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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 10:54 AM
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American Family Association Pins SeaWorld Death On Lack Of Christianity: ‘Bible Ignored, Trainer Die
Edited on Thu Mar-04-10 10:56 AM by Joanne98
Last week, a 12,000-pound SeaWorld Orlando orca killed trainer Dawn Brancheau while she swam in the tank. The orca, named Tilikum, had been involved in violent episodes in the past, including an incident in 1991 when “Tilikum and two female killer whales dragged trainer Keltie Byrne underwater, drowning her in front of spectators at Sealand of the Pacific, a defunct aquarium in Victoria, British Columbia.” Tilikum also seemed to be involved in the death of a man who snuck into the orca’s pool in 1999.

The American Family Association, the powerful right-wing Christian political organization, blogged that, “If the counsel of the Judeo-Christian tradition had been followed,” Beancheau would have never died. AFA blogger Bryan Fischer reasoned that according to Exodus, an animal like Tilikum should have been stoned back in 1991, and if biblical law were to be followed, the owners of Tilikum should be put to death

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/03/afa-seaworld/

The "owners" of Tilikum are Seaworld aka The Blackstone Group.....


SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment (abbreviated SeaWorld) is a family entertainment company owned by The Blackstone Group. SeaWorld is responsible for the operation and maintenance of ten theme parks located throughout the United States. Formerly a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, under which it was known as Busch Entertainment Corporation,<2> SeaWorld Parks is headquartered in unincorporated Orange County, Florida,<3> near Orlando.<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld_Parks_%26_Entertainment


This is a perfect example of why American Christians are heretics. They refuse to update the bible to include CORPORATE crimes.

The INVESTORS are the owners. Go tell them about it!

But NO they won't because they'd rather blame everything on "personal responsiblity" with in the modern world of finance barely exists anymore.

IT'S THE SHAREHOLDERS STUPID!
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 10:56 AM
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1. What about just
evangelizing the whale? Wouldn't that solve the problem?
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M155Y_A1CH Donating Member (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 11:38 AM
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3. Maybe the whale has already been saved
It's just not a nonviolent religion. :rofl:
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jmondine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 10:15 PM
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4. What would you baptize an Orca in?
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 11:04 AM
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2. insanity! these people should be in a mental hosp.
nt
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jmondine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 11:09 PM
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5. Exodus!?
This deserves a top ten list:

Top Ten Parts of Exodus that relate to Sea World

10. God confers with Moses at the top of Mount Shamu
9. God appears as a burning barnacle
8. The waters of the Nile turn into chum
7. Aaron's staff becomes a moray eel
6. Moses demands of Pharoah, "Let my people go to San Diego"
5. The plague of walruses
4. The baby Moses found floating on the banks of the Penguin Encounter
3. The Shark of the Covenant
2. The eleventh commandment: Thou Shalt Not make sea lions wear stupid hats
1. The parting of the Red Sea Turtle Exhibit
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SusanaMontana41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 01:17 AM
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8. ROFLMAO!
:rofl: :yourock:
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 11:49 PM
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6. the AFA doesn't realize that they're in the wrong party then, because the Repig party is allll about
corporate profit over what's wholesome.... but then again, the AFA thinks that two people loving one another is not wholesome when it's two ladies who fall in love, or two men who are blessed with love - so their own damned corporation needs to have done to it whatever they're calling to be done to the owners of the killer whale.

sick stupid F*(ks... they are such a blight on loving Christians. I'm soooo glad that many Christians speak out against these nutjobs groups nowadays. Didn't used to be like that.

AFA - you're of the devil!
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Zoeisright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 01:07 AM
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7. GOD, they are STUPID.
Why they are allowed to say ANYTHING, and why ANY media report this at all is beyond me. They are gibbering idiots.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 10:33 AM
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9. Job 41:1-10 is more apt here
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 08:19 PM
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10. The author of the garbage is a former Idahoan
A religiously insane, anti-abortion, anti-gay zealot who finally left the state for bigger and better audiences for his projectile vomiting.

And that was being as nice as I can.
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