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Mega church pastor beaten to death with electric guitar by man who rammed car into church
dailymail ^ | 10.30.2013 | Peter Rugg

Posted on 10/30/2012 8:44:42 PM PDT by Morgana

A North Texas congregation is reeling after an attacker rammed a car into a church wall, chased the pastor, and beat him to death with an electric guitar.

Police told reporters they didn't know why the unidentified suspect attacked Rev. Danny Kirk Sr., founding pastor of the Greater Sweethome MIssionary Baptist Church.

In a harrowing 911 call an unidentified church secretary said that some staff tried to fight him off but that Kirk was in desperate need of an ambulance.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Evangelical Christian
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To: Repeat Offender

ROTFLMAO!!!!

I have an atheist friend and I’m gonna regale him with that one.


21 posted on 10/30/2012 9:06:35 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: chuckles

It could happen.

It happens all the time.


22 posted on 10/30/2012 9:08:07 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: RegulatorCountry; Gamecock

ask gamecock that question.


23 posted on 10/30/2012 9:10:19 PM PDT by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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To: Revolting cat!; a fool in paradise; Lurker; dayglored

“Fenders are hard to break.”
—Pete Townshend


24 posted on 10/30/2012 9:10:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: doc1019
Humor over the death of anyone, especially a man of God eludes me.

It does more than elude me. It sickens me.

25 posted on 10/30/2012 9:13:31 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Revolting cat!

Some witnesses, however, described the vehicle as a Pickup.


26 posted on 10/30/2012 9:15:32 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Leaning Right; doc1019

I thought that by posting this in religion we might avoid the normal humor but I was wrong.


27 posted on 10/30/2012 9:18:28 PM PDT by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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To: Morgana

Tragic and bizarre. Prayers for that family and community.


28 posted on 10/30/2012 9:19:03 PM PDT by The Conservative Goddess
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To: dayglored

Don’t fret, police are stringing together a theory of the dispute’s amplification.


29 posted on 10/30/2012 9:20:30 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Morgana

Some find perverse humor in anything, especially things religious.


30 posted on 10/30/2012 9:21:33 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: chuckles

That is probably a good bet. Reminds me of the movie “The Apostle” only it was the minister that did that head smashing.


31 posted on 10/30/2012 9:25:03 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: Morgana

The new game: Obama Guitar Hero.


32 posted on 10/30/2012 9:25:08 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: Revolting cat!

Fender, gives a lickin’ and keeps on tickin.


33 posted on 10/30/2012 9:25:14 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Morgana

If you check the Daily Mail site, the jokes didn’t play well with some of the readers who tuned to it, one of whom had this bone to pick:

“The negative comments on here are atrocious, only coming from the dregs of humanity. I am a proud heathen myself, even as a man who does not believe in or follow Christianity.”


34 posted on 10/30/2012 9:25:48 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Morgana

that one guitar made his whole life change.
Now he needs to keep rockin’ he just can’t stop -
Gotta keep on rockin’ that boy has got to stay on top


35 posted on 10/30/2012 9:47:43 PM PDT by Autonomous User (The Obama Doctrine: Blame America First.)
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To: Morgana
I read all the article. The killer was still hitting the minister when the cops got there. They Tased him to get control of him, handcuff him, and put him in cop car.

Now, FOR SOME REASON, he stopped breathing while with the cops and was pronounced dead when cops got to hospital.

I think the cops (I saw one was black), stopped somewhere and made sure the killer stopped breathing.

Justice happened right there - no trial and the guy getting a few years and get out. He stopped living right after he stopped the minister living.

36 posted on 10/30/2012 10:01:33 PM PDT by Marcella (Republican Conservatism is dead. PREPARE.)
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To: Morgana

Read the local paper story:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/10/31/4375962/pastors-killer-had-mental-illness.html
This idiot was nuts.
The preacher was a big man, as was the janitor. This crazy nut crashed a car into the church on Monday morning, gets out and start beating the hell out of the janitor.
The preacher tries to intervene and gets knocked out. Then the bad guy grabs an electric guitar and starts clubbing the big guy. It must have been real ugly because he was still bashing him when the cops finally arrived. Nothing would stop the guy until the cops tazed him and threw him in the car.
The preachers brother is a sheriff in another TX county, or was. This is scary stuff. Mental wacko needed double tap from a .45. Nothing less would have stopped him. Mental wacko, not drugs but just crazy. They are out there, just hope you or your family members never run across this type unarmed.


37 posted on 10/30/2012 10:45:08 PM PDT by 9422WMR (Life is not fair, just deal with it)
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To: Morgana
In a harrowing 911 call an unidentified church secretary said that some staff tried to fight him off but that Kirk was in desperate need of an ambulance.

The Texas that I knew would've had multiple holes in the murderer long before his 3rd strike with the guitar... even in a church.

38 posted on 10/30/2012 10:53:48 PM PDT by Teacher317 ('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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To: Repeat Offender

Reminds me of the local pain-in-the-butt atheist here years ago. Constantly causing problems till the day he died, and he died praying for god to forgive him.

Many people here knew who I am speaking about.


39 posted on 10/30/2012 11:32:21 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: mylife

I saw that, too.

Reporters do not write their own headlines. Headline writers work hurriedly and don’t always read the copy carefully. That appears to be the case here.

Nothing “mega” about that church.


40 posted on 10/30/2012 11:49:37 PM PDT by Jedidah
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