Thoroughly frightening LTTE in my local rag.

[livinginphotographs]

In response to this cartoon:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783184732&path=%21editorials%21cartoons&s=1045855934997
(sorry I can't link it directly)

"Editor, Times-Dispatch: Regarding Gary Brookins' cartoon about Anne Bancroft showing St. Peter exclaiming, "Mrs. Robinson?!":
It is tragic that many people think characters such as Mrs. Robinson will go to Heaven. They won't.

I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. I remember "The Graduate," and laughed at the scenes and the lifestyle -- until I read in Hebrews 13:4: "Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled. But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."

Sad to say, adulterers will continue in their adultery and whoremongers will continue in their whoremongering! The whole porn industry is whoremongering! God, the Lord Jesus, will judge them. They will spend eternity in Hell.

We as a world and a people have lost sight of wickedness and its consequences. We had better grow up and get serious with God and his Bible. Mark Oliver. richmond."

Yikes.
:wtf:

[ET Awful]

1. Hmmm, I wonder how Mr. Oliver feels about Bush's recent

shindig with a porn star.

[Democracy White]

2. Freaky

But I am not surprised, our rag, The Grand Rapids Press gets the kind of LTTEs all the time.
I don't know who Anne Bancroft is, but whatever it is that she did for a living I am pretty sure that God/dess doesn't give a damn.

Dee

[jojo54]

5. Anne Bancroft was the actress who played Mrs. Robinson

in The Graduate, and she seduced a very young Dustin Hoffman. It was considered rather spicy and very sexual for the time (1967).

[BattyDem]

3. Oh man ...

that person really needs to get a life ... or get laid - one or the other. :P

[shraby]

4. It was only a movie for goodness sakes!!!

[bumblebee1]

14. To borrow a line from the movie "Good Morning Vietnam"

Mark Oliver is in dire need of a BJ than any man in history.

[GOPFighter]

6. Bwahahahahaha

To Mr. Oliver: It was just a movie, idiot! Movies are fiction. Fictional characters don't go to heaven or hell. Brookens cartoon was clever, it was meant to make people smile. Why do I get the idea you rarely smile, Mr. Oliver?

Also, didn't the Bible have something to say about "Judge not, lest ye be judged..."? I suppose it's not in your paperback "The Bible for Miserable People".

[Cleita]

7. LOL

:rofl: "The Bible for Miserable People", I love it!

[GeekMonkey]

21. It's ok, the bible is fiction too

[livinginphotographs]

22. My favorite part....

"God, the Lord Jesus, will judge them." And then in the very next sentence "They will spend eternity in Hell."

Um, isn't that for your god to decide? After all, maybe even god likes an occasional porn movie.

[Inland]

8. Dustin Hoffman will soon be sniffin' sulfur in hades, too.

For "Ishtar". Fooled you!

[TheDebbieDee]

11. [Raising hand, timidly].....I kind of liked "Ishtar".

[Inland]

12. You will be cast into the lake of fire! nt

[TheDebbieDee]

35. Well, then, I'm taking you with me! (grabbing your wrist)

[Inland]

36. Ah, LOTR! I like it! nt

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Mark Oliver is merely being true to the FEC mindset.

IMO that letter isn't all that scary. That is exactly how fundamentalist evangelical Christians see the world.

[zbdent]

10. Reply should point out that the letter-writer's personal hero

Ronald Reagan would not qualify either . . .

[King Coal]

13. Hold on there, Kids. This is great. Don't bash it.

You see, kids, if characters go to heaven, that means that we will be able to meet Cool Hand Luke when we get there. Providing, of course, that he repented right at the last. And don't forget Ernest T. Bass. I've always wanted to meet him when I die.

[KurtNYC]

20. And Bambi's mother?

I never quite got over her untimely passing (or Sounder or Old Yeller's).

[me b zola]

26. Cool hand Luke

As long as he isn't eating any eggs. If he were, it could be an insufferable eternity:o

[Ms. Clio]

15. I think someone should point Mr. Oliver in the direction of JimmyJeff

"Sic 'em, Bible-thumper, go get 'im, boy!"

[maxrandb]

29. Hey Wait!!!

We're all assuming he's a Repug. He could very well be a Demo...

err, eh....nevermind

Then again, I don't remember Bill Clinton ever hosting a porn star at a White House fund-raiser...unless, of course, anyone from Fox News was there.

[Midlodemocrat]

16. I just saw that and thought the same thing.

:wtf:

Apparently Mr. Oliver doesn't realize that the movie was fictional.

[leftofthedial]

17. mark needs to get laid more

[Qanisqineq]

18. Talk about an angry God

Having sex is enough to send you to hell just because you are not married? No wonder I became an atheist. God sounds like a bitter old man that hates pretty much everybody.

[LizW]

19. "They will spend eternity in Hell."

The delight some fundies take in predicting eternal agony for those they hate is really scary and sick. It seems they get an almost sexual thrill from contemplating it.

Do you think they'll be disappointed if they don't get to watch the suffering?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. Just proves that Gawd has lousy taste in legs.

But, she'll catch a seat next to Solomon and David and all the rest of those randy biblical patriarchs.

"The bible is a book with some beautiful poetry, a bloodstained history, a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of 10,000 lies." - Mark Twain

[dean_dem]

24. Yeah, well Leviticus 10:28 explicity says

"All who fail to praise the glory of Anne Bancroft shalt not inherit the kingdom of heaven."
I swear, it's in there. Look it up.

[aeolian]

27. Did they find eight new verses for Leviticus 10?

:p

[dean_dem]

30. Ummm, yeah.

You didn't pick up "Leviticus: The Lost Recordings"?

[aeolian]

25. so now The Graduate is "whoremongering porn"

:wow: :wtf: :banghead:

[BiggJawn]

28. Does Mr. Oliver stand on the street corner in dirty robes..

...passing out Chick Tracts saying "GIT RE-E-E-E-EADY! THE WO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-ORLD IS A'COMIN' TO AN ENNNNNNNNNNND!"

And we have not "lost sight of wickedness". your precious ReTHUGlicans serve it up to us every day as "Freedom on the MARCH", Marky, ol' top.

Sounds like someone who's too much of a loser to attract companionship, and thus must continue their love-hate relationship with their computer and "certain" web sites....

[bunkerbuster1]

31. Sounds like someone is unaware that Anne had been married to Mel

for 41 freekin' years when she passed away.

What an asshat.

[underpants]

32. I can't believe that the esteemed H.Ross Mackenzie would allow that

on his Times-Disgrace op-ed pages....oh yeah I do he memorably blamed the USS Cole on the fact that their were women in the military. Remember that Brookins cartoon?

[baby_mouse]

33. "Whoremongering"

... such a juicy, SPITEFUL sort of word. Rolls deliciously around on the tongue before you aim it at whomever you don't like. Positively *drips* with malice.

Sometimes I think the main force driving these people is some sort of aesthetic phonetics...

[geniph]

34. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone

judge not, lest ye be judged.