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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 07:00 PM Mar 2018

Mark Downey, a Christian Identity leader, has died at the age of 63.

From the article:

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.


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Mark Downey, a Christian Identity leader, has died at the age of 63. (Original Post) guillaumeb Mar 2018 OP
I bet he was shocked when he got to the Pearly Gates and was told to take the elevator down meadowlark5 Mar 2018 #1
Because you believe in merciful loving gods Voltaire2 Mar 2018 #6
I really don't believe any of it meadowlark5 Mar 2018 #7
But why would any finite amount of sin be deserving of infinite punishment? trotsky Mar 2018 #8
Awww... MineralMan Mar 2018 #2
I cannot title it good news, because it is a loss for the family, guillaumeb Mar 2018 #3
A thoroughly horrid man. MineralMan Mar 2018 #4
A vile philosophy. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #5

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
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 07:32 PM
Mar 2018

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.

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
7. I really don't believe any of it
Thu Mar 29, 2018, 10:43 AM
Mar 2018

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?
Thu Mar 29, 2018, 10:50 AM
Mar 2018

On an infinite timescale, you will always eventually go past the retribution stage and into cruelty.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
3. I cannot title it good news, because it is a loss for the family,
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 07:39 PM
Mar 2018

but I cannot title it bad news either.

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