Comments on: Baptist missionaries turn on their ‘do-gooder’ leader, Laura Silsby

By: alice dodson

alice dodson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:03:15 +0000

So Laura Silby isn’t perfect. How many of you stand a chance of having your home repossessed. It is a sign of the times.
This woman was doing what the Lord asked her to do.
Those so called Christians who turn against her are no better than the average gang member. Judas, remember him?

By: Sozio Talk

Sozio Talk — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:45:55 +0000

I hope that this criminal religious fundamentalistic bitch and her friends will be imprisoned forever! The world does not need stupid US-fundamentalist. Stay home and leave the world in peace!!! You are much too primitive!
you’d better bring the criminals G.W Bush, Mr. Cheney and Ramsfeld to court and condem them to life imprisonment! Then the world would perhaps recognise your country. Before it is just a nice country with a hell of a lot of primitive people!

By: Lol mahmood

Lol mahmood — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:20:23 +0000

According to the slightly more in-depth feature in saturday’s Guardian, many of the kids weren’t even orphans; they were handed over by impoverished parents in poverty-stricken village outside of the city. The parents were told their chidren were being taken to a better life. The villages were not particularly damaged by the earthquake.

But, despite these seemingly suggestive facts, it does look like Laura Silby’s intentions were good, however deluded. As others have pointed out, it’s not uncommon for believers whose lies have nose-dived to suddenly find their ‘calling’. I think Silby’s actions will prove to be the desperate displacement activities of a woman who’s hit rock-bottom.

She acted on faith and with the best intentions. She represents a good analogy for the god-deluded as a group.

Her problem is a mental one; if she’d lashed out and killed someone she could probably have pleaded temporary insanity.

That may not save her from a jail term!

By: Malcolm Kew

Malcolm Kew — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:56:33 +0000

What is all that about Atheists and humanists not having morality?

By: Fedupwith

Fedupwith — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:05:30 +0000

I agree with MKG. These people may be deluded but that doesn’t make them evil. Not all fundies are the “God hates Fags” type, most are just very simple individuals. Mrs Silsby, according to the article was a successful business woman until recently, she traveled to Haiti prior to the quake with the intention of setting up an orphanage. Her behaviour after the quake though sounds more than strange.

By: Michael Kingsford Gray

Michael Kingsford Gray — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:10:04 +0000

Most of these delusional folk are equavalent to mental infants.
Deliberately held in a retarded state by a fraudulent church, supported by a government that encourages the intellectual cripplement of the populace, and preyed (prayed?) apon by a desperate charlatan.
Although, unusually in this case, the power-hungry fraud was neither pastor nor Pope!

By: ianwrotethis

ianwrotethis — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:21:25 +0000

There is nothing more irritating in life than a naive idealist. Whilst naivety and idealism are cute characteristics in children, they are, in adults, undoubtedly the sickening symptoms of a feeble mind. How can one possibly sympathise when a Baptist missionary shepherdess and her sheep bumble their way into an international quagmire of criminal child-stealing? What could they possibly have been thinking?

I was reminded of the half-baked disciples of James Arthur Ray, who, at Mr Ray’s suggestion, cooked themselves in sweat lodges, only to emerge fully-baked and in some cases dead. Mr Ray is now facing manslaughter charges.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2.....3065.shtml

Where do these lemmings come from?

By: NeoWolfe

NeoWolfe — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:50:44 +0000

I live in Boise, Idaho, USA. And as the threadhead said, this is a weird ass place to live, where god is a given. Even though I do not put it past these zealots to abduct children as future congregates, as that would also fill future contribution boxes and tything plates, I suspect that Silsby thought that the fact that her life was collapsing around her was an indicator that she had not done what her lord and savior had expected of her. As a desperate attempt to restore herself to god’s favor, who, like Job, would restore her previous lifestyle, she went on a poorly considered crusade to accomplish some heroic act in the name of her god.

But, this is simply a product of her religion induced insanity. Now, her troubles are deeper, and did not produce the miracle, that sign from god that she had won his favor. Big surprise. Who could have seen it coming?

In the face of Will Jones, I will shout, since this website terminated a thread before I got a chance to answer his protestations of the merit of religion in society:

Religion is a stone dragging humanity toward barbarism. Stifling science and freethought. If you want to keep your mind open, be an agnostic or a humanist, but don’t defend these butchers throughout history!!

NeoWolfe

By: edwords

edwords — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:40:25 +0000

Like I always say – - -

With friends like God, who needs enemas?

(Pretty good,huh?)

By: kynefski

kynefski — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:00:58 +0000

barriejohn has the story. In the tracts, Christ saves those who have hit bottom, but just as often it’s those who have run out of hustles.