Gingi Edmonds: Ghoulish freakazoid
One of the great things about being an atheist is that you don’t have to kowtow to some mean-ass god who would smite innocent children to punish their grandparents. Of course, you don’t have to be an atheist to enjoy freedom from such an asshole of a deity: Millions of sane Christians and adherents of other religions are also capable of compassion and humility and attribute these traits to their higher power.
And then there are ghoulish freakazoids like Gingi Edmonds, people who imagine that they’re playing a starring role in some spiritual drama featuring a vengeful god who strikes down young families to teach the survivors a lesson.
Who’s Gingi Edmonds? I don’t know. Just some pro-life asshole who had this to say about the recent plane crash in Montana:
Some of you may have seen the major news story of the private plane that crashed into a Montana cemetery, killing 7 children and 7 adults.
But what the news sources fail to mention is that the Catholic Holy Cross Cemetery owned by Resurrection Cemetery Association in Butte - contains a memorial for local residents to pray the rosary, at the ‘Tomb of the Unborn’. This memorial, located a short distance west of the church, was erected as a dedication to all babies who have died because of abortion.
What else is the mainstream news not telling you? The family who died in the crash near the location of the abortion victim’s memorial, is the family of Irving ‘Bud’ Feldkamp, owner of the largest for-profit abortion chain in the nation.
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The plane went down on Sunday, killing two of Feldkamp’s daughters, two sons-in-law and five grandchildren along with the pilot and four family friends. The plane, a single-engine turboprop flown by Bud Summerfield of Highland, crashed into the Catholic cemetery and burst into flames, only 500 ft. from its landing destination. All aboard were killed.
The cause of the crash is a mystery… Some speculate that the crash was due to ice on the wings, but this particular plane model has been tested for icy weather and experts have stated that ice being the cause is unlikely.
In my time working for Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, I helped organize and conduct a weekly campaign where youth activists stood outside of Feldkamp’s mini-mansion in Redlands holding fetal development signs and raising community awareness regarding Feldkamp’s dealings in child murder for profit. Every Thursday afternoon we called upon Bud and his wife Pam to repent, seek God’s blessing and separate themselves from the practice of child killing.
We warned him, for his children’s sake, to wash his hands of the innocent blood he assisted in spilling because, as Scripture warns, if “you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you”. (Ezekiel 35:6)
A news source states that Bud Feldkamp visited the site of the crash with his wife and their two surviving children on Monday. As they stood near the twisted and charred debris talking with investigators, light snow fell on the tarps that covered the remains of their children.
I don’t want to turn this tragic event into some creepy spiritual “I told you so” moment, but I think of the time spent outside of Feldkamp’s - Pam Feldkamp laughing at the fetal development signs, Bud Feldkamp trying not to make eye contact as he got into his car with a small child in tow - and I think of the haunting words, “Think of your children.” I wonder if those words were haunting Feldkamp as well as he stood in the snow among the remains of loved ones, just feet from the ‘Tomb of the Unborn’?
Emphasis mine because, well, it’s too fucking late, Gingi – you totally turned this tragedy into a “creepy spiritual ’I told you so.’” And you know what? It speaks volumes about the kind of person you are.
It doesn’t sound like you hate the bloodshed in Montana, Gingi. On the contrary, it sounds like you imagine some sort of self-serving vindication in it and gloat at the pain of the people who once ignored you or laughed at your group’s ghoulish signs.
I sincerely hope Ezekiel 35:6 doesn’t come back to bite you on the ass. Ironically, that makes my stance on this issue more “Christian” than yours. So let me scramble back to the heathen camp with a hearty “fuck you” to you for producing the most despicable, self-aggrandizing piece of shit column I’ve read in months, and believe me, that’s saying something. I hope you grow the fuck up someday and have the grace to be ashamed of yourself for writing that piece.
[Article via Sullivan. Cross-posted at Betty Cracker.]
Posted by Betty Cracker on 03/24/09 at 10:34 PM • Permalink
Why didn’t you post the entire article? Why didn’t you mention the prayer for him and the rest of his family? It’s easy to demonize someone when you take them out of context. And where did it say that God had anything to do with the accident? Since you say you are atheist, I assume you also don’t believe in Satan, or just ‘evil’? The belief that ‘you sow what you reap’ is just another way of saying ‘what goes around comes around’. There is evil in the universe, and when a man makes money off the mangled bodies of innocent pre-born babies, he’s just asking for some evil to visit him. He’s obviously turned his back on God, so, God left him and his family to their own devices. That’s like leaving your door unlocked as you leave town and shout across the street to your neighbors that you’ll be gone for a few days. You become a target.
Here’s another thing I’m sure you won’t understand…when you have seen a person’s face, prayed for them, known they were on a dangerous path, and then something happens to them, you feel it. I don’t know if I can put this any way someone as hateful has you sound will understand, but imagine if your friend was falling down drunk, you knew he shouldn’t drive, you knew he had bad tires on his car, AND you knew the bridge was out. If you TRIED to warn him, tried to stop him, and he still got away from you and the the worst happened…wouldn’t you feel a gut punch? As a Christian we love the sinner, hate the sin. Praying for this man and his family happened long before the accident…then again when the accident was first reported (without the names), prayed again…then, when it was announced just who it was…it was a dreaded feeling of, ‘maybe we should have tried harder’.
And even though Gingi isn’t with “Survivors” any longer, the name implies anyone born after 1973, when abortion on demand became legal. They are considered ‘survivors’ of the holocaust of our age…the genocide of over 50 million children.
Oh, and to Allan, Gingi is my second of 3 children with my husband of 25 years. I named her after a friend.
So, as Gingi’s original post mentions, hopefully this tragic event will illustrate to Dr. Feldkamp how precious life is, and he will end his association with the death brokers in these abortion mills.
God Bless.
Comment by Saxon on
03/25/09 at 03:28 AM
Saxon: Why didn’t you post the entire article? Why didn’t you mention the prayer for him and the rest of his family? It’s easy to demonize someone when you take them out of context.
Well, I linked to the entire thing. (That’s one of those “internet traditions,” you know.) But to be honest, I didn’t find the so-call prayer for him and his family particularly exculpatory. It seems more about Gingi being righteous, imploring God to use the tragedy to bring the Feldkamps around to her point of view. But here it is:
I only hope and pray that in the face of this tragedy, Feldkamp recognizes his need for repentance and reformation. I pray that God will use this unfortunate catastrophe to soften the hearts of Bud and Pam and that they will draw close to the Lord and wash their hands of the blood of thousands of innocent children, each as precious and irreplaceable as their own.
I’ll leave it to our fair-minded readers to judge whether that “prayer” expresses Christian compassion for the Feldcamps.
Saxon: And where did it say that God had anything to do with the accident? [snip] He’s [Felkamp] obviously turned his back on God, so, God left him and his family to their own devices.
You just said it yourself too, genius. According to you, God left 4-year-old Taylor, 3-year-old Ava, 1-year-old Jude, 9-year-old Sydney, 7-year-old Christopher, 5-year-old Heiley and 3-year-old Caleb unprotected against evil because he [God] was pissed off at their grandfather. Nice imaginary friend you’ve got there, Saxon and Gingi.
Saxon: Here’s another thing I’m sure you won’t understand…[snip - blah-blah-blah - snip] As a Christian we love the sinner, hate the sin. Praying for this man and his family happened long before the accident…then again when the accident was first reported (without the names), prayed again…then, when it was announced just who it was…it was a dreaded feeling of, ‘maybe we should have tried harder’.
As a Jesus Camp refugee myself, I understand that mindset better than you think. The “love the sinner, hate the sin” line is invariably trotted out to justify condemnations issued with maximum self-righteous, and your use of it is no exception.
Gingi’s supposed “love” for the Feldkamps hardly comes through in the article. There’s not a scrap of compassion in it. On the contrary, it sounds like an ugly little sack dance in end zone of a devastated opponent. I’m sure she learned such behavior at your knee. Maybe you should both pray for a little humility and compassion.