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Every Saturday, on S. 2nd and Havemeyer here in Brooklyn, there is a man who sets up a big P.A. system, guitars, keyboards, everything. He goes on and on for 5-7 hours about his past as a drug abuser, finding salvation, and war. Half of his sermon is in English, and half of it is in Spanish. He claims that anyone who opposes him is the devil. Anyone.
I work at my friend's tattoo shop which is next door to a bike shop. The owner and his wife have a little girl of about 3 years old, and she needs to take naps as all children do. The mother went up to the guy two Saturdays ago and asked him to turn it down (he's about 50 yeards away from our shops) so her daughter could take her naps. The guy then went on a rant about how Jesus declared the nighttime for sleep, and sleeping in the daytime is a sin. And that she was the devil for asking him to turn it down. Then he went on a rant about all the "white people moving into this neighborhood, all the white devils." He's hispanic. Her retort was "hey fuck you, I was BORN in Brooklyn, and I've lived on this block for 15 years. You immigrated, you're not even a New Yorker." Then he said a prayer for her to cast out the devil.
His favorite rant to go on, is this: "For thousands of years God has been stripping nations of their power. And God is doing America a favor, because America is God's favorite nation. And He is giving America the power to strip other nations of their power. One day America will be the only nation under God." WHERE IS HE GETTING THIS INFORMATION???
Anyways, last Saturday I set up my own speaker system facing out the shop door, and played Through the Eyes of the Dead as loud as I could for 20 minutes, and he packed up and went home.
SUCCESS!
Do you all have any favorite street preachers you'd like to drop kick?
*it should be noted that I am absolutely in favor of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Otherwise I couldn't even go on this rant. My point is, if you expect someone to turn from their "devilish ways" and come go God, why would you provoke them so? Why would you think that insulting someone, and condemning them to the point of tears or anger, would make them turn to God? It's the same with the assholes who picket funerals of murdered homosexuals with signs like "GOD HATES FAGS!" "FAG DEATH = DIVINE JUDGMENT!" etc...
I work at my friend's tattoo shop which is next door to a bike shop. The owner and his wife have a little girl of about 3 years old, and she needs to take naps as all children do. The mother went up to the guy two Saturdays ago and asked him to turn it down (he's about 50 yeards away from our shops) so her daughter could take her naps. The guy then went on a rant about how Jesus declared the nighttime for sleep, and sleeping in the daytime is a sin. And that she was the devil for asking him to turn it down. Then he went on a rant about all the "white people moving into this neighborhood, all the white devils." He's hispanic. Her retort was "hey fuck you, I was BORN in Brooklyn, and I've lived on this block for 15 years. You immigrated, you're not even a New Yorker." Then he said a prayer for her to cast out the devil.
His favorite rant to go on, is this: "For thousands of years God has been stripping nations of their power. And God is doing America a favor, because America is God's favorite nation. And He is giving America the power to strip other nations of their power. One day America will be the only nation under God." WHERE IS HE GETTING THIS INFORMATION???
Anyways, last Saturday I set up my own speaker system facing out the shop door, and played Through the Eyes of the Dead as loud as I could for 20 minutes, and he packed up and went home.
SUCCESS!
Do you all have any favorite street preachers you'd like to drop kick?
*it should be noted that I am absolutely in favor of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Otherwise I couldn't even go on this rant. My point is, if you expect someone to turn from their "devilish ways" and come go God, why would you provoke them so? Why would you think that insulting someone, and condemning them to the point of tears or anger, would make them turn to God? It's the same with the assholes who picket funerals of murdered homosexuals with signs like "GOD HATES FAGS!" "FAG DEATH = DIVINE JUDGMENT!" etc...