Guess Who’s Picketing George Carlin’s Funeral?

The only hell that exists is in people’s frenzied fear-controlled imaginations.

With that in mind, I submit this to you: George Carlin saved more people from hell than Christianity ever did.

First off, its so sad. The Great George Carlin was one of the most influential (other than Lenny Bruce) comedians of our time. I even took an English course in college called “The Rhetoric of Comedy” and he was one of the comedians we studied. The way he used and played with language is something I can certainly relate to.

Secondly, what part of we don’t believe in (your) hell, don’t they understand? 😉

I can’t access this site from my work desk because the I.T. Department has it blocked for the posted reason of “Hate Speech”. Yet, I can access Dr. James Dobson’s “Focus on The Family”. I work for the Government of the County of Montgomery, in the state of Alabama. That’s Right… the people you see as punchlines on “Family Guy”, are some my co-workers.

From the PDF:

“the obscene potty-mouth skeptic, agnostic, and profane atheist”

You can be both? Interesting!

“now he must deal with God- face to face -for ever”

Umm, doesn’t hell generally involve the absence of God?

I sincerely hope I’ll have done such things in my life to have those Westboro idiots picketing my funeral. It just marks how influential and such great guy George Carlin was.

“the obscene potty-mouth skeptic, agnostic, and profane atheist”

You can be both? Interesting!

If you define atheism broadly as “Having no belief in god(s)”, then an agnostic would also be an atheist (sometimes, agnosticism is called “weak atheism” to emphasize the relationship). The other common, narrow definition of atheism, “Believing god(s) do(es) not exist”, which would exclude agnosticism, would then be called “strong atheism” under the broad definition.

So, anyways, you can actually be both, depending on whether you use a broad or a narrow definition of atheism. I typically think of atheism in terms of the broad definition, myself, and consider agnosticism to be a form of atheism.

How about this for a counter-picketing sign:

“My absence of an imaginary God is bigger than your imagined all hating God”.

These picketers only help discredit their brand of religion. It’s a good thing.

What a Xtian attitude the Westboro morons have. So refreshing to see someone with the…ahem…courage of their convictions. Isn’t it time they were convicted again and ALL their assets stripped away?

As a christian i will say, these people are acting ignorantly. It’s really sad. We all know how much good is being done for this world by caring picket signs and celebrating the death of a human…this church is going to change the world…………..

I can understand why a person couldn’t believe in their “god”

It’s even funnier for me because I was totally convinced while I was reading it that it was courtesy of Landover Baptist. It wasn’t until I was done and went to close it that I noticed the URL. Ahahaha. I’m sure he’d be even more pleased he got the attention of the real nutters.

How do the members of the Westboro Baptist Church make money? Do they have day jobs?

Next in the news: shock and revulsion at muslim extremists half way around the world.

Sigh.

This would’ve been awesome new material for George’s next show! I think he’d get a big kick out them protesting his funeral.

Those Baptists are so charitable to those less fortunate (unenlightened). Dumb Jesus-Fuckers!

George was simply the greatest. He will be in heaven long before the zionisr Christians. Vale to a graeat man…

… I’m lovin’ it – just as I’m sure George would. It would actually be an insult if the Phelps group didn’t picket.

Their zip code is 66604 … LOL

As sage Mark Twain said, “Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company”.
I, for one, would enjoy the company.

I think Carlin would love this.

Wouldn’t it be great if this could be turned into an opportunity to raise money for some group which Carlin either supported or would have supported, especially if it were a group that would be something Phelps would protest–gay groups are the easiest choice, but any atheist organization would work too.

Get people to pledge a certain amount per protester or something like that.

Wow. They seem so sure of themselves.

Aparently, god also hates shrimp.

Steve,

Old meme, but God also hates figs.

that is so funny!! George bless You! George Bless You! George Bless YOU!!

this is the most disgusting thing i have ever heard. who are these people damning anybody to hell. george carlin was an on the money comedian he talked about stuff many people agreed with. he was a comic genius..it is his choice to be an athiest.remember freedom of religion?? it would be a terrible thing to have people protest this mans funeral. RIP George we will miss you

George Carlin has always been an idol of mine. Scratch that, THE idol of mine. I grew up listening to his tapes and his loss has been devastating to me. At least he stayed sharp right until the end rather than becoming a senile old fart. I’m slightly offended by this, but me and the millions like me merely existing is more than slightly offensive to them, so it all levels out. The man would have loved this, I say. He made his career out of lambasting idiots like this and calling them out on their bullshit, and it is only fitting that we and those attending the funeral continue in this great tradition.

Listen, Fred Phelps, and the rest of those ignorant cock suckers need to get a fucking life. However I did learn something from Phelps. . . god has a lot of hate built up inside of him, and this has led to some improperly channeled anger. You all saw the bullshit signs that Phelps was promoting; “thank god for 9/11” “thank god for dead soldiers” ect. . . But at least I now know who is on gods shit list.

God hates fags, god hates A-rabs. God hates spics, god hates chicks. God hates chinks, dinks, nogs, and frogs. God hates squaws, honky’s, and kike’s. God hates midgets riding on little bikes. God hates gringo’s guinea’s, and gooks. But he doesn’t seem to mind some special interest groups.

I just want to know one thing; where does Phelps, (this self proclaimed muscle turd) get off guaranteeing that Mr. Carlin is in hell?! Where the fuck did Phelps get the arrogant notion that he has an intimate knowledge of who’s going to heaven or hell? Was he a summer temp at St. Peters gate?! “FUCK EM”!!!!

For anybody who wants to picket the protesters picketing George Carlin’s life. . . the signs you should be holding are signs that will piss all those hyper-religious ass fucks off. Signs like: “There is no god”, or “We are free thinkers who will not fall weary to any of your scare tactics; which in retrospect means that you all have successfully turned your god into a terrorist”. Because listen folks, anybody who uses fear to control people is exercising terroristic ideals.

George Carlin will always be remembered. For anybody who is still pissed off at that chicken shit, pussy faced, coward who waited until after G.C. was dead, to come out spewing diarrhea out of his mouth onto a fleshy patch where some sort of genitalia should be, and where his balls should have dropped. This recording helped me out a bit:
Play Phelps’ recording before listening to what I like to think of as Carlin’s answer from beyond the grave. Because it wasn’t until after he died that I stumbled upon this.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=it9kpZHXhxI

CARLIN ROCKS!!!

Phelps vitriolic hatred nullifies anything else he says before or after that, as far as I’m concerned. To “preach” claiming to be a Christian; and then promote HATE – whatever you say after that it totally invalidated.

He claims to be a “Christian Pastor” however he has NOTHING to do with Christ. Whether you believe in Jesus or not, nowhere in Bible text is Christ advocating HATRED toward others. This hate-monger and his wacko followers’ showing up at funeral demonstrations might get press, but it is merely callous theater.

Back in ’96 in Nashville, on the day of the funeral for Al Gore Sr., (vice pres Al Gore jr.s father) Phelps showed up with a few followers with large signs that said “GOD HATES FAGS Romans 9:13” because, according to Phelps, his son “sold his soul to the fag agenda.” His followers join up they enjoy telling people to “go to hell.” Period. Chop Chop.

Good point Chop Chop. . .
Everything that I’ve read here has been great, but. . . I think everybody would agree with me in saying that “I would have loved to have seen George rip into Phelps” on a more personal level.

I don’t know it still feels like an old friend has just gone away. It still feels like he was just here a second ago.

Thanks Angie, you’re right. . . George bless you too.
A few days ago someone said to me “did you hear George Carlin kicked the bucket” to which I replied “where”? Now I don’t remember if I heard G.C. say that, or if I came up with that. Regardless, it was a Carlinism, and that along with the ideals to question authority, to take notice of what’s really going on, and to keep in our minds that mostly everybody is full of shit. That is what George left us.

But stilI, we all know George would have caught everything that we saw wrong with Phelps’ point of view, and much more. How about the hypocrisy of George making money off the lord.

It’s kind of funny though, I continually catch myself wanting to say all of the nice things that people say when someone dies. . . but George made fun of all that, and didn’t believe in any of that. So I’m a little torn.

Anyone know when the funeral is or was? I know that there will be a public memorial service, but where and when I don’t know. I’d assume New York.

Ross email me

It has been a while since George ‘passed on’, i.e. died (he would have preferred died)

If there was a god, and there was a heaven and George did not get to enter because narrow minded bigots said he was mean, I would stand outside the gates of heaven and build catapults and besiege it, raze it, burn what I razed, gift them my catapult, burn that and then walk up the the throne of heaven itself and say “fuck you and your intolerant followers”
And I would have the army to defeat him too. I would have hundreds of Greek and Roman tacticians, Mongols and Vikings.