Truly saddening.

Plenty of atheists are capable of having empathy for others, Bruce, so it’s not that.

In a leadership meeting the Pastor reportedly told one of the trustees and longtime members “Don’t let the door knob hit you where the good Lord split you” because of a conflict between the two.

What would Jesus do? I don’t think he would “do” ministry as the illustrious pastor of Concord Baptist Church (Houston) is currently “doing.”

In the midst of all that has occured, he has even managed to father a child(ren) within the congregation. This son resembles him moreso than the sons of his current marriage. The mother and sister of the said child is not welcomed to attend the services.

Woe be unto the shepherd that scatters the sheep… God help him (Pastor Kevin Lamar Washington) before destroys any more lives spiritually, mentally, physically, and financially.

As with all mobs, the Evangelicals are beginning to turn on themselves:On a quiet Sunday morning in June, as worshippers settl……

My experience is that houses of worship are actually like very polite knife-fights where no one will admit bringing a knife. Even in the superficially liberal Unitarian church, there is a joke about the “rule of 19″: in any given congregation, 19 people want the pastor fired on any given day. When I see church bulletins, I see a lot about bake sales, a lot about choir practice, a lot about miscellaneous but not a lot about the business about becoming a better, more moral human being (and by moral I am not speaking specifically about the morality of genital contact, which is what most people think “immoral” refers to.)

I like religious architecture, history (replete with its mass murders), some religious music. I like a lot of religious people too. But if religion and morality had something to do with one another, the South would have either gone atheist or gone 100% free of slavery overnight. Instead, the most religious part of the country remains the most unapologetically and nostalgically racist. That’s why they call racist political stratgies “Southern strategies”, a term better otherwise reserved for the selling of pork barbecue and sweet tea.

What’s the least racist part of the country? Historically, the urban Pacific Northwest, also the least religious. A much reduced history of segregation, relative ethnic harmony (though hardly perfect.) The NW has skinheads too, but they are in the rural and …. religious parts of that region east of the mountains and in Idaho, the second home of the historically racist Mormon church.

You fund an authoritarian institution voluntarily for years, you are equitably estopped from complaining when it moves to oppress you.