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It's things like this that make me hope that Christ is real, because these people would have a lot to answer for in the afterlife.
Yeah, Jesus built his identity on moralistic protests of things that helped actual people in need. Way to follow in the footsteps of greatness guys!
Actually, the church gossips reference makes it seem even more likely that this IS Mars Hill. And I'm thrilled to see that Obadiah brought his lordly beard to the protest...
It would be a big win for irony!
sigh...
Automatically? Like, each STD comes with an express ticket to hell? "No questions asked, sir: you're in."
These are still individual members of an authoritarian group.
They're using the name, they go to the services, they're still lumped in with the people who encourage this behavior. Driscoll still agrees with their hate and end-goals.
And they really do believe sincerely that they're going to hell with the rest of America. Aside from their trolling, they make no pretenses that they're going to be saved or "chosen".
It's really genius marketing, if you ask me.
Come on guys, we need a consistent meme to shame (hipster-shame?) the name of that place. E.g. Mars Hill Redneck Church. Or rather, we needed one five years ago before they spread like a fucking cancer. No one should be able to say they go there without feeling embarrassed.
Spiritual horseshit is horseshit, but if there was a hell, that beard would certainly earn him a seat on a spike in it.
Hell sounds like a Chez Vel-DuRay cocktail party, except for the church gossips. There's usually plenty of regular gossips taking notes, but not many churchy ones.
In any event, who's a church gossip going to gossip to in hell, other than other church gossipers, and they probably know all the gossip anyway. Maybe that's the point....
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Way to blow your credibility again, Dominic. That's "journalism" with a capitol J right there.
Don't hit the button before you KNOW whether or not these guys really are from Mars Hill, regardless of what they say.
So. Don't fucking BOLD a statement you don't know is a fact. He could've said:
"The protestors allegedly passed out pamphlets from Mars Hill church, but we have yet to verify if they are officially representing the church."
just another fad fading fast?
I can go and pass out Planned Parenthood literature at a Right to Life event. It doesn't mean shit in terms of who I represent. Some dude's from Seattle. He goes and shoots somebody in Portland and the bolded headline is "Seattle attacks Portland!"? The inference on the original post was that this was a Mars Hill thing. I know I got it like five times in Facebook.
I know you guys love to get a good hate-rage going. But for fuck sake be better than the the other guys and have proof before you jump the gun. Bias confirmation is no better on the left than the right.
Do I think it's very possible that something like this stunt could be carried out by people from Mars Hill? Absolutely.
But I am not a god damned Stranger reporter. I think The Stranger needs to set a higher bar than "internet rumor." But apparently that's good enough for most of you.
And no. The Stranger occupies a special place. Chalk it up to me being an actual independent thinker who lives and works in the commumity where the diminishing integrity of Seattles Only Paper is important.