"How rude!"
Posted on 03/17/2012 8:03:38 PM PDT by Steelfish
By Olivia Katrandjian Mar 17, 2012 Atheists Wash Florida Road Christians Anointed With Oil
County Road 98 in Polk County, Fla., was scrubbed today by a group of atheists who are protesting the “Polk Under Prayer” campaign, supporters of which poured olive oil on the road last year in an anointment ceremony.
“Mainly we want this to be a safe haven for folks who want to raise their families,” explained Polk Under Prayer organizer, Dr. Richard Geringswald, according to ABC News affiliate WFTS-TV in Tampa. “Asking God’s protection from ne’er do wells and evil doers.”
Ellen Beth Wachs, the president of Humanists of Florida Association and Atheists of Florida, said that she feels unwelcome as an atheist in the county.
“This anointment ritual was to call out the angels to check each car that entered the county, to make sure they were Christian, and if they weren’t Christian, they would either follow Christian beliefs or get put in jail,” Wachs told ABC News.
Wachs said the eight members of the Humanists of Florida Association who brought buckets of water to the roadway today did so in jest. “They understand that a year later, there’s no oil left on the roadway. It’s just a symbolic gesture to show that we can poke a little bit of fun at the Polk Under Prayer gesture. We’re not going to tolerate their bigotry,” Wachs said.
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Ellen Beth Wachs, the president of Humanists of Florida Association and Atheists of Florida, said that she feels unwelcome as an atheist in the county.
If it has no power, why should they wash it/?
Simple logic.
Should’a used pig fat.
They sure seem to be obsessed with what they call a make believe G_d!
Lord have mercy on these wacky Godless people. Bunch of malicious little goblins.
“We’re not going to tolerate their bigotry,” Wachs said”.
It’s amazing how easy it is to be tolerant; unless it pertains to something you don’t like. I wonder what Ms. Wachs “coexist” friends think about her statement.
"How rude!"
Uh,pouring oil on a road?
That has stupidity written all over it. =/
Oil on the road= car wrecks.
Atheists are so enraged by a Someone Whom they swear doesn’t even exist. And they retaliate in anger against those who believe in Him.
“What’s the difference between an atheist and a Satan-worshipper? The latter knows who he’s working for.”
;^)
These Christians were severely misguided at best.
Only Patriarch and Prophets anointed THINGS in Old Testament times; Jesus and the Apostles anointed PEOPLE and ONLY people. Patriarchs and Prophets they are not...false apostles they are.
The liberal atheists must have too much time on their hands. They have nothing better to do than watch and backbite Christians who are practicing their faith. If they don’t believe in God, than why do they care at all about this?
Atheists biggest frustration has always been and will always remain that they cannot convince anyone to join them and they are so very angry about it.
The bottom-feeding atheists have become as obnoxious as their sexual deviant “brothers” and “sisters”.
So according to the atheists, angels in heaven have been deputized by the county police? I wonder how soon before they enter a cemetry to cleanse that of any blessings it may receive.
It’s profoundly stupid.
They musn’t be very bright.
Not only that, but such gravely misguided antics besmirch those Christians who do follow the pattern of the New Testament and anoint the sick with oil.
Old Scratch is laughing at how the doubters now have more “reason” for their unbelief.
Wachs is bigoted against religious folks.
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