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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 05:41 PM Apr 2015

Pastor condemns fellow clergyman for not supporting death by stoning for gays

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/pastor-condemns-fellow-clergyman-for-not-supporting-death-by-stoning-for-gays/

A Christian pastor in Prescott Valley, Arizona went on an angry rant during a sermon in which he condemned a fellow pastor for not endorsing far-right pastor Steven Anderson’s call for death to LGBT people.

The pastor in question asked to have his congregation’s listing removed from Anderson’s church directory, a decision which Pastor David Berzins of Word of Truth Baptist Church condemned as the act of a traitor to his faith, even though the offending clergyman is a personal friend of his....

“But just because they don’t believe that (homosexuals) should be stoned,” he said, that church’s teachings are invalid.

“I think it’s very clear” in the Bible, Berzins insisted, that people with same-sex attractions should be stoned to death.


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Pastor condemns fellow clergyman for not supporting death by stoning for gays (Original Post) KamaAina Apr 2015 OP
... WTF? peacebird Apr 2015 #1
What happens to people who get divorced? world wide wally Apr 2015 #2
Then stone the wife. It's all her fault. amb123 Apr 2015 #11
And these are the hammerheads who are so worried about Sharia law. hifiguy Apr 2015 #3
I don't want them to pull the crosses SamKnause Apr 2015 #6
It doesn't appear that they've read it SwankyXomb Apr 2015 #12
What a disgusting pastor SamKnause Apr 2015 #4
Will this Pastor safeinOhio Apr 2015 #5
I think he would love to cast the first stone. SamKnause Apr 2015 #9
Heard the joke on that? alphafemale Apr 2015 #23
"Thou shall not kill". Trillo Apr 2015 #7
Unless God tells you to. justiceischeap Apr 2015 #8
"God" himself is a big fan of killing. Arugula Latte Apr 2015 #14
The "Gawd" of the Old Testament hifiguy Apr 2015 #16
That is true. But, of course He has a plan! Arugula Latte Apr 2015 #22
Facebook page... he has fans. Also he's anti-vaxx, 911 truther/whatever... in other words CurtEastPoint Apr 2015 #10
. Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #13
I seem to recall that Jesus healed the sick Aerows Apr 2015 #15
You haven't accepted Republican Jebus into your life? hifiguy Apr 2015 #18
... Warren DeMontague Apr 2015 #17
No one is to stone anyone, until I blow this whistle Warren DeMontague Apr 2015 #19
LOL! hifiguy Apr 2015 #21
Both of these hate mongers, er, pastors need serious help. Initech Apr 2015 #20
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
3. And these are the hammerheads who are so worried about Sharia law.
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 06:06 PM
Apr 2015

I guess they want to impose it first.

Pull that cross out of your ass. The shit is backing up into what you call a brain.

SamKnause

(13,088 posts)
6. I don't want them to pull the crosses
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 06:09 PM
Apr 2015

out of their asses.

I want them shove their holy book where the sun does not shine.

These people are evil !!!!

SamKnause

(13,088 posts)
4. What a disgusting pastor
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 06:07 PM
Apr 2015

and congregation !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do they also believe if a child talks back to their parents it should be killed ???

Do they also believe adulterers should be killed ???

I am so sick and tired of this medieval dangerous fantasy that so many religions seem to

adhere to.

Children should not be forced to listen to this hate speech !!!!

SamKnause

(13,088 posts)
9. I think he would love to cast the first stone.
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 06:12 PM
Apr 2015

I think his congregation would join in without hesitation.

Did you hear the amens ???

These people are evil and dangerous.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
23. Heard the joke on that?
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 08:30 PM
Apr 2015

Jesus get's nailed on the nose by a pebble.

After an oww ...crap moment of recovery...

"Mom. That's not funny."

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
16. The "Gawd" of the Old Testament
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 07:00 PM
Apr 2015

was a bloodthirsty psychopath that made most modern tyrants look like pussycats. Attila the Hun could have taken lessons.

Rape, murder, slaughter, salt the earth, put the survivors to the sword. All perfectly okey-dokey-lokey when "Gawd" says so.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
15. I seem to recall that Jesus healed the sick
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 06:57 PM
Apr 2015

fed the hungry, and welcomed the poor.

I don't recall Jesus commanding people to stone gay people to death, decline to heal people that do not believe as they do, let the hungry die in the street of starvation, and declare that the poor are only poor because they deserve it.

It's odd - I just don't remember Jesus saying any of that, but I do remember him speaking a lot about not casting the first stone, being a good Samaritan, hypocrisy in general and throwing the moneychangers out of the temple.

A priest passed a man bleeding and robbed on the road, and a Levite passed a man bleeding and robbed on the road, but a man who wasn't in any way of his religion was the one who helped him.

How in the HELL, and I do mean hell because you can call such cruelty nothing other than pure unadulterated evil, do people get like this?

My disgust for the religion of hate these fiends spew and the vile actions of themselves and their followers just cannot possibly get any worse.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
21. LOL!
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 08:22 PM
Apr 2015

Just watched that again for the first time in years a couple of weeks ago. Probably Python's most consistently funny movie.

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