Praise the Lord and Watch the Democrats Burn in Hell
Ed Young is the head pastor of Houston’s Second Baptist Church. Second Baptist Church has about 65,000 members across five campuses. It has an annual budget of $53 million. Young races between the “campuses” on his own personal helicopter.
A few years ago, a family won a giant lawsuit against Second Baptist because one of the youth ministers was messing around with little girls. It soon came out that the church knew about it and pawned the youth minister off on another church just to hide him out.
From his wide experiences with the ungodly, Pastor Ed Young passed judgement.
For white Christian Republican pastors stung by election results, it is no longer enough to just say Democrats are wrong.
The Democratic Party is “basically godless,” a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention said in defeat on election night.
So, maybe he’s preaching to the wind?
Thanks to SGray for the heads up.
I think you meant that he does NOT get out much.
What a sleazy bastard he is! I despise organized religion with every fiber of my being, but he and Joel are the worst of the worst!
1The Democratic Party members are quite diverse, but speaking as an atheist Democrat, Ed Young does not give a rat’s ass what his “holy scripture” says, because I’ve read it. Ed would be one of the first Pharisees that Jesus would whip out of his temple. I’d like to see him personally being squeezed through a needle’s eye, never mind the camel. And dropped into the sea with a millstone around his neck for what he allowed to be done to children. How’s that for scripture knowledge, Ed?
“Church leaders” like him drive people away from the church. If they end up in hell, that can go on his permanent record too.
2Tax exempt much?
3@Carol Wyatt,
4Have you never heard of the Rev. John Hagee? He is perhaps the most influential of all of these megachurch charlatans.
He and his family nepotistically run San Antonio’s Cornerstone Church megachurch (and many many ‘private’ businesses). I’m surprised that it wasn’t listed in that Forbes article.
Hagee wields a tremendous amount of power in the Republican-o-sphere, and has a very powerful and negative influence on the foreign policy of the US. His “CUFI” organizations’ (Christians United For Israel) tentacles can be found at the root of much of our Middle East policy. Said policy being almost always totally FU’ed. Hagee’s reach extends deeply into many of our politicians, government depts, and our military.
These kinds of people are what we are up against, never underestimate them. And never ‘take the high road’ with them.
Well, it looks like I won’t have to put up with him in the afterlife, whew.
5I have to question the financial numbers given for that megachurch.
6A $53 Million annual budget seems way too low, especially if you factor in their worldwide media reach.
With 65K congregants (or 23K per the article), that’s only a tithe of about $815/year, $16/wk. Given that these bloodsuckers expect a tithe of 10-15% of a persons’ annual income, those numbers seem very low, an order of magnitude low.
So either they have understated the church revenue, and/or a whole lot is being skimmed off the top by the churches’ top dogs.
Christian jihadi sez what?
7@Sandrage: OH, i know there are buckets full of these flim flam charlatans, but i didn’t want to waste the two seconds it would have taken to think of other names.
8I believe the AntiChrist has the goal of bringing Christianity into disrepute by ignoring Christ’s teachings of tolerance. Ed Young’s statements and deeds bring Christianity into disrepute. Logically, therefore…
9@8 Carol Wyatt, I think by changing my ID to “Sandrage” you have captured my current usual political mood quite well… ;] .
10One of the founding principles of the United States was a separation of church and state. Politicians did not have worship in a specific church, or any church.
If Ed Young doesn’t like America…
11In a comment thread on Joe.My.God. was a screen grab of a Trump tweet from 2015 wherein he reveals his annoyance about forest management. He wrote:
“Who is paying for that tedious Smokey Bear commercial that is on all the time – enough already! He posted that tweet at 1:50AM on Jan. 8, 2015.
By the by…here is an searchable archive of his 5,000 and counting tweets. He’s on a roll today! http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive
12Eureka! Another revenue flow for the insurance companies after we kick them out of health care. In addition to selling policies to gun humpers for their ‘accidents’ and other mayhem, they can sell molestation insurance to the Buybull houses.
13I have a friend that worked, for a brief time, at the “christian” school run by 2nd Baptist. Said without reservation that Ed Young was a bully, jerk and tyrant. My friend’s employment didn’t last too long. As for Hagee, he is a dangerous piece of work. I do not understand how anyone can listen to his rants for more that a few seconds without dismissing him as a self possessed loon.
14OH! MY! A delusional brainless idiot with imaginary friends threatens others with one imaginary friend escorting us dems to an imaginary location! Boy am I terrified!!!
15I learned decades ago that if a fundamentalist preacher tells you the sky is blue, you go outside and see for yourself.
16I did not know that god is registered Republican! Did She vote, by any chance?
17IIRC Cruz and wife go to Second Baptist. There was a report of them holding a long prayer meeting to determine if it was god’s will for Ted to run for prez.
18My volunteer partner on the drive to wire Habitat houses so Habitat can build an additional 7 houses a year told me this morning his son was one of two Republicans in the whole Dallas area to win last week. The number of people voting has almost doubled in Dallas in the past 4 years. He was ahead by one vote until they counted the provisional and absentee ballots. He won by 221 votes In Texas, the only mandated recounts are when the election is tied. Oh, and he changed his registration from lifelong Republican to Independent this year.
19And to think people sometimes wonder why I’m not religious and don’t go to church. Can’t stomach the hypocrisy…..
20People like Ed Young must have someone who cuts out that part of their Bibles which teach against bearing false witness and otherwise lying through their teeth.
21Sandridge: In our current financial campaign, the head said only 5% of the members tithe.
22I double tithe and have never felt like I was short of money.
There is a difference between preaching to the wind and protecting your cash flow and only the former is protected by the First Amendment.
23Baptist preachers have opinions and a$$holes and they both stink.
24Tax the Pharisees!
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