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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: 1) by ewibble on Thursday June 16 2016, @09:12PM
Logic and justice are not distinct, most moral need logic, otherwise you get things like being gay is bad because I say so. It harms no one to any significant extent so it is not bad. You need to apply logic to what people say otherwise you can too easily be swayed by emotion.
Here is logic for some of the big ones, they go pretty much the same:
Don't kill, if people are aloud to kill then we will have to spend our lives watching out, and defending ourselves from other people killing us, this is a huge waste resources.
This goes for stealing, honesty crimes as well, imagine people in general could trust what other people say, everything that anybody says to you would have to be independently verified, that would be a massive undertaking.
Most of the same, morals in the bible are ones that society work.
Hitler was not logical, he was populist. How can killing Jews, homosexuals logically help starving people with no food (Ok you kill off the population you have more for the remaining, but he had a scorched earth policy too). It can't, what it can do is get you support, people like blaming others for problems rather than looking inwards. What would have Hitler done once all his scapegoats where dead? Hitlers logic is not logic but an appeal to the emotions of fear and hate.
Look at America, blame the Mexicans, Muslims, Chinese for there economic problems, not the fact that they have lived beyond there means for decades. Or that they bombing other countries, and then complain when they get some causalities, who could have predicted that would happen?