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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
(archived copy)
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 16 2016, @05:12PM
Of course you believe your God is going to throw everyone who doesn't kiss his ineffable ass into Hell where they'll scream and broil and writhe and roast and weep and crackle and sizzle for alllllllll eternity, and you're fine with that, aren't'cha?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 16 2016, @08:01PM
Me? No, not at all. If you want to project that kind of sectarian hatred onto me, go ahead. But that's all about you and your resentments and has nothing to do with me at all.
In real life my set of friends includes atheists, jews, muslims, buddhists, druse, hindus, and even a zoroastrian. I have no problem with that. In fact i relish their insights into worldviews radically different from what i grew up with.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 16 2016, @08:16PM
I'm litmus-testing you, spaz. So, you don't believe in your religion's vision of Hell; good, because most of the early church fathers didn't either, and I'd argue the inability of Latin to well and truly convey the difference between the concepts Koine Greek glosses with kolasis, timoria, aionios, and aidios was behind a lot of that.
That said, how do you justify going against the grain on such a fundamental matter of doctrine for your religion? Understand that if you are wrong, your religion says YOU will go to Hell, and there is no escape and no mercy.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...