EXACTLY! So tell us, Libertas_Vel_Mors, how you are doing things differently. Please tell us how you didn't "give up or give in" when the 'authorities' came for you. Please. We're all waiting.
Post the next law you break with a penalty of $100,000 and a year in prison and you might be in the same league as this pastor. Until then, keep winking from Oregon.
...so let them all in anyway, or start organizing house-based services, like the early Christians did under threat of death in Imperial Rome.
Jews doing this in NYC were getting raided by the mayor's goon squad cops.
Yup - and lots of homes got raided in Rome, in England under Henry VIII, and lots of other places where ' unauthorized ' religious activity went on.
Doesn't mean you should give up or give in.
Nobody's saying "give up". They're saying, "These churches/temples/etc. ARE standing up, as you can tell from the arrest records."
Agreed - what I wrote was more generalized and not necessarily a counter-argument.
EXACTLY! So tell us, Libertas_Vel_Mors, how you are doing things differently. Please tell us how you didn't "give up or give in" when the 'authorities' came for you. Please. We're all waiting.
Why, I do exactly as my benevolent government instructs me, Officer Glowfag! I am the very model of the proletariat... do you doubt my sincerity?
(...you think I'd give away such meetings that I may or may not attend? Please tell me you're not that stupid.)
He did and might get 1 year in prison for it. He has more balls than you, keyboard warrior.
Good for him!
As for comparisons, sweet-cheeks, That may or may not be up for debate given my proximity to Portland. OR. ;)
Post the next law you break with a penalty of $100,000 and a year in prison and you might be in the same league as this pastor. Until then, keep winking from Oregon.
I'll get right on that should the opportunity present itself.
So what do you do besides write idiotic things?