Pastor's sign rubs salt in wounds of downtrodden (SHOULD 'RELIGION WRITER' APOLOGIZE OR RESIGN?)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 16, 2005 | CATHLEEN FALSANI RELIGION WRITER

[Goofystacey]

No why???

[Goofystacey]

Excuse me who do you think you are? Here we go with name calling. This is not FR it is PRE-School. My 4 year has even out grown the name calling stage. Gee wise you could take some lessons from her.

[Goofystacey]

Gee wise you could take some lessons from her.


Sorry Gee whiz.... LOL She is helping mommy tonight

[general_re]

LOL. Whatever.

[Goofystacey]

Why did you want me Banned :(

[Goofystacey]

Great personal page. Those are my thoughts as well.

[beckysueb]

I prefer to think that God allows natural disasters which affect both good people and bad people. He does not use them to punish anybody, and He especially doesn't use them to destroy one group of people for the sin's of others.

I agree with you for the most part although I don't completely rule it out.

[beckysueb]

The reason that these evacuees are likely served, rather than allowing them to serve themselves, is that there is not an infinite amount of food when serving a large number of people. You guys are mean as hell, for professing Christians.

I'm sorry if you think I'm mean. I'm not at all mean, just not PC. But I thought about your reason for not serving themselves after I said it. I stand corrected.

[ladyinred]

You know what? We have freedom of speech in this country, and you will not find me saying that this guy shouldn't be able to express his beliefs. The left can say the most outrageous things and it is cheered. Let a Christian express a belief and they want to lynch him. Disgusting.

[beckysueb]

You know, I just thought of something. Usually FR is a great place to post, full of lively conversation, and fun. People didn't always agree but there wasn't this hate and bad feeling like there has been lately. Could it be people who are here to deliberately hurt FR?

[Goofystacey]

Boy isn't that the truth. OR the Christian gets banned for standing up for their beliefs as well in FR.

[Goofystacey]

That is the way I have seen it since being on here. Some one told me this is such a wonderful place to get on and chat. But since I have been on now and just the past few days, all I have seen is hate from the majority of posters on here.

[sinkspur]

That is the way I have seen it since being on here. Some one told me this is such a wonderful place to get on and chat. But since I have been on now and just the past few days, all I have seen is hate from the majority of posters on here.

You have encountered posters, like me, who believe that Pastor Bennett is the one who is expressing judgment. His sign was, IMO, totally inappropriate. He has the right to express his opinion, but he should not take umbrage when people disagree with him, especially those who lost everything they own in a city he compared to Sodom and Gomorrah.

It's not hate for someone to disagree with your point of view. If you think it is, you'd better get a thicker skin, because the news/activism forum is a whole lot rougher than religious topics.

[beckysueb]

It's not hate for someone to disagree with your point of view. If you think it is, you'd better get a thicker skin, because the news/activism forum is a whole lot rougher than religious topics.

When people are new, it hurts when you think people are angry with you. I have been on FR for almost 2 years. I read on a thread the other day that if you registered after 2000, you would always be a newbie , but anyway, as I was saying, when I first came on, I got flamed right away and I cried. Now I don't get my feelings hurt anymore but when people are new, it hurts but you do toughen up after awhile.

[hosepipe]

[ Actually wouldn't that be San Francisco. ]

Nah!.. San Francisco is a half way house to HELL...

[geopyg]

----Robbins described New Orleans as "the depository of America's soul."-----

I wonder if he actually meant to say 'suppository'?

[montag813]

I wonder if he actually meant to say 'suppository'?

Oh, I like that one!

[zerosix]

America murders 40M innocent babies since 1973 in the name of "reproductive choice" - sorry, if that doesn't equate with Sodom and Gomorrah, what could. We are obviously worse than the Third Reich which inflicted mass murder on Jews, Gypsies, etc. and we refer to that as the Holocaust.

[beckysueb]

Nah!.. San Francisco is a half way house to HELL...

I hear ya.

[beckysueb]

America murders 40M innocent babies since 1973 in the name of "reproductive choice" - sorry, if that doesn't equate with Sodom and Gomorrah, what could. We are obviously worse than the Third Reich which inflicted mass murder on Jews, Gypsies, etc. and we refer to that as the Holocaust.

And little babies are the most innocent. The pro choice people believe in abortion right up to time of birth and some stupid study said they don't feel pain until the 4th month (although I believe they feel pain before that) but anyway even if one believes the 4th month, that would mean these monsters believe the baby's pain doesn't matter.