“Sometimes my six-year-old gets mad at me and tells me to go away, too. I have yet to allow some crazy person to break into our house and shoot her to death as punishment for her disrespect. Usually, I’m satisfied with a brief time out. Does that make me a better parent than our Divine Father?”

Yes, jersey, it does.

I am so confused.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec99/shooting_9-16.html

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11980/church-shooting-a-mystery

Here are but three examples of shootings at churches.

If lack of Teh Ten Commandments doomed those in public schools, what doomed these Christian churchgoers?

What, not even a flood, or a plague? Sheesh, at least afflict her with boils or something! Show the brat who’s boss!

Pussy liberal parents grumble grumble.

Well, ok, since you’re a little more popular, and since you will make sure that more people know that Bryan is a fucking pathetic individual that can’t tie his shoes without permission from Butch “nice ass” Otter or Larry “I do senate aides in the bathroom” Craig, maybe it’s not a bad thing.

I just want some happy happy linkage, though.

Oh, and you might get the spelling right on his last name as well. It’s Fischer. That way when people look up “Fat fucking asshole ex-preacher wife beating prick Bryan Fischer” they get the right one.

It’s a feeding frenzy of demagogues and frauds from all sides, rushing like ambulance chasing attorneys to find some way to blame the tragedy on whatever they already hated the day before the tragedy.Ed Brayton via Wil Wheaton

I am really glad that this person is your problem and not mine down here in the South Pacific. Semi-rational people, in his position, might think “Oh, living a theocracy would be nice. But that would involve the destruction of the constitutional documents of the country where I live, so perhaps I should move to some place where I can start a theocracy without affecting other citizens, or where a theocracy is already in force.” But no — he is simply demanding that the rest of you abandon your constitution and live by his rules from now on.

It may be that he read “The Handmaid’s Tale” and saw it as a policy prescription rather than as a cautionary tale.

So, wait a minute…

God: spent four decades being told to go away; went away and wasn’t around when we needed him.

On the other hand –
PFC John Rambo: spent roughly the same amount of time being told to go away and also being spat on by hippies; returned to save his country and Teh Freedom in their hours of need. Twice.

God: worse than Rambo.

But just wait 30 or so years (in Massachusetts, anyway) and your chances would have been pretty high that you’d be skewered and burned alive during King Philip’s War (1675-76) when the Indian tribes got together and tried to exterminate all the white people in the Bay Colony. Total strangers, mostly.

…as long as we post ‘em on one of these.

Probably the same place he was during Rwanda.

Yet your chances of being gunned down by a total stranger at your local school or bank or church in 1644, 1744, 1844, or 1944 were exactly nil.�

To continue MIkey’s “unless” -

Or black in Tulsa in 1921

Or black in Rosewood, FL in 1923

Or black in New York City in 1863

Or a coal miner in Scranton PA in 1871

Or a Mexican immigrant in LA in 1943

Or Chinese in Seattle 1886

Or Italian American in New Orleans in 1891

Aha! So you’re the one who made his little gossamer wings fall off. I hope you’re proud of yourself.

Wow. That’s just some… wow… My mind is boggled. Considering that the multiple shot firearm wasn’t even invented until the early 1800s, I would agree that, yes, your chances of getting gunned down in a bank robbery in 16 fucking 44 were slim.

However.
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/johnson/johnson.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition
Fisher is a goddamn idiot.