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The evening after the massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, a California pastor took the opportunity to preach that "God said: When you find a sodomite, put them to death.'" A video of the sermon was uploaded by the church, then deleted "for violating YouTube's policy on hate speech." A copy of the video uploaded by someone else, describing the sermon as "despicable," was allowed to remain.
coverage:
- Sacramento Bee
- CBS (about sermon)
- New York Daily News
- Washington Post
further information:
Facebook page for Verity Baptist Church
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday June 15 2016, @01:49PM
He has money therefore he must have acquired it immorally? WTF?
By that logic we should arrest you and take your car because you must have carjacked somebody.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday June 15 2016, @02:24PM
Usury used to be to charge or acquire any interest at all [wikipedia.org]. I'm pretty sure this pastor doesn't care much for the Pope's opinion of it being sinful or not.
I wish YouTube would leave stuff like this video up so it gets the rounds of condemnation it deserves.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday June 15 2016, @02:47PM
So we're complaining about a historically obsolete usage of a word to address a Middle Ages practice of the Catholic Church that probably nobody has cared about for a few hundred years. Geez people, pick your battles.
is, as defined today, the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans that unfairly enrich the lender.
A) it's not a loan
B) unfairly enrich the lender
C) sounds like the Pope doesn't care about "any interest at all" these days either.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday June 15 2016, @02:54PM
Geez people, pick your battles.
How about bacon++? Surely the pastor should be kicked off his church if he eats bacon!
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday June 15 2016, @02:59PM
He's a Baptist. I don't think Baptists give a crap about whether or not you eat bacon.
Alcohol, on the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me if they were against (not in an "eternal damnation" sense but in a social sense).
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday June 15 2016, @03:51PM
You think we're pedantic? Religion has more pointless flamewars than emacs vs. vi. [christianforums.com] So yes, people still argue over ancient superstitions and prohibitions from the literal "Word of God".
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday June 15 2016, @04:12PM
Hey, I'm all about having a good argument about how Christianity judged by its own rules doesn't make sense half the time :)
However I also like to set the record straight when somebody criticizes something about it where they have their facts wrong. Not that that shoe really fits you in this case.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by naubol on Wednesday June 15 2016, @04:56PM
You know why Baptists avoid having sex standing up? They're afraid someone will think they're dancing.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mcgrew on Wednesday June 15 2016, @04:50PM
You're confusing Judaism with Christianity. Mark 7:15, [mcgrewbooks.com] in Christ's own words, "There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man."
What this preacher does wrong is HATING. A Christian is supposed to love EVERYONE and hate only sin, that we're all sinners.
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, sometime they're standing on the pulpit preaching the exact opposite of what Jesus taught.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience