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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 Grishnakh on Wednesday June 15 2016, @03:16PM
Do you hold up China's failure as an atheist nation to positively intervene in the world, to feed the hungry and mediate between warring parties and give billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid to build infrastructure, educate, and ameliorate poverty in the 3rd world
This is just dumb. China *is* 3rd-world, and has been for a long time. 30 years ago they were a backwater mostly, and not a manufacturing powerhouse. Their country was full of abject poverty. Now they have a huge and growing middle class. They've done a lot in ameliorating poverty in their own country and building an enormous amount of infrastructure there.
I thought (Protestant at least) Christians were all about self-help.... China has done a pretty remarkable job of helping itself out of being a poverty-stricken 3rd-world backwater in a fairly short time.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 15 2016, @05:22PM
No, China is not a 3rd world country. Technically it was 2nd world [wikipedia.org], aka "Socialist." Today they have the second largest GDP in the world. You don't think they could afford to help others in the actual 3rd world if they wanted to? Countries like Germany and Japan do, and their economies are smaller than China's.
Everyone helps themselves. The merest tribe in the Amazonian rainforest will help its own. But Christians have always emphasized helping others (whether they always do that or not is a different question entirely). China helps no one but itself.
Washington DC delenda est.