wctaiwan (Archive)

wylie:

frothyparadise:

“The students held a sign reading ‘Figs Doom Nations’ and planted themselves across the street from the WBC, drawing from a Biblical passage in which Jesus disparages a fig tree. ‘If you need scanty biblical evidence for anything, we’ve got it,’ said fourth-year Carmel Levy as he handed out flyers containing biblical citations that read: ‘Jesus rebuked the fig as an evil abomination’ and ‘God Promises Terrible Vengeance Upon Any Fig-Loving Nation.’ ‘We just wanted the world to know that God’s vengeance doesn’t just fall on the gay, but also on the fruit,’ said fourth-year Max Shron….”

So! Who’s for sending a bushel of figs to Fred Phelps’s Westboro Baptist Church? I’ll kick in a sawbuck!

I’ve got a friend who goes to UChicago and was involved with this. He wrote a Facebook note about it, too:

The signs were generally hilarious. Besides the straightforward “God loves equality” and “tolerance” signs, there were

• Cthulhu Hates Chordates
• Figs Doom Nations (citing Matthew 21:18-20, Mark 11:12-14, Jeremiah 29:17) [on the same note, Fig Enablers In Hell]
• God Hates Core Bio
• God Watched the Watchmen, And Thought It Was Shit
• Dog hates dyslexia
• God Hates Syntax
• God Hates Dial-Up
• God Loves Netflix