Texas church forbid Harvey-volunteer from helping victims because she's jewish.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/texas-church-blocked-volunteer-from-helping-hurricane-harvey-victims-because-she-is-a-jewish-lesbian/“I thought they wanted to talk to me about further volunteer efforts,” Hix said. “I was so unprepared for the conversation that ensued.”
In a post on her Facebook page, the 64-year-old combat veteran recalls how the pastor called her into his office to question why she said “Shalom” after her prayers. When she told him that she was Jewish, he asked her to leave and to not return to the church.
“I asked ‘So if I were a liar with an evil heart, and I told you what you want to hear, that I am a Christian, I would be allowed to continue to contribute to those less fortunate than I?’ I was told, ‘Yes,” Hix said.
Once she got home, Hix told the magazine she called the church to complain about the pastor and was invited back in. But when she arrived, she was confronted by the pastor again about “rumors” of her sexual orientation.
According to Hix, the pastor said that he ‘can’t let you represent our church, as being a Lesbian is a sin’.
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If anybody asks you, in what situations lies are acceptable to a deeply religious Christian...
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Pastor Ron moved to Houston and founded Calvary Houston in 1991. What started as a small home fellowship, focused on contemporary worship and expositional teaching of the Bible, now serves thousands of people each week. The vision of Calvary Houston is to Worship the Lord, Win the Lost, Disciple the Saints, and Send the Equipped. He and his wife, Yani, have a blended family with three grown children, two adopted children together, and two grandchildren.
The ministry of Calvary Houston has expanded to include daily radio broadcasts of Pastor Ron’s unique, expositional style of teaching. These half-hour broadcasts known as “Larger Than Life,” are aired daily throughout the United States.
and one of the reasons the R-party co-opted the Christian church years ago.
Consider the similar emotional dependencies:
1. Highly authoritative structures: God > Pastor > Dad & Mom > Ronald Reagan > Husband/wife > Boss at work, etc.. They can't live without that type structure.
2. Must have numerous "bad guys" to look down on and criticize: The poor, non-Christians, women, LGBT folks, foreigners, liberals, etc. This process allows them to look "better than" the other.
3. Clannish behavior: Excluding outsiders and even severely criticizing other denominations of Christianity (where I was raised as a Baptist, the Methodist and Presbyterians were all horribly astray, and Catholics were some sort of aliens).
4. Believing they have direct knowledge of their god: Saying they know their god wants this or that, does not want certain things, and telling others what that god wants them to do or not do, AND that certain people are rewarded with "blessings ($$$)" for compliant deeds.
That list can go on and on.
