Monday, July 9, 2012

Christian Crime Wave

What kind of response would a Christian give to one of the victims of these crimes?  Not, just crimes in the judicial sense but, crimes against humanity, children, elderly, female and male!  What would you have to offer that would be sympathetic or comforting to these victims?  God!!!

God and religion is exactly what has made you believe that these people are Christians.  Other Christians have made you believe that these people were of good christian morals!  If the numbers are correct from reports; 70-80% of all Americans claim to be Christians and are the majority of this country then, it would only seem natural to conclude that 70-80% of crimes committed in our nation would be by Christians.  Or, at least claim to be of the Christian faith or belief.

Alabama Baptist Pastor Mark Allen Green, 41, arrested, for sexual abuse of a child, turns out to be a "career criminal". abpnews.com "An Alabama Baptist church fired its new pastor after his recent arrest on sexual abuse charges in Texas, but it isn’t the pastor’s first time in jail." blog.al.com Apparently it's TWO charges, and "church members began arguing and shouting after the news of Green's arrest".
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California Christian Methodist Episcopal Minister "The Rev. Joseph C. Gardner Sr., 59", was arrested, " is scheduled to appear in court next month for a pre-trial hearing on charges that he committed two felonies and one misdemeanor when he threatened to shoot a man for parking in front of his house". Well, at least is wasn't a sex crime. Wavenewspapers.com.
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Greenville South Carolina Pastor Michael Wolfe of Advent United Methodist Church was arrested when he tried to solicit a prostitute. The prostitute was an undercover deputy. Oops. I can only assume the fake prostitue / deputy was female, otherwise it would be a bigger scandal. wspa.com
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In Virginia, 92-year-old is Lutheran Pastor and religion professor, Guy Ritter, was arrested after being accused of molesting two boys while he was a Reverend at Glade Creek Lutheran Church in Botetourt County. He was also a religion professor at Roanoke College. Apparently the crimes that he was accused of occurred in the 1970s. Is there a statue of limitations? wdbj7.com
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David Rice, 55, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Anniston, Alabama, was arrested and charged with domestic violence for stabbing his brother in the arm and chest." Note there is no mention of the story of Cain and Abel. Foxnews.com According to the minister's wife, his brother/victim is mentally ill and has frequent panic attacks.
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"the Rev. Reginald Taylor, 46" of the Second Baptist Church on Decatur Street, in Sandusky Tennessee, was arrested and charged with domestic violence after attacking his wife.
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Kissimmee Florida Pastor Angel Perez was arrested for engaging in sexual acts with a 16 year old boy. He Peres is or was pastor at Templo Pentecostal Puerto De Salvation. He reportedly engaged in a sex act with the boy while the boy was sleeping. Perez states the devil made him do it (literally, read the report). snapnetwork.org.
also Orlandosentinel.com
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Marshfield Missouri "lay" pastor Phillip Kittrell, 76, was charged with felony sexual misconduct in the first degree after groping the genitals of an 18 year old employee at a Walmart, and making sexual comments. lebanondailyrecord.com This was Kittrell's second time, having been convicted of a similar crime in the past. crimein.com I could not find what denomination or church where Kittrell is a lay pastor, but one report did state his walmart incident was caught on security camera.
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Multiple-talented South Carolina state representative, Ted Vick, who includes pastor ion his resume, was "arrested for driving under the influence and unlawfully possessing a firearm, with a female college student who is not (his) wife in the car." Don't get riled up, he's a Democrat. dailycaller.com I kind of like how Vick was described as "Vick is an open supporter of the U.S. capitalist system". This was not from "The Onion". I could not find what denomination he claims.
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Colorado priest, Father Charles Robert Manning, was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust. Well, I had to include at least one child molesting Catholic priest. gazette.com
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Rock Hill, South Carolina pastor "The Rev. Kevin Graham McCurry," pastor of Faith, Hope and Love Ministries, was arrested for domestic violence, after threatening to kill his wife and throw her body into the river. (Such detail). heraldonline.com
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Colorado Baptist youth minister John H. Brothers Jr., 42, was arrested on "27 charges in connection with the sexual abuse of a child." courierpress.com
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Ohio Reverend Dr. Mark Griggs, 50, pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church of Berea, was sentenced for child porn charges - hundreds of videos and images that had been downloaded to his computer" fox8.com
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Lafayette, Indiana Pastor Robert Lyzenga, 55, faces felony charges of voyeurism in connection with the cameras found at Lafayette’s Sunrise Christian Reformed Church. "a woman found the first camera inside what appeared to be an air freshener when it fell off a stall door." pal-item.com also reuters.com This story is an internet favorite, having been repeated across many news outlets. Apparently, a minister who installs cameras in lady's toilet stalls is especially interesting.
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North Carolina pastor for the House of Mercy, former pastor of the Christ’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Larry Michael Bollinger, 66 stands accused of sexual abuse of minors while on mission in Haiti. shelbystar.com
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Alabama pastor Clyde David Myers, 66, who was the minister at Prattville Community Church, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child pornography charges. necm.com
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These reports are endless. I'll stop here. These are alerts I've collected, starting with today and going back about 3 weeks. I've stuck to American reports. Just for fun, here is one from South Africa.
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Pretoria minister arrested for stealing erection medicine. The Dutch Reformed minister is not named. zimdiaspora.com

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Welcome To This World!


Enough said!

Dear Reality,


I found this posted on Facebook the other day to one of my friends.  My friend has been going through some rather difficult times lately.  Ranging from his adult son recently breaking his leg to a low life piece of crap taking advantage of him and his family---after they took this person in off the streets to make sure he finished high school!

            Because of my closeness to this man and his family, I have chosen to express my feelings here; than to reply on his Facebook.  And, because of the nature of being an anti-theist (non-believer of a god), I’m sure most will understand why; I made this choice.
            Every time, I see one of these kinds of post on a social web-site I want to vomit!  How can people really think or believe that there is somebody in the sky just waiting for you to ask him for help or to unload your troubles on him.  Especially, since there are far more important, bigger issues in this world that need’s tending to.


With such things like; poverty, starvation and slavery still actively killing and destroying families!  Not…help me find my keys or help me fix my marriage!  Things like…sexual abuse protection of our children (punishing anyone who is convicted of this; clergy included) and women’s rights to seek preventive health care without being discriminated against by anyone!  Not…please let me get to work on time or I hope my church will raise enough money for whatever needs to be done this month.

            Folks, this is not about harming or hurting anyone that claims to be a Christian or religious.  There are millions of religious Christian people in this world that are very good people!  They are just delusional and illusionary about a great deal of the problems in this world.  It’s almost as if people are lazy about trying to solve their problems.  And, rest assured; some Christian will come along and want to tell you that they will “pray for you” or “just put it in god’s hands!”  Really!  That’s it!  The problem is gone and I no longer have to deal or face it?  Ask yourselves this; “Has anything really ever gotten better for you because of a prayer?”  And, if you think it has then I would ask you this; “Are you sure there is not a logical reason for what made you better?  The doctors, medicine or procedure didn’t make you better?  You received a check in the mail from your old landlord who owed you a deposit!  And, you prayed for financial help and here it came!  Was that god answering a prayer or the landlord sending it and the postal employee delivering it?

The last two lines are what particularly stand out to me.  But I trust you.  I know you will give me what’s best.  First, why would you ever trust anyone you have never met?  Especially, with the overwhelming lack of evidence that this supernatural being ever existed!  What if Charles Manson was proven to be the “messiah” of Christianity?  What now?  Are you going to trust him?  Of course not; society has proven beyond any doubt; that this man is dangerous.  But, with evidence!

Here are some examples of god giving the human species and all living creatures, what’s best for them!

Genesis

GENESIS 34:13 Shechem had premarital sex with Jacob’s daughter Dinah, which angered Jacob’s sons. Shechem and his father, Hamor, agreed to circumcision for the men in the city in order for Shechem to marry Dinah and make Jacob’s other daughters eligible for the men of the city. Three days later, while the men were still enduring the pain of circumcision, Jacob’s sons attacked the unsuspecting city, killing Shechem and Hamor with swords, looting the city, seizing the flocks, herds, possessions and wealth, plundering the houses and carrying off their women and children.

GENESIS 6 & 7 Unhappy with the wickedness of man, God killed every living thing on the planet except Noah’s family. Men, women, infants and animals drowned in unimaginable terror and agony.

GENESIS 19:6- In Sodom, Lot’s home was assaulted by a homosexual mob seeking to have relations with two angels. Lot volunteered his virgin daughters to the crowd, saying "you can do what you like with them" as long as the guests are left alone. After offering his children to be raped, Lot was then appointed by God as worthy of rescue from Sodom’s destruction.

GENESIS 19:26: God, still unfazed by the proposed rape of Lot’s virgin daughters, turned Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt for the heinous crime of looking over her shoulder.

GENESIS 38: 8-10 – Onan was instructed by Judah to lay with his brother’s wife to produce offspring for his brother (who was put to death by God for wickedness). Onan slept with his brother’s wife but "spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother" (NIV). God found this wicked, so God killed him.


EXODUS 2:12 Moses saw an Egyptian beating up a Hebrew. He looked around, saw no witnesses, killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

EXODUS 7:2-4 God hardened Pharaoh’s heart and planned his "mighty acts of judgment.

EXODUS 7:20-21 God turned the Nile river to blood. The fish died, and the water was undrinkable.

EXODUS 8: 6-7 God sent a plague of frogs which covered the land.

EXODUS 8:16 God sent a plague of gnats.

EXODUS 8:24 God sent a swarm of flies.

EXODUS 9:5 God killed all of the Egyptian livestock with a plague.

EXODUS 9:10 God sent a plague of festering boils on the people and animals.

EXODUS 9:22-25 God sent a hail storm to Egypt, striking man and animal, stripping the land.

EXODUS 12: 29 God killed the first-born in every Egyptian home that wasn’t marked with lamb’s blood.

EXODUS 17:13 Moses held out the staff of God, allowing Joshua to kill the Amalekites.

EXODUS 21:20-21 According to God’s law, it was wrong to beat a slave to the point of death. But if the slave survived and got back up within a few days, the beating wasn’t punishable, because the slave was the property of the master. (God endorsed slavery and the beating of slaves.)

EXODUS 32:27 After seeing the golden calf, God commanded the Levites, "Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor." 3,000 were slaughtered, and God was pleased.


LEVITICUS 26:7-8 God rewarded obedience with assurances that enemies would all die by the sword.

LEVITICUS 26:22 God warned that, if the people didn’t listen to Him, he would send wild animals to rob parents of their children, destroy cattle and leave the roads deserted.

LEVITICUS 26:27-29 God threatened hostility, punishing people for their sins "seven times over," making them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters.

            This is just three books from the bible folks!  The list can go on and on.

            I have three grown children and two grand-children; and I could not even imagine for just the slightest Mila-second of ever doing just the least of these atrocities mentioned above to them!  Furthermore, I could not imagine doing these things to another fellow human being or animal!

            Why?  Please tell me why?  You should put your trust into anything or anyone who has done these horrible things to humanity?  Why?  Please tell me why?  You should trust this thing…this deity who will kill you and your entire family if you don’t obey or be a servant?

I’ve got good news people!  God didn’t do any of those things!  Because, he, it or whatever you call it; never existed!  The bible is nothing more than a book full of myths and half-truths!  There are some hints of truth in the bible; just as there are in most myths and fairytales!

            Why is it that we as humans, think that we are the center of this universe?  We think that we are the reason that this whole cosmos is here.  Science has proven that the earth has been in existence for billions of years!  And, we the human species have only been on earth for around 3,500 years.  I think that it is hard for our minds to comprehend that if we were to cease to exist as a species; that the earth, the universe and the cosmos would continue to exist!  That everything would continue without us…and frankly would care less if we were here or not!  We feel that we are the center of the grand scale of all things!
            I think the following video would better explain this point!




Rely on reason and your fellow man, friends, family to help you in your time of need.  Depend on a friend to help you with some advice on a situation.  Real people with real problems in a real world need…Reality!
            “Is religion the minds defense mechanism to reality?  Is reality so overwhelming that the mind creates illusions as a coping mechanism for shear reality?  Religion is the minds defense mechanism to reality---until the mind discovers illusions are the defense mechanism of religion against reality.” ---Jeff Dempsey