I wonder who is right!

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It wasn’t the Quakers and Anabaptists who filled the battlefields of five continents with piles of dead over two millennia. Auschwitz, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Treblinka, Majdanek, Oranienburg, Sobibor, Mauthausen, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen and Chelmno were staffed by three kinds of people: Protestant Christians, Catholic Christians and rarely Orthodox Christians, often bearing on their belt buckle a hateful atheist message:
“Gott Mit Uns.” Similarly, it was not a group of hateful, disgusting, depraved atheists who elided slavery into Jim Crow and Lynch law, but rather the most religious Christians in the United States, the more secular horrid heathens being more likely resident in the Pacific Northwest or in physics departments anywhere else. The spiritual offspring of those good Christians plague us today, and shamed themselves while trying to shame this patriot. But Oliver, they are indeed good Christians, not good people.

The bulk of Christian history and civilization screams with insanely hideous contempt at those who would, naively, look to the Christian world for rules of decency. Much of the progress of Western civilization has involved removing the tools of oppression, violence and restraint from the hands of good Christians who know bloody well what’s good for us and who will give it to us hard if we let them. Case in point: the decidedly non-atheist Republican Party of 2006. The task of removing jail keys, fangs and bullets from the hands of good Christians is not complete; they hold separation of church and state in contempt because of COURSE they want Christianity to rule the hell-bound maggots until the Devil calls his own home. They know their opponent; respectfully, do you know yours?

A church sticking its heel into the face of a dead patriot and his closest friend and lover is really no big deal, from a historical standpoint. Of COURSE they will do this. If they wanted to be kind to people, they would just do that. But it’s Christianity, not kindness, that they want and bloody well will make sure they get.

To the patriot who died, R.I.P.

Yeah, well, freakin’ Methodists, man, I mean come on.

Did you read Frank’s entire post? I don’t think this is the same Frank who used to post here a lot.

If there were “objectionable” photos in a slideshow (I groan as I write this, having just sat through a slideshow at a funeral of a friend, thinking it was incredibly cheesy) then the church media rep or a pastor should have discussed this with the family.

This is a weird intersection between the “God Bless America/We support Our Troops” stand of fundagelical Christianity and its inherent homophobia. The church made the worst two possible decisions it could have made, offering to host the funeral of a soldier no one knew (probably just because he was a soldier) and then chickening out and dumping the family on the street.

How embarrassing.

It’s anti-troops.

It’s anti-Christ.

These so called Christians crucify the Christ every time they deny Him and His command that we (His Disciples) love one another.

Yeah, like, totally. Two people expressing their love and affection for each other is like so totally gross and it totally makes baby jesus cry …

Nick, you’re a fucking idiot.

Christianity, as most religions in the world, is an irrational process of non-thought based on Bronze-Age ignorance and mythology, which fosters racism, bigotry, continued exaltation of ignorance as a virtue, hate toward those different from you…

If you are a Real Christian(R), you cannot just take out the parts of the Bible you don’t like. For example, those Christians who do not drag their disobedient children to a wall outside the city and stone them to death as mandated by the Old Testament are not Real Christians(TM). Religion demmands complete surrender of one’s reason and thought to made-up fantasies.

Now, having said that, I have know a fair number of individuals who, *in spite* of being extremely religious, had hearts made of pure gold… people who did not think twice about taking off their shirt to give it to you if you are cold. People who were not only misguided in their beliefs themselves, but who also erroenously thought the goodness in their hearts was a result of their faith, not of a pure, loving nature, and an upbringing full of love and support.

A: Any human being who will be missed by family, friends, whoever. No matter what.

So let’s take a bunch of giant leaps from there into Pinheaded Judgmental Land where these Megachurchers see anyone not quite up to par as a sinner. I don’t know the Bible as well as some, but it seems Jesus got ticked off at money grubbers and those who abused their authority, but he had compassion for anyone who ailed in body, mind or spirit.

These people could even be judgmental AND compassionate—we disapprove of his lifestyle but are here for the family—but they can’t even manage that. They don’t understand and can’t follow the teachings of the the man their church was founded for.

So you can just STFU.

Because if the slideshows of the departed showed interracial kissing that would be inappropriate in the House Of The Lord.

It looks like what stopped the service was the video tribute for the deceased that had a bunch of guys kissing each other. Like have some class, don’t show that stuff in church. There is the very real possibility that the pastoral staff didn’t want that kind of crap happening in their reception hall.

A sinner going to his repose is one thing but showing that kind of video in a church is another.