I was having such a good holiday break, and then this shows up in my inbox:
Baptist Pastor Advocates Killing Gays
Here are some salient points from one of his sermons:
You want to know who the biggest hypocrite in the world is? The biggest hypocrite in the world is the person who believes in the death penalty for murderers and not for homosexuals. Hypocrite. The same God who instituted the death penalty for murderers is the same God who instituted the death penalty for rapists and for homosexuals – sodomites, queers! That’s what it was instituted for, okay? That’s God, he hasn’t changed. Oh, God doesn’t feel that way in the New Testament … God never “felt” anything about it, He commanded it and said they should be taken out and killed.
Why? Because the sodomites are infectious, that’s why. Because they’re not reproducers, that goes without saying, they’re recruiters. And you know who they’re after? Your children. Remember you dropped off your kids last week? That’s who they’re after. You drop them off as some day care, you drop them off as some school somewhere, you don’t know where they’re at. I’ll tell you where they’re at:they’re being recruited by the sodomites. They’re being molested by the sodomites… They recruit through rape. They recruit through molestation. They recruit through violation. They are infecting our society. They are spreading their disease. It’s not a physical disease, it’s a sin disease, it’s a wicked, filthy sin disease and it’s spreading on a rampage. Can’t you see that it’s spreading on a rampage? I mean, can you not see that? Can you not see that it’s just exploding in growth? Why? Because each sodomite recruits far more than one other sodomite because his whole life is about recruiting other sodomites, his whole life is about violating and hurting people and molesting ‘em.
Here’s Reverend Steven L. Anderson’s mug shot:
I normally don’t like resorting to snide remarks and insults, but what else can you do with this kind of douchebag? How much do you want to bet he’s taken it up the poopshoot and loved every minute of it?
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The people at Faithful Word Baptist Church are notorious and notoriously funny. You ought to hear them rant about people who read the New International Version of the Bible and women who wear jeans.
Posted by Bob Crispen | December 27, 2009, 10:16 pmIt really never ceases to amaze – The pot calling the kettle black syndrome, and the psychological “projection” that is just about always at work there. And why so many otherwise nice folks will unknowingly tip their hand, by accusing others of the very things that they are really in need of help with, and out of control concerning their own behavior, and in their own lives. Call it the Ted Haggard Syndrome anyone?
Here is a man that Chants a Rant about homosexuals being recruiters, while he is obviously, and viscerally, engaged in recruiting others to his point of view. And his delusional claim to divine knowledge and purpose is same bunk that all practitioners and users of oracles want to hide behind. “Look – it’s not me saying this . . . after all, you ask the Ouija Board – you’ll get the same answer.” The Glenn Beck Syndrome anyone?
I know it’s bad form to quote from one of my posts, on your blog, but (from my post of the 18th, http://2bites.com/2009/12/18/what-i-suspect-may-be-the-case/ ) what I wrote there, seems particularly apropos here:
“This . . . points to the main reason that, though there are many paths, leading to the river of knowledge, there’s not a one that hasn’t been perverted and exploited by the self-serving of every ilk, in order to attract like minded individuals to the whirlpools of hatred, depraved indifference, and the murderous exploitation of those they oppose and oppress.”
Now, I hate to be the one to point this out, but we don’t normally waste a lot of time moralizing about a mad dogs – while we do often look to have one put out of it’s misery. Any dog catchers out there?
Rushhumble
Posted by rushhumble | December 28, 2009, 12:13 amHey fuck all homosexuals once the revolution is near I will go on a rampage killing those worthless homosexuals they don’t deserve to live nasty filthy pieces of shit they shouldn’t be allowed to vote, make porn hell they shouldn’t be allowed to eat or sleep all faggots deserve to burn in hell or be put into death camps.
Nuff said
Posted by Kill all gays | January 1, 2010, 1:00 pmUm, Mr Nuff Said, Jesus’ parable on judgment of others is one massive call for humility: take the log out of your own eye, and then you’ll see clearly to remove the speck from someone else. Elsewhere he reminds us that we’ll be judged according to whatever measure we use to judge others. Your blanket unsympathetic hatred and cruelty augers very badly for your own soul. Consider that Jesus was extremely loving to prostitutes and the like, even though he opposed their lifestyles, so much so that they brought their friends to meet him, and the Pharisees accused him of being with them. It was the self-righteous Pharisees who caught the harshest condemnation from Jesus, because they were taking others to hell with them. There is nothing about your awful little rant that says you view yourself as a Christian except for the hell reference, but whoever you are, you are clearly every bit in danger as the people you damn with such relish.
Posted by Jordan Pickering | January 6, 2010, 3:43 pmI just wanted to say that your final salvo cracked me up entirely, but then I saw this comment by Kill All Gays and now I am totally creeped out. I get some bitter and angry men at HUS, but yikes, you get all the religious crazies!
Posted by Susan Walsh | January 6, 2010, 11:52 pmOf course it is biblical! the bible clearly states that if a man lies with another man as he would a woman they have committed an abomination and would/should be put to death. Lev. 20:13. Before you try to lay “the old laws were done away with when Jesus came.” you might want to direct your attention to Matthew 5:17 where Jesus tells folks “Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose.”
Having said that, I am not a Christian, I am an atheist. I often wonder why Christians complain about a nutcase saying things like this, yes, he is clearly batshit crazy! But it IS in the bible, if you read your bible thoroughly and study it carefully in the original languages, I think it would scare the crap out of you at how crazy the bible is itself! If we tried to uphold the laws set forth by a mythological god of the bible, or Qu’ran, we would be in prison, women would be property, and there would be no children at all!
Posted by Ana Hernandez | January 7, 2010, 6:15 amBTW, LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!
Posted by Ana Hernandez | January 7, 2010, 6:16 amI’m not sure if you were responding to me, Ana, but I hope you won’t mind if I respond back.
I’ve done 4 years of Biblical studies and 3 years of teaching at a University of Cape Town student society, and I’m now tutoring at my university and pursuing MTh study in the Old Testament department. I read Greek (though my Hebrew is rubbish – working on it). I know the Bible well, but I don’t think that it is crazy at all.
As something of an aside, it is extremely important not to merge the Quran and the Bible together as though they’re the same thing. On women, for instance, the Bible calls the husband every bit as much the property of the wife as the wife is of the husband. Islam kills the woman caught in adultery, but not the man, whereas even in the OT, men and women are charged with equal guilt. I need more than an aside to properly develop that, but if it is true that Islam subjugates women, it does not follow that the Bible does too.
More importantly, there is a reason why the OT is the way it is. The law is not without context. Israel was God’s Holy Land in which he promised to live among his Holy People. The Israelites were covenanted to God in this relationship with a blood-pledge. Thus, the OT law is there to govern life in God’s presence. This does NOT equate in the slightest to civil law anywhere on earth now, not even Israel (although some Jews might fight me on that). Atheists have no covenant with God. There is no land in which God dwells by covenant and in a designated Holy Place. In other words, the Old Testament laws may be applied (mutatis mutandis) spiritually to the church, but not to broader society at all (or at least not without massive care and wisdom). Civil society has the same relationship to the OT law that the gentile nations did in OT times (i.e. virtually none). Consequently, homosexuality is sin, and as such it is ‘illegal’ in the church. It is also true that, if God is there, such sin will incur judgment from God even for non-Christians (as all sin will). But Christians have no right to insist that homosexuality in non-Christian society deserves it’s OT penalty when non-Christian society does not exist in remotely comparable circumstances to OT Israel.
Christians might as well be frothing at the mouth about the death penalty for Sabbath breakers, because it has as much to do with the non-Christian judiciary as the Levitical death-penalty for homosexuality does.
Posted by Jordan Pickering | January 8, 2010, 4:45 am