And.....they're moving onto actual witch hunts.

[Nevilledog]

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Hemant Mehta
@hemantmehta
Earlier today, Pastor Greg Locke threatened to expose the six witches who are members of his church.

[ificandream]

1. The burnings at the stake will be next.

[Faux pas]

2. ...

Are we back in the 1600's now

[patphil]

3. The real witch, or should I say warlock, was holding the mike.

[2naSalit]

4. Wow...

They want to jump back more than a century! These people are sick.

[onethatcares]

5. witches be like................

well get it on then bucky...

[Generic Other]

6. Salem preaching

Spectral evidence! way to sow discord among the elect.

[Midnight Writer]

7. I can give you first and last names of demons posing as pastors to lead the righteous astray.

There's a lot more than 6.

[Hekate]

12. 666 maybe?

Dante’s Inferno should be required reading in those Bible “colleges” — he imagined an awful lot of churchmen down there in the pits of Hell.

[world wide wally]

8. Why isn't this guy in a padded cell somewhere?

[RussBLib]

11. cause it's religion

and you can be as crazy as fuck if you just wave the bible around. there will be always be some doofuses that will follow you.

[haele]

17. Only goes so far. Break the law, and freedom of religion is no longer protected.

That's why I laugh at these idiots claiming religious exemption to get out of following safety, labor, or health regulations.

Haele

[58Sunliner]

9. Future convicted wife abuser or molester. What a creepy pos.

[Archae]

10. This is the same guy who led a book-burning several days ago.

Books and anything else they say is "satanic."

This guy is going to get caught in a money/sex scandal in 3-2-1...

[Jilly_in_VA]

13. One of my dear friends

of younger years played Deputy Governor Danforth in a Madison (WI) Theater Guid production of The Crucible many years ago and damn near scared me out of my seat in the balcony. This little fake preacher pissant cannot hold a candle to him. Not even one of those cheap little birthday cake candles. He's such a LOSER!

PS: Said friend went on to play The One-Armed Man in the original TV production of Twin Peaks. The original, if you want to look it up.

[Taylor Picker]

23. Do you mean Twin Peaks by any chance?

Because there was a One-Armed Man in that, and I've seen it so many times I don't need to look up Al Strobel.

[Jilly_in_VA]

24. I did

Al and I were very good friends and a sometime couple way, way back in the day. I adored him and when I heard his voice on Twin Peaks I came tearing out of the kitchen.

[Taylor Picker]

25. That's awesome.

I can imagine him being great in The Crucible.
My family and I met Sheryl Lee (who played Laura Palmer) and Ray Wise (who played Leland Palmer), who came to my town for a screening of Fire Walk With Me (which Al was also in!) followed by Q&A. I guess that was early in 2020... before the pandemic really reached us.

[haele]

14. Charles Manson precident if something happens to those church members.

He belongs in jail if he convinces his "congregation" to punish witches.
Freedom of religion can only go so far.

Haele

[sarisataka]

15. How does he know they are witches

[lagomorph777]

16. If they weigh the same as a duck.

[appalachiablue]

20. +1

[Metaphorical]

18. Curse him

I'm watching the Canadian truck blockade and the reactions to that on Linked In, and have noticed the ones that are the most vocal about it (and how it's not just about the Canadian trucking mandate) seem to be the same voices that have been involved in defending Trump's insurrection and farther back, and the same ones that inevitably seem to be spewing the QAnon nonsense. I don't think that they are trolls, rather I am going to be convinced that they are fervent, loud, stupid, and delusional, but who have been given a platform that feeds all of their insecurities. I know a number of very intelligent, very thoughtful religious leaders of all denominations. Most are appalled at what is happening, but will also acknowledge that the extremists, such as "Pastor" Locke, are also WELL-funded.

This is why it's worth understanding what's really happening here. The ones that are funding and supporting these people are manufacturing distractions and chaos. The likelihood that someone like Locke represents a threat is small, but that doesn't really matter - it's all chaff, intended to obscure what is actually going on in the background. As to who is involved, I don't doubt that much of it is being funded by segments of corporate America who are trying to push the US into a full-blown corporate oligarchy, one with neither democratic ideals nor due process.

In other words, yes, you can laugh at clowns like Locke, but understand he's there to distract everyone while the real acts are being set up in the background.

[sakabatou]

19. OFFS!

[dchill]

21. The Fender Musical Instrument Company does not wish...

...to be associated with this message.

[Initech]

22. Holy shit, is this 2022 or 1691?

[tanyev]

26. Are there, by any chance, 6 women in the church accusing Pastor Greg of sexual misconduct???

[Nevilledog]

27. I swear that was my first thought.