Proselytizer
So, there was this group of folk at CSUN today with the big banners of the "Everyone is going to Hell except for me" variety. You know the type. Adulterers, fornicators, sodomites, homosexuals, blah blah blah blah are all going to be judged by Jesus Christ when he comes back.
These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
Anyway, there's two guys who seem to be tag-teaming the yelling and screaming out their crazy bullshit on campus, and I decide to kill some time before class by hanging out and getting some good comedy out of it. A group has formed, encircling this one guy as he continues to proselytize and antagonize the audience. Pretty simple, nothing fancy, except that this guy was not able to keep up with college kids who have been trained in empiricism (and several in debate apparently). They laid traps for this guy and he fell in each and every one of them. At one point, the subject of abortion came up, and he said what anybody would expect him to say: abortion is wrong, you should keep the baby no matter what, blah blah blah blah blah. Sob story about a girl who is a product of rape and her mother didn't have an abortion, and we should all live our lives that way. Yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, one person asks him if he thinks aborted fetuses are going to Hell. He says yes. So this guy says "You know, even the Pope doesn't believe that. Are you saying that the Pope is wrong?"
And this guy, I shit you not, says "Well then the Pope needs to be saved too."
The. Pope. Needs. To. Be. Saved. Too.
Wow.
I tried to get him to say it on film, other people got it on their cameras or phones, but I just didn't get mine up and running in time.
There was other comedic gold in the hour I spent standing there, being highly amused, but that by far took the cake.
These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
Anyway, there's two guys who seem to be tag-teaming the yelling and screaming out their crazy bullshit on campus, and I decide to kill some time before class by hanging out and getting some good comedy out of it. A group has formed, encircling this one guy as he continues to proselytize and antagonize the audience. Pretty simple, nothing fancy, except that this guy was not able to keep up with college kids who have been trained in empiricism (and several in debate apparently). They laid traps for this guy and he fell in each and every one of them. At one point, the subject of abortion came up, and he said what anybody would expect him to say: abortion is wrong, you should keep the baby no matter what, blah blah blah blah blah. Sob story about a girl who is a product of rape and her mother didn't have an abortion, and we should all live our lives that way. Yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, one person asks him if he thinks aborted fetuses are going to Hell. He says yes. So this guy says "You know, even the Pope doesn't believe that. Are you saying that the Pope is wrong?"
And this guy, I shit you not, says "Well then the Pope needs to be saved too."
The. Pope. Needs. To. Be. Saved. Too.
Wow.
I tried to get him to say it on film, other people got it on their cameras or phones, but I just didn't get mine up and running in time.
There was other comedic gold in the hour I spent standing there, being highly amused, but that by far took the cake.