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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 Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 15 2016, @09:35PM
Well there is no atheist equivalent to the Pope. Stalin, being a charismatic figure pushing an ideology that espouses, among other things, atheism, was a handy, somewhat suitable analog.
If it's fair to pan all Christians because of what past Popes have done, as was done, then why is it not fair to pan all atheists for the misdeeds of others in the name of atheism? But if Stalin doesn't work for you as an example of that, then how about Mao and his Red Guards, who burned, blasted, and destroyed countless, priceless works of religious art?
But note that I am not arguing that Stalin (or some other prominent atheist you might prefer) was bad, that therefore atheism is bad. I'm not. I'm saying don't do that to Christians/Muslims/Jews/whatever, either.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Sunday June 19 2016, @12:02AM
Ahh, you are using it as an analogy. That makes sense.
But Stalin wasn't the "leader of atheism" where the pope is the leader of at least a large faction of Christianity, so that makes it kind of a false dichotomy.
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