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  • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    My son's family loves this pastor, and they drive down to Tennessee to see him. He's literally a right wing evangelical extremist. His sermons rarely touch on anything Jesus taught, and instead spends two hours ranting about how the communist democrats are trying to murder babies and turn this country into a satanic Muslim Stalinist hellhole.

    Plus he used to abuse his wife and left her for his church secretary, but he's a follower of Christ.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Plus he used to abuse his wife and left her for his church secretary, but he’s a follower of Christ.

      I'm sure he very sincerely asked himself for forgiveness in the forum of his own cranium and so it's all cool.

      • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        "There's no doubt. We (Locke and his ex-wife) both contributed to the failure of our marriage ... and so I'm gonna have to learn to be a biblical husband in the strictest sense of the word. I'm not gonna change the fact that I'm still very conservative, my values and morals. Is divorce wrong? Yeah. Does God offer forgiveness? There is only one unforgivable sin in the Bible and it's not divorce. It's the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit," he said.

        When asked if he was aware of the optics of his new marriage in light of previous reports about their relationship, he replied: "I'm legally remarried and I'm legally divorced. What it looks like? ... I'm not gonna live crazy and single for the rest of my life and just live in misery because my ex-wife decided to burn my life to the ground publicly with a bunch a lies about abuse and stuff which my kids were mortified by," he said.

        • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Ooh, or maybe not. "No I'm the real victim here" is a bold gambit for this particular situation.

          • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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            3 years ago

            The Trumpism Playbook has changed the game for these people, lmao. They can literally get away with anything, and their supporters will believe their every word.

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          You freaks only have like 11 explicit rules and this is breaking at least 3 of them.

            • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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              3 years ago

              You have the timeline mixed up. They killed thousands of Egyptians, then they get the 10 commandments, then they killed thousands of Canaanites

            • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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              3 years ago

              there's a difference between murder and warfare. The ten commandments are basically supposed to be rules for how you live inside of a community, except for the first three which are just about living with God in your life.

              • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                You can’t kill people if you don’t consider them people

                [taps forehead]

                • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                  3 years ago

                  that is not the point I was making at all and you know it. I am prepared to kill during the revolution(in minecraft), but I will not ever murder someone. murder implies you chose to kill someone based solely on your own desires, either murdering someone for revenge or out of jealousy or to steal what they had. When at war, you kill because you will be killed otherwise. Don't try to what if me on this, because it is a moral stance and I believe if you kill someone you will know why you did it, and if you really kill someone and have no idea why you did it that is worse than killing them for a bad reason.