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It galls me that when there are human tragedies of the kind that occurred in the Aurora, Colorado movie theatre this past week that so-called “Christians” turn up on the airwaves not with words of consolation and spiritual solace, but messages of fear and damnation. What pathetic, sad lives people like Truth in Action Ministries’ Jerry Newcombe lead. The cleric bleated this unforgivable crap on an American Family Association radio show:
If a Christian dies early, if a Christian dies young, it seems tragic, but really it is not tragic because they are going to a wonderful place.. on the other hand, if a person doesn’t know Jesus Christ.. if they knowingly rejected Jesus Christ, then, basically, they are going to a terrible place.
He also wrote this about the tragedy on AFA’s online outlet, One News Now:
I can’t help but feel that to some extent, we’re reaping what we’ve been sowing as a society. We said to God, “Get out of the public arena.” Lawsuit after lawsuit, often by misguided “civil libertarians,” have chased away any fear of God in the land — at least in the hearts of millions.
…The founders gave us a system where voluntary God-fearing was the underpinning of civility in society. The more internal restraints people have, the less need they have for external restraints. (And the converse is true.) That’s why I can’t understand the ongoing crusade of those who want to remove any vestige of Judeo-Christian in the public arena. All they’re doing is making everything worse for everyone else.
As this myopic heartless man makes clear, he sees it as impossible for people to have a moral center or ethical principles if they are agnostic, athiests, or non-Christians. How does he explain the acts of domestic terrorists who were self-proclaimed Christians such as Timothy McVeigh or Eric Robert Rudolph?
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He probably says that people like Timothy McVeigh or Eric Robert Rudolph aren’t really Christians, but apparently people like Osama bin Laden are real Muslims and all of them must be punished for the acts of a few. These fundies are *that* psycho.
Thank you, Jeebus.
C’mon Pam, these people have no shame when it comes to prophitcy.
…”so-called” Christians indeed. I was never taught this type of crap growing up in my little rural country Lutheran church in southeast Texas…what the hell has happened?
Why does he say total crap like this? Because he relies on extreme rhetoric to keep the money flowing to him. It is sad that he probably gets most of his money from older people that can not afford to waste their money.
In other words, he’s Michele Bachmann with a penis.
Well, yes, except that we have no evidence that Michele Bachmann lacks a penis. It would explain why she’s still married to Marcus.
Fundamental religion has become a haven for the mentally ill. Jerry Newcome, Michelle Bachmann and a whole host of the others would have been locked up in insane asylums had it still been the 1950′s.
And then there’s former AZ state senator Russell Pearce, author of SB 1070, who was recalled because he was too extreme even for his heavily republican district.
On his Facebook page, he laments that others in the theater weren’t armed too, so they could have stopped him. At least some of the other people could have tackled him.
(https://www.facebook.com/#!/russell.pearce.77?sk=wall)
This is the brand of so-called “Christianity” that appeals to the smallest and meanest — the spiritually dead who have lost most, if not all, of their humanity.
Jesus would hurl if he had to listen to this scum.
If only there were a way to transport this paper hero back a few days in time, and place him in one of those first rows. I’m 99.9% sure what the result would have been. No, make that 100%.
How does he know that God wants to be in the public arena?
The kind of ‘christianity’ these people are peddling would be unrecognizable to JC.
God help these people, because I ‘know’ they will be very sorry when they die and are judged by God.
Can we talk about gun and ammunition sales in this country instead of what this idiots religious beliefs?
Profiting off of tragedy by spewing nonsense, cloaked in the guise of ‘Christianity’ that has nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings of Jesus.
Shameful. Oh wait. These haters have no shame.
Pam, you do realize this “unforgivable crap” is just standard Christianity, as taught for the last 2,000 or so years, right?
Just checking.
Not that I mean to dispute calling it “unforgivable crap.”
Sorry, I meant this part, specifically, and not the rest.
“If a Christian dies early, if a Christian dies young, it seems tragic, but really it is not tragic because they are going to a wonderful place.. on the other hand, if a person doesn’t know Jesus Christ.. if they knowingly rejected Jesus Christ, then, basically, they are going to a terrible place.”
The “terrible place” and “wonderful place” ,IMO, is more symbolic than actual, and more likely is experienced in our lifetime here on this planet.
It is a horrible and presumptious comment that non-Christians go to some other “terrible place”. So much for compassionate (and tolerant) Christianity. (Do those people ever travel, meet and talk with folks who have different beliefs?)
How does he explain the acts of domestic terrorists who were self-proclaimed Christians such as Timothy McVeigh or Eric Robert Rudolph?
The basic conundrum of Western Religions.
They all fall to pieces when attempting to answer that in any sort of reasonable manner. Notice I don’t say logical. Of course, God is not logical, right? (No, left. No…..!)
Very low person. I could sink that low if I wanted by puking on him. But my mother raised me to be better than that. Where are Romney’s tax returns, BTW?