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May 22nd, 2012
11:23 AM ET
Video of North Carolina pastor's plan to 'get rid of' gays goes viralBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - Video of a North Carolina pastor preaching that gays and lesbians should be rounded up inside an electric fence is going viral on the Internet, two weeks after North Carolina passed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and President Barack Obama voiced personal support for legalizing such marriages. "I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but I couldn't get it past the Congress," Pastor Charles L. Worley can be seen telling his Providence Road Baptist Church congregation in the video, which had more than 250,000 YouTube views by Tuesday. "Build a great big, large fence - 50 or a 100 miles long - and put all the lesbians in there,” Worley went on to say in his May 13 sermon at his Maiden, North Carolina, church. “Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can't get out. Feed them. And you know in a few years, they'll die out. You know why? They can't reproduce." My Take: The Bible condemns a lot, but here's why we focus on homosexuality The video had initially been posted on Providence Road’s website but was recently taken down, according to CNN affiliate WBTV-TV in Charlotte. The phone line at Worley’s church was busy on Monday night and on Tuesday, as was Worley’s home number on Tuesday. The church’s website was down Tuesday morning, but it had described the house of worship as fundamentalist, meaning it represents a Baptist tradition that's more conservative than the Southern Baptists. My Take: The Christian case for gay marriage Worley’s sermon was posted on YouTube by a group called Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate, which is organizing a protest at the Providence Road Baptist Church on Sunday. Addressing his congregation last Sunday, Worley referred to his earlier controversial sermon. "I talked a little bit, I believe it was last Sunday, on the homosexual lifestyle, and there was a whole lot of people who didn't like what I said," Worley told his congregation Sunday, according to WBTV. "I want to read it out of the Bible, and then we'll go from there." CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories “Listen, all of the Sodomites, the lesbians, and all of the ... what's that word? Gays - I didn't wanna say 'queers' - that say we don't love you, I love you more than you love yourself,” Worley said, according to WBTV. “I'm praying for you to be saved." Worley’s initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, was working Tuesday to gather criticism of Worley’s comments from other North Carolina pastors. “I am angry and sick at heart over Pastor Worley's comments,” said the Rev. Dennis Teall-Fleming, pastor at Open Hearts Gathering in Gastonia, North Carolina, in a statement distributed by GLAAD. “Nothing he says has anything to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” said Teall-Fleming, who leads a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregation. “I call on all Christian and Baptist organizations that have any connection with him to condemn his comments as strongly as I do, including Providence Road Baptist Church of Maiden.” soundoff (5,806 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 Next » |
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10 Signs You Are a Fundamentalist Christian.
1. You honestly believe, despite everything we have been taught by cosmology, astronomy, geology, biology, history, paleontology and archeology, that the World began about 6,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a magic talking snake. You have no evidence to support you, but your unmatched ability to ignore inconvenient facts and bury your head allows you to maintain this silly mythology into the 21st Century.
2. You think that, despite Jesus getting it wrong, despite the apostles getting it wrong and despite every single time it was said to be “about to happen” over the last 2,000 years being wrong, the Second Coming is imminent. You fail to see that believing that the “end is nigh” is generally recognized by psychologists as a basic human reaction to one perceiving themselves as a failure in life.
3. You accept the “leap of faith” as a valid basis for believing in god in the absence of evidence, but fail to see that this makes you a pantheist, because you have to accept that the same leap can be made to any god with equal validity.
4. You consider simple thoughts like lust and mast.urbation a sin, but have no issue with the disgusting, degenerate way your Bible treats women and $ex and, even today, admire people like Michele Bachmann who consider women second class citizens to men.
5. You likely deny global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron rolling around a floor speaking in tongues is enough to convince you he is channeling a spirit.
6. You will regularly be ripped off and cheated by charismatic “preachers” who are obviously crooks to everybody but you. Ted Haggard, Jimmy Swaggart, Eddie Long, and the other dozen or so who have ripped you off are not enough to convince you that you are a mindless sheep that is regularly being fleeced.
7. You spout off about the importance of charity and generosity as Biblical principles, but likely support movements like the tea party that promote the evisceration of social policies.
8. You fail to see that, given your personality, the only reason you are not a fundamentalist Jew, Hindu or Muslim is an accident of where you were born. Had you been born in Iran, you would be one of those bearded half-wits that burns American flags.
9. You will defend the Bible, an Iron Age collection of Middle Eastern mythology, despite it being indisputably wrong and literally infested with outdated morality, contradictions and barbaric cruelty.
10. You believe that anybody who does not accept your silly faith will burn in hell. You don’t have to kill, you don’t have to rob, hell, you don’t even have to litter. All you have to do is reject a belief in the Christian god and he will inflict a punishment upon you an infinite times worse than the death penalty….and he loves you. You see no contradiction in using the same sky-fairy as both the carrot and the stick.
I never get tired of reading these, Colin.
+9000
Well said!
"1. You honestly believe, despite everything we have been taught....that the World began about 6,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a magic talking snake."
~No. You got that wrong.
"2. You think that,...the Second Coming is imminent.
~No...you got that incorrect as well.
"3. You accept the “leap of faith” as a valid basis for believing in god in the absence of evidence,"
~No..in that you mean scientific evidence but ignoring personal experience. Oddly enough the whole "leap of faith" aspect happens in much of our human existence but I have my doubts you would condemn the use of it always.
"4. You consider simple thoughts like lust and mast.urbation a sin, but have no issue with the disgusting, degenerate way your Bible treats women and $ex and, even today, admire people like Michele Bachmann who consider women second class citizens to men."
~Lol....no. I do not care for Bachmann and I know a lot of Christians that do not. As for your opinion on the $ex and how women are treated...that is a pretty va_gue and unrefined comment. Sorry but it is.
"5. You likely deny global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science..."
~At least you used "likely" with this instead of foolishly implying an absolute. I've known many Christians that really respects and trust science. Heck, much of our knowledge and science came from those within the church throughout time.
"6. You will regularly be ripped off and cheated by charismatic “preachers” who are obviously crooks to everybody but you."
~Lol...another false absolute.
"7. You spout off about the importance of charity and generosity as Biblical principles, but likely support movements like the tea party that promote the evisceration of social policies."
~Just a personal political rant that has no basis in reality. There are Christians that give to charity and are very generous that don't have anything to do with the Tea Party. It may seem odd but not all Christians are regulated to the United States and therefor would have absolutely nothing to do with a minor political ent_ity as the Tea Party.
"8. You fail to see that, given your personality, the only reason you are not a fundamentalist Jew, Hindu or Muslim is an accident of where you were born. Had you been born in Iran, you would be one of those bearded half-wits that burns American flags."
~Total guesswork without true evidence. Ignores the fact that people from different backgrounds and cultures can change their religious preferences. If this was untrue, then how could any new religion recruit new followers to begin with? Wouldn't they be stuck and trapped in the mindset of their parents?
"9. You will defend the Bible, an Iron Age collection of Middle Eastern mythology, despite it being indisputably wrong and literally infested with outdated morality, contradictions and barbaric cruelty."
~Defend it how? Pretty va_gue. At least you got the time frame down this time with the Iron Age, though I still do not see how being in the 21st century makes a peron's moral outlooks superior to one from the Iron Age.
"10. You believe that anybody who does not accept your silly faith will burn in hell."
~No..I believe that God will decide no matter what I believe.
Well said Kale!
Great post Colin!!!
Though Kalessin got it right.
Grade A+ S#it, Really... A round of drinks on me.
Unless you want the gays to take over, vote ROMNEY 2012
First you ignorant fundiots claim gays are only 1% of the population.
Now you claim that unless Romney wins, gays will take over.
Which is it?
You fundiots can't even keep your lies straight.
The Loch Ness monster is going to eat all the children....!!!!!!
Next week's sermon: Finding a date at your family reunion. Be honest. Were any of us really surprised that a North Carolina preacher was a hate-filled, ignorant nut-bag?
This people use the name of God to justify their evil emotions and sadistic tendencies. Hate is anything but Christian...
From the dictionary:
Sadistic Personality (disorder) a pervasive pattern of cruel, demeaning, and aggressive behavior; satisfaction is gained from intimidating, coercing, hurting, and humiliating others.
This is more evidence that many of America's "Christians" share the exact same values as the Taliban. This is disgusting, and it highlights why gay and lesbian people are fighting for and deserve their equal civil rights.
This minister's opinion is not just hateful and cruel, but I would even argue that it's not Christian at all. I would also argue that at the end of the sermon when he implied that our president was a baby-killer and gay-lover and that he would not be voting for him, he is placing his church in jeopardy of losing their 501(c)3 status. I hope that so long as he is politicking from the pulpit, the IRS revokes that church's nonprofit status. This is also a double-edged sword. While it helps to be informed that this sort of thing is going on, spreading this man's word can also prove to be dangerous and just encourage him to be more radical and hateful.
this is hardly worth responding to, but I'll give it a try: This preacher is speaking to a room full of people who have gay brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, neighbors....
My question: wasn't there even one brave heart in the whole church to stand up and say 'enough', let's leave this up to my (fill in the blank, brother, neighbor, etc) and God???
Someone should tell that guy he's pronouncing it incorrectly. The word is "against", you are against it, not "aginit". I wasn't aware they add an extra chromosome once you graduate the seminary....
almost certainly this preacher can pronounce 'against'. His hillbilly pronunciation is for 'effect'. Like George Bush wackin' weeds on the back 40 of his 'ranch'. Its all for 'effect'. Just tryin' to work people up. And keep himself employed. I rather blame the congregation that they want this guy to feed them this junk. He's just the mouthpiece of a really ignorant group. They are all co-conspiritors in hate.
I would say put this thief and others like him, inside the same fence, but with NO LITTLE BOYS!!!!
I am from a city about 10-15 minutes from Maiden. The majority of those people are sheltered, country people, and these type of people are ignorant and blinded by their over-bearing religous ideas and affiliations. Maybe Southern Baptists need to be locked away, because they are crazy.
I am a pastor of a rural Baptist church in Alabama. This video sickens me. This man is way outside the teachings of Scripture, and has no idea of the love and mercy that is offered through Jesus Christ.
So, do you teach that the World began 6,000 years ago with a talking snake?
He's that carpenter fellow right?
darrelpreach,
I am truly happy that you teach peace but really the bible can be interpreted either way. I know you believe the bible teaches love and peace but many christians would disagree.
If this pastor is smarter than his flock..where in the hell does that leave them?
It leaves them North Carolina Educated...
Wouldn't it be nice if people found inner strength and peace through religion and that was enough? Why do hate monger religious leaders try and force feed their beliefs to everyone else?
A perfect spokesman for the uneducated religious masses. Bravo, "pastor".
Can anybody think of a demographic that is dumber than the evangelical Christians, because I can't.
In breeding will do that.
A perfect example of what's to come if the Christian Taliban get's control of this country, which they won't
And back into the dark ages we go...
"in a few years, they'll die out. You know why? They can't reproduce"
They can't reproduce inside the fence, but they WOULD be able to reproduce outside of the fence? What is it about not being fenced in that would allow two males to impregnate each other, Pastor Worley?
There you go again with that liberal logic-talking.
Funny that people here have the nerve to call this person "a man of God." There is no way that God would consider this bigot a man of his. Perhaps he is a man of dog.. or a dog of a man.. but not a man of God.
Please don't insult dogs.
For all of you who claim that being gay is "unnatural" do a little research on other animals in nature and see if any of them are "gay" then come back to this post and tell us what you found. Yeah, to me it's nothing I have any interest in, but you'll be surprised what you find if you do a little research before you post.
You do realize that they mean "unnatural" in a normative sense, right? Not in the "it can be found in nature" sense, right?
If you yourself mean "natural" in a normative sense, then you've vindicated all murder, ra_pe, etc.