Current Events > The British equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church was in my town today.

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This guy who preaches about Christianity, but is crazy and very spiteful. You know the kind. Rants and raves about how disgusting everyone is, thinks everyone else is a moron, and so on. Here are some of the most disturbing things I heard from him.

That anyone who's ever told one lie is going to Hell, and there's nothing he or she can do about it.

Gay men having sex with each other is a sin, and an abomination (and so presumably they are going to Hell).

That random people who were walking by are going to Hell, even through the preacher knew nothing about them apart from their appearance.

Of course, some people fought back against him. Most of us just gave each other knowing looks. There was actually a police car parked a few hundred feet away, to keep an eye on him. He's been arrested before, but never successfully convicted. They didn't do anything to intervene, which is strange since some of what he said was hate speech under UK law, but I don't think they could quite hear him. I sat and listened for maybe half an hour, then left.

Thoughts?


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That's entry-level street preacher stuff. Call me when they start picketing funerals of dead soldiers with signs calling them homophobic slurs

What is it with crazy religious preachers and attacking gay people? It's like many of them, most notably, the Westboro Baptist Church, are obsessed with it. It's become a thing.


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They arent going around tossing acid on people or literally beheading people are they?

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because they don't want to give up shellfish, shaving or wearing polyester, so they gotta focus on at least one thing the Bible forbids

@Sunhawk I'm from the UK. Which town is that?

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