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Duck Dynasty is at it again

Also, this

http://www.queerty.com/phil-roberts...im-as-much-of-a-homophobe-as-jesus-2-20140903

You knew this was coming: Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson is back, as unrepentant and offensive as ever. Appearing on Good Morning America to plug his new book, “unPHILtered: The Way I See It,” Robertson wrapped himself in Christ to justify his ongoing homophobia.
“I’m as much of a homophobe as Jesus was,” Robertson said. “People who are participating in homosexual behavior, they need to know that I love them.”
Robertson’s response came when GMA’s Ryan Owens asked him point blank if Robertson considered himself a homophobe, the journalistic equivalent of asking the sky if it’s blue.
Just as a reminder, Robertson has compared homosexuality to bestiality and has called gay people “wicked.” There’s no telling what he says about people he doesn’t proclaim to love.
 
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/phil-robertson-isis-convert-or-kill
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Wasn't that Coulter's line in 1991?
Invade their country, kill their leaders and convert them to Christainity?

If the muslims are shouting 'become Muslim or Die!'
and the christains are shouting 'become Christain or Die!'
where's a centrist to go? I mean, besides Disneyworld....?

There can be no peace until the moderate centrists band together and slaughter every last extremist.

There will be no freedom until we impose it upon the populace by force.
 
Ya know, I think next to the Internet, the church's war on homosexuality is probably the biggest reason people are leaving religion behind in droves. I think in the future it may well be looked upon as religion's greatest blunder. It is good that people can see the bigotry for what it is, right up front and center.

I'd love to agree with you, but I'm skeptical. The Church has survived its blunders over the Crusades, Witch hunts, institutionalized slavery, Prohibition, Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and on and on and on.

In fact, the Church's resiliency despite all its major blunders throughout history is used by apologists as evidence of the truth of their religious claims.

Edit: I agree that one day Christians will rail about homosexuality as much as they now rail about, say, witchcraft (ie. rarely.) But I believe they'll find some other marginalized group to whack with their Bibles. So many of them only seem to be happy when they can find someone to blindly hate.
 
I'd love to agree with you, but I'm skeptical. The Church has survived its blunders over the Crusades, Witch hunts, institutionalized slavery, Prohibition, Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and on and on and on.
But those are historical. We remember the witch hunts and we use that term as a derisive term for a type of behavior, now. People won't tolerate witch hunts anymore.
The Church cannot say 'we used to support slavery but...' They've had to try to change their image to make it out that the Books refers to human trafficking as hiring a butler. Even the devout won't tolerate slavery as The Books describes.
People leave churches if they have a fucked up stance on civil rights.
The Church cannot go back to any of these if they finally give up pounding on Homosexuality. The list of approved discrimination targets gets smaller and smaller and smaller with every fight that they lose to the forward march of society.

Although that might make an interesting discussion. Who's left in scripture for the Faithful to band against?
Adulterers? Liars? Fratricides? People who build towers up to touch the sky and frighten God?

The Wicked?

OOOH! Maybe they'll use Matthew 6:5 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."
And discriminate against the megachurches and the televangelists.
 
http://www.tmz.com/2014/05/22/duck-...homosexuality-sin-sermon-video/#ixzz32TxOFX7H

Phil Robertson is stronger than ever that homosexuality is an evil that deserves disdain and eternal damnation.

The "Duck Dynasty" star gave a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Easter Sunday ... way stronger than his comments to GQ last December that triggered a brief suspension from the show.






At a time when public attitudes about homosexuality are changing very rapidly, how wonderful that this empty-headed celebrity is carefully explaining to everyone why good and decent people should just stay away from Christianity.
 
Ya know, I think next to the Internet, the church's war on homosexuality is probably the biggest reason people are leaving religion behind in droves. I think in the future it may well be looked upon as religion's greatest blunder. It is good that people can see the bigotry for what it is, right up front and center.

I'd love to agree with you, but I'm skeptical. The Church has survived its blunders over the Crusades, Witch hunts, institutionalized slavery, Prohibition, Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and on and on and on.

In fact, the Church's resiliency despite all its major blunders throughout history is used by apologists as evidence of the truth of their religious claims.

Edit: I agree that one day Christians will rail about homosexuality as much as they now rail about, say, witchcraft (ie. rarely.) But I believe they'll find some other marginalized group to whack with their Bibles. So many of them only seem to be happy when they can find someone to blindly hate.

I guess that depends on how and why religion survived all those other blunders.

For example, socially ostracizing people who leave the religion is no longer effective because apostates can turn to the Internet for community to replace the community they lost in real life.

Simply lying about what happened in the past to cover up past blunders no longer works because the Internet allows people to have information at their fingertips whenever they want it.

Threatening to set people on fire if they point out the past abuses of religion no longer works because that is one of the things they got in trouble for in the past.

Claiming to be the source of all morality no longer works as a shield because science is increasingly discovering where morality really comes from, and because certain notorious public figures (i.e. the Four Horsemen) have been demolishing those arguments very publicly. Besides, YouTube is full of people offering thorough debunking of the old "You have to believe in my religion or else you will become immoral," and the tactic no longer holds up now that more and more public figures are coming out as atheists and people are starting to notice that they don't rape and murder everything in sight like the preachers claimed.

What are some of the other defense tactics?
 
Edit: I agree that one day Christians will rail about homosexuality as much as they now rail about, say, witchcraft (ie. rarely.) But I believe they'll find some other marginalized group to whack with their Bibles. So many of them only seem to be happy when they can find someone to blindly hate.
Naw, religion will eventually die out and then atheists will feud against born-again agnostics.
 
Edit: I agree that one day Christians will rail about homosexuality as much as they now rail about, say, witchcraft (ie. rarely.) But I believe they'll find some other marginalized group to whack with their Bibles. So many of them only seem to be happy when they can find someone to blindly hate.
Naw, religion will eventually die out and then atheists will feud against born-again agnostics.

Death to the heathens who refuse to acknowledge the divinity of the Invisible Pink Unicorn! May Her silvery hooves trample their bodies into bloody mush! Jihaaaaaaaaaaad!
 
Edit: I agree that one day Christians will rail about homosexuality as much as they now rail about, say, witchcraft (ie. rarely.) But I believe they'll find some other marginalized group to whack with their Bibles. So many of them only seem to be happy when they can find someone to blindly hate.
Naw, religion will eventually die out and then atheists will feud against born-again agnostics.
Well, yeah, those cultist bastards don't sufficiently deny gods!

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What are some of the other defense tactics?
Well, any of the PRATTs, such as an atheist has to have omniscience in order to know there's no god, can be looked up on the internet and counter-arguments located.
 
Fred Clark found dozens of non-biblically correct families in the Bible, as a response to Chik-Fil-A president Dan Cathy telling the world that his corporation only supports biblical families.
 
Duck Dynasty, The Musical

http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/11/duck-dynasty-musical.html#disqus_thread

Undertaking one of the more audacious theater projects in recent years, the Robertsons — known for their long beards, duck-hunting merchandise and occasional inflammatory remark — are moving to expand their Louisiana-based multimedia franchise with “The Duck Commander Family Musical.” The 90-minute show, with actors playing the family members from A&E’s “Duck Dynasty” as they celebrate the family’s long history from rags to riches, hopes to open in February at the Rio hotel and casino, where the Chippendales show and Penn & Teller are now running.

Even before rehearsals start, the show is courting controversy. Several Broadway producers, many of whom are liberal, gay, or both, are aghast that colleagues would work with a family whose patriarch, Phil Robertson, has compared homosexuality to bestiality. Gay rights leaders are also eyeing the show with concern, while evangelical Christians — many of whom admire the Robertsons — might be hesitant to go to a Las Vegas casino and see whether New York artists have fairly rendered the family.
 
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