Apologies for the overly clinical language. While yes the rape of males is a definite problem, the rape of females never stopped. I don’t have the statistics but i doubt it even slowed. What the fuck, homophobes and rape apologists at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Daniel Centre Church?
Boys deserve not to get raped, but so do girls. Everyone deserves to not get raped. And yeah some boys are still raping people of varied genders, as are some girls.
Wtf is wrong with this pastor‽
There are a lot of good religious people but this just highlights yet again that there are a lot of sick weirdo’s that claw their way up the religious ladder.
I find that good people are good whether they are religious or not. But religion has a way of making good people do evil deeds.
I’d prefer just no religion myself.
I appreciate the exceedingly rare nuance. As a believer myself, this is…despicably unhinged, and needs to be called out. Predators have a way of gaining acceptance in the flock before they blatantly run amok.
As if the ancient greeks didn’t absolutely rape boys too
It’s a pot calling the kettle black situation if you’re comparing the Greeks to the Christian Church, especially in the early days
I mean, if the ancient Greeks did it, it must be fine
Its where alpha and beta comes from. Perfect representation of masculinity
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- Rape, regardless of gender, is wrong.
- This charity implies rape against women is not wrong.
According to the Bible, Men raping Women isn’t wrong. At least not as long as the father of the victim gets compensated and the two get married.
https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv%3Adeu.22.28-deu.22.29
Yes, the fee was 50 shekels of silver for raping a virgin child, so less than $150 USD (assuming each silver shekel was 11.4 gm, the standard shekel back then).
This is why we need the Bible to teach us morality, you see.
But if I ignore the parts I find immoral, and focus on what I personally consider to be good moral lessons, it gives me objective morality!
The first part of Deuteronomy is historical. The second part is legislative. There is still much that can be learned from it.
This idea, whether it comes from the religious or not, that the entire 44+ books of the Bible are some kind of “Do everything this collection of documents says to the exact letter or else hell or something” instruction manual is one of the most ignorant and sadistic jokes of our time, and to reduce it to such is an act of intellectual dishonesty.
instruction manual is one of the most ignorant and sadistic jokes of our time
The Bible itself says it’s an instruction manual, repeatedly. So… the ignorant, sadistic joke is the Bible, and has nothing to do with “our time”.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. ~2 Timothy 3:16-17
I was happier not knowing this
We should all be educated on the books these eejits derive their beliefs
I hate this so much that I can’t even think of what to say about it.
These organizations are weird as fuck. Raping people is evil, regardless of anything else.
Was looking for any kind of context that would somehow make it even slightly less-outrageous than the headline indicated.
It was worse.
slough has a reputation to keep down
Thinking of Betjeman as I read that.
So I looked up the video mentioned in the article. This just sounds like someone who is insane and/or trying to garner attention from religious hysteria. Even after this article’s publication, the video mentioned in the article has 397 views and only 7 likes, so it doesn’t seem like anyone cares who these people are.
Sane Christian charities trying to desperately bandage humanity’s hemorrhaging across the globe? Not even newsworthy.
An insane whackjob makes a video screaming hot takes into the void and claims to be a believer?
The Internet: “SEE THIS IS WHAT ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE LIKE! I knew I was right to hate anybody different from me !!11one”
It can also be helpful to realize, doomer headlines like this one about nothing-assholes are common on opposite political spectrums too. There are probably some liberally minded feminists who have given horrific takes like “We should just round up every white man born in a red state, and dump them all in a landfill, with no trials.” And as stupid and evil as that is, some news site has probably quoted them to make manosphere centers feel even angrier towards “evil feminists”.
Yep. This is just one of those aspects of the internet era. I’m certain people publicly said far worse than this in every nation, and they were shunned and their words never made it into a printed article. I know far worse claims that have been published on YouTube and also never got an article about them.
Now there is the aspect that this is an organization registered as a charity. I can’t speak for the UK, but in the USA, it’s very easy to form a registered charity organization if you are willing to bind yourself to the limitations of such. It’s not something that a government department head signs off on, or a parliamentary body votes on. It’s usually an accounting operation and a rubber stamp.
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Daniel Centre Church
With a name like that, you know they’re fucking nuts.
I’d be surprised if they said something sensible. Found this plan they have on the article:
“In Jesus name, Amen!” Like it’s some form of magic words such as “abracadabra”
That word salad gave me Time Cube flashbacks.
wow that takes me back
Feels like standard scam bait to me
Eh, no need to be racist. If this is a Nigerian church, then we’re probably being unfair towards them in this case.
Not racist, but not a fan of any organised religion, as most of them are pretty much money grabbing scams. I was just providing additional context as to provenance - could have been from anywhere and would have had the same response from me. Question becomes: would you have replied the same if I had said it was French?
not a fan of any organised religion, as most of them are pretty much money grabbing scams.
Bit of a strawman here. Generally, most churches aren’t and donate excess money to charity, or possess a historical building which needs to be maintained. My parish didn’t even break even for the past three years and had to lay off a few workers. You only hear about the money grabbing scams because you aren’t in this world, and that’s the news that gets out. “Church raises money for foodbank” isn’t really headline news versus this headline.
To answer your other question: people tend to look down on African and Asian cultures thinking that they know better than their “savage” ways. In reality, Nigerians tend to just have a different cultural attitude surrounding homosexuality, and this comment was likely something stupid that originated from said clash of cultures. We can’t really say definitively that there are superior cultures, as that goes into racism.
This was such a well thought out comment I’m grateful you made it
Lemmy is so much better than reddit what the heck man lol
lmao
I love this platform
Your majesty, as head of the Church of England, perhaps you could engage in a bit less blasphemy.
Using the Lord’s Name in vain is blasphemy
Having the word “Church” in their name was a dead give away
as Christopher Hitchens pointed out, putting the word Pastor or Reverend in front if peoples names letss then get away with saying the most horrible, hateful hurtful stuff that wouldn’t see then banned on many Lemny instances without being called out and shunned for it. To wit, Hegseth’s hate preacher
ragebait. the whole website is ragebait.
Yeahhh, check that dudes hard drives
Drug test him and the communion wine too while you’re at it
Dudette’s hard drive, let’s not misgender here. I hear they like that.
i mean, let’s open that can of worms. i’ve been using dude gender neutral my entire life. my wife is a dude. i’m enby though, so i might be projecting a bit i will admit.
Alright, that’s fair I guess. I can see it be gender neutral, I’m just used to it referring to guys. Plus, I like the way dudette sounds.
i mean, i know someone who got their phd in linguistics making a graph of “how do people pronounce [i forget what the word was] here” in the US [edit and Canada i forgot they went up to Medicine Hat for part of the study]. someone else with “do you call it soda, pop, or soda pop (shut up atlanta you coke fiends you don’t count)”. maybe they were masters degrees and their phds were something else i forget this was decades ago. i don’t know enough of the prereqs, but “is dude masculine or gender neutral” would be a fun study and maybe pay for me to go back to college for a decade. (because i would need to learn more than hobby linguistics)
England stamp this evangelical shit out now while you can!!!
just send them over here to statesia we are about to stupid ourselves to death anyways
This warning can’t be dire enough.
Yeah I am the one who made the comment that person was commenting to. I know about evangelical Christians all too well. I am a white boy in the South.
And not even Catholic. I would have lost that bet!
The Catholic Church has an institutional issue with protecting priests that they should not be protecting, but the actual rhetoric that the church puts out is usually fairly reasonable. At least, as reasonable as can be expected from any religious organization.
