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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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 Posted - 05/06/2005 : 21:57:45
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As unbelievable as it sounds, it's true.
quote:
The Rev. Chan Chandler of East Waynesville Baptist Church in Waynesville ex-communicated nine members who refuse to support President Bush, according to WLOS-TV in Asheville, N.C.
Another 40 have left in protest.
Even more amazing, in my view, is that is too much even for the Rapture Ready crew!
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 05/06/2005 : 22:23:26 [Permalink]
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I would agree with one of the RR posters - "Say good-bye to that church's tax exempt status." - except that from what I've heard, no church has ever lost tax-exempt status for getting involved in politics. While it's a clear violation of the law, the IRS has never (so far as I know) stripped anyone of the tax exemption.
Maybe they will, now. This violation is so egregious that something needs to happen. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 05/07/2005 : 00:53:06 [Permalink]
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| Oh good, and here I was, thinking the RR people were completely deluded fools. It turns out they're slightly less crazy than that. Very slightly. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 05/07/2005 : 02:13:09 [Permalink]
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They interviewed a church member on Air America. It was an elderly woman who had been a member of the church for >40 years. The new pastor who instigated the 'policy' had been there 2 years. The woman left the church after speaking out against the outrage to the church administrators who must have been part of the pastor's group. It was really sad.
It also reminded me of the Rajaneeshies in Oregon who also moved into the local church in overwhelming numbers, elected themselves to the church board and took control of the church coffers and gave it to their group. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/07/2005 : 02:22:01 [Permalink]
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I don't see this church losing their tax status, at least not right this very minute. It might well lose it's congregation and replace it with yet another batch of drooling, off-the-deep-end, loonies, if it hasn't just now done so. I wonder just how many of the remaining members are also Klansmen.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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