Posted on 06/14/2016 2:03:08 PM PDT by Mariner
“I mean, I get that “mainstream” Baptists don’t say things like this, but the Baptist movement’s fringe is SOME fringe.”
What kind of fringe are the muslim’s that fly planeloads of innocent people into occupied skyscrapers?
The guy is an idiot, but we do still have free speech in this country, don’t we?
I’d guess his church will be getting a big donation from Hillary’s friends. Even the atheists on DU have been praying for this. The “christians did the same thing in the 1400’s” argument isn’t working so well any more.
Also:
Exodus 20:13: You shall not murder.
Hispanic “pastor of a tiny church”
Here you go:
I wonder if this guy is a Democrat, like the Westsboro creator .
It strikes me that the situation is rather like when Hitler invaded the USSR. Before that event, it was logically possible to be anti-fascist and anti-communist without encountering any practical problems of strategy. After the fact, the Allies had to choose and so they made as good a bargain as they could with Stalin. However, it did not make communism good, and when fascism was defeated, Stalinist communism went back to being the main enemy.
In this case, we can still be opposed on moral grounds to sodomy, but for the time being, our more dangerous enemy has chosen to involve that group in a wider campaign of terror. So we have temporary reasons to share common ground.
There is also the libertarian perspective that says that the gay lifestyle is entirely a matter of personal choice in a free society. I still think it is more complicated than just that, we do not say for example that mass murder is a matter of personal choice. If the gay lifestyle is morally wrong, then at some point it becomes an issue, while I have a certain desire to tolerate it, when it pushes too far into the area of political dominance (follow our agenda or else) then I seek to oppose that tendency.
Complicated times — when one enemy takes action against another, yet to sit back and applaud will not slow down the more dangerous of the two. But under no circumstances does Orlando mean that we have to accept all aspects of the progressive gay-gender agenda and all of its challenges to traditional moral values. We have a lot on our plates, that is certain.
From their website: "We are Non-dispensational."
They are...like many fundamental Baptists...missing the heart of the New Testament. Yes...God will judge the unrepentant homosexual...but He will also judge the nun who in universalist in her faith. The unforgiveable sin is rejecting Christ.
he’s saying the same thing 2 billion muzzards say and yet he’ll get lambasted and probably killed while we make nice with pC words and making weapons of all kinds illegal.
Some baptists follow the same god as Muslims.
The only reason this “preacher” got coverage is that he has no previous media footprint and had the word “Baptist” in the name of his church.
Westboro, is past their expiration date and therefore no matter how loud they shout, the media no longer needs them and they will not get mainstream coverage.
It’s all about the template and the agenda.
Another Westboro?
Aiy yai yai. The left will run with this...
It’s anti Christian. A real Chistian will encourage homosexuals to become heterosexuals because heterosexuality is natural. A real Christian will be firm about this without bending.
I wonder if he’s here legally.
..http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/westboro-baptist-church-god-sent-the-shooter/
What sick people. If they go to Orlando, the folks there are riled up enough that it could be their last field trip.
I wonder if he is the only member?
I haven’t read the rest of posts, yet, but he sounds like a GiBLeT plant.
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