Current Events > Texas pastor: "gays should be shot in back of head"

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https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/texas-pastor-says-gay-people-shot-back-head-shocking-sermon-rcna32748

A Texas baptist church has caused outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head."

Pastor Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, a suburb of Fort Worth, made the comment and other controversial remarks during a Sunday morning sermon titled "Why We Wont Shut Up."

"Im angry this morning because our entire country is celebrating the worse sin in the Bible," Awes said during the sermon referring to Pride Month, which commemorates the LGBTQ+ community every June.

"You know a lot of pastors have this stupid idea where its just like, 'oh you know God loves everyone. And God hates the sin but loves the sinner.' But people have taken this to such an extreme where theyre saying celebrate the sin, not just tolerate it, celebrate it," he continued. "Let me show what the Bible says about these people."

Awes read several passages from the Bible and condemned homosexuality as a sin. At one point, he told the congregation that gay people "are dangerous to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophiles."

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You know, I can't even react to this stuff anymore.

It's become par for the course.

Also, they can't even spell "steadfast" right

That little Nazi freak.

Hes a lot younger than I thought hed be.

Why does he look like a bowling pin?

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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Hes a lot younger than I thought hed be.

Seriously, is he 12?

Sure sounds like it.

This shit is why I'm a big proponent of marginalized communities arming themselves. The guns aren't going anywhere, and guys like this have them, so if they want you dead you better find a means of self defense and learn how to fucking use it, and just hope you never have to. It's a shame that it's come to this, but this country is looking incredibly bleak

Also wow, what a fucking Nazi piece of shit.

Your average Christian ladies and gentlemen

Judge not, lest you be judged.
Pray for your enemies.
Thou shalt not murder.

Fuck that guy and fuck his god

HylianFox posted...

Also, they can't even spell "steadfast" right

IKR?

"jUsT aN oPiNiOn" my gay ass

Here's a video of him saying it, and people in the audience agreeing.

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1534601386738040833

um, pretty sure that murder is considered a worse sin than being gay by the Bible

Correct me if Im wrong but homosexuality wasnt even originally in the Bible right? Wasnt it added in somewhat recently? Like within the past hundred years or so?

MaxEffingBemis posted...

Correct me if Im wrong but homosexuality wasnt even originally in the Bible right? Wasnt it added in somewhat recently? Like within the past hundred years or so?

In the 1940s, IIRC

Turbam posted...

In the 1940s, IIRC

About what I thought, thank you. Whole thing is ridiculous

MaxEffingBemis posted...

Correct me if Im wrong but homosexuality wasnt even originally in the Bible right? Wasnt it added in somewhat recently? Like within the past hundred years or so?

It's specifically the word "Homosexual" that got added recently iirc. The act of homosexuality is referred to in the Bible as that's been around since there's been people. It certainly doesn't say we should shoot anyone who does it in the back of the head lol

Sounds like he should be put out to pastor.

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The date of the translation change was in 1946 I believe.

Any person openly preaching violence, probably shouldn't be allowed to preach in my opinion as a Christian.

According to the Bible, Jesus literally saved all sorts of sinners, as he loved everyone. And he died for the sins of all people

These people act like Jesus wants them to shoot LGBT people or whatever nonsense and it makes no sense.

ZannoL posted...

celebrating the worse sin in the Bible

No where in the Bible is there a chart ranking sin. I was specifically taught in church that God doesnt rank sin.

BeyondWalls posted...

No where in the Bible is there a chart ranking sin. I was specifically taught in church that God doesnt rank sin.

Then whoever taught you that in church is a fucking moron because we have the 10 commandments

If you are in a marginalized community buy a weapon, train with it, organize with other members of your community for mutual aid and defense. When the time comes to defend yourself or your community do not hesitate because the people who want to harm you will not. As you've seen from recent police actions, they will at best wait until it's too late to actually save people or at worst be on the side of the people trying to kill you (see Portland PD's coordination with Proud Boys).

I think the only time Jesus is depicted as using violence is when he drove the money changers out of the temple, which might seem to be a condemnation of the greed of many modern churches.

What_ posted...

Your average Christian ladies and gentlemen

Lets not condemn all christians because of a few bad apples. I know of plenty christians who do not associate with these guys. As a matter of fact guys like this and kerrigan skelly who go to popular events like pride and the superbowl to yell at people get confronted by other christians.

Jesus:

1. Love God
2. Love your neighbors
3. Do not judge others because we are all sinners
4. Pay your taxes

Evangelicals: "So what you're saying is we need to hate the bad people and not pay taxes?"

What_ posted...

Then whoever taught you that in church is a fucking moron because we have the 10 commandments

Those arent ranked. Theyre all equal.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1534571404271661056?s=20&t=zVzhyEgm4EpUXaTIDo5k7w

DarkRoast posted...

Jesus:
1. Love God
2. Love your neighbors
3. Do not judge others because we are all sinners
4. Pay your taxes

Evangelicals: "So what you're saying is we need to hate the bad people and not pay taxes?"

"I just need somebody to forgive me of the wrongs I do to others. I don't care about the rest."

But if somebody were to say

Christian pastors should be shot in the back of the head

The entire Republican Qult would have a meltdown and act like theyre a persecuted minority group

FortuneCookie posted...

"I just need somebody to forgive me of the wrongs I do to others. I don't care about the rest."

Matthew 7:23
Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles? 23 Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness! 24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

SSJPurple posted...

But if somebody were to say

Christian pastors should be shot in the back of the head

The entire Republican Qult would have a meltdown and act like theyre a persecuted minority group

A Christian pastor like this saying evil shit is not representative of the entire group. So calling for his head is pretty simple. Very easy to disassociate with this little dweeb in question.

Saying Christian pastors should be shot in the back of the head doesnt differentiate between the hateful dicks like this guy or the legitimate good guys that both call themselves pastors. It paints a very broad stroke.

See the difference?

Fucking lunatic

God teaches us to murder gay people?

Lock this idiot up. For his own good.

I'd like to point out that a lot of modern liberal / progressive thought stems out of the Methodist church and their teachings that reason and logic are more important than dogma.

take there tax exempt status away fucking loons

Pretty sure blasphemy is the worst sin in the Bible.

_MorningStar posted...

Pretty sure blasphemy is the worst sin in the Bible.

Indeed. Worst than actual murder. Go figure.

This is the kind of shit people need to be arrested and locked away for.

He's literally inciting violence

RetsuZaiZen posted...

Indeed. Worst than actual murder. Go figure.

No it's not.

Jesus explicitly states that loving God with all your heart and loving your neighbor are the two rules that are fundamental.

Wow, people can be stupid and assholes. What a surprise.

DespondentDeity posted...

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The date of the translation change was in 1946 I believe.

Ehhh I think that's something that gets overstated, from what I've read there is some doubt but the original probably does refer to homosexuality. Either way there are several other instances of gayness being portrayed as sinful or being a result of sinful behavior (which seems to conflict with the whole idea of original sin, but no one's ever accused the bible of being logically consistent!)

Anyway, religion is bullshit, no one should base their world view on what some dudes from 2000+ years ago thought

I wish hate speech was illegal in the US.

IMNOTRAGED posted...

Ehhh I think that's something that gets overstated, from what I've read there is some doubt but the original probably does refer to homosexuality. Either way there are several other instances of gayness being portrayed as sinful or being a result of sinful behavior (which seems to conflict with the whole idea of original sin, but no one's ever accused the bible of being logically consistent!)

Anyway, religion is bullshit, no one should base their world view on what some dudes from 2000+ years ago thought

I fully understand and appreciate the belief that it's time for the world to become fully secular, but it irritates the shit out of me that people don't give certain religious sects the credit they deserve for promoting the Age of Reason that got us to this point.