Monday, May 21, 2012

False Witness: NC "pastor" preaches hate

Imagine if someone in a leadership position in our society suggested something like this:
I figured out a way to get rid of all the Christians. Build a great big fence, fifty or a hundred miles around. Put all the Christians in there. Fly over and drop some food. And have that fence electrified so they cannot get out. In a few years, they will die out because they will overpopulate and starve.
Is it safe to assume there would be outrage among Christians? Even if the person was being hyperbolic, there is nothing amusing, appropriate, or mature about calling for a group to be put in concentration camps.

"Pastor" Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in NC did just that. Substitute homosexuals for Christians in the passage above and you have part of a Worley's sermon last Sunday.



Jesus said what comes out of your mouth defiles you because it betrays the corruption in your heart. In this case, the corruption is a statement that makes a mockery of the idea that God so loved the world. It dishonors the very idea that we are to love others as we would wish to be loved. If someone suggested getting rid of Christians by putting them into concentration camps, "Pastor" Worley would be pounding his podium and demanding consequences for the offender.

The sad truth is that Worley knows he can say things like this without having to worry. Prominent Christians are not going to come forward and reprimand him for his hateful comments. There will be no calls for him to repent. He will not even have to issue the standard non-apology apology (i.e., I am sorry you were offended by something I said). He needs someone "preaching the hell out" of him.

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