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Atheist Lake Charles Family threatened by 'Christians'
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:46 pm
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Open letter from the Dad:
I hope the 'christian' that left the threats is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 1st Amendment means nothing to this whacko.
Good on the dad for staying level headed and offering to get to the root of the problem.
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Jon Jeffels, whose family received the anonymous notes, is handling this as well as he possible can. He reported the messages to the police and moved the other members of his family to an undisclosed location for the time being. Jeffels also wants to reiterate that this appears to be the work of one or two people, certainly not representative of the religious population at large.
Open letter from the Dad:
quote:
An open letter.
To whoever is leaving us these hateful notes in our mailbox, I implore you to contact me directly and allow us to have a reasoned discussion over what has happened up to this point. If the group that I am part of is offending you and your beliefs, then let’s talk about why that is, and how we can move beyond it.
Despite the obvious threats that you have made against me and my family, I have done nothing but encourage people to try to co-exist with the local communities. It hasn’t been easy because my family is my world and they have been threatened, but I also understand that your beliefs are your world to you and you feel that those are just as threatened by us in some way.
I want to understand why you are threatening us like this, and why you didn’t just message me directly in an interactive fashion – that’s perhaps the most frustrating part of all of this. There is no need to terrorize us and make us feel unsafe and unwelcome in our own home, not to mention in our own community. Why do you feel the need to follow that path? Threats won’t make us change our beliefs, nor would we wish to try and change yours, but through reasoned discussion I hope that we stand a chance of understanding one another better and co-existing on common ground that we can discover together.
I don’t want for anyone to get hurt, lose their job, or even worse over all of this if we can work this all out as reasonably and amicably as possible. Let’s set a positive example and use this as an opportunity to bridge a gap in understanding on both sides of this issue. Despite all of the stress, concern, and paranoia that you have generated, I want us to be able to produce something good from it all. We may not be able to agree on a lot of things, but I hope that we can cement home that instigating fear is not the best way forward for anyone and that everyone benefits from reasoned discussion.
Yours in anticipation,
Jon Jeffels.
I hope the 'christian' that left the threats is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 1st Amendment means nothing to this whacko.
Good on the dad for staying level headed and offering to get to the root of the problem.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:53 pm to colorchangintiger
Anonymous threats are the mark of a true coward.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:54 pm to colorchangintiger
As catholic i find it funny they called Atheist devil worshipers.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:55 pm to colorchangintiger
False flag, I guarantee it
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:56 pm to colorchangintiger
He probably wrote it himself to get attention.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:57 pm to AFtigerFan
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He probably wrote it himself to get attention.
This
No self respecting Christian would do this. It's either a false flag done by himself, or a troll.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:57 pm to AFtigerFan
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He probably wrote it himself to get attention.
This post was edited on 10/10/14 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:59 pm to goldennugget
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No self respecting Christian would do this.
You couldn't see someone like WBC doing this?
Posted on 10/10/14 at 2:59 pm to AFtigerFan
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Fan He probably wrote it himself to get attention.
Whoever wrote it needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:00 pm to goldennugget
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No self respecting Christian would do this
i've lived around a ton of christians without self respect, then
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:00 pm to taylork37
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You couldn't see someone like WBC doing this?
Hasn't really been their MO.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:00 pm to taylork37
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He probably wrote it himself to get attention.
Ah, you got me. I should have put "typed" instead of wrote.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:01 pm to taylork37
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You couldn't see someone like WBC doing this?
The fact that it is filled with bad spelling, grammatical errors, etc. makes it too obvious that this is just an attempt to make Christians look bad.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:02 pm to colorchangintiger
Just like 'real' Muslims don't chop off heads, real Christians don't do this.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:02 pm to colorchangintiger
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I hope the 'christian' that left the threats is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 1st Amendment means nothing to this whacko.
Why? Its their religious freedom to do whatever their religion tells them to do.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:03 pm to colorchangintiger
If true, whomever typed the notes should be charged with harassment.
HOWEVER, this screams bullshite.
HOWEVER, this screams bullshite.
This post was edited on 10/10/14 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:03 pm to goldennugget
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False flag, I guarantee it
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:04 pm to goldennugget
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False flag, I guarantee it
My first thought as well.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:04 pm to TrueTiger
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Just like 'real' Muslims don't chop off heads, real Christians don't do this.
That's just deflecting the problem. Christians need to stand up and say this is not acceptable.
As to whether or not this is a false flag, it could be, I don't know the guy, but there has been some buzz/threats towards this 'atheist church' in the past.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 3:06 pm to Bard
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This post was edited on 10/3/20 at 12:51 am
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