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Related: About this forumMark Downey, a Christian Identity leader, has died at the age of 63.
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Mark Downey, a Christian Identity leader, has died at the age of 63, according to the white supremacist website, Stormfront. The cause was lung cancer.
Pastor Mark Downey, as he was commonly known by in white supremacist circles, spent decades promoting Christian Identity, a racist and antisemitic doctrine that heavily influenced right-wing extremism in America. Christian Identity asserts that whites, not Jews, are the true Israelites favored by God in the Bible.
Pastor Mark Downey, as he was commonly known by in white supremacist circles, spent decades promoting Christian Identity, a racist and antisemitic doctrine that heavily influenced right-wing extremism in America. Christian Identity asserts that whites, not Jews, are the true Israelites favored by God in the Bible.
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Mark Downey, a Christian Identity leader, has died at the age of 63. (Original Post)
guillaumeb
Mar 2018
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I bet he was shocked when he got to the Pearly Gates and was told to take the elevator down
meadowlark5
Mar 2018
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meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)1. I bet he was shocked when he got to the Pearly Gates and was told to take the elevator down
I hope all of these "Christians" suffer the same fate. Happily on their way to Heaven only to be thrown into the pits of hell, deservedly, for their deplorable earthly deeds.
Voltaire2
(13,188 posts)6. Because you believe in merciful loving gods
that torture wrongdoers for eternity?
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)7. I really don't believe any of it
and if everyone is to be forgiven - then what is hell for? Why is it in the Bible? Just an extorsion tool for the living?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)8. But why would any finite amount of sin be deserving of infinite punishment?
On an infinite timescale, you will always eventually go past the retribution stage and into cruelty.
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)2. Awww...
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)3. I cannot title it good news, because it is a loss for the family,
but I cannot title it bad news either.
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)4. A thoroughly horrid man.
Karma.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)5. A vile philosophy.