If Atheism writes upon the blackboard of the Universe a question mark, it writes it for the purpose of stating that there is a question yet to be answered. Is it not better to place a question mark upon a problem while seeking an answer than to put the label "God" there and consider the matter solved? Does not the word "God" only confuse and make more difficult the solution by assuming a conclusion that is utterly groundless and palpably absurd? -- Joseph Lewis

Once again the Maggot Punks make themselves into human shields to guard the constitution and freedoms in Wichita, Ks. This time Mark Holick, a preacher who has had is ordination revoked by his order, lead 7 people on a 'foaming at the mouth' protest against X-citement Video, a local adult entertainment venue. Mark invoked his right, as a christian, to know and dictate what everyone does with their sex organs. He also invoked his divine right to accost and invade the privacy of patrons of a perfectly legal business.

D-cubed and Mr Zero arrived on the scene about 8:30. We got out of the car and began gathering our equipment(camera's, anal lube, tape recorders, etc) from the backseat. Immediately the shouts began. "God can save you from this addiction". We first went inside the business to inform the proprietor that we were present and would be harassing them as much, if not more, than they were harassing the patrons. The kept shouting "can we talk to you?" Mr Zero replied 4 times "in a minute, dick head." Apparently these aren't very patient Christians.

We came back outside and walked to the property line (protestors have to stay on the public sidewalk but the Maggot

Punks get free run of the property) and assessed the situation. There was one elderly woman standing on the median strip of the major thoroughfare. There was another dumbass with his arms wrapped around his 10 year old son trying to keep him warm. There were lots of signs with half truths and untruths being carried by angry Christians. In true Zero form, Mr Zero walked right up to them all and started shooting (with his camera, of course).

Mark Holick was immediately interested in Mr Zero's sex life (MP3 1:02 1.49MB). After we got that out of the way, Mark Holick began a conversation (MP3 5:36 8.1MB) with Mr Zero. Mark was taken back a bit when Mr Zero told him that his Jesus story was "a bunch of shit". So Mark tries firing back with an inert Bible verses Before, he even said a word, Mr Zero said "let me guess, you're gonna quote psalms". And just as sure as Brad Bennett had 11 full meals today out comes Psalms 14:1 . Mark also challenged Mr Zero with Pascal's wager (if you don't know what it is, look it up) Mr Zero brought up the illegal political statement that Mark put on his billboard. Mark insisted that it was not a political statement but rather spiritual and biblical statement. The statement read "[Kathleen] Sebelius accepted $35,000 from abortionist George Tiller price of 77 babies". We may be a bit of a

biased source on this one so we decided to do some research. We searched the Bible Gateway for about 2 hours and couldn't find any reference to Kathleen Sebelius, George Tiller or any law that had anything to do with campaign finance. We are having a hard time accepting that this was not a political statement but again, we may be a little biased. Do you think it was a political statement? Vote in our poll (registration with our discussion forums required, don't worry, we don't spam).

The self righteous Christians had decided to bring their camcorders to intimidate the patrons. Their were two camcorders, one was operated by Mark Holick and had a flashlight taped to the top. It was rendered useless when Mr Zero parked his fat ass in front of it. It really wasn't necessary because the lens cap stayed on the entire time.

The other camcorder was operated by a FFF who we haven't seen in quite sometime. Leon Hiebret, AKA Jurassic Pork was the other

viedographer. We used to think that Leon was just a big dumb idiot but on this night we found out that he is a terrorist just like all the rest. He video taped Mr Zero's licence plate. Mr Zero confronted him and ask what he was going to do with that information. He was specifically asked if he was going to come to Mr Zero's house, damage his property and assault him like other Christians have done in the past. Leon didn't answer and tried to play tough. Well Leon if you plan on coming to Mr Zero's house to "confront him in Christian love" we have two words of advice for you; bring friends

A Bunch of Them

D-Cubed engaged himself in a conversation with the only peaceful Christian around. This guy called himself Ken. Ken challenged D-Cubed with Pascal's wager. DDD was fairly quick to dismiss conclusion 4 by casting very serious doubt on hell's existence (MP3 1:05 1.5MB). Ken claims to be a "programmer" at boeing so D-cubed asked him a very simple question, "is the earth a circle or a sphere?" Ken thought he was being original by fist dodging the question and then giving a ridiculous answer. He says that

the earth is a circle because all he can see is a circle when he looks down upon it. Based on that logic, god does not exist because no one can see him. D-Cubed and Mr Zero then confront ken about Leviticus 11:6 and Deuteronomy 14:7 , both of which present a known factual error that rabbits chew their cud. Ken claimed that we were taking the verse out of context. Click here to read Leviticus chapter 11. Click here to read Deuteronomy chapter 14. You decide if it was taken out of context (wow, we are telling people to read the bible and decide for themselves. Christians don't do that. I wonder why not). Click here (MP3 1:09 1.6MB) to hear a quick excerpt from the conversation with Ken. Ken concluded this debate by assuring us (MP3 0:19 464KB)that the Kansas City chiefs are God's favorite team.

Interestingly enough, there was a reporter from the Wichita Eagle present at the protest. Uncharacteristic for journalists in Wichita, this guy actually wanted to get both sides of the story in order for him to write an objective article. He pulled Mr Zero aside and spoke with him for about 10 minutes. Click here (MP3 0:50 1.2MB) to hear a quick excerpt from that conversation.

Perhaps the most interesting moron present was the whitest black man in America (pictured left). We don't know his name but he sure acted like an Uncle Tom so that's what we will call him. By the time he got up the balls to say something to us, we had run out of audio tape. This was unfortunate because he was the most humorous of them all. Mr Zero engaged him in a conversation that went something like this:

Mr Zero (MZ): What about your ancestors who practiced the religion of Yoruba? Did they go to heaven or hell

Uncle Tom (UT): If you have Jesus in your heart you go to heaven
MZ: So what about your ancestors that practiced Yoruba? Heaven or hell?
UT: Do you believe in heaven or hell?
MZ: No
UT: Then you can't talk about it (walks away)
MZ: (pursuing) OK, I will concede to the existence of heaven and hell for the purposes of the argument. What happened to your ancestors that practiced Yorbua? Heaven or hell?
UT: So where are you going?
MZ: I'll go to hell. What about your ancestors that practiced Yorbua? Heaven or hell?
UT: I don't know, I don't know anything about Yorbua.
MZ: Yorbua has several gods and Jesus is not part of their religion. Did they go to heaven or hell?
UT: Where are you gonna go?
MZ: I already told you, I am going to hell. I have conceded to the existence of heaven and hell and conceded to your contention that I am going to hell. Now would you please answer my question?
UT: The only thing that matters is that you are going to hell. Don't worry about anyone else except for yourself.
MZ: Well then what the fuck are you doing here worrying all the people going into a porn shop?
UT: If you know you are going to hell, you need to do something about it right now.
MZ: Back to the original topic. Your ancestors that practiced Yorbua, heaven or hell?
UT: Read this sign, 70% of all rapists use porn. Are you proud of that? Why are you protecting this?
MZ: About your ancestors who practiced Yorbura, heaven or hell?
UT: You are so ashamed of your life that you can't even have a conversation and stick to the topic.

Have you ever noticed how an atheist has no problem answering questions from a theist but the thiest avoids, dodges and refuses to answer an atheist's question? BTW, Holick invited the Maggot Punks to harass him, think we'll get another invite in the future?

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