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In reply to the discussion: The REAL Terrorists: Conservative ‘CHRISTIAN’ Pastor Openly Calls For EXECUTING ALL GAY PEOPLE By Christmas Day [View all]ReRe
(12,189 posts)... on the wrong side of the bed this morning. And/or you've got a heavy chip on your shoulder. If your rhetorical complaint is that I am homophobic, you're wrong. What I do have a phobia of is the hypocrisy of fundamentalist religious zealots like this man, and here's why:
Going back to when I was a kid growing up in an evangelistic church similar to the one he is a pastor of. I didn't have much against it when I was a young child, as we just studied Bible stories in our Sunday School classes and at Vacation Bible Schools during the summer school vacation period. Ate allot of cookies and drank allot of kool-aid. Had a great time.
But when I became a HS student, my views of the church began to change. You see, I had a SS teacher (a woman) who preached fire and brimstone to us, as if we were all a bunch of criminals who were going straight to Hell. I didn't appreciate her treating our class like that, as all of us had grown up in that church and you couldn't have found a nicer bunch of kids. I had to put up with her shit every Sunday for the 4 yrs I was in HS.
OK. Graduated HS and went off to college one state away and later when I got out of college moved even farther away and got married and started my family. Years later (10 yrs maybe), when I returned home for a visit with my Mom, I learned that that SS teacher had done a Newt Gingrich job on her sick husband. She had divorced him and married a man 10 years her younger, whom she had been having an affair with since who knows when.
Needless to say, the only time I ever stepped inside that church again was when I visited my Mom. If I acted like I didn't want to go, she would get mopey and I would give in and go with her to make her happy. But otherwise, I haven't gone to church since. I don't resent my early years there, as I learned everything that I retain till today. The memorized Bible verses I still carry in my head, the Commandments, the stories from the old Testament, the Christmas Plays, the Junior Choir. I treasure those early childhood days there, but I rue the rest.
So, when I said what I said, I meant what I said. I don't think there is anything more despicable than a fundamentalist evangelical zealot minister who preaches his morality on the pulpit, and then goes out and does exactly the opposite thru the week. Like Jimmy Swaggert or Jim Baker. I would not put it past that minister to be doing the opposite of what he preaches.