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omorkaI assume everyone who reads my ramblings has already been exposed to this miserable story, in which the High Point church in Dallas (a sister congregation to Houston's Lakewood Church) first offered a funeral for the brother of a developmentally disabled employee and member of the church, then denied it when they discovered that (shock!) said brother was gay, and (horror!) the family showed no particular sign of wanting to keep this covered up or hidden, to the point of having photographs displayed that showed the deceased hugging his partner and even (swoon!) pecking him on the cheek.
My opinion of these people presumably need not be made explicit, for explicit it would be. NSFW doesn't even cover it.
Then today in San Antonio, a Christian boot camp director was arrested for dragging a 15-year-old girl behind a van when she fell behind while running. (Let me note, for irony, that the first link is to a local Fox News affiliate's blurb on the story. You know it's bad when Fox News is reporting on church-related abuse.) Previous reports on the boot camp in question are a little scary; the poor girls sound like they've been brainwashed. Note that that article is (a) from nine years ago, and (b) focuses more on the physical training than on the "faith training;" I suspect that these are not coincidental, and that a current report would spend a lot more time on the Biblical aspects of the training.
Now, I have to ask: what idiot would drag anyone behind a vehicle, for any distance, for any reason, in Texas? You have to know exactly what everyone will immediately associate you with, and brother, it ain't pretty. Nor is it something anyone, anywhere, would want associated with their church, whether they agreed that the "Jezebel spirit" needed to be beaten out of the girl or not.
*sigh* I cannot help but think that Yeshua ben Miriam would be highly disappointed in some of his followers. I only hope that, at least for the latter group, the State will not be as forgiving.
My opinion of these people presumably need not be made explicit, for explicit it would be. NSFW doesn't even cover it.
Then today in San Antonio, a Christian boot camp director was arrested for dragging a 15-year-old girl behind a van when she fell behind while running. (Let me note, for irony, that the first link is to a local Fox News affiliate's blurb on the story. You know it's bad when Fox News is reporting on church-related abuse.) Previous reports on the boot camp in question are a little scary; the poor girls sound like they've been brainwashed. Note that that article is (a) from nine years ago, and (b) focuses more on the physical training than on the "faith training;" I suspect that these are not coincidental, and that a current report would spend a lot more time on the Biblical aspects of the training.
Now, I have to ask: what idiot would drag anyone behind a vehicle, for any distance, for any reason, in Texas? You have to know exactly what everyone will immediately associate you with, and brother, it ain't pretty. Nor is it something anyone, anywhere, would want associated with their church, whether they agreed that the "Jezebel spirit" needed to be beaten out of the girl or not.
*sigh* I cannot help but think that Yeshua ben Miriam would be highly disappointed in some of his followers. I only hope that, at least for the latter group, the State will not be as forgiving.
