslim extremists are hardly the only guilty group, and depressingly, make me wonder if we've learned a fucking thing since.
If they were 'true believers' they wouldn't be frightened. What they really are is superstitious children afraid of the dark.
ReplyDelete::: singing::: For you know they are Christians by their love, by their love...
ReplyDeleteIt's very telling that these mouth-breathers are so terrified of a group of people who are...gathering quietly and minding their own business. You have to wonder (spoiler; no you don't) if the local stamp collectors' club is getting these kind of threats. Or the local chapter of the knitting club (like Stitch & Bitch). Or the Bunco clubs.
The apostrophe must work in mysterious ways for them too.
ReplyDeleteIf you're using your religion to justify or bolster your hatred
ReplyDelete...then you're doing it wrong and are misunderstanding your own religion...
You damned, damned fool.
Apparently, they are in mortal fear that THE ONE TRUE GOD isn't powerful enough to stand up to...nothing.
ReplyDeleteI was Always under the impression that God was omnipotent and what God loved most was people who believe in God of their own free will in spots of obstacles. Maybe they have the wrong "God" in mind?
ReplyDeleteBoth notes are written by the same person. Might be just one malcontent doing this and not the sentiment of the whole community.
ReplyDeleteCould have been written by the KKK 90 years ago. Probably written by a current KKK member. They cannot tolerate any deviance from their "beliefs," and hounded blacks, as well as Jews, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Quakers, atheists, and anyone who looked different or talked differently.
ReplyDeleteThe Teabaggers are a political expression of the KKK philosophy. Sarah is their saint. She just needs a hood, although t would mess up her God-given-and-enhanced hairdo.
The Teabaggers are a political expression of the KKK philosophy. Sarah is their saint.
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The hoedown is prob her "sainthood"!
the hardcore teabags are saying that Bristol was justified socking that guy...? Unreal. Their reality is not based in the real world where thuggery is not justified by anything especially so called "christian values".
These kind don't know Jesus. They command the church to seek God's love all the while threatening them? Sick and twisted. What this is, is fanatical religious phariseeical dogmatic man-made hate-inspired domestic terroristism.
ReplyDeleteThey've taken on a form of godliness, proclaimed themselves as little gods, judges, and it's the stuff that the Inquisition was made of.
That's what christians have done for thousands of years so I don't know why you are shocked or trying to defend a religion that has condoned this behavior for this long. Religions were only developed to control the masses, keep people in their stations of life so the poor wouldn't rebel, used as an excuse to kill others. That IS the history of christianity and every other major religion. The ONLY true "religions" or belief systems that developed frreely are those found in small populations not influenced by control and those would be the few tribal religions that are all based on the earth and taking care of the earth. Jesus never was, he never was alive, the bible is crap, stolen from Egyptian stories and (gasp) part of the Koran. Get a clue, christianity is nothing but a scam to control the masses. And, if you don't agree with me then do your own research and you will find out I am correct.
DeleteFascistians once again contaminating the love and message of the Lord. Spreading the word is simply squeezing their own fear and hatred through their bile constipated minds
ReplyDeleteNo, they are doing what any major religion has done for thousands of yrs, There has neever been a time that the followers of the fake God in any religion has been used for good, ever. Religion, yes including christianity, has been used as an excuse to take, kill, blame everyone else.
Delete@Anonymous 10:39 AM: You obviously don't know much about either history or world religions. Your claims are demonstrably false and shamefully ignorant.
DeleteJeeesus, are these types ever going to learn how to spell? Of course not, that would take some of that god-destroyin' eh-diu-ma-kay-shun.
ReplyDeleteFEAR the power of our knowledge... a**holes.
Interesting… "do not even try to report this to the police"…so they know they are practicing criminal behavior, yet still think it is christian.
ReplyDeleteI recently read an article - think it was in Time - about atheists forming groups who meet on a regular basis. First I had heard of it - but it makes sense. It provides a safe place for people to share their life experiences.
ReplyDeleteAs to these people harassing this particular group - I think Anonymous 3:26 has a good response.
Pat Padrnos
My pastor's wife mentioned that to me, as my son lives in Houston, and the article talked about that area. She's worried that they don't have a church down there. They are busy six days a week and need Sunday to catch up, frankly. I don't blame them for not getting involved with the holy rollers down there. Bad enough that the public schools insist on everyone saying "under God" not once, but twice, as they say the US Pledge to the piece of cloth and then the TEXAS pledge to the other piece of cloth and then another to their school. Not sure what would happen is the kids refused...I'm betting it would not sit well.
DeleteNo doubt those children would be humiliated in front of their classmates.
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Love the misspellings...kind of dilutes your message when you can't use your or you're correctly, and can't even spell the mysterious ways of your Lord and Savior properly. Not to mention that the message of Jesus is one of peace and acceptance of all. He is ashamed of you morally bereft people who have to threaten and hate...and you talk about taking away their kids? So you can what? Indoctrinate them yourself? Pitiful. Just pitiful.
ReplyDeleteApparently Jesus doesn't only love the little children of the world, he also has a soft spot for illiterates.
DeleteSo, the true believers are going to do the creators work thru destruction. Yep, that about sums up the christian church.
ReplyDeleteReligion has been used as an excuse for murder,, rape, stealing of property and lands, and even in some cases extinction of whole peoples, for thousands of years.
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ on a unicycle! Not only is he and Atheist, he's now Anton La Vey reicarnated! I love the part where they say they know who he is, where he lives, etc. HELLO! Assclowns. He knows who you are, where you live, who you're steuping on the side and he knows your spouses as well.
ReplyDeleteYeah, whatever you do, do not get the Police involved. Don't dare let them know we threatened you in this letter. We got God on our side, you Devil worhipper you!!
Almost laughable as satire, but these nutz mean business. Lucky thing they didn't mention the FBI or he'd really be shaking in his Birkenstocks.