TopBillin | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 22 2008 | the, news, religion
This is great! And, it's nice to have polite protesting back. Unfortunately, it's the protesters who look like they're in a cult. Then again, that irony is oddly fitting to the whole thing.
Quoted: When I asked the police on Saturday if they were expecting trouble, one laughed. “They aren't a problem,” he said. “I just wish that they'd stop playing that bloody Rick Astley song.”
- TopBillin | Shared With: Everyone - May 11 2008 | the, religion, news
Quoted: And here’s something else I’d like to know: When did the Scientologists make off with the cross? You know, the cross—symbol of Christianity for two thousand years now. And how did they do it without a peep of protest from Pat Robertson or Pope Benedict or Bill Donohue or Rev. Wright or John Hagee or Concerned Women for America or Tim Burgess?
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