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Pastor Leads Anti-Occult Paintball Raid
File this under hugely hypocritical Christian antics: Christian evangelist Peter Hammond has been charged with assault for an anti-occult paintball spree which he participated in in protest of Halloween in South Africa.
Hammond disapproves of the holiday on the grounds that it is allegedly an “occult holiday celebrating human sacrifice, witches and goblins.” Which translates in his warped Christian sensibilities into it being appropriate for him to drive his 10 year old son around shooting trick-or-treaters to teach them some kind of totally un-Christian message. In the true spirit of Christ, Hammond is bravely pinning the actual shooting on his son, proclaiming, “Categorically, I can say I never handled a paintball or shot anyone that night.”
Of course, it was all his kids’ idea, as the article details:
His children had wanted to do a “counter Halloween”, and he had agreed to drive two of them around to “do paintballing” on trick or treating youngsters on October 31.
“It was meant to be a joke: nobody was meant to get hurt,” he said.
“I laid down a few ground rules: we were just going for teenagers, no kids.”
He said his 10-year-old son had initially paintballed youngsters who appeared to have just strewn rubbish across the road as a Halloween prank, shooting low and from a distance, and then called out to another child, asking whether he was a trick- or-treater.
The boy came over to the car, saw the paintball gun, swore at Hammond’s son and tried to pull it out of his hands. The gun went off, and Hammond drove away.
So let me get this straight: in order to protest the ‘evil’ behavior of Halloween, one must take part in it? That’s fucking crazy-talk. Well, that’s not all that’s crazy. This article mentions his work with Frontline Fellowship, a missionary group in Africa, whose logo is a sword superimposed on the continent. On Hammond’s personal page:
The official government of Sudan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs website includes an article that declares that missionary Peter “Hammond should expect to be bombed when he comes to Sudan … he should expect to be shot on sight”!
His latest book Slavery, Terrorism and Islam - The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat has recieved death threats from Muslim militants by phone and fax.
Dr. Peter Hammond is a missionary who has pioneered evangelistic outreaches in the war zones of Mozambique, Angola and Sudan. Often travelling by off road motorbike, Peter has travelled hundreds of thousands of miles to deliver Bibles to persecuted Christians in Africa and Eastern Europe. In the course of his missionary activities Peter has been ambushed, come under aerial and artillery bombardments, been stabbed, shot at, beaten by mobs, arrested and imprisoned.
According to the original article I found out about Hammond from, Bibles are not the only thing he’s been accused of delivering:
He has also been accused of gun-running for rebels in Sudan, and of assisting the Renamo movement when it was fighting a South African-backed civil war against Mozambique’s Frelimo government in the apartheid years.
Gun-running? I could launch into a whole thing here, but what’s the point? I mean…gun-running!?
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December 4th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
…by the fruits of their labors and all that.
didn’t jesus ride around on an ass stoning local kids, sorry, teenagers? just to teach them a lesson? “good shot, jesus, got him in the head!” i’m sure i read that somewhere.
now if one was to paintball a congregation on a sunday morning, would that be cool too? i guess so. i guess hammond wouldn’t mind if muslims rode around america handing out korans and running guns, either.
that night.
December 4th, 2005 at 9:59 pm
I think I read somewhere that mexicans named carlos are too stupid to figure out how to build a time machine to go back and time and see if that is really too. Instead they are barely smart enough to just “read somewhere” about certain things.
December 4th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
Thomas, what on earth are you talking about?
December 4th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
oops typo… too = true… looks like there are two mexican asses in here lol
December 4th, 2005 at 10:26 pm
hey tommy g! welcome to sarcasm, here’s how it works: i think your comment is really insightful and truly showcases the awesome power of your intellect.
did you catch that? maybe not, i think i read somewhere about atheists named thomas not being able to understand what the grownups are talking about. jesus said “shit tommy you’re a fucking dullard. trust me, i’m a scientist.” tommy just stared back blankly and figeted with his only testicle.
do you have any idea how many people you just insulted? best stay out of mexico for a while.
in the meantime i eagerly await a demonstration of your time machine.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:59 am
To be fair, Canadians named Brenden are too stupid to figure out how to build time machines too. Unless you’re talking about sun dials, which are pretty easy to put together, but I don’t think that’s what was meant at all.
December 5th, 2005 at 8:52 am
ha, reminds me of that book by gore vidal “golgotha”. a time machine is invented and a tv crew sent back to televise the crucifiction live. good read.
if i had a time machine i’d paintball the dude on the cross, just to make a point, y’know?
of course it’s hard to hit an allegory. fuckers are nothing more than smoke and mirrors, god love em.
but what would i know? i’m just a stupid mexican.
December 5th, 2005 at 3:17 pm
Well, it’s an easy mistake the Reverend Hammond made - he heard somewhere that gun-running is very profitable. “Profitable”, “prophetic” - almost the same word.
WWJSG?
December 5th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
By the way - I’m a Mexican and I built a time machine. Works great, but it only moves forward, at a speed of 24 hours per day.
My name ought to be Magdeleno, but my parents had mercy.
December 5th, 2005 at 3:37 pm
error 404, i`m interested in your device. where can i get one, and do i have choice regarding size, shape, etc.?
December 5th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
obligatory: “good shot son, do it again!”
December 5th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
typical moral high ground behaviour. it`s also common amongst school teachers and politicians. bit of a bug in the dna i suppose. oh, yeah, and folk singers and for some strange reason, green day.
December 6th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
They come in every possible size, shape, color, and flavor.
You can get them anywhere. I have a planet-sized one you can use. It’s under your feet.
December 7th, 2005 at 12:29 am
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