So discouragingly predictable...

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So discouragingly predictable...

Post by Upton_O_Goode » Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:21 pm

Why is it we are no longer surprised or shocked at stories like this?
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Re: So discouragingly predictable...

Post by OlegTheBatty » Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:57 pm

Why should it be surprising or shocking to learn that pastors behave much as their congregation does?
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Re: So discouragingly predictable...

Post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Fri Jan 11, 2019 1:25 am

Upton_O_Goode wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:21 pm
 Why is it we are no longer surprised or shocked at stories like this?
The linked story headline is: "Anti-Gay Pastor Resigns Over Allegation He Slept With Prostitutes". I don't need to read another such story. Its routine.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Jan 11, 2019 11:50 am

You heard that Ted Haggard is back on the pulpit?
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Post by TJrandom » Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:28 pm

I am surprised that he resigned... he could have simply said that he was doing research, or trying to recruit, or that he didn't actually enjoy it... :roll:
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Post by Upton_O_Goode » Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:47 pm

Not only Haggard, also Jimmy Swaggart, Peter Popoff, Jim Bakker, Robert Tilton (although the crimes of Tilton and Popoff were fraud, not sex). They are living proof of the Trump dictum: You can do anything you want; nothing will shake the faith of the morons who send their money in.

And today, we learn that even the relatively civilized and urbane Catholic Church has its own priorities. John Paul II knew that McCarrick was diddling the choir boys, but made him a cardinal anyway. After all, what are a few messed up boys' lives in comparison with getting a powerful foe of abortion into Washington, DC?
“It is certainly sad and regrettable that so many innocent people died…Stalin was absolutely adamant on making doubly sure: spare no one…I don’t deny that I supported that view. I was simply not able to study every individual case…It was hard to draw a precise line where to stop.”

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Re: So discouragingly predictable...

Post by Wordbird » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:12 am

Sleep with all the prostitutes you like.
Speak out against futtbucking if you like. That's your opinion.
Rape a child and I might just kill you.
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Post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:42 am

Killing is a disproportionate response to a rape. You're just being as emotional and self centered as the whore mongering futtbuckers you think ill of.

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