• GOP candidate: Islam is Satanic, Jews and Muslims must convert to Christianity
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/politics/kfile-mark-harris-story/index.html The Republican candidate running in a competitive House race in North Carolina has a history of making anti-Muslim comments, a CNN KFile review finds. Mark Harris, a former pastor who stepped down from his congregation in 2017, is the GOP nominee in North Carolina's 9th District, which runs along the state's southern border below Charlotte and Fayetteville. Harris defeated three-term GOP Rep. Robert Pittenger in a May primary and is now facing Democrat Dan McCready. CNN rates the race toss-up, the most competitive designation. Harris, as the senior pastor of Charlotte's First Baptist Church, claimed Islam was "dangerous" and the work of Satan. He also said peace between Israel and the Palestinians could not be achieved until Muslims and Jews accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. During one sermon, Harris showed his congregation a conspiratorial video claiming that Islam was taking over the world, including the United States. Harris said in that 2014 sermon that he was "shocked" and that "what he showed presented some cold hard facts that need to be exposed. And I mean, need to be exposed quickly." The video, which was posted on YouTube in 2009 and which the online fact-checking site Snopes called "Mostly False," alleges that European and American cultures are in terminal decline due to a coincidence of decreasing fertility rates and booming population growth among Muslim immigrants. "As the population shrinks, so does the culture," the narrator states.  The narrator later adds, "In a matter of years, Europe as we know it will cease to exist." The video goes on to warn of a similar pattern in the United States before claiming that Islamic organizations had met "three years ago" in Chicago to plan "to evangelize America through journalism, politics, education, and more." It's unclear what meeting is being referenced in the video. In another sermon, in November 2010, Harris called Islam dangerous and a counterfeit of Christianity. "There is a satanic trinity of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. Satan is always a counterfeit," Harris said. "Listen to me, that is why the religion of Islam is so dangerous. It is the great counterfeit of our generation." In 2011, Harris delivered a sermon in which he recalled a recent trip he took to Israel and noted the tension that existed between Palestinians and Israelis. He went on to say there would be no peace between Jews and Muslims until they converted to Christianity. "You cannot be in that land, as powerful and as moving as it is, without realizing the incredible tension that is constantly in that land between the Palestinians and the Jews," Harris said. "There will never be peace in Jerusalem until the day comes that every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord."
I will give this man a taste of my shoe
For some reason I don't think Israelis and Palestinians would quit fighting if they both were of the same religion.
More brilliant highlights from the sermons of Mark "Handmaid's Tale" Harris.
Somehow I don't think introducing a third religion into the Israel-Palestine conflict would solve anything. Somehow, I think, it might just get this make things worse!
I'll make a small alteration to his quote. >"There will never be peace in Jerusalem until the day comes that every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Richard Dawkins is Right."
Wouldn't happen anyway, the societal conflict wouldn't stop even without religion, people would still be shot and blown up in the name of power over the region.
Perhaps, but over time, when the existential crisis of mortality and entropy set in, the people will lose the motivation to get out of bed in the morning and not have the strength to shoot at each other any longer.
McCready? He better get the flamethrower and hose this GOP idiot down.
"Well, he gave the jews an easy choice and they decided to disobey. MAGA!"
Nothing says Satanic like worshipping God...
How is it possible that this race is a toss-up? This man is fucking mental. This is just another reminder that Republican screeds about 'freedom' and 'individual liberty' are massively hypocritical, as is the 'Religious Freedom Act' shit. At least US education would be safer then.
Friendly reminder that fundamentalist christian theology (that treats christianity as little more a get-out-of-hell free card) states that, if Hitler, unbeknownst to us, had confessed Jesus was lord before killing himself, he'd be in heaven - but the 6 million jews he murdered would almost certainly all be in hell, cause, well, they're Jews, not Christians.
How so? Any earthly reasons you can think of matter little compared to their religion's teachings not to hurt their own kind.
Radical christian fundamentalism is satanic.
I thought suicide was a mortal sin though? So he would have had to have a bomb dropped on him or something.
no one deserves infinite torture/punishment for finite crimes. that's the principle we should have I think.
'and yet everybody knows democrats are the worse!'
This comic will never cease to be relevant. https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/files/2014/11/rabbit-god-duck-god.png
The US has a serious radical Christianity crisis
The GOP is a murder cult.
Not actually a thing in the biblical text, only in some traditions. And I don't think its as mainstream among modern day evangelicals, especially as how suicide impacts the christian community too. Regardless though, traditional biblical understanding for most of christian history had precluded most of the jews, including the ones killed in the holocaust, from making it into heaven. This is the real bullshit thing, because a god that condemns peaceful people who were genocided to eternal torment for not believing in him isn't a god that deserves to be worshiped in the first place. I'll be damned if I'm ever going to believe again that heaven is full of horrible people who made the cut just because they gave lip service to jesus (seriously, if a deathbed confession is all you need to get the golden ticket, you really can't say it works any other way), when most of the decent people are eternally tormented by a cosmic sadist.
Because that didn't stop Europe from going to war with itself in one form or another for the past 2,000 years? And the Arab-Israeli Conflict is fueled majorly by racial problems of Jew vs Arab than faith. Religion being thrown into the mix has only been a recent thing, growing only the past 20 or so years of the past 80 year conflict.
I'd wager a bet that if you define people solely by religion, more 'civil wars' (IE, same religion v same religion) have been fought than wars between religions. And if you subtract wars between different religions that had very little to do with religion and instead were over land or politics, you're down to like... Just the crusades. Pretty much.
Who'd have thought that Christianity's second dark age would originate in the USA?
A taste of 5.56 would be a permanent solution to the fundamentalist parasites.
Suck my Atheist cock red whore.
Hey, I love Jesus as much as the next guy, but chill the fuck out, Pastor Dickhead.
Where do you find such certainty? Saying it doesn't exist is the same as saying it does in the shared sense - both claim certainty about something beyond observable existence itself.
Until there's a point where evidence might even BEGIN to suggest the presence of a deity, I might call myself an agnostic. So far everything has been reasonably explained or at least have reasonable hypothesis so far that explains existence without having to look beyond the realms of observable existence, which by the way, is a strange term to use, as we already hypothesize many things outside the realms of observable existence without needing to fall back on a deity of any kind. It's fairly absurd to believe that anything starts off as complex, and that is what is required here. Even if this universe is late to the game, and the methods of it's beginning are a mystery to us, whatever started it is not out of the realm of science. Even if a spirit does exist, we simply just don't understand it yet, and when we do, we should be able to use and manipulate that force, if a creator exists, we should be able to learn enough about it to kill it one day. Religion and it's associated woo, have always been, and always will be a placeholder in the absence of knowledge.
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