Hegseth's Pastor Calls For God To Kill James Talarico - Joe.My.God.
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“Public enemies. These are the Orcs at the gates. You are not called to love the barbarian horde that is planning to break into your city and pillage, plunder, rape, and mutilate you and your people. You don’t love that horde. That is your enemy and you pray – this is where you have imprecatory …
  • grumpo_potamus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Can anyone just do that? Let me try…“God, please kill Hegseth’s pastor!”

    Also, if your pastor is calling for the killing of other people, I’ve got some bad news for you about your church and you being “Christian”

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Surely if a church cannot support a political candidate without losing tax-exempt status, then calling for the death of a candidate should mean they lose tax exemption and then pay double taxes.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          if they do charitable thingies, they could just spin that off into a proper 501c3 and call it good.

          The whole reason churches get a break is because they supposedly do charity-type stuff like soup kitchens or running shelters. Most will only do charity if it’s tied to proslytization, so, yeah.