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Haha, come on out.
However, my point is that they don’t have the right to worship wherever they want, they should worship somewhere that actually fits their beliefs, which this one clearly doesn’t. This congregation BELIEVES that there is something wrong with democrats, they being democrats clearly do not agree. Do you see the conflict of interest? They clearly are not of the same denomination.
Erek
Had I been involved in supporting the church in any way before being kicked out, I’d feel compelled to sue the newly formed pubbie god club for depriving me of the fruits of my contributions. The new organ, half the pews, or the proceeds from last february’s bake sale might do for starters. However, given the deeply spiritual nature of my loss, and the emotional distress caused by the church’s foul implication that us democrats are all hell-bound, I’d be very comfortable asking for punitive damages as well. With luck, and God, on my side, I’ll find an activist judge who agrees with me.
OK, I gotta ask. Why is being a Democrat suddenly such a big issue with the pastor? I have to assume that over the years he cheerfully accepted donations/tithes/whatever from these godless Democrats. Did they suddenly grow large heads and tentacles? Are they flying around the room breathing fire and eating kittens? Maybe, in a way of setting things right, he should give back all that foul tainted godless money he took from them. If they are so horribly evil, he must not have anything to do with them, and that includes their filthy money. Give it all back.
The bit about brokerage houses was funny. Really. They cut us off from something more painful than any mere foreskin, they cut our money away from us. :eek:
ROFLMAO.
Gee, how sad. I find this eerily similar to those folks who are dissing ol’ Willie for falling on that side of the fence and therefore, refusing to allow a highway to bear his name.
What more can one say when those in a position of (somewhat) power in our country are solely determining the interests of others on politics. Or would it be more if you figure in a religious angle as well?
Here’s the relevant quote from the article, pertaining to his…
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~faithfool, who wonders if she should re-read Handmaid’s Tale or go out and buy one of his CDs in a show of support for the bill
I am shocked. Really. For years, the three patron saints of Texas have been Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Tom Landry. Saying anything bad about any one of them was almost a hangin’ offense.
I can console myself with the idea that good old Willie will still be famous long after those fucktool politicians are long gone and forgotten.
Nah, that dog won’t hunt.
It’s a church, not a political rally. If a Democrat identifies as a Baptist, he as every right to go to any Baptist church as a Republican has. This pastor is nuttier than a king-sized Snicker bar.
Besides, what’s he trying to do? Weed out everyone who doesn’t think exactly like him? It’ll be an awfully small congregation. I can see it now …
“All right, we got rid of the heathen Democrats. Now. Just how many of you God fearing, right thinking Republicans don’t agree that social security privitization is a good thing?”
“Well, Father Bob, I just think the cost of the over haul is too much to bear.”
“Right! Off you go. You to, you with the calculator. Out! Now, about Terry Schiavo …”
Goddamnit. I am sick of all of the spider hatred on this board. And of course this sort of thing pops up after I re-up. :mad:
A church IS a political rally.
Not all Baptists are the same. Pretty much anyone can open a church and claim it’s a Baptist church, from then on it’s just a matter of the internal POLITICS of other Baptists to decide whether or not it IS a Baptist church, and what POLITICAL ACTION to take or not.
Who knows, maybe some more good ole boys will flock to his congregation because of his brave actions.
This is only more evidence to me that we should have allowed the South to secede when we had the chance.
Erek
Church may have become a political rally, but that’s not what it’s meant for.
Further proof that Christianity has been totally bastardized, if you ask me.
So then (bear with me while I stretch a LOT to reach the farthest “out there” conclusion), what we have here are hundreds, maybe thousands of loose cannons, free to do and teach whatever they please? That they are free to interpret and invent whatever they want, and then dictate to anyone within earshot? If that is the case then, would the logical conclusion be that Southern Baptist is not a religion at all, as we usually think of it, but instead is a convenient way to fleece money from gullbile fools who don’t want to do their own thinking, and to strongarm any halfbaked political scheme the “preacher” dreams up in a drunken stupor?
Welcome to America, we’re happy you finally decided to visit. Yes, that is exactly what I’m implying.
Erek
Forgive me if this has been said, but God is a Republican?
I’ve always thought of God as a dope-smoking liberal…which, when you think abut it, explains everything.
That’s funny cuz I always thought of God as an extradimensional metaphyiscal intelligence inhabiting nothing while being everything.
Erek
That’s pretty damn scary. And to think all these loose cannons have garnered so much power freaks me out even more now.
I thought Lemmy was God.
Watch out. Your ignorance is showing.
Actually the same freedom that allows him to do that, keeps him from gaining too much power. The thing about religious extremism is that it alienates more people the more intolerant it gets. So for every person that flocks to him, because of his extremist republican views, there is a libertarian republican speaking out against him, he’s consolidating hard power, while losing soft influence, and driving a number of republicans into the arms of the democrats.
Personally I think that rather than trying to form a third party there should be some greater cooperation between disenfranchised republicans and democrats.
Erek
cite please.
While I too would love to jump on the pastor with both feet, I’d like to see a bit more info before I start stretching my hamstrings and tying on my gym shoes. It seems pretty weird, like there’s a whole lot of the story left out. Was there some sort of long-running feud between one faction of the church and another? Were the Dems refusing to support a soldier’s family or something? Was one side trying to monopolize the church’s resources for a political cause the rest disagreed with, and they wouldn’t take no for an answer? It just seems too cut-and-dried. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that sermon.