God ordered kidnapping

AP's sock puppet · 15th March 2003, 12:43 PM

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3755432.html

God told Brian Mitchell to kidnap Elizabeth Smart as the first of his "seven additional wives".

Is this the same God who's giving George W. Bush advice on how to run the USA?

15th March 2003, 01:56 PM

Of course not!

GW's god is the Baptist version! You should know the difference!

Adorable pitcures in the link, BTW.

MRC_Hans · 15th March 2003, 02:05 PM

No, he must be an A-Theist. No religious person would ever do such a thing. You don't have to take my word for this, you can ask Jedi Knight.

Hans

neutrino_cannon · 15th March 2003, 04:11 PM

See, this is just the sort of thing I would expect from God, going around spreading plauge, death and destruction. I suppose that something should be done.

Or... The guy could just be a whacko, showing once again the correlation between whackos and God.

shemp · 15th March 2003, 05:27 PM

No way! The real God would order Dubya to kidnap Saddam and marry him!

neutrino_cannon · 15th March 2003, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shemp
No way! The real God would order Dubya to kidnap Saddam and marry him!

That would make for a fine movie.

justsaygnosis · 16th March 2003, 06:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by shemp
No way! The real God would order Dubya to kidnap Saddam and marry him!

Just so long as they don't reproduce.

arcticpenguin · 16th March 2003, 10:24 AM

Will John Ashcroft and the Justice Department rush to the defense of poor brother Mitchell, who after all was only trying to express his religious faith by carrying out God's will?

Crossbow · 17th March 2003, 09:39 AM

Come on guys, get with the program!

I saw a Peter Popoff infomercial (hint: Randi did a bit of story on PP a while back!) and he promised that if you bought his book, then god would answer your prayer.

But wait, god is a gaurenteed answer to your prayer if you buy the book!

Not bad, eh?

That old boy from Utah should have just bought the book instead.

Akots · 17th March 2003, 10:03 AM

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Originally posted by justsaygnosis

Just so long as they don't reproduce.

*Drops to the ground and convulses in an apoplectic fit of horror and madness at the very thoguht*

15th March 2003, 12:43 PM	#1
AP's sock puppet Thinker Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 141	God ordered kidnapping http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3755432.html God told Brian Mitchell to kidnap Elizabeth Smart as the first of his "seven additional wives". Is this the same God who's giving George W. Bush advice on how to run the USA?
AP's sock puppet Thinker Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 141	__________________ I'm not going to be anybody's puppet, particularly not my own. - Zaphod Beeblebrox

15th March 2003, 01:56 PM	#2
evildave Guest Posts: n/a	Of course not! GW's god is the Baptist version! You should know the difference! Adorable pitcures in the link, BTW.
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15th March 2003, 02:05 PM	#3
MRC_Hans Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Whithin earshot of the North Sea Posts: 16,602	No, he must be an A-Theist. No religious person would ever do such a thing. You don't have to take my word for this, you can ask Jedi Knight. Hans
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15th March 2003, 04:11 PM	#4
neutrino_cannon Master Poster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seventh circle of limbo Posts: 2,574	See, this is just the sort of thing I would expect from God, going around spreading plauge, death and destruction. I suppose that something should be done. Or... The guy could just be a whacko, showing once again the correlation between whackos and God.
	__________________ "Man would have been too happy, if, limiting himself to the visible objects which interested him, he had employed, to perfect his real sciences, his laws, his morals, his education, one half-the efforts he has put into his researches on the Divinity" -Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism

15th March 2003, 05:27 PM	#5
shemp Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go? Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: trapped in a cave-in with Joe Posts: 12,892	No way! The real God would order Dubya to kidnap Saddam and marry him!
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15th March 2003, 05:34 PM	#6
neutrino_cannon Master Poster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seventh circle of limbo Posts: 2,574	Quote: Originally posted by shemp No way! The real God would order Dubya to kidnap Saddam and marry him! That would make for a fine movie.
	__________________ "Man would have been too happy, if, limiting himself to the visible objects which interested him, he had employed, to perfect his real sciences, his laws, his morals, his education, one half-the efforts he has put into his researches on the Divinity" -Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism

16th March 2003, 06:07 AM	#7
justsaygnosis Critical Thinker Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 263	Quote: Originally posted by shemp No way! The real God would order Dubya to kidnap Saddam and marry him! Just so long as they don't reproduce.
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16th March 2003, 10:24 AM	#8
arcticpenguin woo ban clan Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 5,717	Will John Ashcroft and the Justice Department rush to the defense of poor brother Mitchell, who after all was only trying to express his religious faith by carrying out God's will?
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17th March 2003, 09:39 AM	#9
Crossbow Seeking Honesty and Sanity Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 6,294	Come on guys, get with the program! I saw a Peter Popoff infomercial (hint: Randi did a bit of story on PP a while back!) and he promised that if you bought his book, then god would answer your prayer. But wait, god is a gaurenteed answer to your prayer if you buy the book! Not bad, eh? That old boy from Utah should have just bought the book instead.
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17th March 2003, 10:03 AM	#10
Akots Critical Thinker Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 494	Quote: Originally posted by justsaygnosis Just so long as they don't reproduce. Drops to the ground and convulses in an apoplectic fit of horror and madness at the very thoguht
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