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Black Church Preaches Hate
- Thread starter Neo Deist
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Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
I think simple answers appeal to simple people, and that things people convey tend to reveal far more about themselves than what they're addressing.
Monk Of Reason
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I mean...they aren't wrong.
Neo Deist
Th.D. & D.Div. h.c.
You should come visit them and sit in on a service... it ain't pretty.
Kuzcotopia
If you can read this, you are as lucky as I am.
I don't care enough to vet this source, but it claims there are 69,738 black churches in America:
Google Answers: Churches in America
Maybe that's off. . . Who knows exactly. . . But for fun, let's do some math.
1/69,738 black churches are the subject of the OP. This means that a whopping .0014% of black churches have put up these politically slanted signs and preach the messages alleged here.
.0014%. The outrage!
Clearly an epidemic that indicts a whole race, creed, religion, or movement.
Google Answers: Churches in America
Maybe that's off. . . Who knows exactly. . . But for fun, let's do some math.
1/69,738 black churches are the subject of the OP. This means that a whopping .0014% of black churches have put up these politically slanted signs and preach the messages alleged here.
.0014%. The outrage!
Clearly an epidemic that indicts a whole race, creed, religion, or movement.
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oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Neo Deist
Th.D. & D.Div. h.c.
So that is how you spend Sunday afternoons!
Oh nooooooo...
Co-worker visited that church twice. Never went back.
Neo Deist
Th.D. & D.Div. h.c.
I know, right! The same stats can be used for cops:
There are around 800,000 sworn LEOs in the USA.
Cops killed around 1,000 people in 2016 for whatever reasons.
That means that 0.00125% of cops killed someone in 2016. Oh the outrage! 1 out of every 800 cops nationwide killed someone. Let's paint them all as racist murderers!
When you look at it like that, it's not exactly the epidemic that the media has been making it out to be.
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I'm still trying to figure out why it would matter if this church was attended by blacks, whites, blues, or pink polka dot. 
At any rate, I've seen all sorts of churches put odd messages on their signs. It's their private property and their right to do so. On the whole, I find advertising billboards far more objectionable and problematic.
At any rate, I've seen all sorts of churches put odd messages on their signs. It's their private property and their right to do so. On the whole, I find advertising billboards far more objectionable and problematic.
Monk Of Reason
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Damn. I wonder if anything ever has been done like this before?
Kuzcotopia
If you can read this, you are as lucky as I am.
I know, right! The same stats can be used for cops:
There are around 800,000 sworn LEOs in the USA.
Cops killed around 1,000 people in 2016 for whatever reasons.
That means that 0.00125% of cops killed someone in 2016. Oh the outrage! 1 out of every 800 cops nationwide killed someone. Let's paint them all as racist murderers!
When you look at it like that, it's not exactly the epidemic that the media has been making it out to be.
Absolutely. General outrage over specific examples isn't a sound way to learn anything valuable.
not liking Trump = preaching hate?
Neo Deist
Th.D. & D.Div. h.c.
I'm still trying to figure out why it would matter if this church was attended by blacks, whites, blues, or pink polka dot.
At any rate, I've seen all sorts of churches put odd messages on their signs. It's their private property and their right to do so. On the whole, I find advertising billboards far more objectionable and problematic.
It doesn't matter. The title is a tactic that I borrowed from the media to draw attention, even though there's not really anything substantive to see.
Akivah
Well-Known Member
Their sign, their opinions.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Well, most Trump voters were woefully ignorant and easily manipulated, many of whom did openly display racist sentiment during the campaign. Not sure that making an observation constitutes hate.
There is a lot of churches that supported Hillary. Of course that they are slinging mud. Those churches does it for the money.
I know for a fact that any church that promoted late term abortion is not a godly church at all.
Matthew 7:16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
I agree with them. I don't see any hate.