Christians pray for God to kill AU’s Barry Lynn
28 April 2009 by Stardust
Spiritual Warfare: Ex-Chaplain Prays For Death Of AU’s Lynn
Americans United and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) took issue with Klingenschmitt’s site and his e-mail alerts that referred to him as “Chaplain Klingenschmitt” and showed him in a Navy uniform. We wrote to Navy officials, arguing that Klingenschmitt was attempting to mislead people, as he is a former chaplain.
I guess we got Klingenschmitt’s attention because he has now placed a disclaimer on this Web site admitting he’s no longer in the military. And — apparently still disgruntled — over the weekend he called on supporters to launch “imprecatory” prayers against AU Executive Director Barry W. Lynn and MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein.
For those of you not versed in the finer points of extreme right-wing theology, imprecatory prayers are prayers that bad things will happen to your enemies – things like death, loss of income, loss of property, etc.
“Almighty God, today we pray imprecatory prayers from Psalm 109 against the enemies of religious liberty, including Barry Lynn and Mikey Weinstein, who recently issued a press release attacking me personally,” prays Klingenschmitt on his Web site. “God, do not remain silent, for wicked men surround me and tell lies about me. We bless them, but they curse us. Therefore, find them guilty, not me. Let their days be few, and replace them with godly people. Plunder their fields and seize their assets. Cut off their descendants. And remember their sins. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
You can read the prayer here or listen to it here. (For the printed version, scroll down to “Saturday 25 Apr 09 One-Minute Prayer.” Note that there are a few minor differences between the printed version and the audio version.)
As Rob Boston points out, this isn’t the first Christian loon to call for the end of Barry Lynn’s life, Southern California pastor Wiley Drake has done it twice (after AU blew the whistle on his partisan pulpit politicking).
So, while we really don’t have a name for it like jihad or fatwa, it’s the same damn thing. While Klingenshit says on his site he is fighting for “religious freedom” what he is really doing is fighting against the freedom that this country was founded on and he has no respect for the rights of others who do not share his beliefs. And his public call for wanting someone dead is criminal. All it would take is one psycho to do “Gawd’s Will” and go down as a martyr in the eyes of his fellow lunatics.
29 April 2009, on 12:40 pm
When a year or so has passed and nothing terrible has happened to Lynn, will these asshats admit that prayer doesn’t work? Oh shit, what am I saying. Of course they won’t.
29 April 2009, on 12:48 pm
Hmmm…
is there a possible script for the “Mr. Deity” series in this totally moronic and blatantly vicious story?
This Xtian asshole “Chaplain” will announce praying for someone’s death; but never propose challenging his invisible, non-existent, ever-hiding, voyeuristic, blood thirsty Gawd to get rid of say…all Cancer…with something like a highly advertised “Proof of Prayer Day”; to finally prove that it actually works.
Remember that praying for rain shit…last year? As I recall…it absolutely didn’t work; but nobody in the media , if I recall correctly, commented to that effect.
I keep harping (here on GifS, of course) on that challenge to believer fucktards; but, of course, they’ll never pay attention to anything rational regarding what we all know is outright, totally bullshit…superstition.
And, in this instance, for Barry Lynn’s sake, of course, it’s a good thing it IS just bullshit superstition.
It still, IMO, qualifies as a sort of religious “Thought Crime”; for which, of course, that Chaplain “Klingenshit” asshole won’t get prosecuted for.
29 April 2009, on 1:04 pm
When a year or so has passed and nothing terrible has happened to Lynn, will these asshats admit that prayer doesn’t work?
By praying publicly for someone’s death, they are probably hoping that some nutjob will do the dirty work for their god, and then say “god’s will was done” or some crap like that. And with all the unstable mentally deranged people in the world, someone might just take it upon himself or herself to do “god’s calling.”
30 April 2009, on 12:09 am
This is what the prayer is really all about >>> https://secure.conservativedonations.com/pijn_sage/
It always is about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
30 April 2009, on 12:11 am
Oh, and don’t forget, those are tax-deductible $$$$$ too.
30 April 2009, on 1:06 am
The best way to handle a lunatic of this degree is to just plain ignore him.. like he doesn’t exist. Of course if your the praying kind you could just pray that he disappears.
30 April 2009, on 8:19 am
Isn’t there some kind of commandment about this sort of thing? Something about not taking The LORD’s name in vain or some such?
30 April 2009, on 9:49 am
Dunc,
There is indeed!
But there is an unspoken, 11th commandment that overrides all the others:
Thou art justified in doing or saying anything in the perceived defense of the fairy tale.
30 April 2009, on 11:49 am
The best way to handle a lunatic of this degree is to just plain ignore him.. like he doesn’t exist.
The problem is that there are followers of this lunatic who take him quite seriously, and one of them might just get that little voice inside of his head that tells him he is Gawd’s hitman and will carry out “the plan” and become a martyr for Xianinsanity.
30 April 2009, on 9:53 pm
“I am going to kill you,” is prohibited by law.
“I am going to have God kill you,” is protected by freedom of religion.
Why?
30 April 2009, on 10:13 pm
Hogarm, exactly^^, It’s basically calling for the same thing, the same thing as putting a contract out on someone. Some religious kook, as I have said a couple of times now, is going to get the idea to become god’s hitman and take care of “business” himself or herself. It’s instigating and criminal.
1 May 2009, on 8:07 am
There is such a law as “terroristic threat” in most states, though good luck finding a DA who’d be willing to press charges in this case.