Street Preachers: Good or Bad?

[Al B. Sure!]

you know the old heads who stand on the corner with a megaphone or a mic attached to a portable speaker, preaching to random passerbys... what do yall think of them?

For example, today I had seen one (wearing a koffie so i assume he was muslim) and he was talking about how the Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians (which he called black) and that ever since, the jews have been holding down the black man as vengeance.

Such preachers have important messages concerning self-determination and morality but clearly what that one was talking about is somewhat racially hateful. what do yall think? are street preachers for the greater benefit or are their tendencies to be hateful a detriment?

Me personally, though I can see some problems arising from such messages as what that particular one said, overall, a message of morality and self-determination is crucial to the improvement of the inner-city.


thanks

[Az]

For example, today I had seen one (wearing a koffie so i assume he was muslim) and he was talking about how the Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians (which he called black) and that ever since, the jews have been holding down the black man as vengeance.

[Shi Huangdi]

Like you said, it depends on the message. Haven't run into any in Pittsburgh yet.

[loinburger]

I haven't seen any since moving from North Carolina. There was a brickyard preacher at NC State who was full of hate and lunacy, and he was fun to watch from time to time, but like all one-trick ponies he was best taken in small doses.

[SlowwHand]

There's a Black man I see frequently all over Dallas.
Sandwich sign, bullhorn, Bible.
If he's who you're talking about, I have no problem at all with him.

[DanS]

Good!

[orange]

haha, we have one of those at our school...he's a nutjob who has a warped sense of morality. Born Again Christian...probably unemployed. His calendar looks like this

Monday: Preach at UD
Tuesday: Preach at UD
Wednesday: Preach at UD
etc.

[Lonestar]

We had a few in Downtown Pensacola, FL. Especially on Saturday nights. They'd yell at guys going into clubs and those dressed "Immorally", which apperently involves wearing dark clothes and Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts.

Their cute daughters handed out Chick Tracts. Now I have a bunch, but not the D&D one.

[The Templar]

Originally posted by Lonestar

Their cute daughters handed out Chick Tracts. Now I have a bunch, but not the D&D one.

I've got quite a collection of Chick Tracts , but I don't have the D&D one either (haha! collect them all!)

I remember have the almost overwhelming urge to beat the crap out of one in New Orleans right after 9/11. Yea, I really want to hear about God punishing sinners right after a bunch of God-fearing maniacs committed mass murder. Religion is the worst weapon of mass destruction ever invented.

Preachers make me miss good ol' Janet Reno.

[Gangerolf]

manic street preachers? good stuff

[Al B. Sure!]

so most of yall got experiences with Christian preachers? interesting how there seems to be more muslim heads doing it here.

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[Bereta_Eder]

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[Giancarlo]

I'd like to have freedom from religion.

Paiktis is drunk. I thought watching police videos, and those stupid drunks who can't even recite the alphabet was amusing...