Church sued for $2 million

[silverweb]

I searched for this in LBN and GD, and have found no mention of it, but thought this needed to be posted.

This happened in America... just last month!

"A $2 million lawsuit has been filed in Blount County Circuit Court against a Blount County church, the pastor, the youth director, two deacons and several other church members.

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"According to the suit, both were misled by church members about the special 'worship service' planned for the youth group. The suit says the girl was told there would be 'only a little walking' and she 'should be fine.' The father was told it was just a 'car wash' and that his daughter's knee 'would be okay.'

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"The suit alleges the group was told there would be 'one chance to deny Christ, or you will be killed.' When Janie Doe refused to deny Christ, the suit says there was the sound of a gunshot and she was soaked with water, then she began 'screaming and crying' before being told to go inside the residence of another church member."

http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/134372

:grr:

Un-freaking-believable!! These "church people" belong in jail!

[bamademo]

1. Southern Baptists

:mad: :crazy:

Been around them my whole life. Hypocrites of the highest order.

[RummyTheDummy]

2. Nail on head.

"Been around them my whole life. Hypocrites of the highest order."

I too have been around them my whole live and I can say that while they're not all bad, the ones that fall into that category are the worst kind of evil.

On edit: Where are the criminal charges here. I'd like to see all these people locked up for 10 years minimum.

[silverweb]

4. Hypocrites, indeed!

My brain simply cannot wrap itself around the arrogance of people like this, who consider themselves "good" and "godly."

These so-called "Christians" lied to the girl and her parents to make sure they had her in their clutches (even while she was recuperating from surgery), terrorized her physically and emotionally to the point of causing injury, and then have the audacity to call their actions appropriate, even "pretty powerful and very positive" ...???

:wtf:

I think they're worse than hypocrites -- they're criminals!

[Aaron]

3. I'd think some of that qualifies for criminal charges

Although I'm no lawyer. Sounds terrible though what they did.

[silverweb]

5. Amen to that.

Here are the charges sought in the suit: "misrepresentation and fraud, kidnapping and false imprisonment, assault, battery, outrageous conduct and intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy, negligence and reckless conduct."

I hope every charge sticks!

[salin]

6. These folks are nuts -what is this - "End Times" training?

I believe that they adhere that at the time of the antichrist people will be told to "deny" Christ - and those that do (deny) will not be among the "saved". All I can guess is that these folks in their religious delusion (I am spiritual, and am Christian, but distinguish those who seem to be caught in a collective religiously deluded state from most normal Christians or adherents of any belief system), are trying to "train" youth for an event that they think will literallly occur within these youths lifetime. In that mental framework, this exercise makes some sort of (warped) sense.

[HEyHEY]

7. The whopper of salvation

My buddy told me a story about when he was young, a friend of his said if he came to church with him, he would get a free whopper. So my buddy went, then at the end he said, "Yo where's my whopper?" They said, "Oh wait you only get it after you bring someone else in." So the next week he convinced his brother to go. At the end once again he asked, "Yo where's my whopper?" Again they said, "You don't get it until your friend brings in someone else.

My buddy figured out the scam and never went again....
And I thought that was a bad story about churches....these people should be arrested.

[RummyTheDummy]

9. I lived near some fundies when I was a kid....

Who wouldn't let their kids watch Peanuts cartoons on TV b/c Woodstock once levetated and they also forbade them to see E.T. b/c when Elliot got drunk from ET drinking the beer they viewed it as a form of possesion.
No trick or treating either. Whackos.

[Ripley]

8. Okay, I will just say it...Religion seems to be the Doom of us all.

Granted, this is an uncommon occurrence (I hope), but there are countless historical events of religious hatred, treachery, brainwashing, violence and wars to make an atheist like me believe their God(s) doesn't want humans to inhabit the Earth anymore.

Maybe God is a Roach afterall.

[trof]

10. HERETIC!

You gonna burn in hell an damnation for that.
prolly
I think Tennessee may have actually one-upped us on this one.

[Ripley]

12. If I'm gonna burn in hell, can I bring my s'mores?

Without the marshmallows, of course, I hate those things!

I do smores only with choco/graham crackers/and oh, let's say a splash of something flamible.

:9

[trof]

11. Well BIGOD ya know

Ya got ta throw the fear of GOD into these kids...nowadays.
BIGOD they'll never forget THAT night.
Make 'em come to JESUS like they never came before.
Yessir. PRAISE-THE-LORD!
Can I hear an AMEN!?
:-(

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

13. The spirit of the anti-Christ

is alive and well. These hypocrites will receive their "rewards" come judgment day. There are a lot of wackjobs out there calling themselves Christians, and they commit evil acts like these. I hope this doesn't reflect on authentic churches, though.

[RainDog]

14. Typical Cult tactics

I was raised as a Southern Baptist, and for good reason I call it the largest cult in America.

They are anti-intellectual, anti-American in their support of theocracy, they have been on the WRONG SIDE of every social issue I can think of, and members of my family are still brainwashed.

My neice's church had a "the REAL halloween" haunted house at their mega church a few years ago which she told me about.

It was all about hell and damnation and then attempts to convert children to their version of Christianity after scaring the wits out of them.

I was astonished, needless to say, that this was approved by all of the adults..

[RummyTheDummy]

15. Black southern bapstists are pretty cool actually.

But it's the predominantly white S. Baptist churches where you run in to the gun toting,homophobic, book burning, racist, repuke voting crowd.
We have pletny of mega churches in my home state and they're almost all predominantly white and the preacher usually drives a Lexus or Land Rover or perhaps a Caddy. Sickening. They need to tax the fuckers!

[RainDog]

16. yeah, there are differences

the only time I liked to go to church was when the choir from a black baptist church would come over, and their preacher would come over to preach.

thing is, the people who attend this church are engineers and business people and nurses and...

it's why I would never want to live in the south, or any other part of the country which embraced that same sort of pov.