Evangelical Christians now discussing DU

[derby378]

Apparently Neal Boortz got hold of one of the more controversial posts on DU and may be trying to represent it as official DU policy. Check this thread on Crosswalk out:

http://forums.crosswalk.com/webx/News/News%20%26%20Politics/Top%20of%20the%20Hill%20-%202004%20Elections/6/

[Th1onein]

1. What can we do about something like this?

[MadProphetMargin]

13. We don't have to do anything. Let Boortz and his koolaid drinking swine

think what they like. They're not exactly convert material, after all.

[eleny]

14. Ignore him

We have better things to do. Anyone interested enough will come here, read and not find such posts to be at all commonplace. He only serves to discredit himself.

[wryter2000]

2. People on DU advocated those things?

I didn't see that, and I'm glad I didn't. I'd have to get out the gag icon against some of our own.

[derby378]

4. Unfortunately, yeah

Here's the original thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=503597

[jayfish]

17. Get A Grip And Read The Entire Post.

"BTW- if you want to take action beyond the intellectual consideration of these ideas, please do so on your own. This thread is meant for the mental exercise of these ideas. Don’t involve DU."

That is a quote from the end of the post and the post was never edited.
Criminy!


Jay

[rumguy]

3. a satirical piece, long since forgotten

it was posted last year, and is buried away in the archives...

marching orders, my ass...

what we need to do is start publicizing freeper threads - those fuckers seriously try and disrupt democracy - case in point: the freeps calling into the Iowa dem caucases, pranking, and bragging about clogging the lines...

[texastoast]

11. YEAH . . .

It's a shame that we have to lower ourselves to the level of freepers which is what I think this thread did. However, I'm not ashamed that being FORCED to lie down with dogs (only as a cliched reference--all dogs are better than freepers) (freepers can thank Newt), we came up with a few fleas. It's going to happen, but I have my mature response in hand.

They started it.

And I will not deny that I for one have a little fun finishing it.

:evilgrin:

[sadiesworld]

5. I've seen it used on other sites as well...

humor really isn't a pug strong suit, is it?

[OKNancy]

6. Some of the responses sound reasonable enough

even a liberal ranting about BBV

[chelsea0011]

7. One thing the Christian Right lacks is a sense of humor

Now if we can lift some Pat Robertson bigotry, we'll see if he is being satirical.

[devinsgram]

19. Exactly

Most of them look like they have a stick up their ass. If they would smile it would probably break their faces. You got to ease up a little and laugh, it's good for your health. Oh! I forgot that's against their religion.

[whistle]

8. Oh boy, my doorbell is going to be ringing like crazy...

...how much more fallen can I become I wonder. Jerry Falweasel wrote me off years ago. Pat Robertstoned won't even let his TV program be beamed into my TV receiver. The Reich Wing re-pugs know everything about my political beliefs from when my mother was in her first trimester with me. Now, I have made a few (well 250 actually) postings on DU and I am to be seen as Satan and all the evil that can be associated with the devil. See what happens when one tries to be human and seek the truth.:evilfrown: O8) :evilgrin:

[Roaming]

9. I don't monitor the freeper site, but sometimes browse Lucianne,

and there is plenty of ranting going on in that site too; it's easier to criticize those you don't agree with, I guess.

[WatchWhatISay]

10. Was it satire or was it a Freeper?

They post stuff here all the time just so they can advertise it to fire up their troops.

[JHB]

16. It was someone venting...

...in the wake of the California recall election/Rise of the Machine, something a lot of people here at DU thought (and still do) amounted to a legalized coup.

[Democat]

12. Who cares what a bunch of right wing crooks think?

If all they've got is a message board post about what one anonymous user wants to do, when we can list all of Bush's actual crimes, they are in deep shit.

[BrotherBuzz]

15. Ha! Neal Boortz very conveniently neglected to include the disclaimer

BTW- if you want to take action beyond the intellectual consideration of these ideas, please do so on your own. This thread is meant for the mental exercise of these ideas. Don't involve DU.

Isn't that special

[mitchum]

18. Aren't they supposed to only be discussing Jesus...

if they are indeed Evangelical Christians?
Sorry about being so literal-minded :)

[Kat45]

20. They have forums on a variety of subjects

and discuss them re: Christianity. I haven't looked at the site for a long time, but I got the impression a majority of the folks there were fundies, but not necessarily all of them.