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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @06:46PM
But that's parsing atheism and saying, well, but those guys were the bad atheists; all atheists are not bad.
No, it's saying that all those countries didn't commit those horrible acts in the name of atheism. There just isn't much there, because it's simply the absence of a particular belief. On the other hand, religions make countless claims and it's easy to control people by saying they should do X, Y, and Z in the name of the religion, all while backing it up with selective quotes from some supposed holy book.
Of course not all atheists are bad. Not all Christians, Muslims, etc. are bad either. Pretty much everyone realizes this.