The Jesus Freaks Were Out In Full Force Today On Campus...

[show_no_mercy]

So I leave from my class that ended at 11 am today and on the "main" road on campus there are these freaks (a gender-neutral term) waving around HUGE banners with sayings like "Jesus didn't come for the saved, he came for the SINNERS11!!!" and "If you don't accept Jesus you will PERISH".

There were like 5 of them all walking around, brandishing their banners which had to have been about 5 ft by 5ft... this one poor girl was having so much trouble holding it up. While struggling with their ginormous banners/death threats they were handing out pamphlets and generally proselytizing with random Christian buzzwords.

So me and a couple of classmates see this and we're walking right towards them. We pass one and then the next one on the road asks us if we're "saved" while we're walking by. My one classmate says "Doesn't apply to me, I'm Jewish". The proselytizer replies "Well then you're going to hell" all matter of fact-like. My classmate then rejoins "Well, I'll see you there!"

Best response ever.

So friends -- this is what it's like to live in the good ol' US of A! Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

[steamer]

Whenever I meet the supersticious...Erm...religious, I'm very tempted to make a scary face and say "Ooooha boooga, boooga" in my scaryest voice while waiving my fingers at them as if I'm applying some sort of curse.

I haven't tried this yet, but I think I could get some of them to at least cross themselves.

[Draconis]

I wonder, what's more effective, saying "ooooha boooga boooga" or "crossing oneself" in order to gain divine protection?

[AthenaAwakened]

"ooooha boooga boooga"

Definitely

[WWJD4aKlondikeBar]

No, I've got it...put a piece of chalk in your pocket.

Walk up to them and start chanting (why not in tongues?) while drawing a pentacle to stand in. If you're really feeling tricky then try drawing a gigantic circle around all of them. Try two lines with a bunch of BS cryptic runes in a ring between them. I'd bet you a shiny nickel that they move!

[Mageth]

I wonder, what's more effective, saying "ooooha boooga boooga" or "crossing oneself" in order to gain divine protection?

The kind that s_n_m encountered on campus probably consider "crossing oneself" as demonic as "ooga booga booga."

[The Colourful Jester]

they were handing out pamphlets and generally proselytizing with random Christian buzzwords.


Got one this week too. Took it to read in as I figure it's not unreasonable to learn more about it all. But it seems to hold little of interest.

The thing was, I later wished I had a card with this websites url on it, and would only have taken the other guys pamphlet if he took the url. I should ask the mods if I can do this.

[southernhybrid]

I don't how you can take these crazies seriously. I've not seen any around her in a couple of years but the ones we had looked more than a bit pitiful and disturbed. The first time I saw them I was tempted to shoot them a bird and then I realized that I have a much better life and am a much happier person than any of them seemed to be. When I thought about all that, I could only give them my pity so I passed by without saying a word.


We also had an elderly man who stood at an intersection while waving his bible and jumping up and down. He must have died, moved away or was started on the right meds because I never see him anymore. In a perverse way, I miss him. :D

[BigJim]

Is Brother Jed still doing the college campus thing? I remember seeing him on the Plaza at UFlorida back in the 80's (fuck, it's been 20 years...).

He'd draw more hecklers then supporters; it was quite amusing to watch.

[ArborealGuy]

Well, it could be worse, last spring, my freshman year, we had giant, and I mean giant pictures of aborted babies in huge signs all over the main area of campus. That in and of itself was not a big deal, but they were equating abortion with genocide.

I do love college.

[Morethancaffine]

That happened to me at a coffee shop once. I walked outside and they were standing on the public sidewalk. They were passing out tracts and had signs and all the regalia, and I had to walk right past them to get back to my car. Mostly the signs were of the "Jesus saves!" and "Come to know Jesus!" variety, nothing too fire and brimstone.

So, heaving a deep sigh I began to run the gauntlet, and what the signs didn't say, they had no problem voicing. "You're going to hell if you don't know Jesus!" this, and "You'll BURN without GAWD!" that. Blah, blah, blah.

One of them handed me a tract. Oh crap, I just wanted to get to my car, but since they decided to interfere in my life, I just had to interfere in theirs. I stopped and read the tract right there. After every few lines I would laugh or giggle a little more and the guy who handed me the tract finally yanked it out of my hands. I said "Wait, wait, I wasn't done! That crap is hilarous, did you write it?" while still laughing. I tried to get one of them to give me another tract but no one would. So I just walked away chuckling to myself.

[Jobar]

I'd like to run into some of these frootloops and be threatened with hell sometime; I'd stop and flash 'em my 'Get Out Of Hell Free' card, which I carry around in my wallet at all times. :D

[TonyBozo]

I'd like to run into some of these frootloops and be threatened with hell sometime; I'd stop and flash 'em my 'Get Out Of Hell Free' card, which I carry around in my wallet at all times. :DPerfect! I gotta get me one of these!
http://www.goohf.com/stickers.gif

http://www.goohf.com/

[Lel]

Is Brother Jed still doing the college campus thing? I remember seeing him on the Plaza at UFlorida back in the 80's (fuck, it's been 20 years...).

He'd draw more hecklers then supporters; it was quite amusing to watch.

Brother Jed is now online (http://www.brojed.org/contents.html)! :rolling:

He came to my school annually when I was in college (late 90s/early 00s).

[show_no_mercy]

Is Brother Jed still doing the college campus thing? I remember seeing him on the Plaza at UFlorida back in the 80's (fuck, it's been 20 years...).

He'd draw more hecklers then supporters; it was quite amusing to watch.

Nahh... Penn State has this guy (http://www.thewillardpreacher.com/)

[Perm]

Willard Preacher is a dandy, eh?

I liked this blog entry off his site:


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September 11, 2006

Seemingly every Evangelical Protestant I speak to on campus tells me that the Holy Spirit shows them the meaning of the scriptures, even though they know that they disagree amongst themselves as to what is that meaning.

Does this mean that the Holy Spirit is telling everyone something different? Is he a liar? I don't think so. It seems more probable that they aren't really hearing from the Holy Spirit. So why the mass self-deception? Because they know the impossibility of reading the Bible on their own and coming away with a perfect understanding. They need to invoke the Holy Spirit to give themselves credibility. If they don't, their Protestantism falls apart.

On the one hand, it seems that if one wants to be Evangelical one must be willing to be self-deceived. On the other hand, even though the individual must be a willing participant, only the Devil could be behind such a mass self-deception. So it seems, at least on campus, that it is the Devil that is keeping many of the students Evangelical.

This reminds me of Adam Sandler (like most things) in The Waterboy. Bobby Bouchet, Protestantism is the DEVIL!

[KittyKatBlack]

This reminds me of Adam Sandler (like most things) in The Waterboy. Bobby Bouchet, Protestantism is the !

Actually it's THE DEBIL! Like foozeball.:)

[OldYgg]

My wife and I attended college together at Glassboro College (now Rowan University).

At that time my wife was recovering from knee surgery. Don't ask - she's had a lot of surgeries and sometimes I think every optional part of her body (gall bladder, appendix, etc) has been removed.

So, she's on crutches trying her hardest to go from class to class as the Jesus Freaks descended upon her. The usual pleas for accepting god are passed toward her and she hurries and attempt to make best speed to get away. She says politely 'no thanks' and 'I already have a bible at home' but it doesn't matter - not even the fact that she had a biology and chemistry book in her backpack and said she couldn't carry any more mattered.

But its no use. One of them catches up to her - opens her backpack (which stops her forward movement) stuffs in some green leather miniature bible and closes her backpack.

This was one of those things we talked about that night after it happened. You know it was freakish like a stalker that isn't after you because you'd never date him, but because you aren't the same religious faith as him.

Old Ygg

[OldYgg]

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