Do people under how utterly F&%$ing dispicable this is?

[burythehatchet]

I've been told this by a number of people, I believe they are good people who don't understand how offensive and in bad tatste this is....

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Candidate_spends_concession_urging_opponent_to_1117.html
Candidate spends concession urging opponent to convert


"After Minnesota State Senator Satveer Chaudhary defeated challenger Rae Hart Anderson, he received a rather unexpected congratulatory email, RAW STORY has learned.

Anderson, an apparently devout Christian, spent most of the concession urging Chaudhary, a practicing Hindu, to convert to Christianity."
.......
The race of your life is more important than this one--and it is my sincere wish that you'll get to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. He died for the sins of the world, yours and mine--and especially for those who accept His forgiveness. His kingdom will come and His will be done--on earth as it is in heaven. There's more....I love belonging to the family of God. Jesus is the way, the truth and offers His life to you and each human being. Pay attention...this is very important, Satveer. Have you noticed Jesus for yourself...at some moment in time, yet???

God commends His love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

[annabanana]

It is the ravings of a loon. . .

I am so very glad that I don't live in it's native habitat.

[northofdenali]

17. I have loons in a pond nearby.

Marshland/tundra - and believe me, they are NOT right-wing-neocons who profess this crap.

[annabanana]

20. (my profound apologies to loons everywhere)

[MrSlayer]

1. Good thing that loony bastard lost.

That is exactly the type of person we do not need in government.

[Sapphocrat]

2. I understand how despicable it is. Extremely. n/t

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Dispicable, I don't know

but I'll go with stupid...ill-advised...xenophobic...short-sighted....


I could go on and on.

[nickinSTL]

4. typical evangelical BS

My God is the only true God...all your gods are SATAN!

:puke:

[burythehatchet]

7. I had a

relationship once with a woman who was extremely fundie. She was married and she seduced me into a 3 year fling. She broke commandments by the six pack yet I was going to hell because I hadn't accepted Jesus.

[nickyt]

16. "broke commandments by the six pack" - ah ha ha!!!

[brettdale]

5. If I was Senator Satveer Chaudhary

I would email her back and say "I will discuss this with you in our next life"

[patrice]

6. Jesus wouldn't like this.

[burythehatchet]

10. What was his position in the issue?

I'm curious

[patrice]

12. He told us to love one another.

He was not an ego-maniac.

He said things that were compiled into the Sermon on the Mount.

He was actually just a common man, like someone you'd know. We're supposed to look for him in one another. That's the Mystical Body of Christ.

[burythehatchet]

19. I know the Sermon on the Mount

to me it is one of the most inspirational passages in all literature. I just don't get why the urge to evangelize is necessary today. At one time it may have been a positive thing but its not like I don't have exposure to a church every 1.5 blocks...

[patrice]

22. I think it has something to do with St. Paul.

There was a disagreement in the church about whether it is appropriate.

I was raised conservative Catholic and it wasn't an issue, because, back then, it wasn't necessary.

I think we're supposed to be concentrating on serving one another, more than anything else.

The Baltimore Cathechism told us our souls were created free. It seems to me that anything that results from pressure of one type or another isn't free.

[patrice]

8. This is aggressive behavior. Assault hiding behind religion.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. And just imagine the fundie outrage

if Chaudhary had sent Anderson an e-mail in which he tried to convert her to Hinduism?

[Lars39]

11. Sheer arrogance.

[applegrove]

13. Pretty sad. But it is a free country eh?

[xchrom]

14. another unhappy christian selling an unhappy message.

[MetaTrope]

15. Some Hindus have noticed Jesus, thanks to Mel Gibson!

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2004/04/30/stories/2004043001300303.htm

MEL GIBSON'S motive is clearly beyond doubt. He wants to traumatise his viewers by presenting a horribly graphic description of Jesus Christ's last 12 hours on earth in his film, ``The Passion of the Christ." Watching Christ being brutalised beyond belief by Roman soldiers, one could not help wondering what could have been Gibson's purpose to show this kind of degradingly distressing torture of a man, perfectly willing to love even his enemies and forgive them for all that they wanted to perpetrate on him. All that one can think of now is that the director wanted to punish his audiences with scenes and scenes of sadistic violence. So much so that one grew detached from the motion of madness that seemed to be ripping the very screen apart. There was blood, there was raw flesh, and as the soldiers panted and puffed and grew tired of whipping the frail man, the canvas cried in anguish.

The last frames of Christ's palms being nailed — with the camera watching it minutely — broke on the screen with such deafening thud that one grew sick with revulsion. Everybody knows that Christ suffered, but nobody need to be shown in such gruesome detail how it is to feel a giant nail entering a palm!

Or, was Gibson trying to preach through his volatile visuals the greatness of forgiveness and the power of love? If he was, he has certainly chosen a futile path. For, this is no way — not at all — of depicting the goodness of religion. Gibson ought to have seen Lar Von Trier's ``Breaking the Waves," a masterly movie that underlines the depth of faith, the intensity of feeling. Gibson's Passion will merely drive men and women away from their belief in religion, even humanity.

[Initech]

18. Man, that should be the equivalent of giving the opponent the finger.

Fundies.... :argh:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

21. You beat me fair & square, congrats, & now youre going to burn in hell.