Some people may find themselves asking what exactly is going on in this picture. As a witness of the event myself, I'm not quite sure.
Today, a couple of mysterious men with "Jesus" signs stood around in the Arbor, an outdoor area here at UCSB where students often gather, and shouted what most viewed as obscenities or complete hilarity. Why did they come to our school and feel so compelled to share their "views" with us?
Jeremiah Baldwin, one of the "inspired individuals" that visited today claims that the sole reason for their coming was to "uplift Jesus Christ". Most of the students passing by or debating with him hardly got this feeling. The other man accompanying Jeremiah--"Frank"--was earlier shouting that there are so many different kinds of people nowadays that we need an entire major devoted to the study of them. Yes, he's referring to the "Queer Studies" major. But you know, "in the beginning there were only heterosexuals" so obviously this course of study at our university must be perpetuating this unholy state of mind. The University of California should stop all funding to the Queer Studies program immediately and divert their funds to the Ignorant Bigot Studies Program--they are quite underrepresented in the curricula at the UC.
I wonder why.
Baldwin claimed that there were no specific motivations in coming to UCSB in my interview with him, but it was an interview of course. Only the politically correct version of what these men had been shouting all afternoon came out in that interview. But I was there and I heard the rest.
Frank's earlier comments directly contradicted Baldwins statements that UCSB was not targeted. Frank shouted "The hippie era is dead" and encouraged us to stop with our pot-smoking evils. I mean, our school is fairly liberal leaning, so obviously we're all non-believers that spend our days smoking pot, getting drunk, and having sex. Perhaps there is a portion of the school that does engage in these activities, but who does this man think he is coming and telling us that that's not okay? We already know, it's just fun. Jeeeeeeeeeezus Christ, man. Simmer down!
And of course there are the comments about the Queer Studies Program--I'm sure they stopped at Westmont Christian college in their travels and criticized them for their Queer Studies Program, right? Of course!
Jeremiah also claimed that they were not members of any particular organization. I, for one, am happy to know that these men are the only two crazies out there who were motivated enough to make it to our school to preach this insanity to us between classes. But unfortunately I am reminded that there are bus loads of people who, while not friends of Baldwin and Frank, would be more than happy to relay their same message.
Baldwin's claims didn't end there, however. He said that they were stopping at schools in Los Angeles next, then San Luis Obispo and Northern Calfornia. Why start in Santa Barbara? I guess airfare to our tiny municipal airport must have been cheaper than flying straight into LAX and going in a line up the coast from there. These are logical men, after all. Unless of course he was lying...
Baldwin and Frank met at the Street Preachers Convention in Portland a few years back and I suppose they've been blasphemy hugging, heresy loving spewers ever since.
Perhaps one Christian UCSB student's comments sums it up best of all: "I believe in Jesus Christ who loves everyone--you do not love anyone and nobody loves you".
True that, man. True that.
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