Watch Me Get Protested!

[smoker6146]

Well, not just me, but the entire club.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_OXRNEx3EU

[tingjunkie]

My favorite part is when the "preacher" asks, "What are you going to do when you wake up dead?"

huh?

Was that just a goth club, or was it actually some "satanist" event? Edited June 15, 2007 by tingjunkie

[Skarredmind]

Wow I can't imagine why everyone didn't just flock over to him and convert! What a totally successful way to win converts lmao

[ezie]

This clip is just damn funny from my point of view preaching to some bunch of wild audience. Anyway i didn't mean to sound like a jackass but this is just my opinion. Have a nice day

[ghostofdavid]

On behalf of critical thinking Christians everywhere, I apologize on behalf of my idiot brethren.

[Allia22]

Reminds me of Manson's "Dead to the World" tour video. I laughed

GoD - I know how you feel. For supposed Christians they aren't very accepting of other peoples' opinions.

[smoker6146]

Lol, I know enough Christians to know these ones are the morons of the bunch, every group has them.
I like how he goes on and on about scripture and such and then tells us god hates us. Whatever happened to hate the sin not the sinner?
Not that we're sacrificing babies and having gay orgies inside like he seems to think we are.

[indy]

Well that video had som... interesting characters on it to say the least. The preacher seems to like to hear himself talk though so at least he had a good time. I never really understood the whole Marylin Manson look alike think that some people tend to do. Maybe you can explain some of it to me?

[PersianPride]

Hmmm who to support an ignorant, bigoted religious fanatic or ............goths. Yep thats a tough one.

[Sonthert]

If you're a big enough sucker to believe in a god, it really doesn't matter which one. All religions are metaphorically run by bullies with bullhorns.

Oooh, oooh, I got one. Any question you want an answer to? God did it, but we can't tell you why and/or you're too puny to understand. He has his reasons that you can't know in your lifetime. Wow...that was a big help...in terms of a children's joke, god is:

"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"
"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"

[indy]

LOL, I like the knock knock joke at the end.

You really shouldn't sign off all/any religions in general. I may be diest but I can't know for sure if I'm right or wrong, so therefor I can't know for sure if you are. I try to keep an open mind as long as the religion itself doesn't hold BLATENT contradictions of itself or has absolutely no chance of being real. Christianity doesn't contradict science necessarially, nor vice versa but it does require a liberal interpretation of the bible to make that a true statement. So... open doors creats oportunities, closed doors create prisons.

An example of a religion that I immediately throw out as rediculous is one of the indian religions that is based around these beings so small they can't be seen and are created so fast and die so fast that their lifespan can't be measured, and nobody has ever seen one or felt one BUT THEY EXIST! And therefore you have to wear a mask so that you don't swallow one on accident, and sweep before you walk so you don't step on one on accident. That's just silly.

[blacklabelqlewis]

just remember, in the 1400s or so, the church "knew" the earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around us because thats how god set it up. people were killed and tortured for saying otherwise. christians r well known for killing non christians and people that wont convert as well, spanish inquisition anyone? and the killing still goes on in ireland and england today. i dont denounce religion, i just try not to participate because of people like him. and no1 can know what religion is "right". being a good person in life should be good enough for any1 with any belief. i cant figure out why no1 kicked that guys ass, his voice is annoying and if he is so christian then he should be out helping the less fortunate or something

[poopooshaboo]

An example of a religion that I immediately throw out as rediculous is one of the indian religions that is based around these beings so small they can't be seen and are created so fast and die so fast that their lifespan can't be measured, and nobody has ever seen one or felt one BUT THEY EXIST! And therefore you have to wear a mask so that you don't swallow one on accident, and sweep before you walk so you don't step on one on accident. That's just silly.

You're thinking of the Jains, and though I am way too lazy to post a long accurate description of them, what you are saying is almost completely off base. Know your facts before you go parading them.

[glz88]

This makes me hate modern christians its annoying that people turn to this...go agnosticism...

[Sonthert]

LOL, I like the knock knock joke at the end.

You really shouldn't sign off all/any religions in general.

Christianity doesn't contradict science necessarially, nor vice versa but it does require a liberal interpretation of the bible to make that a true statement. So... open doors creats oportunities, closed doors create prisons.

An example of a religion that I immediately throw out as rediculous is one of the indian religions that is based around these beings so small they can't be seen and are created so fast and die so fast that their lifespan can't be measured, and nobody has ever seen one or felt one BUT THEY EXIST! And therefore you have to wear a mask so that you don't swallow one on accident, and sweep before you walk so you don't step on one on accident. That's just silly.

I agree with most of what you're saying...except the god part. The bible has zero answers. God is the reason for this, the cause of that. In closer examination, really evolution is the cause of life, oh, well holding to a liberal interpretation of the bible (which in the bible is called heresy), god made the evolution happen or the story was an allegory to evolution. Yeah, right. Give me a break. The bible is wrong. Try to interpret the lines of untruth to follow good, hard scientific and empirical evidence like one of those Nostradamus nut-jobs. Science replaces explanations in the bible, then the bible people say "The bible doesn't disagree with that, if you interpret it this way." Disregard the bible get a science book...it'll take you a lot farther. Moreover, that idea that interpretation will make the bible conform to natural laws and scientific discovery is in direct countradiction to Ockham's razor: "The conclusion with the fewest assumptions is usually the most correct." That is, mitochondrial DNA evidence directly disproves the account in Genesis. Well, using a liberal interpretation, you make a few assumptions, and rework what the bible is saying (because it is vague) the bible agrees. So, we have a disagreement. The simplest explanation is that the bible is wrong. If you make several assumptions/interpretations, you make the bible not disagree with science. Ockham's razor says the simplest explanation is the most correct...the bible is wrong.

My uncle was a catholic priest...we would bounce back and forth a lot...he was also of the erroneous idea that the bible was not in contradiction with science. The Earth was not created in 7 days as it says in the bible. The bible is wrong. If the bible is book of facts, it requires no interpretation. If my chemistry book says there 109 chemical elements, it becomes wrong when they discover the 110th chemical element. There is no truth offered by the chemistry book, just what we know to date. If we apply the same standards to the bible, it is a meaningless ramble of 1,600 year old glop. Yet, when new evidence that disproves the bible, the same biblical material is shaped around the new information and a "liberal interpretation" give up and write a new book like science does. Truth isn't established its being reprinted as we speak. There are some references to contemporaneous places and events in the bible, but how many fictitious movies about wars are there? Fictitious movies about cities that really exist? Tons. Just because a story contain a reference to Rome or Sodom doesn't make it true...and it doesn't make "L.A. Confidential" an important source work because it talks about Los Angeles.

You can say, well, maybe they'll prove the bible true one day, they'll change their minds...hogwash. Aristotle proposed that the entire universe was made of "Hyle". [buzzer sounds] wrong! If we use a liberal interpretation of Aristotle, maybe he was talking about sub-atomic particles. They do make up everything in the universe. Sorry, wrong. You only get one chance to make a true statement. After that, the statement is false, and twisting it to your world-view doesn't make it true. Someone who said "Aristotle was talking about sandwiches" is also wrong, even though they have used a "liberal interpretation". Whether or not the end result of the interpretation is true, the premise was false...the universe is not made of Hyle.

As to your Indian story, there are sub-atomic particles (positrons, anti-protons, mesons) that resemble exactly what you are talking about. They can't be seen with the naked eye, and they die very quickly. So quickly their lifespan couldn't be measured by our standards. We only postulated that neutrinos exist because of a spin discrepancy in neutron decay, but a very few have been ever captured, yet they were thought to be figments of imagination...they have been captured and we know neutrinos (and anti-neutrinos) to be real. A liberal interpretation of that story you dismiss is that they were talking about these same sub-atomic particles. You call the story silly, I agree, it is silly, the same way the bible is silly. The same way Aristotle's Hyle is silly. Liberal interpretations that make untrue things seem to conform to reason are just excuses to hold on to untrue things. My interpretation of the neutrinos and the Indian story is the same as declaring the seven days god created the universe in as being several billion years. Adapt the story to science, disregard the untruth in front of your eyes.

When you start doing this with religion, it affects your mental processes. You need to suspend reason to continue to believe the bible. So, when something else you feel threatens your beliefs, in some other area, you react in the same way. Once you swallow the poison pill of god and the bible, you will never see things clearly again, you avoid the obvious, steer away from the apparent and your brain is forever locked in the prison you so eloquently described. Examine things critically, logically. Take the facts and examine them using philosophy, the bible falls into the same category as Star Wars...fiction...loved fiction, but still not true.