Evangelist Ray Comfort made the point that a life without God is a life of paranoia. It would seem that he was correct in this case.
Leaving threatening letters on people's private property is not cool.
If someone wants to leave a flyer, they have every right to leave a flyer.
If they could pass a law against this stuff, the Jehovah's Witnesses would be shut down. Deal with it lady.
" If I want to decorate my home, I have every right to decorate my home," Gully said"
I guess I missed the part of the article where someone violated her right to decorate her home. I see the part where she wants someone charged with a crime for exercising their right to free expression though...
Anyone, Christian or pagan, who can confuse the great American costume party on October 31 in which children dress up in mockery of the powers of evil (and just about anything else these days) with a pagan or demonic rite is sorely deluded.
It strikes me as particularly absurd for Christians, who in Our Lord have confidence against the wiles of real demons, to start or take offense at pantomime demons.
sounds like someone doesn't agree.
If you do not want to decorate, you have that right. But when you start to tell others not to, you are on a slipperly slope; this kind of action which makes people afraid of evangelical christians. And I bet this pastor would be happy to have the government pass laws to limit such rights.
Threatening? I doubt it.
I will say this — the church sounds like it's filled with busybodies.
It must have been the Baptists, no the Baathist, I always confuse the two. My bad, go on.
Trained up?
Most of our churches here have 'fall festivals' or 'trunk or treat' so that kids can participate in the fun without the fear of celebrating satan.
Unfortunately, I have to take the side of the woman, even though I am an evangelical Christian that has traveled the world preaching the Gospel. I'm really sick and tired of Christians pointing out evil, instead of just simpling displaying the LIGHT. Show the love of Jesus, and see people drawn to Him. But just curse the darkness, and find fruitless, pointless, nonsense as what this pastor and church did. I wish some of these Christians would act like Jesus, instead of judging the world. Judging the world isn't our job...
Hard to comment on this without knowing the exact comments of the flier. Anything without that essential knowledge is pure speculation.
I too didn't care for local churches leaving pamphlets on my door. And waking me up to offer prayers.
But did I cry and run to mommy like a spoiled little brat?
No. I handled the problem myself < gasp! > through the ingenious use of a new-fangled thingamajig called a "No Tresspassing/No Solicitation" sign.
Just imagine, you too can solve even some of your own problems without making a court case out of it! Go on, drop your mommy's apron strings and do something yourself. I know it's hard, but you can do it! Once you experience the satisfaction of doing for yourself, you may be surprised to learn all the other things you can do... like turn the channel when you see something you don't like on TV.
"The incident also prompted the family to install an alarm system at the home, the station reported."
The flier was left on the porch not the kitchen table.
1) I'm not familiar with the news source, IBS. For now I'll assume it's credible.
2) This doesn't appear to be an excerpt, so why didn't the reporter print any part of the flyer? Using the word "suggests" is lazy and if the reporter couldn't see the original flyer to confirm it, the article should have said so.
3) If the reporter DID have the flyer in question, any quotes that made Christians look ridiculous would have been used (ahem) liberally throughout the article. As it stands, it was worded to make Christians look as bad as possible without any concrete evidence.
And if some trick-or-treater's TP her front lawn, egg her windows, and throw a cherry bomb in her jack-o-lantern, that's all part of the fun, right?
An Ellettsville family whose home is decorated for Halloween contacted police after someone placed on its porch a flier that suggests Halloween praises the devil.What a lame trick ...
Forget the police and alarm system. Just nail 97 pumpkins to the churchhouse door and be done with it.
This lady needs to read this offensive article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505909/posts
There always seems to be at least one person, somewhere, that can find something demonic, in just about anything.