In-your-face religious symbols: SuperSized!
22 February 2007 by NaomiThey’re cropping up like weeds! Some are so close to the interstates, they constitute “eye-pollution”; some you have to really work to get to (those are my favorites!)
We need to invent a “crossicide” (or maybe a “crucifixicide”…)! Something that will cause them to melt in the next rain, rather like Dorothy’s Wicked Witch of the West!
So, here we go—
World’s Largest Cross (Think of this as BigAss Cross v1.2)
Effingham is the home of the world’s largest cross. Built over a five year period at a cost of over one million dollars, the cross stands 198 feet tall and contains 180 tons of steel. It consists of four sections and can withstand 145 mph winds.
Giant Cross (Think of this as BigAss Cross v1.1)
There is a 19 story cross located next to Interstate 40 at Groom. This 190 foot tall free standing Cross can be seen from twenty miles away. Surrounding the base of the Cross are life sized statues of the Stations of the Cross. Inspired by this cross, residents of Effingham, Illinois erected a similar cross that is eight feet taller. The movie Leap of Faith was filmed on location near the cross.
It says on the “Cross Ministries’” website that they were inspired by the Cross in Ballinger TX. (This the inspiration for the BigAss Crosses, v1.0!)
For the best (and most irreverent!) testimony, this is from Route 66 Unraveled:
My brief pilgrimage was a pleasant one, but it was not the spiritual experience for which I had hoped. I was too interested in the cross as a physical object, and my thoughts were, for the most part, secular in scope.
As pious erections go, the Great Cross of Groom is almost Heliogabalic in its aspiration. I do not suppose that it is the largest cross in the western hemisphere by accident, nor does it seem coincidental that it stands tall in Texas, where everything is reputedly larger than life.
Viewed from its base, the Great Cross looks something like the Washington Monument. Both structures are white towers with four corners, and both peak with a point. Both also have ground-level doorways permitting access to their interiors. I imagined a spectacular view of the surrounding plains from the top of a stairwell within the cross, perhaps comparable to that excellent view of the Mall from the observatory of the Washington Monument. A significant difference between the two structures is that the Great Cross is composed of far less costly material than Washington’s great stone obelisk: nuts, bolts and the kind of sheet metal sold in hardware stores for construction of backyard storage sheds.
The cross also made me think of Gulliver among the Lilliputians.
Now we go from the ridiculous to the…even more ridiculous: the rumored Blessed Mary Cafe!
From Where in the world is Reed? blog
Amarillo, TX to Erick, OK 117 miles
Passed by the largest cross in the western hemishere on our way to The Blessed Mary Cafe. Jim and Rebecca were our hosts. No fee for coffee and pie – just a donation that seems fit. No preaching unless you ask but little pearls of wisdom are dispensed…
From Roadside Photos blog
[The person who posted was trying to take pictures of the "cross" when the camera was whipped away, only to fall to the asphalt and, thus, was probably unusable. Alas, no pix of the cross or the cafe. Thank you, Jeebus!]
A sign along the Interstate promises a spiritual experience, but the only things that moved me were the wind and the cold. At least until the wind blew the camera out of my hands and sent it crashing to the asphalt. It landed on its back, so the lens was intact. It focused properly and the shutter and motor drive seemed to work normally…but none of the push-button adjustments worked, and the display which usually showed the shutter speed and exposure was a blank. In sum, I thought the camera was okay, but couldn’t be sure until the pictures were developed. Just what I wanted to hear while an hour from any photo store.
Heading east, I had plenty of time to contemplate my options…as well as such wonders as Blessed Mary’s Cafe half a mile from the Largest Cross (American and Mexican food, just like Jesus ate!)
No one has ever mentioned whether Mary was a good cook!
End Times Titans, RoadsideAmerica.com:
Big Marys: Immaculate giantesses loom, but also forgive. Find the largest the USA has to offer: 50-ft Madonna Queen National Shrine, North Boston, Massachusetts; 30-ft “Queen of Peace,” Sioux City, Iowa; the 33-ft. tall Mary in Windsor, Ohio; and 90-ft “Our Lady of the Rockies,” Butte, MT.
Super-Crucifixes: A super-crucifix is a giant cross with a Jesus statue nailed to it, lovingly crafted as part of a Catholic shrine or church. The two biggest can be found in Bardstown, Kentucky; and the Cross in the Woods, Indian River, Michigan.
Big Crosses: There are many, spread over the widest geography and less denominational than a monolithic Madonna or Super-crucifix. Our favorites are the metal spectacle visible from the interstate in Groom, Texas; and the white colossus atop Bald Knob, Alto Pass, Illinois. A 95-footer went up near Frankfort, Kentucky in 1999. In 2001, a 198-ft. tall Cross went up near I-70 at I-57 in Effingham, Illinois (”Crossroads of America”), inspired by the Groom cross.
Praying Hands of Webb City, MO, or the Healing Hands, Tulsa, OK. Take your pick, though we favor the Healing Hands, within groveling distance of the Oral Roberts Prayer Tower, with its direct prayer-feed to heaven.
World’s Largest Ten Commandments: A popular spot to review epic past indiscretions. Field of the Wood, Murphy, NC.
Heaven-bound: Giant Jesus Statue
Monroe, Ohio: Jesus has risen near the interstate north of Cincinnati. A 62-ft. high sculpture of Christ appears to explode from the dirt behind the amphitheater at Monroe’s Solid Rock Church. From the waist down, he’s underground….
(*I kind wish he’d just drown–is that double-jeopardy? To wish death to a dead man? To a dead man that probably never was?*)
I’ll bet your obession is not nearly as interesting as mine!
(BTW, if you are planning a roadtrip, I urge you to visit RoadsideAmerica blog. They have a wicked sense of humor–and a first-rate set of wonderful, arcane, surreal and/or just plain off-beat attractions! In fact, you don’t even need a reason to visit them!)
22 February 2007, on 4:37 am
Maybe we can partition that 900 ft. tall Oral Roberts Jeebus and crucify him in sections on these nauseatingly large symbols for the sympol minded.
According to the Old Testament, gawd is a very large dick.
Which cross should we reserve for that part? The largest or the smallest? Either way would get the message across.
22 February 2007, on 4:54 am
Many times, while driving by the Groom cross, I’ve wished that a “Texas twister” would take it away.
Instead, I’ve used my CB to just say, “Is that fucking eyesore still standing?”
The comments in reply are so abusive, I laugh every time. It seems a lot of truck drivers are xian…
22 February 2007, on 5:29 am
An appropriate quote from Lenny Bruce:
“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic [or any xian] school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
How would an electric chair look on the skyline? Wonder if they would put a wet sponge on his head instead of a crown of thorns?
22 February 2007, on 5:38 am
What’s that FUBAR, ‘God’s’ a Dick?
What about the other members of the ‘Trinity’ – Tom and Harry?
Or are they all one and the same?
Not one, not three, not anything but the raving gibberish of delusional fools and their manipulative exploiters.
Actually the only real xtians are the ones that you nail up on these things till they rot – the rest are just a bunch of impostors.
Maybe Chuck would like to provide the musical accompaniment whilst I sing, “If I had a hammer…”
22 February 2007, on 5:40 am
It seems a lot of truck drivers are xian…
And they allow these mad people to drive 18-wheel 42 tonne rigs on your roads, do they?
Crazy country.
22 February 2007, on 5:41 am
Oh, but one single line comes to mind. And nobody take this as any kind of incitement to an illegal act:
… “the bigger they are”…
Really though, how high’s that centre of gravity? And the wide cross bar on a narrow support beam…
22 February 2007, on 5:46 am
This is the nearest we’ve got to that particular madness in the UK.
22 February 2007, on 7:52 am
A bit tacky, isn’t it? Very unlovely, TOG! To say nothing of it being a xian icon…
Of course, I may have hurt your feelings–for all I know, you love the bloody thing!
On the crosses, et.al, I suspect that I’ve just shown the tip of the iceberg. I was never able to stop and take pictures of about four more (another in Illinois, two in Tennessee, and one in Virginia–and all of them nowhere near that big).
Here’s my theory: someone gets a bug up their ass or needs to make a bargain with the Lard. He cajoles a piece of land out of someone, ropes in a designer and a civil engineer, cons a steel manufacturer, strongarms the owner of a truck and flatbed trailer–and invests no more than some gas, a few letters, a lot of phone calls, his time and temper, and eh, voila!, he’s built a monument to his hubris and overweening pride. And each must be larger than the last–or else why bother?
What do you think?
22 February 2007, on 8:07 am
Aren’t these crosses the reason we have a blow torch and kerosene.
Failing that a few sticks of dynamite could do the trick.
Only joking, I can not believe there are no county ordinances to prevent these being built.
The crosses really are repulsive. Yet sadly I want to get on the next plane to America to do a tour of the crosses. My morbid curiosity has been piqued.
So America has The Big Cross and Australia had The Big Banana.
Maybe you could do what we Australians have and turn one of them into a tourist attraction labeled “the Big Cross.” Then another site could have the Big Jesus, with another having The Big Ass. The possibilities are endless.
Th Western world gets sillier every day.
Oh a big thank you to our American friends for sending us Dick Cheney for a few days. Keeping away from guns and out of America is our good deed for the week. We have already have had 10 anti Dick protesters arrested and the guy hasn’t even arrived yet.
22 February 2007, on 8:26 am
Actually TOG, it’s more like Larry and Moe..
22 February 2007, on 8:30 am
For some reason I’m reminded of “Meteor Crater” outside Winslow Arizona. Of course “meteor crater” is an oxymoron, since a meteor becomes a meteorite once it strikes the earth (or some other planet). So a meteor crater is an impossibility.
Don’t know why that came to mind, I suppose human stupidity…
22 February 2007, on 8:35 am
I know of one in Virginia near Purcellville. I used to live a few miles from there, but never drove in that direction much. It’s a large iron cross (why does that sound Nazi-like?) rusted all to hell.
22 February 2007, on 8:56 am
You are lucky the majority of your country is Protestant rather than Catholic. Otherwise, you would have creepy, gore, painful, bloody, scary statues rather than plain crosses.
22 February 2007, on 8:59 am
Isn’t all this vulgarity a sign of their desperation?
22 February 2007, on 9:43 am
Absolutely, DT! Everything is so over-the-top, it’s like we’re watching a spoiled four-year-old vying for attention, because there’s a new baby in the house.
They’re threatened with extinction, which is why they invented ID, and the ignorance that goes with it; they’re losing the young people, who refuse to go to church–or go unwillingly, then log onto MySpace’s atheist forums; they’re losing faithful to modern society’s pressures on time and money. And people are slowly seeing that there is no middle ground–it’s the 21st century, for pete’s sake!
It comes back to the inflexibility of religion and their stubbornness about the book. Dogma and ritual are stuck in the Middle Ages, and allow for no new thinking on old issues–most especially on women and gays. They secretly understand that we won’t accept less than full franchise. So it’s fingers-in-the-ears, “la,la,la, I can’t hear you!” for the jerks, who are making so much noise to drown out our genuine objections to their intransigence.
Fuck ‘em, if they can’t get a clue!
22 February 2007, on 10:08 am
http://www.rhodes.edu/images/content/Academics/RIRS_6_3lg.jpg
These three immense crosses are right next to I-40 outside of Memphis and can bee seen for a couple of miles out. They are in front of Bellvue Baptist Church.
22 February 2007, on 10:10 am
In Tennessee, giant crosses are often found next to adult bookstores along the interstate. I guess gawd really likes porn.
22 February 2007, on 10:19 am
He he, and those bookstores always seem to be the World’s Largest. Those christian truck drivers have to get their porn fix in, then they have to repent. The current arrangement makes it all the more convenient for them. I think they have drive in confessionals. We can’t hold up commerce, now can we?
22 February 2007, on 11:42 am
We take I-57 often when we travel south and have seen the Effingham Bigass cross many times. Just like the noise pollution of the muslim chant wailing over loudspeakers, this is visual pollution and to be quite offensive since it is huge Roman EXECUTION DEVICE. It is a symbol of death and I don’t care to have it forced into my vision so blatantly. It just goes to show that there is no gawd if “faithful” must advertise in such hideous ways, and disrupt the peace to promote their superstitious propaganda.
22 February 2007, on 11:47 am
And, they are always saying their bible is the inerrant word of their god, and in there it says not to worship false idols, yet they build monstrosities like this to kneel and pray before, and also statues of Jeebus, Mary, made-up saints, and so forth. They wear little execution symbols around their necks…aren’t we supposed to know xians by their “love”? The money these superstructures cost could have gone to feed many hungry and house many homeless. They are nothing but selfish, self-centered hypocrites.
22 February 2007, on 12:19 pm
The comment about the 900 foot Jesus Oral saw many years ago reminded me of a joke a preacher friend told during that wonderful time in Tulsa.
He rushed into the room and said, “Quick, call the local TV stations! I just saw a 1200 foot Moses part the Arkansas river!”
The Arkansas river trickles just a few miles from the ORU campus.
It was very funny at the time.
22 February 2007, on 12:29 pm
How about this defaming of the Statue of Liberty?
72-foot-tall, born again, Lady Liberty at a Megachurch in Memphis.
22 February 2007, on 12:53 pm
Makes me want to put a large cross in my yard, paint the words, “Roman Execution Device” on the crossbar, and chain a large dog to it. The dog could deposit its droppings at the base of the cross.
22 February 2007, on 1:00 pm
>As pious erections go, the Great Cross of Groom is almost >Heliogabalic in its aspiration.
I’m not really sure about “Heliogabalic,” but I’m all about some pious erections!
22 February 2007, on 1:25 pm
http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Somewhat off topic, but not really (how can anything about protecting religion be off topic), but you must read this post by the Rude Pundit, about the lastest crusade by our wonderful Attorney General. The Pundit is a little vulgar at times (today he’s mild), so sorry if this offends anyone. He’s always worth reading.
22 February 2007, on 1:48 pm
I looked and looked and couldn’t find a picture of the statues along 1-5 in Washington state. I wish I would have taken a picture of them, because whoo boy! One of them (it’s somewhat a running joke around here) is what I’m assuming is some kind of saint of children or something. Anyway, it’s this big dude with a small child facing him. The child’s head is exactly crotch height and the dude has his hand on the top of the boy’s head, “guiding” him. It’s disgusting and hilarious all at the same time.
22 February 2007, on 1:56 pm
Catherine
And that website for the poor, persecuted Christians (cause it sure as shit ain’t the Mooslems) is here. Gee, I was really hoping that “V is for Vendetta” would just remain cautionary tale, not a prophecy.
http://www.firstfreedom.gov/
22 February 2007, on 2:29 pm
I’m sorry if I’m breaking the flow here, but I am currently in a posting battle on my local news website with Christians who are belaboring the point about faith-based initiatives. This was just posted by one-such fundy:
“The faith based initiatives DO NOT allow funds to be used for spreading their faith. The funds are used to feed, clothe, shelter, etc. the needy. This is a good thing.”
Now I KNOW that there are specific incidents of churches and other faith-based groups using federal funds for their own purposes, but I do not have the time to research it. Could some of you guide me to some specific examples? I just finished telling all of them that they have no scientific and documented evidence of all of these miracles they espouse, so I can’t really start calling the kettle black.
Here’s the link if anyone’s interested, thanks again:
http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/1210802/?d_add_comment=1&d_last_seen_id=
22 February 2007, on 2:33 pm
This is my neck of the woods, and I’ve driven the full length of I-5 in WA a few times, and haven’t seen such a thing. Any idea which city it was near?
22 February 2007, on 2:47 pm
Revenant,
I’m glad to know you’re in my neck of the woods!
It might be on I-205, right before they meet. I thought it was on I-5 though. I wish I paid closer attention, or better yet, took a picture two weekends ago. Anyway, I know it’s near Battle Ground. (southern part of the state)
22 February 2007, on 3:13 pm
Karen, you said…
Please reconsider, because anyone who would chain up a dog is in danger of falling out with me!
Why don’t you chain up a few so-called Xtians there instead?
Much more humane.
22 February 2007, on 3:24 pm
This is just plain embarrassing. Has anyone else noticed that the bigger the outward signs, the smaller the inner strength. As if this manifestation is sufficient to absolve them of their shortcomings. To me it is easier for them to build these monstrosities than it is for them to recognize the truth of their beliefs. And I’m beginning to believe that they know it.
22 February 2007, on 3:46 pm
I know porn is in the “eyes of the beholder” but…sometimes artists seem to go out of their way to make something lascivious! You can’t tell me that an artist can’t see “what’s wrong with this picture?”!
and
I think I got them from “Jesus of the Week” website. But if you’ve ever been there, you’ll know that it isn’t easy finding images–you have to view each page from the start or from the end–you can’t jump to a particular image unless you remember what he named it.
Still, it’s a fun browse!
22 February 2007, on 3:52 pm
OK Old Git
I’ll build a fence around the dog, instead of putting it on a chain. But i don’t want any whining xians in my yard all the time.
Hey, I could just throw bird seed all around the ground at the foot of the cross and the birds would sit on the cross bar and shit all over it.
22 February 2007, on 4:32 pm
Thanks for sparing the dog, Karen.
And I can understand your disinclination to surround yourself with ‘whining xtians’ (come to think of it, is there any other kind?)
So maybe the birdseed would be the best idea – besides, songbirds are much nicer than Xtians anyway (probably smarter too).
22 February 2007, on 5:21 pm
Terra,
I don’t get down to the southern end very often. I live in Oak Harbor (Whidbey Island) and work in Bothell. 205 is the Tacoma bypass, more or less, right?
22 February 2007, on 6:42 pm
Rev,
1-205 runs north south, like 1-5, but it quickly merges with 1-5, maybe within 10-20 miles of the Oregon/Washington border.
Naomi-yes, it’s almost identical to the white statue!
Damn, I really really wish I had a picture of it now.
22 February 2007, on 9:08 pm
I wonder what the people who have no problem with these colossal crosses would say if the owner of the next tract of land over parked a behemoth Buddha on it.
Or a giant, anatomically-correct penis; the erector could simply claim he/she worshiped the god Priapus–!
22 February 2007, on 11:05 pm
For those of you who haven’t seen this
Statue of Liberation Through “Kryste”, at the World Overcomers Church, in Memphis TN
(And they say atheists are aggressive!)
And to tickle your funny-bone, someone nearby has erected a Buddha in their front yard!
22 February 2007, on 11:09 pm
Sorry, Eve, I’m still searching for that erect member. So far, the closest I’ve come is a bar in NJ who had “penis bones” on display. However, the old guy that owned the bar has since died and the “bones” have been removed.
Viagra, anyone?
22 February 2007, on 11:16 pm
For those of you who haven’t seen this
Statue of Liberation Through “Kryste”, at the World Overcomers Church, in Memphis T
Naomi…see comment #22
It is an absurd monstrosity, isn’t it?
Your front yard Buddha link doesn’t work.
Sorry, Star–I can’t isolate the link. When I search for it, via “Roger, the wooden search engine”, the page comes up; but when I copy the URL and paste it, it reverts back to “Roger”. It was mostly to source my statement–there is no picture as yet…
23 February 2007, on 1:24 am
Old Git remarked: “Maybe Chuck would like to provide the musical accompaniment whilst I sing, “If I had a hammer…”
I’m not sure about the term: ‘like’…but I suppose I could make up a ‘midifile’ [electronic background] and join in singing. Or how ’bout Blood Sweat and Tears’ “Spinning Wheel”?
I kinda like the lyric of: “What goes up, must come down”…etc.
Yikes, Old Git…so that ‘angel monstrosity is: “…now also one of the 12 official ‘Icons of England’ in a major government-sponsored Culture Online project.”
Is this world run by a bunch of fuckheads, or what?
I think Naomi’s ‘theory’ [#15] about about all these boneheaded projects, hits the mark.
Stardust also sums it up, I think, in her comment: “They are nothing but selfish, self-centered hypocrites.”
I had another Pythonesque thought: I could see someone like Jim Carey, as in the “Cable Guy”, climbing up, undetected, on to one of those crosses and soldering [OK...welding!]on a ‘hard to find’ audio device which plays…remotely controlled…and very loudly…
Erich Idle’s, “Always Look On The Bright Side of Life” ['Life of Brian', of course].
Other than that…does anyone have access to those portable rocket launchers like the insurgents are using in Iraq?
Hmmm…I just imagined an interview with one of them:
“Hi, can you spare a moment?…I’m here representing Halliburton…You’ve heard of ‘Shotgun’ Cheney, of course?…you see this cash? Yeah…It’s from the lost billions that the American government sent over…
Have I got a job for YOU, my fine friend!”
As usual, there’s a plethora a great GifSters’ remarks!
We can all dream…can’t we?
23 February 2007, on 4:43 am
Chuck posed the rhetorical question…
If anyone out there doesn’t already know the answer to that, stay behind after class and have a word with me.
23 February 2007, on 12:19 pm
Another thing, all this talk of cruising the intestates and viewing giant religious symbols, got me cruising the WWW, and here I found the Ministry of Hubert The Invisible 500′ High Deity who offers free online absolution for all you sinners out there.
Pity I can’t get some of the funny pics to attach to this post, so you’ll have to view them for yourself.
23 February 2007, on 3:07 pm
Like this?
23 February 2007, on 3:15 pm
Thanks, Naomi, that’s the very pic I wanted to post!
24 February 2007, on 12:15 am
I live in Tulsa. One day it is my dream to paint a bed sheet to look like a $1 bill and hang it between the healing hands.
24 February 2007, on 12:46 am
TOG: I love Big Hubert!
But for the first time in my life, I wished to be color blind–Martin Burns website choices burned the images into my retinas…
24 February 2007, on 10:03 am
I live in Baton Rouge. There are three very large crosses not too far away from a church called Bethany World Prayer Center. We seriously think that it might be visable from space.
24 February 2007, on 4:09 pm
Greedy fucks. One was enough for their Jeebus!
That’s so ‘god’ can see them without his glasses.
24 February 2007, on 4:13 pm
I think Martin must have been a fan of the book, ‘Building Really Annoying Websites’.
I used to have a link to their site, which was full of wonderful tricks on how to produce really annoying features, but it has been taken over by some other organisation. However, if you ever find a copy in a charity bookstore, buy it and have some fun!
24 February 2007, on 4:23 pm
Here’s a link to Amazon which has it available fro only 80 cents – a real bargain (Chuck, you must buy this to build your own site – you can really drive people crazy!):
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Really-Annoying-Web-Sites/dp/0764548743
24 February 2007, on 5:42 pm
Wow, Old Git…waving that book around might be like baring a beautiful wimmun’s neck in front of a “wampire”!
I guess, if I buy it…I’ll read it whilst hanging upside down…bat-like?
You probably can guess how much that book’s theme might trigger some long suppressed fantasies…all…well, mostly…humorous, of course!
I just started whimsically applying some of the mentioned application ideas to my potential music teaching site.
Of course, immediately, I can imagine hearing pounding and shouting at my door; accompanied by the smell from the Transylvanian-like torches of angry parents and constables(?)…demanding my head on a (musical) platter…and, of course, their money back!
“I asked your kid to come closer to the webcam, so I could better see his embouchure…NOT his derrier!”
OR…
“I was showing your daughter how to properly hold and finger her saxophone…not her…
sexy phone” [Something like that!]
Only eighty cents, huh?
I’ll keep that in mind, Old Git!
24 February 2007, on 7:14 pm
Chuck,
Speaking of web-casting (and I know you weren’t, but I’m stretching the point), you might like to have a look at what this old git (and a compatriot of mine)does with his webcam.
24 February 2007, on 9:36 pm
TOG, amazing! Not because of his age, per se, but that he has embraced the technological potential of vblogging. I’ve hailed the “oldsters” who have begun to use email and to read the blogs; this is a fine step beyond them.
I also watched a couple of “youngsters” praising his vblogs and noticed that his vids are watched frequently, if the “number of views” are any indication. He’s popular, to be sure!
Tell him this old gal in the US sez, “Bravo!”
25 February 2007, on 2:25 pm
Thanks for that interesting link, Old Git. The BBC article and video were enlightening.
Your compatriot came across as a fine gentleman; wise and pleasantly softspoken.
I must concur with Her Grace Lady Naomi…Bravo!
I had conjured up a different silly response last night, and was just about to post it, when we had a power outage that lasted for 3 hours; plus a snow storm! That reminded me of how shitty things were on this planet for millions (Billions?)of years, before mankind finally discovered how to harness electricity. [Of course, it's still shitty, yada, yada!] Luckily I had some battery powered lights…the two candles I had really sucked!
“Put…the candles…Back!”
What!…thank you Jeebus?…FARK!
Yeah…we’re all, REALLY addicted to technology…
and SO WHAT!…I just LOVE science!
I’m on the local ‘alternate’ jury duty list for tomorrow and have to call in later today to see if they’ll ‘need me’. I’ve never done jury duty in my 67 years…and the way things are in our courts these days…I’d like to continue that tradition.
If I must ’show up’, I’m prepared to say:
“I can just LOOK at a person, and tell whether they’re guilty or not!…and of course, I take oaths…ONLY with my left hand over my testicles…never on a bibble, or koranus!…Is that OK?”
“NEXT!”
26 February 2007, on 3:19 pm
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4 March 2007, on 5:39 pm
i dont kno what it is with you atheists. always have the need to criticize those who HAVE something to believe in. if u have a problem with us and our worship and love for God, then JUST IGNORE IT.
What is with us is the RaptureRight movement and the christianists are trying to turn the US into a theocracy! Moderate xians must join together and shout down Falwell/Robertson/Dobson/LaHaye and all the rest!
ive been ignoring, alonng with many other fellow christians, u and other atheist’s compliants. deal with it. u all need to just shut up and go do ur own thing.
What is with us is that your much vaunted “xian love” is nowhere near what is preached in the NT! Neither abortion nor homosexuality are mentioned in the NT–the source of christ’s words and the xian religions!
stop trying to stop us from worshipping in what we believe in.
What is with us is that you fail to keep your “faith” in your heart, your home and your house of worship! If you would stop being in our face, we’d stop being in yours!
This is push-back time! Live with it!
5 March 2007, on 12:10 pm
lol, I don’t know, but it’s GOT to be a sin to call yourself god.
6 March 2007, on 7:21 pm
Revenant says:
“lol, I don’t know, but it’s GOT to be a sin to call yourself god.”
Not really, just remember that GOD is DOG spelled backwards.
5 June 2007, on 11:07 pm
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