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Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
March 28, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
A church pastor in Pennsylvania could face felony charges for staging a fake kidnapping of youth group students in order to teach them about religious persecution.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/church-stages-f...3NLoDGiGRq
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RE: Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
March 28, 2012 at 1:40 pm
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(March 28, 2012 at 1:35 pm)Ziploc Surprise Wrote: Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
A church pastor in Pennsylvania could face felony charges for staging a fake kidnapping of youth group students in order to teach them about religious persecution.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/church-stages-f...3NLoDGiGRq
Extremely religious unbalanced & dangerous, news at 11.
On the plus side, I bet youth attendance at that church is about to go thru the floor.
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RE: Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
March 28, 2012 at 1:54 pm
But remember, they terrified these children to show them God's love.
OK, so religious persecution of Christians happens in other parts of the world. How much you want to bet that the idea they were trying to push onto the kids was that this kind of persecution is what's going to happen here in America? And does anyone doubt that this is what they'd like to do to non-Christians if they were able to?
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RE: Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
March 28, 2012 at 2:16 pm
I'm sorry but hahaha, what a fucking idiot. What I find more disturbing is that a police officer was part of this whole thing. It's okay to kidnap if it's for Jesus!
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RE: Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
March 28, 2012 at 3:49 pm
It's amazing that when planning this they couldn't figure out what a stupid idea this was.
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RE: Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
March 28, 2012 at 4:22 pm
I wonder what the response would be is atheists faked a witch-burning to teach them about Christian persecution.
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RE: Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
March 28, 2012 at 4:26 pm
(March 28, 2012 at 2:48 pm)tobie Wrote: Whilst this is bad, It's not as despicable as the story I heard about parents getting people to kidnap their kids and send them to god camp.
Being woken up in the middle of the night by complete strangers and then being forced to go with them to religious indoctrination camp is pretty bad, but I don't know if it's worse than the terror of having an AK-47 pointed at you and being forced into a van.
The bad thing is that if atheists did any of this stupid crap, they'd jump all over this claiming how immoral and evil we are.
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RE: Church stages fake kidnapping of youth group members.
March 28, 2012 at 5:50 pm
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(March 28, 2012 at 1:54 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: But remember, they terrified these children to show them God's love.
OK, so religious persecution of Christians happens in other parts of the world. How much you want to bet that the idea they were trying to push onto the kids was that this kind of persecution is what's going to happen here in America?
You're on to something here. It's a great way to terrify a person into voting for religious fundamentalists.
(March 28, 2012 at 2:16 pm)Mosrhun Wrote: I'm sorry but hahaha, what a fucking idiot. What I find more disturbing is that a police officer was part of this whole thing. It's okay to kidnap if it's for Jesus!
Yeah, he should have known it would get him in trouble.
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