'War on Easter' waged

[Soldier4Christ]

A media company that produced a best-selling documentary asserting that Jesus Christ never existed today launches its "War on Easter," encouraging volunteer atheists to plant copies of the film "The God Who Wasn't There" in churches across the United States.

Dubbing the effort "Operation Easter Sanity," Brian Flemming, a self-described "former Christian fundamentalist" and president of Beyond Belief Media, hopes to covertly place 666 copies of the documentary in churches by Easter Sunday, April 16. The number 666 is the biblical mark of "The Beast," which also is the name of another film by Flemming set for a 06-06-06 release.

"People go to churches to hide from the truth," Flemming said in a statement. "At no time is this more apparent than Easter, when Christians get together to convince each other that a man died, stayed dead three days, rose from the dead and then flew into the air above the clouds.

"Our nonviolent campaign sends the message that nowhere in the country is safe from the truth. Wherever Christian leaders are indoctrinating children with 2,000-year-old fairy tales, the truth may just find its way there."

Continued the former Christian: "Our 'War on Easter' is of course completely without violence of any kind. Christians believe that beating a man to a pulp and nailing him to a cross somehow solves all the world's problems. Beyond Belief Media does not."

"The God Who Wasn't There" is currently No. 5 on Amazon.com's list of best-selling documentaries.

Fleming claims to have planted copies of the DVD at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles Sunday morning.

"I put the DVDs in my right inside jacket pocket," he explained on the War on Easter website. "It was a gorgeous Palm Sunday. The kind of day that makes you want to ride on a donkey and get hit with palm fronds. …

"As soon as the Mass was over, I got to work hiding DVDs and flyers in hymnals and the like."

Fleming posted a photo of Cardinal Roger Mahony and himself allegedly taken after the Mass.

Responded "Eric" on the site: "Why do you feel the need to spread hate? Just because you are miserable doesn’t give you the right to lash out. Listen, you need some professional help. You remind me of Hitler and what he was trying to do. Are you proud of that?"

Another poster encouraged Flemming: "That is just awesome. Someday people will wake up, and I hope your crusade helps to do just that."

[ollie]

A media company that produced a best-selling documentary asserting that Jesus Christ never existed today launches its "War on Easter," encouraging volunteer atheists to plant copies of the film "The God Who Wasn't There" in churches across the United States.

Dubbing the effort "Operation Easter Sanity," Brian Flemming, a self-described "former Christian fundamentalist" and president of Beyond Belief Media, hopes to covertly place 666 copies of the documentary in churches by Easter Sunday, April 16. The number 666 is the biblical mark of "The Beast," which also is the name of another film by Flemming set for a 06-06-06 release.

"People go to churches to hide from the truth," Flemming said in a statement. "At no time is this more apparent than Easter, when Christians get together to convince each other that a man died, stayed dead three days, rose from the dead and then flew into the air above the clouds.

"Our nonviolent campaign sends the message that nowhere in the country is safe from the truth. Wherever Christian leaders are indoctrinating children with 2,000-year-old fairy tales, the truth may just find its way there."

Continued the former Christian: "Our 'War on Easter' is of course completely without violence of any kind. Christians believe that beating a man to a pulp and nailing him to a cross somehow solves all the world's problems. Beyond Belief Media does not."

"The God Who Wasn't There" is currently No. 5 on Amazon.com's list of best-selling documentaries.

Fleming claims to have planted copies of the DVD at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles Sunday morning.

"I put the DVDs in my right inside jacket pocket," he explained on the War on Easter website. "It was a gorgeous Palm Sunday. The kind of day that makes you want to ride on a donkey and get hit with palm fronds. …

"As soon as the Mass was over, I got to work hiding DVDs and flyers in hymnals and the like."

Fleming posted a photo of Cardinal Roger Mahony and himself allegedly taken after the Mass.

Responded "Eric" on the site: "Why do you feel the need to spread hate? Just because you are miserable doesn’t give you the right to lash out. Listen, you need some professional help. You remind me of Hitler and what he was trying to do. Are you proud of that?"

Another poster encouraged Flemming: "That is just awesome. Someday people will wake up, and I hope your crusade helps to do just that."

Any war on "Easter" should contain the weapons that be of Christ and His doctrines as revealed by the Holy Spirit to inspired men about Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven with all power and authority in heaven and earth. How Christians are to commune and remember such till He comes again.

ollie

[airIam2worship]

"People go to churches to hide from the truth," Flemming said in a statement.

Mr. Flemming will have nowhere to hide on that day when he will no longer be able to say that Jesus is not the Savior. If he thinks what he is saying is the truth he is saddly mistaken, and in for a BIG surprise.

"Our nonviolent campaign sends the message that nowhere in the country is safe from the truth. Wherever Christian leaders are indoctrinating children with 2,000-year-old fairy tales, the truth may just find its way there."

Let's just wait and see when Flemming fianally comes to terms with what the TRUTH really is, when it smacks him right in the face, certainly it's not what he thinks. Oh by the way MR Flemming you have no idea what violent is, just wait until you see our GOD's wrath against the likes of you

"The God Who Wasn't There"

Praise God, Glory Haleluyah, Thank God He wasn't there, if He had been then we would all be doomed, BUT because He wasn't there then we know the Scriptures are talking about our Lord Jesus.
Just in case you forgot former christian

Mt 28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

"As soon as the Mass was over, I got to work hiding DVDs and flyers in hymnals and the like."

Flemming you must not have been very proud of what you were doing, in fact I'm pretty sure you were AFRAID of being caught. That goes to show how much you believe in what you preach. Sneaking around and hiding your garbage just for the record, GOD was watching

A media company that produced a best-selling documentary asserting that Jesus Christ never existed today launches its "War on Easter,"
"The God Who Wasn't There" is currently No. 5 on Amazon.com's list of best-selling documentaries.

Two more pieces of garbage to be thrown in with the rest of the blasphemous trash that is being marketed nowadays.

 "Why do you feel the need to spread hate? Just because you are miserable doesn't give you the right to lash out. Listen, you need some professional help. You remind me of Hitler and what he was trying to do. Are you proud of that?"

Flemming enjoy your 15 minutes of flame (OOPS I meant fame), because you will have all eternity to enjoy the flame

With that being said.
PRAISE GOD, HALELLUYAH, HE IS RISEN

[Soldier4Christ]

PRAISE GOD, HALELLUYAH, HE IS RISEN

Amen, Sister Maria!

[Shammu]

PRAISE GOD, HALELLUYAH, HE IS RISEN

AMEN sister AMEN!!

[Mockingbird]

Not sure what Flemming thinks he's accomplishing...  I mean, he's wasting his time and money on planting this stuff in churches, and all the churches have to do is throw the stuff in the garbage.  And intentionally using the number 666... what is he, in junior high?  (no offense to junior highschoolers)     

Okay, I have to admit I was curious as to how the movie actually became a best seller, so I looked it up on Amazon and found these comments: 

Imagine watching a home movie thrown together by an angry adolescent who was kicked out of a Christian high school for smoking pot and wants to get back at the principal by making a documentary trashing Christianity and, especially, Christians. That's about the level of discourse you will find in this movie.

As a hint to how bad this movie is, it begins by interviewing a number of Christians and marveling at how happy they all are. Then the narrator ominously states, "But not all Christians are happy." It then shows us pictures of four or five "unhappy Christians", the first of whom is . . . Charles Manson! At that point (about 1 minute into the film), the movie lost any credibility. And, in all honestly, it never gets much better.

Tom Wolfe said that an intellectual is someone with expertise in one area who speaks out in another, and this would certainly apply to atheist zoologist Richard Dawkins who is featured as an authority in this film about Jesus Christ.

This film takes aim squarely at the ordinary believing-but-ignorant Christian on the street. It makes no attempt to fight toe-to-toe with any heavyweight academic theologians.

Brian packs this short film with a ton of info. I loved it. As a long self proclaimed athiest myself, it was great to have so much more information to solidify my beliefs.
However, therein lies the problem. Brian, the filmmaker, doesn't leave the conclusion to the audience to decide. He drills his opinion into the audiences' head, much like the Christians did to him. Sad. He is clearly pretty angry for what was done to him (with good cause - don't get me wrong) but he was more interested in lashing out than having a sincere debate with the experts in their field.

(obviously this one is from an atheist =-)


Of course most of the reviews praise the film to no end, but most of them seem to be what Jesus referred to as rocky soil... or in other words, the choir that Flemming was preaching to. 

Anyway, I think of Flemming as a little man who is easily ignored.  As for the people who are somehow taken in by his teaching, I pray God will help them find their way to someone who can show them real love and truth.   

[Soldier4Christ]

what is he, in junior high?  (no offense to junior highschoolers)     

Amen. I know of many junior highschoolers with more maturity than this.

As for the people who are somehow taken in by his teaching, I pray God will help them find their way to someone who can show them real love and truth.   

I pray that same prayer.


My only concern about this material being in the churches is that it gets found by children or those visiting that have not found Christ as their Saviour. Those of us that are solid Christians need to be on the look out for this garbage and place it where it belongs  .......   in the garbage.

[Mockingbird]

My only concern about this material being in the churches is that it gets found by children or those visiting that have not found Christ as their Saviour. Those of us that are solid Christians need to be on the look out for this garbage and place it where it belongs  .......   in the garbage.

Agreed!  I have sent an e-mail to everyone I know so that they may be watchful for this and hopefully forward it to others.  I'm actually glad Flemming made a public statement; had not his pride been so great, we may not have known. 

"Be self controlled and alert.  Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.  Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings."
1 Peter 5:8-9