tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post1733823178644866086..comments2023-12-25T01:24:48.957-05:00Comments on Republic of Gilead: OneThing 2014: Mike Bickle's Nightmarish VisionAhabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-65999357225982724062015-01-06T09:20:25.945-05:002015-01-06T09:20:25.945-05:00Michelle -- I worry as well. Free access to inform...Michelle -- I worry as well. Free access to information can provide them with mental ventilation, but will they seek it out? Let's hope so.Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-76106293652438663752015-01-05T21:44:46.068-05:002015-01-05T21:44:46.068-05:00I really worry about children who are exposed to t...I really worry about children who are exposed to this stuff. It may be overly optimistic, but I take comfort that young people today have access to better information than I did (thankfully, my religious upbringing was not as crazy as IHOP).Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09591981716535134038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-32653983019781759032015-01-04T20:11:59.647-05:002015-01-04T20:11:59.647-05:00Infidel -- Back in 2010, the pancake people did ju...Infidel -- Back in 2010, the pancake people did just that.<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/ihop-lawsuit-pancakes-vs-prayer_n_718965.html<br /><br />The suit was later dropped, and the two parties resolved the matter out of court<br /><br />http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/30/local/la-me-12-30-ihop-20101230<br /><br />I worry when I hear religious leaders spout this paranoid nonsense. Such rhetoric is indicative of fear and arrogance, an explosive combination.Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-55107385434618360072015-01-04T20:09:17.019-05:002015-01-04T20:09:17.019-05:00Agi Tater -- I wish New Apostolic Reformation type...Agi Tater -- I wish New Apostolic Reformation types would get half as worked up about those issues as they do about gays, reproductive rights, and people who don't think like them.Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-73958989149221288112015-01-04T18:07:09.250-05:002015-01-04T18:07:09.250-05:00In a world where there are many real crises that n...In a world where there are many real crises that need to be addressed such as poverty, child hunger, falling educational standards, abuse, violence, and catastrophic climate change, it's hard for me to wrap my head around a worldview where the only real threats are gays, pornography (for which the uber religious are in fact the most prolific subscribers, btw), and hurting the feelings of an invisible man who lives in the sky.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362339037879270082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-16850089935915832412015-01-04T17:55:21.986-05:002015-01-04T17:55:21.986-05:00Bickle foretold violence in the streets, incarcera...<i>Bickle foretold violence in the streets, incarceration of Christians, and state-sanctioned slaughter of believers, magnifying the usual Religious Right persecution complex into an end times nightmare</i>.<br /><br />Quite a few of the old Chick tracts present a similar scenario, plus they're a lot funnier than this guy. Victimizers seem to like claiming the moral high ground by imagining themselves victimized.<br /><br /><i>They see the word of God as slavery. They see the moral standards of Jesus' leadership as slavery that is hindering their human potential, hindering and interrupting the dignity and equality of humans</i>.<br /><br />OK, I'll give him credit for a true statement there. That's exactly how I do see it.<br /><br /><i>This isn't healthy</i>.<br /><br />No, it isn't healthy to wallow in paranoid fantasies that a despised minority group is wielding sinister powers behind the scenes to subvert your society. Anybody from Germany could tell him what lies at the end of <i>that</i> road.<br /><br />Every time I see that IHOP acronym I wonder why the International House of Pancakes doesn't sue these people. It might be worth a shot.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.com