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Right-wing pastor Greg Locke used his sermon today to allege that there are child-trafficking "tunnels" under the Capitol and White House and accuse Joe Biden, Oprah Winfrey, and Tom Hanks of being "a bunch of pedophiles."
11:00 AM · Jun 27, 2021
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,026 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts).
Or that 9/11 plane that was flown to an airport and everyone liquidated.
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sop
(10,192 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,941 posts)Trueblue1968
(17,228 posts)FalloutShelter
(11,869 posts)Eff these hypocrites.
tanyev
(42,566 posts)brush
(53,787 posts)to fill the collection plates.
Period. He's knows what he's saying is all bullshit. But it works on stupid, low-info, gullible people.
Mariana
(14,858 posts)What does that say about Christianity in this country, that the most disgusting hateful preachers are usually the most popular?
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,631 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Or more....
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)the whole of the engineering community would come down on him.
Where is the community of religious scholars and theologians?
Mariana
(14,858 posts)Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)Mariana
(14,858 posts)Let's see a blizzard of press releases from pastors and other Christian leaders, making it perfectly clear that they don't agree with this preaching by Rev. Greg Locke (name him!), and consider it shameful that any of their colleagues would preach this way, and equally shameful that any Christians would listen to it and applaud it. Let's see those same pastors and other Christian leaders say from the pulpit that Rev. Greg Locke (name him!) is a terrible Christian with his sermons full of hate and lies. Let's see Christian churches posting similar sentiments about Rev. Greg Locke (name him!) on their church signs, and on the front pages their church websites. Let's see yard signs in front of the houses of local Christians, saying they don't agree with Rev. Greg Locke (name him!). Let's see a bunch of Christians picketing outside wherever Rev. Greg Locke may preach, along with their preachers and church leaders, protesting him and his message. Etc. Then do the same for every other Christian hate preacher who comes to their attention. There are certainly plenty of them.
Or, they can just shrug and go on their merry way. We can draw our own conclusions from their inaction.
Edited to add: Also, simply claiming they aren't true Christians doesn't count. There's no way anyone knows if Rev. Greg Locke is a true Christian except for Rev. Greg Locke and God.
Mosby
(16,319 posts)True that.
Xoan
(25,321 posts)Walleye
(31,028 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,295 posts)What is this obsession with paedophilia? They do the same with women's health. I think they get off talking about this in public.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)These people are way too obsessed with it for it to be anything else.
Karadeniz
(22,535 posts)Mariana
(14,858 posts)One of my most fervent hopes is that President Biden will change that.
fierywoman
(7,685 posts)ColinC
(8,301 posts)I think he should be fully in estimated until we find out. It's suspicious how certain he is about this, and why he would know about it in the first place.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)People are flocking to hear his Trumpian bullshit
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)"Prove it. We'll take you to the White House and Capitol and you can show us the child trafficking tunnels. If you don't find them, you will return to your hometown and donate your church to the fire department for a training burn."
Jim__
(14,077 posts)At least that's where he preaches according to this CNN article:
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)Bayard
(22,099 posts)meadowlander
(4,397 posts)It's the White House - basically the closest thing America has to a castle - of course there are secret ways to get in and out of it when it is attacked.
And it's not like a "child trafficking" tunnel looks different to a security evacuation tunnel.
But I think the larger point is that if you were going to do some illegal shit, you probably wouldn't want to do it in a place covered in security cameras and surrounded by secret service and your wife and staff.
Chainfire
(17,549 posts)I wouldn't leave him with a pot to piss in or a tent to throw it out of.
What an evil piece of shit. I really like the part, near the end of the video clip, where he claims that if you do not believe what he is saying, then you are one of them too....
I do not, for one second, believe that the man believes in what he says or that he believes in God, for if you believed in God, you would know that you were dooming yourself for all eternity for such outlandish mistruth spoken in God's name.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Staph
(6,251 posts)Carol Burnett did the same thing to the National Enquirer, when they wrote a story about her "drunken" behavior in a restaurant. She got $1.6 million, but she said it would have been worth it if she was only awarded a dollar -- she didn't want to let them get away with telling lies.
Tom Hanks is the perfect one to do this!
malaise
(269,050 posts)Nevilledog
(51,120 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And too many people believe every word they say.
Nevilledog
(51,120 posts)malaise
(269,050 posts)Tax all of them
secondwind
(16,903 posts)by Oprah, and Hanks, etc?
Who the hell does he think he is??
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,685 posts)Everyone he named should smack that guy hard. Part of the settlement should be a complete and utter retraction on everything from Hannity to whatever goofball is running OANN. He should be required to retract at every single sermon for 6 months.
JCMach1
(27,559 posts)That's all I'm going to say about that ...
Mopar151
(9,985 posts)Josef Goebbels
Me.
(35,454 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 27, 2021, 03:34 PM - Edit history (1)
it's all they seem to think about
nilram
(2,888 posts)Weird.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)It's the same as why some are obsessed with gays
milestogo
(16,829 posts)I'd hate to think she is being left out of this.
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nuxvomica
(12,429 posts)Granted my law-school training was in movie theatres, but there a two key arguments here: 1) the speech is malicious and 2) the speaker knows it's not true.
blm
(113,065 posts)BGBD
(3,282 posts)that he's saying there are child-trafficing tunnels under the White House and that his godking Trump didn't have them closed?
BGBD
(3,282 posts)the entire audience is getting whipped into a frenzy and there is one dude in the front row who looked like he's trying crawl inside of himself to get away.
There's a girl next to him and I can't see anything other than her foot to know what she's doing....but imagine if your new girlfriend invites you to come to church and this is what you walk into lol.
Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)BGBD
(3,282 posts)He might be the worst guy there. It was just funny to see everyone whooping and hollering and that one guy staring at his hand lol.
Patterson
(1,530 posts)Otherwise they were there when Trump was.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)ananda
(28,866 posts)...
Paladin
(28,264 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)A gentleman would have whipped this wretch in the street, to general applause.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)I wonder what he's got going on underneath his church.
TlalocW
(15,384 posts)To Peter Popoff. Totally different religious scam but similar.
TlalocW
bottomofthehill
(8,333 posts)The right does not have any love for the Pope or the Papists and will ride with them until it is time not to.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)They are in the same business: convincing rubes that the unbelievable is the truth.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Mariana
(14,858 posts)struggle4progress
(118,294 posts)my shrink prescribed?"
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Hes a public figure, sure. But there are limits on slander even against celebrities.
brooklynite
(94,594 posts)Response to Nevilledog (Original post)
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Retired Engineer Bob
(759 posts)He wasnt given priority access.