“Do onto others as you would have them do onto you.”
See where you fail?
(Westboro Baptist church)
picture: dunno source, via our lol builder. lol caption: BlueRafael
-
-
Copy & paste this:
Show Only: Democrats | Republicans | Media | Military
« Previous SOLID FOREIGN POLICY | The sacrifice is chosen… Next »
“Do onto others…
» 235 comments
Leave a Reply
-
Recent Comments
Vikavid on Crowd Pleaser Vikavid on Straight to Video Vikavid on Next Comes Finger Waving Vikavid on I’m So Live Vikavid on I’m So Live Vikavid on I’m So Live Nightshift100 on Progress Poker Nightshift100 on Progress Poker Vikavid on Better Than Coffee Vikavid on Better Than Coffee 
Cheezburger Company BlogPrint on Demand
More I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
I Can Has Cheezburger? - Lolcats n Funny Pictures
Cyoot Kitteh of teh Day: Do I Have Something on My Face?
Lolcats - Lolcats n' Funny Cat Pictures
Radar cat hears you
I Has A Hotdog - Loldogs n Cute Puppies
Bad News
Animal Capshunz - All of the Internet's Animals. Captioned
He Will Have Revenge
Animal Videos - Cute and Hilarious Animal Videos
Paper Bag Cat
Animal Gifs - Cute and Hilarious Animal Gifs
Owl Minding His Own Business
Daily Squee - So cute your brain might explode.
High Fashion Bun
Historic LOLs - Captioned Portraits of Yore
The Surrealist Alphabet Primer
My Food Looks Funny - Funny Food Photos
Cupcakewurst
So Much Pun - Visual Puns and Jokes
DAT HAIR
ROFLrazzi - Lol Celebs and All That's Fab Funny in Showbiz
Wolverine's Class Syllabus Could Use a Little Work
Totally Looks Like - Stuff That Looks Like Other Stuff
Wrestler "Edge" Totally Looks Like Matthew Lillard
Must Have Cute - See. Want. Must Have!
Fish Bones Soap
If Style Could Kill - OMG Style!
Ring of the Day: Saxon's Ring
Lovely Listing - Strange Findings in Real Estate Listings
Ample Room For Crap-Stacking
![\"Quantcast\"/](\"http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-94wNw88f65Rhk.gif?labels=MTVN%20Digital%20Tribes\")
Nice one!
I live iv the same city (town if you are not from Kansas) as them and you learn to ignor them (they live in Topeka) and the rest of us are not like them Fred Phelps is made because he got his Lawyer licens taken away
Damnit! more cloning…
I hope that even the religious fanatics out there can agree that these people are stupid, and deserve to be ignored.
I would say shot, but that’s not very nice, is it.
Please… if you hate these people less than a gay person who is a loving, volunteering member of society, you really need to get your head checked.
All these people do is spew hate. I wouldn’t want that associated with my religion (if I had one).
As a Seventh Day Adventist Christian, I agree.
There were funnier ones with this caption but meh, not bad.
True, but I’m not as inspired to bring the funny with these people as much as a boot to the head. At least with the freedom of speech its easier to identify the psychopaths.
Freedom of speech is a great tool. It’s the ones who learn to use it without obvious resort to fringiness that worry me. These guys are like those brightly coloured frogs that scream, “POISONOUS!!”
I made one just like this, only it was “Love Thy Neighbor, you’re doing it wrong”
Under the biblical sense this is not a church.
Under the Biblical sense, these people will reap what they sow.
yups.
I hate to be a downer, but it is kind of like blaming all muslims for osama bin Laden…seems all faiths have their morons.
Faith is moronic. Listen, untill God comes down and personally smacks me in the face, I’m an athiest.
>_> You make me sad.
He makes me hot! o////o
You make me proud!
seconded!
=Slaps Matt11 in the face= Now do you believe?
<__>
Where’s the funny?
<__>
WIN!!!
True!
Under the US tax code it is. Nothing like some fine tax-exempt hatred….
Yes, but call yourself a church and you can get away with a lot. See also: Scientology. Hmm, Church of Anon anyone?
At least the Church of the SubGenius openly admits it’s about the money. (Guaranteed enlightenment or triple your money back!)
That reminds me of something… “Lifesaving amulets, guaranteed to work or your money back!”… if they don’t work, how do you claim when you’re dead?
And with the Subgenii, “Bob” will meet you at the gates of hell with your $90 refund check and a book to sell you for $89 titled “How to enjoy Hell for a dollar a day”.
i believe the book is called “how to enjoy an eternity of hell for one dollar.”
They’re no worse than Athantheus of Alexandria…
Good catch.. and I don’t think I want any of those people doing anything ‘onto’ me thanks!
So I went to find the original on this one and came across a quote that is just beautiful.
“If your original Hebrew disagrees with my original King James — your original Hebrew is wrong. If your original Hebrew agrees with my original King James, your original Hebrew is right.”
No, its not directly on topic, but it lends some insight into the minds of the people that could hold up these signs.
Jeez. Everyone knows that Jebus spoke KJV english. All that Greek & Hebrew was just for show.
Aramaic…
Aromatic? My comments stink? *sniff* Foo, I think that was the cat.
Your comment was just fine!
I was just adding some information no one was probably interested in anyway…
I was, but then I already had that info..
Oh thank heavens, I was wondering if we’d invented Smell-O-Vision… *grin* The KJV people crack me up something fierce. I have one lovely local KJV lady who even insists on quoting it in a really bad English accent. She’s the bee’s knees for social justice & caring for the community, tho, so the most she gets from me is a nod & smile.
I was thinking a type of coffee bean.. but then realized that would be arabica.. Mmmm coffee!
You could probably write each chapter on a bean using a laser.
You misunderstand, he must be referring to spell out each letter using the beans. It shall be the largest bible of all time.
Six of one, half-dozen of the other. I was imagining each bean as a letter.
Kind of makes me think of Dana Carvey’s Church Lady character on SNL, I loved her.
Mmmmm, arabica… wait! THAT’S A TERRORIST BEAN!!
And Lo’ beatings were deserved and not issued upon thee. A pox upon your cousin’s ballsack. Speaketh not in KJV English lest your pox ridden ballsack be beaten… eth.
*snork*
i LOLed
Good, didn’t want to beat you.
dirty boy
I will be 27 this month, I like to think of myself as a dirty man. XD
27?? Kids these days… *grumblegrumble Where’s my cane?! grumble*
Sounds like he had his priorities in order.
And he had the translation altered slightly to support the divine right of Kings….
All in all, he got the whole thing sussed…
i love the fact that King James was one of England’s gayest kings. He spent more than double the amount of money he used for the bible translation on his miriad of male lovers. If I’m not mistaken, (someone feact check me) he died of syphillis. This is the dude the most commonly used Bible in America is based on.
lulz
btw: i tried posting this earlier but i used the word f*g so PK blocked it. freakin PK filters, don’t they know i’m gay, thus able to use f*g whenever i want.
LOL, nice. I do love irony in my history.
I’d forgotten that! I’m gonna have a BLAST with the next KJV homo-hater.
On the subject of Great Religious Syphillitics – Pope Julius of Sistine Chapel fame was so riddled he couldn’t take his armour off without taking lumps of flesh with it…
I have tried to explain the exact same thing to rabid fundamentalists here in Texas. 95% of the time they fail to understand the logic…
If you read between the lines of your own comment, I think you will understand why..
Logic to Christians is what Garlic is to Vampires…
ROFL!!!
Is there a joke with saying onto…? Because that just makes for a caption fail. Irony and such, although I agree with the overall message.
There’s no joke with saying “onto”, it’s just that the submitter (and I assume the person who chose it for the blog) didn’t realize they were wrong.
The Golden Rule is also not a part of the Bible, it’s the “ethic of reciprocity” which applies in several religions and philosophies. This caption is just all around fail.
Actually, it is in the Bible.
To be precise, it’s found in Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31.
Sorry, I didn’t realise you’d already posted the appropriate verses further down.
To be VERY precise, the Golden Rule as it is worded in this caption
is not found in the Bible, it was written by Confucius, an old Chinese
philosopher. The Bible has a similar rule, but it is something like
“Do not do unto others what you would not want them to do to you.”
I know that’s not the right wording, but the general idea is that the
Bible says do not and Confucius says do.
See also: Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative.
To split hairs: K’ung Fu-Tse
It is people like this that make me afraid to say I am a Christian…and God loves all of his children, that is why he sent Jesus c(=…you are never supposed to hate another. “Love Thy Neighbor”…You don’t convert people by force and hate, It is the people that truly glow with peace and happiness that do it well.
That’s right, and it works with any religion or philosophy. Just live your life, if the teachings work, you will be happy, and a good person. If you are consistently happy and a good person, people will be curious how you do it. If they ask, it’s perfectly okay to tell them that Christianity or Jainism or whatever is how you do it. If you aren’t happy or a good person, shut the hell up about your religion. You aren’t doing it right, and yapping about it is just going to turn people off.
For the win! Well said Seth.
Amen, Brother Seth! Testify!
Thanks for being one of the good ones. Your voices get drowned out too often.
The good ones generally aren’t as loud or obnoxious
The good ones can be pretty loud – it’s the obnoxious part that they manage to mitigate.
In bed.
*gasp!* NOT IN BED!! We always used ‘in the bathtub’.
Ah, water play, not my thing but as long as you’re happy……….
Also, unless you have one of those nice jacuzzi bathtubs, it seems like it’d be a little too cramped to be much fun.
no… it’s “WATER” play
get it?
no, it’s “WATER” play
get it?
You explain it twice and I still don’t get it.
I somehow get the feeling it’s something I don’t want to get either.
Having to explain my statement would mean I have to imagine it so I won’t. I will smile and nod now. *smiles and then nods and then points to Google and Water Sports*
All of 27, huh? You’re ahead of the curve. I wasn’t like that til I was at LEAST 30. *grin*
It’s slippery… what’s not to love?
I don’t think you should be afriad to admit to being Christian, you clearly have a good head on your shoulders, you should encourage more people like yourself to speak out against those who give Christianity a bad name!
Indeed. There are those of us still left out here who respect you. We just ask that the same be returned in kind, even if we disagree.
It’s these demagogue “New Pharisees” that I can live without.
(ooooooh!!!! College words!!!!)
Use of the word Pharisees FTW! Good call by the way..
Indeed, they are whited sepulchres.
I’ll jump on that bandwagon, please … to hopefully be considered a level-headed Christian and one who can respectfully agree to disagree (when I do disagree!)
Actually, I learned Pharisees in seminary, and I’m in 9th grade. LDS FTW? Anyways, yeah, I’m alright with gay PEOPLE, just not with the sin itself… Though it isn’t really mentioned in the bible, I suppose. But yeah, it’s just a general rule in churches, they ask that you refrain from giving in to any homosexual urges you have. Except THAT one, it appearently thinks they should kill them, and I say, only an eye for an eye. Which means, if they kill your brother, you should kill their brother. Naw, JK, only if you’re in the police, at war, or you have a damn good reason (most of those are given in the laws of the US, Self defence and such) should you kill someone.
“Eye for an eye…” basically means that if you steal one of my goats, I ought not burn down your fields, salt the ground, and slaughter your family. It’s about a restraint of reciprocity.
Kids say the darndest things… ;P
But you still feel the need to add in the rider ‘It’s a sin’
Gimmie a good reason it’s a SIN outside of the justification ‘God said I believe it’…
These people are the kind of people who cause other people to lose faith. I see too much crap in churches of all kinds, and i just couldnt stand it. Ill go to church again and will do “christian” things when i can find good, friendly, open minded people who feel that it isnt imperative to convert all other people
i agree. i was raised as catholic, but hearing about these protests at funerals and how they can preach hate in God’s name made me rethink everything. now im an agnostic theist. these people twisted the word of the bible, and ignored everything in it contrary to their beliefs
Amen
Thank God for the Patriot Gaurd Riders.
I just wish people had cared so much about Phelps when he was “only” picketing the funerals of GLB people. These pickets have been happening since the early 90s, but they didn’t get mainstream attention until the started picketing the funerals of U.S. soldiers.
Unfortunately, they don’t.
Their signs are abhorrent, but your caption fails. Onto vs. unto (lulz) and the fact that the Golden Rule, while biblically based, isn’t actually in the Bible. But yay for voting for captioned pics based on your political world view, rather than actual entertainment value and cleverness.
Please point to the part where the caption claims to be quoting the bible.
There is no claim to be quoting from the Bible. However, the inclusion of the Golden Rule in quotes as a retort to their religious signs indicates a relationship, especially when included with the judgment of failing.
I personally believe the Golden Rule is biblical, but others may disagree. So the tie in of the Golden Rule and their religious bigotry is subjective and is more indicative to me of the captioner’s ignorance of the Bible than an actual clever or witty retort. Giving a generic maxim of the ethic of reciprocity doesn’t make something clever. Jesus gave PLENTY of ammo for a clever response to those guys at the Sermon on the Mount, anyway…
Hence my call that this got voted in more for the emotional reaction it got from people than it’s actual cleverness. Just my opinion, of course
Yay for being a bit grouch?
Excuse me, “grouchy”. Don’t want to suffer your corrections.
but.. but.. corrections are enlightening! Unless your implying you’re already Enlightened..
-
*looks at thecandiedmango suspiciously*
What’s his Thetan count?
It’s over 9000!!!!
OMG! Call Tom Cruise now!
Nah, I don’t know the numbers of any male bordellos he might frequent.
Now THAT comment is FTW!!
Suffer the corrections of others that ye may not suffer incorrectness.
Which is substantially better then suffering incontintence…
I suppose that all… DEPENDS…
LOL!! I was waiting for that one..
lol based on the reactions to what I posted, I’m not the grouchy one…just pointing out why I think this pic isn’t very…intellectually stimulating. It hits more on the emotion of their disgusting signs than an actual witty retort to what they are saying.
I would agree in that that onto fail is entertaining. Disagree that it’s clever. Poignant, yes. Clever, no.
But don’t you just wanna see a Pride March participant holding one of those “USA – F*g Nation” signs? Preferably a seven-foot-tall drag queen with a fro and butterfly wings. That would make it all worthwhile.
That reminds me of a picture a friend emailed me of a morbidly obese she-male on a stretcher, an ambulance, something that looked vaguely like an Oompa Loompa and two bunny furries hugging.
But, yes, I can imagine the, ahem, explosiveness if those two groups marched into each other >.> I’d hate to be in the middle of it.
this one WAS chosen for entertainment value and cleverness. the caption takes a basic tenet of the group (supposed christians) and points out how they are violating it. get it? they claim to have beliefs, yet adhere to them only when convenient or told to do so. but thanks for pointing out another aspect of this fail: inability of the extreme wingnuts to mix belief and internal coherence. trying to introduce logic into religion, for some, just doesn’t work – and i do mean some, the vast majority of christians don’t adhere to such barbaric beliefs.
rawr…you are crabby…..
Matthew 7:12
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
–
Luke 6:31
“And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.”
Thanks Seth!!
Exactly! Those would have been way more clever than quoting the Golden Rule
*cough*cough*
Those ARE the Golden Rule almost verbatim.
um, those ARE the Golden Rule.
it comes from religion in general. it’s just a boiled down version
I was just about to post this comment…would that be considered a FAIL within a FAIL? lol.
I don’t understand the joke. “Onto” instead of “unto” = gay sex?
Definition of onto:
1. On top of; to a position on; upon: The dog jumped onto the chair. See Usage Note at on.
Definition of unto:
1. To.
2. Until: a fast unto death.
3. By: a place unto itself, quite unlike its surroundings
This saying isn’t in the bible.
You would correct.. however, Jeses DID say, love your neighbor as yourself. Obviously these people are full of self-loathing.
*Jesus*
-
ugh!
MMmmmmmm, Jeses Peanut Butter Cups…. they’re sacrelicious!
LMAO!!
You need to see loltheist.com because blasphemy is teh funny.
As the great Groucho Marx said, “If it’s a blast for you, it’s a blasphemy.”
Oh, no. Does that make me a Marxist?
Groucho, Harpo & Karl, the Trinity.
A child of five would understand this.
Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Whaddaya need with a Ford if you gotta horse?
Why, I’d horse-whip you if I had a horse.
It is based on the tenet ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’; a re-wording if you will, no more damaging to the idea than most translations. It is a common theme found among most of the major religions in some form or other so it is not explicitly Judeo-Christian. These morons pictured would likely tell you that they ARE being loving.
THANK YOU! Was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who saw that1
THIS is why Christians get bashed. People like them (not saying all Christians are like that, they just give others a bad name; see: Twilight fangirls).
You need to pay far less attention to what people say they are. I could say I’m an opthamologist and I see you have something wrong with your eyeball. If I offer to fix it right now with this paperclip, would you believe me or want to see some proof? Same diff. Anyone wanting to sell me some great lifestyle better not mind me following them & questioning them.
Word.
Also, sa+an saying “this is why Christians get bashed” is pretty…disgusting. Swap out “Christians” for gays, women, your ethnic minority of choice. Not cool.
Well, I have a certain amount of sympathy for the idea. I get accosted all the time by people trying to evangelize & save me when I step out of the Meetinghouse on Sunday. There’s 4 ‘real’ churches in the immediate area and it seems to be a contest among them to see who can convert the Quakers. I had one old coot (forgive me!) who proceeded to harrangue me as I helped him cross the parkway. Singling out any group smacks of ignorance and -isms, but sometimes I certainly find my fellow Christians to be somewhat onerous in their assumptions.
yeah, I get pretty pissed off when I completely change the meaning of other people’s ideas, too
παντα ουν οσα εαν θελητε ινα ποιωσιν υμιν οι ανθρωποι ουτως και υμεις ποιειτε αυτοις ουτος γαρ εστιν ο νομος και οι προφηται
nuff said.
Translates as: ‘If you can read this you’re overeducated.’
Hey!
*peers closely* Does ai noe youse?
“Very impressive young Skywalker..”
“always have OSA if thelite INA poiosin ymin outos the people and ye poieite aftois latter gar estin the laws and profitai”
Good ol’ Google Translate!
Combine with Babelfish translate and we may have something.
.
always [oyn] those who if [thelite] fibre [poiosin] [ymin] the persons [oytos] and [ymeis] you do [aytois] [oytos] [gar] [estin] the law and [profitai
In Greek.
russian alphabet
λoλ
a simple da or nyet would have sufficed….
Forgot to add
I admires such a way wif werdz.
ο Matthew για (the) κερδίζει!!!1!
winner.
στο κρεβάτι
λoλ!
VOTE NO ON 8 (If you live in CA)
Amen!
For repetitive emphasis:
These people are morons. Their ideologies don’t align with Christianity at all.
But, the quote on the caption has nothing to do with Christians or the Bible.
Kind of a fail within a fail. And, with the misspelling, wouldn’t that be a fail within a fail within a… fail?
see above re: the golden rule, the ethic of reciprocity, & the origins thereof
Correction: these people are morons, yes. But their ideologies do fit pretty well within the spectrum of christianity, sorry. I’m not saying I like that, but they really are basing all their shit on their (selective) interpretation of the bible.
Saying “they’re not really christians” doesn’t convince THEM, and it doesn’t convince me.
And that is the entire trouble: selective interpretation. The Christianity of any individual does not depend on any interpretation of the bible, but on the conduct of the individual. While those prtrayed may be consistent in a single interpretation, their conduct precludes any convincing evidence of that love which should be the hallmark of a convinced Christian. I do not exclude the strong possibility that they were molested or otherwise abused to twist them so in their interpretations.
So uh…. when did god say its cool to HATE people? I thought christian meant CHRIST-like. And from what I hear, he was a nice dude.
That is true. Christian word is meant for love…not hate. Just listen to a Christian Rock Radio Station, and all you will hear is talk of love.
Word. I’m a Bible-reading, communion-taking, mass-attending, rosary-praying Catholic, and these people? These people are NOT Christian. I don’t care what they say, but hatred and bigotry and cruelty are not what my religion is about.
STFU, idiots. You’re making us all look bad.
It’s about love. Preach on, sister.
Those people would probably think that as a Catholic you’re going to hell for your pagen worship of Mary and the Saints. People like this used to come and preach in the park at my college (to the enjoyment of the students who would heckle them) and they’d hand out all these horrible comics about how people were going to hell for various things. The Catholic one was one of my favorites.
Ah, the joys of the Chick Tract. The Dungeons & Dragons one is my personal favorite. Jack Chick has a particular hatred of Catholics, at least judging by the number of anti-Catholic tracts he’s published. There are at least ten that are anti-Catholic, compared with only seven for Islam.
–
Click my name for my absolute favorite Chick Tract parody.
O_O!!!
That was WIN!!!
That was awesome!!! I didn’t know they had an actual name. We get people who leave them lying around the bookstore I work at, the ones about suicide are some of my favorites.
jesuswouldbeashamedofyou.com
I wonder what percentage of America would like to give this whole ‘church’ a big, collective, punch in the face right now.
lawlz
or moon them, screaming, “GOD WANTED ME TO DELIVER A MESSAGE TO YOU!!!”
Sad thing is, if they didn’t do the whole anti-troop and god-hates-america aspect of their campaigning, they’d get a fair whack of support in many places.
Indeed. They picketed the funerals of GLB people for over a decade before the average person knew who they were–they only got mainstream media coverage when they started picketing the funerals of soldiers.
Or maybe moreso: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
No see, that’s how they get their money. By all means, counter protest but _DON’T throw anything_. They’re like all lawyers or something.
Not anymore! Didn’t the head Phelps get disbarred or something? I know I read that somewhere…
Be better if he got CROWbarred..
Fred Phelps did, but there are other lawyers in the family still authorized to practice, and even if they don’t sue, they are a vengeance machine. It’s easy to joke about their being mentally ill because what they believe is so outrageous, but their sheer tenacity is what really proves the crazy IMO.
As a Christian, when I see Fred Phelp’s minions, I know how black people feel when Al Sharpton makes it on TV.
…and how us aspies feel when Bill Gates makes it on TV..
Religious hypocrisy FAIL!
In all seriousness these people need to go back into their holes and not bother. I’ll take my biblical interpretation of love and acceptance over theirs of hate and intolerance any day.
they are the reason I wish to become a mass murderer in Kansas. preferably one living right around the corner of their church.
*laughs evilly*
excuse me, “church”, I mean. more like cult.
Meh…it’s your hell, you go there!
Actually, they are there…
Please don’t view all Christians like this, we really can be nice people
There’s just always some radicals that aren’t actually true Christians and then everyone jumps on that and then labels all Christians as angry, unloving, judgmental pains in the butt.
I just wanted to say that we aren’t all mean people.
Thank you!
Are there more of you?
Yes. Unfortunately, there’s nowhere near enough of them.
I applaud you.
You seem reasonable, so please believe I’m not trying to jump down your throat with this.
Question: isn’t the prohibition on homosexuality only mentioned in one place in the bible? Kind of sandwiched between ancient Jewish dietary laws, clothing laws, and the rule to kill your child if he talks back to you? Isn’t it true that Jesus never mentioned homosexuality? How can one cherry pick one thing to believe is still true and still say it’s okay to eat cheeseburgers and shrimp?
As I said, I really don’t mean to dog you on this count, it’s just one of the things about the American evangelical Christian movement that really irks my jerkin.
I agree totally with you, Someone.
And I’m 13 years old.
The ban on homosexuality is seen in the New Testament as well.
“1 Corinthians 6:9 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders.”
-
And there are a couple of other places, I believe, but I’m at work and not able to fully search them out. Remind me if you really want to know and I will get them after I get home.
-
But once again, I turn to Romans 14 to show me that it is not my place to judge that behavior, nor any other that doesn’t affect me directly. It is between the person and God. AND THAT’S IT.
Here here on the judgement! Between me and God ONLY
My copy of the Bible (NRSV) says “sexual perverts,” not “homosexual offenders” (and doesn’t mention “male prostitutes”).
Hmm…anybody read ancient Greek? We need a direct translation in here.
The words mentioned above for “male prostitutes” is the Greek ‘malakos’ (http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3120&t=KJV) or used to refer to ‘a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man’ or ‘a male prostitute,’ while the one used for “homosexual offenders” is ‘arsenokoites’ (http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G733&t=KJV) used to refer to ‘one who lies with a male as with a female, sodomite, homosexual’.
The NRSV version seems to air more on the politically correct side of the translation.
The Greek is at best ambiguous, since the word isn’t a commonly used one. In fact the only other time it’s been found it seems just to mean ‘pederasts’ or ‘deviants’
Interesting view… how does this relate to ‘kill them all, god shall know his own’?
Please just drop this one…
Ummm… let me consider this…
.
.
.
Why?
Romans 1:24-27
24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
pretty clear…of course, it doesn’t mean to hate anyone, though…God loves, and the extremists in the pictures are wrong to judge…
1 john 4:7-8
7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
These hate-mongers flew all the way to Oregon to protest when my daughters high school theater group was going to perform the play about the town in Wyoming that was where the young gay man was beaten and left for dead. The play wasn’t even about the lifestyle-just about the towns response to his death. But Phelps and his minions picketed the high school. The sad thing was they forced their young (5-6 year olds) to hold those hateful signs. Sad. Truly sad. Those poor children being raised to hate. Absolutely appalling.
I hope no one thinks these people are Christians.
I am a true Christian and I know that God loves every single person on earth regardless of what they do or have done.
He sees past what others see on the outside.
Anyways, these people are ignorant morons.
They have no love for people different than them.
If they actually read the bible, they’d know not only that you are required to do unto others as you would have them do to you, but they would know that God commands us not to judge anyone lest we be judged ourselves.
Let he who is free of sin cast the first stone.
Strange to say, I’ve seen that very argument from the mouth of ‘True ™ Christians’ who support the death penalty…
If they had the faith they claim, they’d not NEED the death penalty, since God would have it covered…
If someone can point me at a True(tm) Christian I’d be surprised…
I couldn’t agree more with this caption. It doesn’t need to be that funny because it makes a very valid point.
Might I add that I agree with Jojo and that I know a lot of good Christians. But unfortunately, there are always some bad apples. I wouldn’t consider relating these idiots with people I consider Christians.
UNTO not ONTO
see where you fail?
Westboro… those people at that church need a lot of help.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Reminds me of a sniper motto: Reach out and TOUCH someone.
insert a picture of any “pride” parade with same caption=
equality.
So could you explain why you think it’s right to prevent gay people from having happy romantic relationships like heterosexuals do? Being born different isn’t my fault, and I don’t see why I should be punished for it by having to be alone all my life. Can you see a reason for that? Could you turn it around and apply it to heterosexuals? I don’t think you could, so why apply it to me?
HAHAH I laughed so hard at “F@g Enablers”. Question: If I hold open a door at a grocery store for someone who I don’t even realize is gay, enabling them to do their shopping, am I STILL slotted for eternal damnation? Are there exemptions? What if I see that his manpurse matches his outfit, and in my heart of hearts KNOW he’s gay, but I stay in denial… am I still enabling him, or does god only know what I freely admit out loud? Mebbe god can only read lips.
These sign people are awful human beings.
Not to mention “Love thy neighbor.”
You can’t call yourself a Christian and do that. True Christians do not agree with homosexuality, but are not violent and crude about it.
Thanks to radicals such as these, Christians are looked upon even worse.
Also, I noticed that someone said they can’t help being ‘born’ into homosexuality; that’s actually not true. You’re not born into sexuality-if you look at it from a psychological standpoint (and I’m taking Developmental Psychology at the moment), it could be the result of many different things – psychoanalytic theory holds that something happened in your childhood that has gone unresolved (that you’re stuck in the phallic stage or what have you). Behaviorists may claim you learned the behavior from parents or society. Epigenetic theory would not play a part in this and I do not believe there was any correlation between homosexuality and genes. So, in reality, sexual orientation is a preference – not a genetic blunder.
Thank you for that breath of 1953… Loud pseudo science to prop up what religious dogma…
Why would someone choose to be a societal outcast and a second class citizen on most of the world?
I second Uncle Fester
in not on*
Well, at least we won’t have anyone coming to defend them… At least people realize that this cult is stupid (cough, cough, Scientology)
I sent Fred an email once. I pointed out the contradictions between Christ’s message and his message.
He didn’t email me back
I did too, I didn’t get a response either…
two simple words
GREAT JOB!
Biblically speaking, one could just as easily replace such words used to refer to gays with words used to refer to thieves, murderers, adulterers, or even just plain liars.
I dare say Jesus would have railed at these people in much the same way as he railed on those who made his Father’s temple into a marketplace, but in this case, he would do so for for abusing the authority of the Faith he established and dirtying the name of his Father.
Quite sad really.
some people i knew died in a car crash and these douchebags protested the funeral…
On another note:
Wouldn’t it be fun to show up at one of their protests and counterprotest? I know it’s been done, but they certainly deserve a bit of their own medicine.
Honestly, if they have that many “problems” with America, why don’t they just leave? They can afford to fly all around the country to protest everything; I’m sure they can afford to give up their citizenships. Find a country that fits their values a little better. Can anyone think of one? We can email them all the information they need.
I’m not a Christian, but I was raised to respect all religions, and I share with [most] Christians many of my morals. WBC goes against far too many of those morals. I’m not always sure which are Christian and which are not, but I always considered respect for /all/ people an important one. That and not judging. I’m certain not judging others is somewhere in the Christian bible….
WBC isn’t about religion, IMHO. It’s about control and humiliation. If they don’t agree with something in the bible, they push it aside and go on with their agenda. Their agenda so far seems to be humiliating people, particularly gays, and getting in the way at funerals for the sake of upsetting, and just being generally hurtful. I think all that is wrong. And if it goes against my values, I’m sure it goes against the values of most good Christians.
Are they on the government’s list of cults yet?
Smoke a lot, do you?
“I view homosexuality as a sin”
Why? Other than your book of vileness, what makes you believe that?
or win…
but what ever…
DITTO…
And this is what false religion and inbreeding will get you to!
I seriously do nt know who scares me more, and anyone who knows me, knows that pretty hard to do, Them or Sara Palin!