Christain Pastor calls autistic kids "junk" that god didn't make

You should watch this scientists story on YouTube... very interesting and totally related to your post.

Why This Atheist Scientist Became a Believing Christian

 

Yahweh IS kind of a dick. Have you read the Old Testament? Petulant and insecure at best.

 

I love Faux outrage from the right..

 

The violins are working over time. Plenty of mockery and disdain is justified from my perspective. I get that you feel oppressed but it’s just not so…

 

In his defense it connotes some belief in God. Who if the Bible is to be believed (NOT) comes off as a bipolar dick to many people. You really shouldn’t be bothered by any of this if you have faith right?

 

Only the right thinks shooting your kids is not ok? I didnt see many positive ratings from the left for his crap post.

 

Of course we can be bothered. The same reason hateful rhetoric should bother a gay person, or a minority, or a Muslim etc. Hateful rhetoric almost always turns into hateful action by someone.

 

You just said you were a plurality in the world and the United States so the minority is targeting the majority. The majority who at least all presidents have professed to be.

 

I took as hyperbole and didn’t take it seriously. To be consistent though I also recently posted when somebody tells you who they are believe them.

 

This is what comes of reading the Bible from a helicopter.

 

The Christian faith has always been a mile wide and an inch deep in the US. As far back as the 70’s Billy Graham described America as a pagan country in which many Christians reside.

 

It was a statistic I remembered coming across years ago, but yes it looks like the 100x number is in comparison to Catholic priests and not to Catholic schools.

 

So? That's justification? Cmon Dan.

 

Agree. Western Christianity is barely a shell of the gift Jesus left us with.

 

Justification for what? Can the majority be persecuted? I don’t think so but the majority can have a persecution complex.

 

Atheists are largely kicking at a caricature.

 

Let's play Old Testament roulette. Pick a random page. Do what's on the page. Last person to go to jail wins.

 

I haven't read this whole thread, but I'll throw in my two cents.

The preacher in the OP is too stupid to know it, but without intending to he has raised the age-old question of the problem of evil. A problem for which there has never been a satisfactory theological answer. (I say that having not studied theology in many years. Perhaps there’s some contemporary theologian who has solved the mystery, though I seriously doubt it without him or her receiving worldwide recognition for such a feat.)

There’s an article at Raw Story written by one Greta Christina entitled “Why I Don’t Believe in God.” She lists the “Top Ten reasons” why she doesn’t believe. Incredibly, the problem of evil doesn’t even make her top ten. If I were to write such an article (but I am not an atheist), it would be my Reason No. 1. Yet the word “evil” doesn’t even appear once in her article.

The preacher talks about autism being demonic. Belief in the devil or demons as the cause of evil in the world simply doesn’t cut it. Such belief can make good movies like “The Exorcist” but that’s as far as it goes. Just to stay with the subject of children, is autism the only problem? What about all the children with cancer or born with serious deformities? Why must we have manmade institutions like St. Jude’s Hospital trying to solve this grave injustice in the world for which there is no solution?

There’s an interesting passage in Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” in which the Ivan character asks why children suffer. Ivan says that he is “returning his ticket to Heaven” until he is told why children suffer.

I think it’s safe to say that Ivan never got to Heaven.

 

For salvation (theological humor).