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Posted by: ind06 2 years, 8 months agoSAN FRANCISCO-Open-air preacher "Brother Sam" Hilson rescued more than 300 of God's children from appreciating a cloudless spring day at Golden Gate Park Tuesday by informing them of their sins and the swift approach of Judgment Day.
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ind06
April 23, 2007, 4:25 a.m.Nothing like God's judgment to spoil a picnic.
"You're going to hell! Pass the potato salad, please."
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johnkamis64
April 23, 2007, 7:58 a.m.I have actually seen guys as overbearing as this at parks, causing me to believe half of 'judgemental' is "MENTAL".
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uncle-dave
April 23, 2007, 9:17 a.m.Does "Brother Sam" commune directly with the Lord or is he on Pat Robertson's e-mail list.
You'll have to excuse me now, I'm going down to our park to see if I can find a couple of those "painted Jezebels" sashaying around and try to fill them with the spirit.
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palamaComment has been removed: User banned.
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johnkamis64
April 23, 2007, 10:45 a.m.Let a few of the girls corner him by(or IN!!!) the bathrooms and they might convert him!!!
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Amazing1
April 23, 2007, 1:41 p.m.Don't they have the name wrong. The article said Hilson but I think it should actually be Hell-son.
A little prozac, a lusty wench and a bottle of Jim Beam should fix him right up. Or as suggested earlier, a slender little man/boy if that's how he is. Maybe even a dominatrix complete with whips, chains and thigh-high, spike-heeled black leather boots.
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Hawklead
April 23, 2007, 3:19 p.m.As a Christian, this type of thing is an embaresment to Christianity, either Catholic or Evanelical. I question this nut's salvation. He may be sincere, but sincerely wrong!
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7734
April 23, 2007, 3:23 p.m.Two dear old ladies were sitting in the back pew of the church.
The preacher was preaching on the evils of the use of alcohol and tobacco.
Preacher: All those that drink the devils alcohol are going to hell.
Little Old Ladies: AMEN!
Preacher: All those that smoke are going to hell.
Little Old Ladies: AMEN!
Preacher: All those that chew tobacco are going to hell.
Little Old Ladies: AMEN!
Preacher: All those that use that hidious powder snuff are going to hell
Little Old Ladies - One to the other: Now he's stopped preaching and started meddling.
Preachers ----- BAH! HUMBUG!
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NelsonR
April 23, 2007, 4:11 p.m.Personally, I saw ind06 there attempting to convert others. Well correction, it was written on the guys shirt, so maybe it was not him.
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vor
April 23, 2007, 4:51 p.m.This reminds of the time when I was working in downtown Atlanta and saw two streetcorner preachers get in a brawl. The one wouldn't stop calling the other one the devil so they went at it. Rolling in the grass and then out into a busy street both clutching their Bibles and smacking each other with these big books. The police had to break it up. By that time a big crowd had gathered.
If Jesus did indeed exist do these people really think they would be in his favor? And hasn't this Rapture thing been going on for the past 200 years since Darby dreamed it up. Of course the belief in the return of JC goes back more like 2000 years. Yet these people wake up everyday sure that the time is nigh. Just as others have done for almost two thousand years. That means something like 730,000 days have passed without a response. No one may know the time of his coming...but that's one seriously long intermission...
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hebron
April 23, 2007, 9:20 p.m.Yeah, as a Christian, I would not want him to ruin my park visit either... Some people might want to know about Jesus, but not this way. The only people Jesus condemned outright were the religious leaders of his day. Hum, now there is a thought. Oh well, This "Brother Sam" would more likely send me packing to hell also...
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Macondo
April 23, 2007, 10:47 p.m.Al Gore just invented the internet!
(I trusted him once in the election he was elected but not
selected.) Now is time for him not to invent anything anymore.
The preacher is as mistaken as Gore.
Dubya supposedly having direct wireless communication with God is a pathologic lier.
I do not trust Brother Sam, Dubya or Gore
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bfaze07
April 23, 2007, 10:33 p.m.I'm a firm believer in Jesus Christ and i love God whole heartly and completely, but there is a right way and wrong way to evangelize the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This, althought a good deed was done, it was done at the wrong time and the wrong place you cant shove Jesus down people's throat and expect them to swallow. You present the Gospel in a loving and accepting way, the way Jesus would and pray that people would recieve him unto salvation. Please readers, dont let the extreme tactics of one man lead you to believe that Christianity is not the way or that all Christians are like this. We are just like you and we've found a blessed hope in believeing in Jesus Christ. You can as well.
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edromar2
April 23, 2007, 11:29 p.m.This nut, like all others has an absolute right to spew his garbage in the park as long as there is no law against garbage in the park. But he has no right to puncture ear drums with his rightly named "bull" horn!
Frankly, he better be glad Jesus is dead or he would be facing libel charges. If God hadn't died in the 60s he sure would have sued already. A cruel and angry god? Oh crapski!
Whatever happened to Jesus' loving father. A loving father doesn't cast the kids he loves into eternal hell-fire just to improve them--or since that is nonsense, for vindictive revenge that he had not been respected--as if God were some cruel Alec Baldwin trying to alienate his kids.
Those of us who believe in the true message of Jesus that people love one another to create heaven on earth by living in his way of love and forgetting all that old Testament crapski of a Godly father who would sacrifice his own son--or let his other children do that to their own, are abashed.
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theteachkc
April 23, 2007, 11:51 p.m.Ed, don't you think it would be wise to know what you are talking about before rambling on like that? You actually sound just as foolish as the guy in the park who unwittingly offends others but perhaps doesn't have much of a clue as to how he should approach others in a loving manner. I guess offending others instead of trying to understand them and their differing world views is the way of the 21st century. If we don't understand and don't obviously have the desire or the time to learn, then strive to be a good philistine!
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TruthDetector
April 23, 2007, 11:47 p.m.I have a friendly challenge to request. This challenge is to the following...
Indo6, Beau7892, Etproductions, johnkamis64,BronxBomber, Uncle Dave, palama, Gatsby, Landshark, Amazing1(?), Hawklead, 7734, NelsonR, V.O.R., Eagle Eye, hebron, Blackbeard, Macondo, bfaze07, edromar2, theteachkc
...and here is my challenge,. Answer this simple question.
What is the difference between you and a Christian?
If you prefer, a send me answer in a personal note and I will not publicly present it. This is all in fun? I guess. I am just curious as to how many who will speak about Christians, or any subject in general, and at the same time not knowing what the definition of a Christian is. Now do not try and run away, I know that you come and check up on the responses to your posts. Just give me your best guess. I will be expecting a response from each an every one of you.
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theteachkc
April 24, 2007, 12:02 a.m.TruthDetector, I am a Christian, a follower of Jesus, the second person of the Trinity. I am simply a sinner saved by the grace of God.
The article portrayed the man in the park as one who understands, to a degree that is not conveyed clearly, the righteousness of God, but not the loving nature of God. Don't misunderstand me, I recognize the sin that he is condeming. However, is he taking into consideration the sinner--as Christ did, let's say, with the woman at the well.
Why do you ask?
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theteachkc
April 24, 2007, 12:11 a.m.I apologize. Passion gets the best of me at times, too. I'm new to this online stuff, and perhaps I should best leave it to the professionals. Good bye.
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Aquinas
April 24, 2007, 3:26 a.m.Perhaps we have a combination of two problems here. First, the way that this gentleman conducts himself (obviously wanting in propriety) and the notion of being answerable to someone other than yourself. By that, I mean, our post-modern culture does not like the idea of "God" because His very existance means that they are responsible to Him for the things that they do. And it is easier to make fun of those things that frighten us than to admit the fear...as it is clearly seen by the number of comments that are slanderous of the Judeo-Christian belief system on this page.
Question: Does Mr. Hilson bother you...or does God?
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ConquerorWyrm
April 24, 2007, 5:03 a.m.I know this is the Onion and the Onion is pure satire, but this reminds me of an article I read in Rolling Stone in the late 80's about a guy named Brother Jed. Some of the passages seem to be briefs parodied from that article...and not by much either. In the early 90's, at the UofA, we had a few of these guys, some even professional evangelicals wearing nice clothes and sponsored by various clubs that exclusively styled themselves 'christian'. A couple of times, I even got to see the great Brother Jed himself when he and his traveled through...
The portrayal of this guy in this Onion piece is dead on...
I used to love watching those guys...it was like a circus on campus every day...I kept looking for monkeys and elephants, but these guys proved twice as entertaining.
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