Brother Micah returns
Open-air preacher condemns Capstone
Jessie Gable
Contributing writer
Issue date: 3/5/08 Section: News
Former Alabama head football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant is in hell, according to an open-air preacher who came to the Capstone Monday. Don't worry though; John Lennon, Mother Teresa, the Catholics, Baptists and homosexuals are keeping him company.
These are just some of the things onlookers heard when Brother Micah Armstrong returned to the University armed with a Bible and ready to take on the "fornicators" and "whore mongers" that go to the "University of Alcohol" and worship the "God of Jack Daniels."
For the past five years, Micah Armstrong has been coming to the University and preaching outside the Ferguson Center. He's best known for his radical theology that he yells at the crowd gathered around him. Popular sermon topics include adultery, lust, smoking, drinking and homosexuality - all of which lead to hell, Armstrong said.
Other groups of the condemned include Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, Jews, Presbyterians and most Baptists.
"He just accused me of being the reason there are so many lesbians on this campus," said Henri Cheramie, a Jewish student who is a junior majoring in telecommunication and film. "Because I apparently turn them off."
Cheramie said he came to the assembly dressed in an unbuttoned shirt, fedora and Mardi Gras beads, with the numbers "666" written in Sharpie across his stomach to represent the devil.
One practicing Catholic, a female freshman who chose to remain unnamed, punched Armstrong in the face when he said that all Catholics would go to hell for putting Mary on the same level as Jesus Christ. Through the course of the day, Armstrong was hit with a water bottle, water balloon and Frisbee as he continued to preach.
"He's speaking his version of religion," said Karen Martin, a junior majoring in social work. "He's taking scripture out of context."
Armstrong said he bases his sermons on Old and New Testament scriptures, which college students don't read enough of.
These are just some of the things onlookers heard when Brother Micah Armstrong returned to the University armed with a Bible and ready to take on the "fornicators" and "whore mongers" that go to the "University of Alcohol" and worship the "God of Jack Daniels."
For the past five years, Micah Armstrong has been coming to the University and preaching outside the Ferguson Center. He's best known for his radical theology that he yells at the crowd gathered around him. Popular sermon topics include adultery, lust, smoking, drinking and homosexuality - all of which lead to hell, Armstrong said.
Other groups of the condemned include Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, Jews, Presbyterians and most Baptists.
"He just accused me of being the reason there are so many lesbians on this campus," said Henri Cheramie, a Jewish student who is a junior majoring in telecommunication and film. "Because I apparently turn them off."
Cheramie said he came to the assembly dressed in an unbuttoned shirt, fedora and Mardi Gras beads, with the numbers "666" written in Sharpie across his stomach to represent the devil.
One practicing Catholic, a female freshman who chose to remain unnamed, punched Armstrong in the face when he said that all Catholics would go to hell for putting Mary on the same level as Jesus Christ. Through the course of the day, Armstrong was hit with a water bottle, water balloon and Frisbee as he continued to preach.
"He's speaking his version of religion," said Karen Martin, a junior majoring in social work. "He's taking scripture out of context."
Armstrong said he bases his sermons on Old and New Testament scriptures, which college students don't read enough of.
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posted 3/08/08 @ 2:30 PM CST
Most Baptists won't be going to heaven? I'd like to know where he gets that idea from the Bible.
Where do you find that Micah?
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