screw 911 events

[AllPurposeAtheist]

It's bullshit preaching AT BEST. I attended and walked out of an event intended to memorialize 911 and veterans when some loud mouth black minister got up twice by invitation to give his snake oil pitch of how we're 'so blessed' yadda yadda.. I got up and walked out feeling VERY offended. Fuck these preaching cocksuckers.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

They take over what should be a somber and importantly neutral event for all.

I'm all for people giving respect in their own way, but keep your heeby-jeeby contradictory shit to yourself, thanks.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

They got my message loud and clear. I was sitting rifgt by the podium and walked out on the preacher. I gave, without my middle finger the universal sign of bullshit..
The director and my case manager were there and will hear just how offended I was.

[Smartmarzipan]

Where ever there is tragedy, there will be a [s:333zf3gv]vulture[/s:333zf3gv] pastor there on a soapbox waving a Bible.

[Solitary]

This reminds me of when I was a kid and kept pulling scabs off my wounds so they don't heal. Solitary

[AllPurposeAtheist]

They'll hear from me about conning me into going under false pretences..honoring veterans? It was nothing of the sort. At best it was preaching and theatrical flaunting of superstition ..

[Satt]

I guess the saying "never let a tragedy go to waste", applies to preachers as well.  :shock:

[AllPurposeAtheist]

I registered my being offended with appropriate people.. it shall be ignored as the rantings of an obviously delusional atheist.. :roll:

[mykcob4]

Classic hijacking by the religious and the conservaturds, BUT there are many events that are really and truly great. Over 35 million volunteer every September 11th to give food to the poor, make care packages for vets and homeless, clean up parks and memorials. A traveling 9/11 museum tours the nation educating people on what happened that day. There is a lot of good out there, but you do have to wade through the opportunist and proslytizers to find it.

[Nonsensei]

What bothers me the most about today is the number of kiddies born post 9/11/01 making a joke out of it on various sites I visit.

[GrinningYMIR]

I was a little kid when 9/11 happened, at the time I didn't realize what it meant.

I did when I got older of course, but now the memorial events have shifted from somber ones where we stand united as a people, to more propaganda where people get up and try to justify things. Usually they end up spouting out random bible quotes and more than a healthy dose of the word "freedom"

We really don't need to hear about "freedom" anymore. We're there to remember and honor those who died that day, not get a fistful of 'merica shoved down out throats.

[Colanth]

We really don't need to hear about "freedom" anymore. We're there to remember and honor those who died that day, not get a fistful of 'merica shoved down out throats.

We were getting 'Murca crammed down our throats right from the start.  It didn't take more than about 2 days before cars were flying flags on their way into the city (even though the lighted sign boards on the interstate all said that only emergency vehicles were being allowed in).  By the end of the week I was sick of all the false "patriotism".  I knew what happened without all the phoniness - on 9/12 I had to clean the dust off my cars.  I didn't do any genetic analysis of it, but there must have been at least a few human cells mixed in with the paper ash.  (I lived downwind of the towers.)

We've seen the crap every year since then - how great a nation we are, and how God blesses us.  If he had blessed us, those guys would have all tripped and broken their ankles on the way to the airports that morning.