(July 12, 2014 at 7:29 am)Esquilax Wrote: No, you're perfectly right: nothing hateful at all about the sentiment that an entire class of people deserves to be killed and then tortured forever in hell because of something they can't change. Nothing at all.Sarcasm aside you're correct. The belief itself is just that - a belief. The fact that they respond to the belief by taking their time and money to try to protect people from hell shows that they are certainly not motivated by hate.
Quote:Incidentally, given that reports from the scene in that same article describes the people leaving the company of those christians as being "surrounded," by people that left them "shaking, crying and traumatized," I don't think I would characterize the interactions there as polite.I'm skeptical when I have a biased source quoting a biased source quoting a biased source. There was video taken on scene and it showed polite people. It didn't show traumatized victims. I did a quick search for mainstream news articles on it and found no reports of traumatized victims. How do I know that these other sources aren't incorrectly spinning things like you do with hatred? It seems that that is going on. FA takes a picture of smiling event workers and participants and spins it as "church members posing innocently with the people they’d preyed on."
However, my search did turn up an article that came out before the event stating their intent clearly, which detracts from your charge of deception.
