In case you forgot, Stephen Bennett is currently conducting an “outreach” at WorldPride 2006. He’s got a special blog to detail their activities here.
I’d be worried if I were Stephen since The Agape (rarely out-done in level of hysteria) is predicting “‘WorldPride’ event might bring God’s judgment.”
I swear to you I am not making that up.
My favorite part of the article was the expressed concern that the ‘Holy City’ was becoming the ‘Homo City’ (and I’m not making that up, either!)
I find it kind of sad that these people are in Israel right now and all they can focus on is the fact that people are attending an event to express unity for gay people around the world. I just returned from israel a couple weeks ago, and considering the war that is going on, there are far more pressing issues to be concerned about. If Christian ex-gays wanted to show their love for others, they would be providing support and help to those who are suffering in Israel.
I find it even more ironic that these so-called evengalists are attempting to evangelize a people whose language they cannot even read or speak, Hebrew. While English is heavily spoken, I find it pretty ignorant of American evangelicals to try and go to Israel and tell gay Jews along with other gays that what they are doing is wrong. Public proselytizing is also illegal in Israel, which I am sure many people who are on this trip are unaware of. I could only imagine the noise these people would make to the media if they are hauled off for publicly pushing Christianity in the Jewish state.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket and the only think that Bennett can think to do is harass gay people.
Can’t these people find something better and more constructive to do?
Posted by: Jonathon | August 8, 2006 11:47 AM
James 1:27 (Bible in Basic English):The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
Great suggestion, Autumn! The problem is that many within the fundamentalist movement find it FUN to beat up on “sinners” like us.
Here’s another one for them to remember:
Matthew 7:1 – “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”
There’d have to be only one thing more scary that the thought you might run into this wacky crew on the streets of Jerusalem.
Getting a middle seat on the trans-Atlantic flight that took them there.
Surrounded. Trapped. Thinking about saving your bread roll to stuff down some yapping, “what are personal boundaries?” cakehole. Wishing they hadn’t taken your cigarette lighter away because all that big, big hair is just too tempting for words.
The homosexualization of the Middle East, beginning with God’s backyard, is one of the end-day struggles that could literally lead to a spiritual and physical Armageddon in both Israel and spread back to America,”
Whoa boy – I ’bout swallowed a lung laughing when I read that one. Of all the areas in the world not in danger of “homosexualization” its the middle east.
Shouldn’t we expect God to take a little bit better care of his own back yard?
I don’t find the scapegoating of homosexuals very funny.
End-times proponents like Stephen Bennett and Timothy LaHaye pray that Armageddon will happen — and to help Armageddon along, they organize mobs of fellow phony Christians to support politicians and warriors willing to wage arrogant, reckless and disproportionate warfare against Middle Eastern Muslims, Palestinian and Lebanese Christians, and liberal Jews.
Even as they support large-scale war and destruction in places like Lebanon and Iraq, the supporters of Armageddon blame anyone but themselves for the consequences of their hate.
End-times religious smugness and hate represent a sort of “deathstyle,” a heretical and diabolical worldview that perpetrates prejudice, death and annihilation against other people while fleeing one’s own responsibilities to be moral, charitable, truthful, and humble.
Gordo said:
Shouldn’t we expect God to take a little bit better care of his own back yard?
I have to ask, what exactly isn’t God’s backyard, or front for that matter? When you decide where to put the fence, I’ll let you tell Him 😉
Couldn’t resist.
As long as we are quoting Scripture:
Treat others as you want them to treat you. This is what the Law and the Prophets are all about. [Matthew 7:12 CEV]
Y’all know I’m not one for violence, but I would like to hit them with a perspective stick.
I don’t imagine they’d get a huge turnout at World Pride anyway. Not because of any God’s doing, but because of Lebanon’s…
Posted by: Mike Airhart at August 8, 2006 06:48 PM
Thanks for giving me this perspective, Mike. This explains a lot. Sad and crazy…
Posted by: Anonymous at August 9, 2006 01:01 PM
That was me, Randi Schimnosky
“Matthew 7:1 – ‘Do not judge, or you too will be judged.'”
Jonathan, good point but you didn’t complete the thought. It goes on to say:
‘For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.’
In other words, the punishment for being judgmental is that God uses your own scales to weigh you. If you use Leviticus to condemn gay people, God uses Leviticus to measure how you’re doing. The anti-gay folk may want to consider that before they next have shrimp scampi or a cheeseburger.