Does anyone else have RR freaks running rampant on their campuses?

I go to a public university, and every Thursday usually, some Phelps-esque nutjob always shows up in the student commons and starts spewing fire and brimstone at everyone within earshot. One of them even had a sign saying "All DemonCrats, gays, liberals, Catholics, Mormons, pacifists, atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, etc., will BURN IN HELL!!!" Do any other college-age DUers have to put up with people like this?

:rofl:

They've been making the round for YEARS. The first time I encountered these types was 1977.

Used to see them all the time at KU, telling their story of sin and redemption. ("I used to go disco dancing every night!") :rofl:

Of course, there were plenty of Phelpses and other assorted nuts making the rounds too. Campuses seem to attract them.

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Just quote Luke 6:30 to him, and get his sign.

Luke 6:30
Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

If they start praying, you can get into Matthew chapter 6, too.

6:5
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6:6
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Here's what you do. Gather together a group of people who are pretty conversant with the Bible and comparative theology. Then assign one person a week to go take one for the team, ie go engage these bastards on their on turf, start a full blown religious debate with them. Occupy as many of these fundies as possible at one time in order to allow the rest of your fellow students to be unmolested by these freaks.

Do this day in and day out. It might take a week, even two. But sure enough these fundies will tire of having their ass kicked on a daily basis and will move on to the next campus.

I and a group of four friend did this to a fundy nutjob out of Kansas, and every time we would get all of the fundies gathered around the person, flipping their Bibles back and forth, just spewing and stuttering as they were getting their ass handed to them. But the nice thing was, they were leaving the rest of the passing student body alone, and after three days of this, they packed up and moved on. Tried again a year later, and didn't even last a day.

These people hate to be confronted, and rather than going mano a mano with you, they will try and gang up, which is the whole point, it keeps them occupied on one person, not the whole campus population. And after handing their ass to them a few times, they move on.

I don't have the theological background to hand them their asses myself, but I do enjoy watching other people do it. ;)

THere used to be some nuts at CSU in Fort Collins. I could never tell if they were performance artists or not.

They are still there

I love some of those beers out there --- fat tire ale, 90 shilling... they still being made out there?

Some are better than others, but most are of the hellfire and brimstone mentality. The preachers of love are usually working in a shelter or soup kitchen, to express their faith with acts of love.

We had a guy at WMU in the 80s who used to preach loudly outside the Dalton Center (the music building). The crowds were pretty nasty to him-yelling at him, making fun of him, throwing stuff at him, which was wrong of the crowd to do. It was kind of interesting, because we also had the Krishnas, the Moonies and the Maranathas about, and they didn't get that kind of treatment from the students, probably because the Krishnas et al weren't telling everyone they were going to hell.

a "conservative coming out" party recently to point out how persecuted they are, and the campus paper had letters to the editors trashing them for bigotry for days later.

Here's an essay (not by me) that contains a bit about him. He apparently helped drive the author from Catholicism to athiesm.

(A lot of these ideas were solidified by their verbalization during conversations with Mad Max. Max was (is?) a former math professor from Indiana State University who was fired for teaching the Bible in class. He would go around to various major universities and preach. At Indiana University (Bloomington, my alma mater), he would set up outside Ballantine Hall and quite the crowd would gather. He would denounce the girls in shorts as fornicators and tell us all that we were going to burn in the eternal fy-errrrrr! I knew I'd achieved greatness when he resorted to speaking to me "in tongues.")

http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/guest/jeff_spencer.html

I thought you were referring to railroad freaks (RR for the laypeople out there). My whole family could be called RR freaks (obsessed with all things trains) but not the kind to which you are referring. ;-)

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I remember them from - what? - twenty-five years ago at UC. (Brother Jed must be getting kind of long-in-the-tooth.)

...is always a real treat too. I was walking across campus in Boulder several years ago with a friend (going to play ultimate, probably) and this random guy stopped us.
"We're having this Campus Crusade for Christ barbeque on Saturday, and you should totally come and find out about how you can be saved by having a personal relationship with the lord and savior Jesus Christ!"
I said, "Thanks, dude, but we're Jewish." (And vegetarian, now that I think of it, but I forgot to mention it at the time. Jesus and hotdogs! What a nightmare.) We thought that was the end of it and started to walk away, and suddenly the guy turns around and YELLS, "Well then you need to be saved EVEN MORE! You're going TO HELL! It's not a joke!!" My friend started busting up, but I wanted to kick the guy's ass (I used to be kinda angry). Fortunately my buddy's cooler head prevailed, and we went on our way, but I made it a point to give their office a dirty look whenever I passed it in the union.
If you're not safe from it in Boulder, you're not safe from it anywhere.