The REAL Terrorists: Conservative ‘CHRISTIAN’ Pastor Openly Calls For EXECUTING ALL GAY PEOPLE By Christmas Day

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21. It may be taken more seriously if people stopped pretending

He's not a "Christian" in scare quotes. He is a Christian pure and simple speaking his deeply held beliefs about what is in the Bible every bit as genuinely as Spong or Robinson, and he has quite direct, no "context" beset declarative unambiguous scriptural support for it. Any time we say ANY of those Christian DHBs are off limiits for criticism or even questioning, we perpetuate the wall of silence around Christian extremism that makes omerta seem like a party line on Christmas Eve. The OP, quite probably subconsciously, perpetuates this by allowing the faithful, who rarely say a fucking word against cretins like this in public, to separate themselves from the "Christians" both implicitly and explicitly, just like they do every time we pretend thugs and demogogues are "Christians" instead of what they are - 100% real Christian extremists acting on their direct and real faith. They are saying and doing these obscenities BECAUSE they are Christians who simply disagree on what the faith should do with the handwringers who'd like to pretend the loons should be in scare quotes so felllow Christians can avoid the challenge of proving them wrong in the faith.