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David Pakman will broadcast a special guest on his show that has stories to tell that will curl your hair – Ashton Elijah Pittman, who was an audience member during Hamilton, Alabama- based Pastor Damon Thompson’s outing of gay teens during sermons. From Pittman’s post on the subject, ‘Deliverance from homosexuality:’ How an anti-gay ministry changed my life:
I knew that there were people in that sanctuary that very night who were gay. I knew that there were people there that very night who were lesbian. I knew that there was at least one person in the church that night who was hurting from self-loathing.
But Damon didn’t, or if he did, he didn’t seem to care. There was no love in his heart for the ‘homosexual’ (as he otherwise called them). In some ways, hearing preachers like him constantly talk about ‘homosexuals’ was even worse than hearing him use the word ‘queer;’ while his enunciation of the word ‘queer’ truly dripped with disgust and revulsion, ‘homosexual’ just sounded cold. Scientific. Devoid of humanity.
And that’s exactly how preachers like Damon make gay youth feel – less than human.
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Thompson is ignoring David’s repeated requests for interviews.
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Where’s Nero when we need him?This kind of pernicious nonsense goes on in churches from one end of this benighted country to the other. It is, by any sane definition, abuse, and the goddamn preachers get away with it by cloaking themselves in the first amendment. Limits are imposed on freedom of speech in a great many ways–laws against slander and libel, laws against inciting crime or violence, the old one about yelling fire in a crowded theater. Yet anyone can do pretty much anything he/she wants to as long as it’s claimed that the motivation is religious. There are no checks, no balances, no restrictions or restraints whatever. Enough is enough. Villainy is villainy. These people need to be brought to heel.
And can I please request that we be spared the usual comments about how Thompson isn’t a “true” or “real” Christian? That’s about as convincing as a Harold Camping prophesy.
??????Why do intelligent people even bother with this ‘scurvy for the soul’ crowd?
If these bozos think you have to have their brand of jeebus juice to be whole, I’d love to tell them where they can put their jeebus juice – and yes, it’s in a hole…..
Uh-huh…..“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” (Dr. Jubal Harshaw, “Stranger In A Strange Land” by Robert Heinlien.)
So apropos…..
The guy looks and talks….…like a crack-head cracker after a five day bender of drugs and booze. I guess the tattoos enhance the look. What an ignorant, nasty piece of work!
Nero gets a bad rapbecause modern archeology has verified that Christians, battling other Christians for supremacy in Rome, were trying to burn out the Petrines, followers of St Peter. It was tthe followers of St Paul, the Paulines, who set the fires.
From the last Pagan Emperor:
The Galileans suffered exile and imprisonment under my predecessor.
Those who called each other heretics turn and turn about, massacred each other. I have recalled those they exiled, and freed their prisoners.
Ihave returned their property to the outlawed. I have compelled them to live in peace.
But such is the restless rage of the Galileans that they
complain because they can no longer devour one another.
Julian II, Emperor
I know it. It was just my usual snark.Among other things, there’s one of those early Christian forgeries attributed falsely to Paul, called The Letters of Paul and Seneca. It actually dates from sometime in the 2nd century. In in “St. Paul” corresponds with the philosopher Seneca, who was Nero’s tutor. And Nero is described in it several times as a good, wise emperor. Even though it’s a forgery, it’s a good indicator of Nero’s reputation among Christians a century after his death. It was later Christian propaganda (plus Ceil B. DeeMille of course) that turned him into the ravening fiend of popular imagination.
As for the fire, the early sources blame it on the “Galileans,” rather than “Christians.” There were several groups in Rome at the time that were called Galileans, including the followers of a zealot named Judas the Gaulonite–who were determined to bring down the empire by fire. Attributing the fire specifically to the Christians has very little to support it.
And as for Julian, he was a true hero.
Ephesians may well be a forgery as wellas events are described that historians doubt could have taken place.
On point from Julian II in reference to the Reverend“No wild beasts are so dangerous to men as Christians are to one another.” Julian II, Philosopher and Emperor
Gibbon commentedthat the persecution of Christians by the Romans was nothing compared to what the Christians did to one another once they got control of the empire.