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Asshole.

And yet xtians wonder why their numbers are down and continuing to fall. Haters like Urbanek are driving their flocks into the welcoming arms of nones and atheists.

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I start out wondering just what the fuck happened to this guy to become so twisted and void of empathy. Then I remember that he and others like him are just sadistic monsters latching onto the vilest form of Christianity to justify the glee they take in the suffering of others.

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Anybody want to wager this guy is a headline waiting to happen?

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Can't help but notice that the video has been taken down "for violating YouTube's terms of service." YouTube is slow a lot of the time, and they screw up a LOT, but this time, they got it right. This brand of unvarnished and undisguised hatred has no place in our culture. That there are people who actually feed on such rhetoric is at best disturbing to me, if not terrifying.

At the risk of bringing up a touchy term these days, this manner of inflammatory speech is the kind that provokes the type of stochastic terrorism the US has seen too much of lately. Urbanek deserves to be confronted about this. The sad fact is that it's unlikely that anyone from his congregation will do so.

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I know it's utterly pointless, but reported this garbage. Sickening, how much of this filth is on social media for mouth-breathers to batten onto... * sigh

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It baffles me that there are people who think that spending eternity with a vile, pathertic, digusting person like this constitutes a reward.

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He seems nice...

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Wanna wish death on pedophiles, Urbanek?

Were your god real, it would decimate the ranks of the Christian clergy.

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I hope he will die a painful death by a cardiac arrest and before that a taste of hell on Earth by having a quadruple bypass surgery and following a diet without his favorite food.

*Big hug to cdbunch*

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𝐼'𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑠? 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤.

Gee, it's a shame those are the only two options (alive or hell). If only there was some all-powerful and benevolent being that could heal problems and fix people instead.

𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 1. 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚. 𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚.

Romans 1 is a preamble to Romans 2, whose message is "...and because God will do all these things to the bad people, YOU don't need to punish or judge them. So don't do that."

Though to be fair, the author kinda buried the lede here. A reader would have to be reading for content and not cherry picking in order to get the message the author is trying to communicate.

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I can't help noticing that Urbanek, Anderson and all the other anti-LGBT hate preachers who insist we're all pedophiles NEVER call out the numerous--abundant, in fact--pedophile clergy members that pollute the landscape. No, no, that might be bad for business.

As I often note, businesses never call out other businesses that peddle the same product. Never. We can't have people thinking the inerrant word of God might be pretty damn errant, after all. They might start thinking for themselves instead of letting US tell them what to think. I mean, Jesus, we might have to start working for a living!

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Well, at least he's honest about his bigotry... that's more than I can say for the "love the sinner, hate the sin" types, who are just as cruel and vile, but pretend to be kind.

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OT- Oh look, more shady dealings involving the alleged George Santos, bad checks, and puppies: https://apnews.com/article/crime-george-santos-pennsylvania-theft-business-e6d41c89261061f4775c7073c6ec14e8

Does he just wake up every morning wondering which cartoon villain cliches he hasn't ticked off his bucket list yet?

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So apparently, it was finally bad enough that YT dropped the hammer on the video of it. Must be the advocating for killing people that finally did it.

Would that this kind of speech came as any kind of surprise. Too many preachers I've seen honestly believe in their h3llfire-and-brimstone sermons to wind up their membership. This isn't really all that unusual, it's just that these days, someone oftentimes records the sermon and posts it online to a wider audience. Urbanek may be going for the extremist prize, but he's not alone; and now we're back to why churches can't keep people anymore. It's not like other churches are even pretended to disassociate themselves with guys like this, they agree with him they just wish he wouldn't say this stuff out loud.

There's a very good reason I have no interest in being part of the 'Christian love' crowd.

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Yup, this is a great example of stochastic terrorism. Announce confidently and with authority that certain people deserve death for existing, claim it is the authorities job, state it doesn’t matter how it’s done, then wait for the randos to notice the authorities aren’t doing anything to make it happen and then the randos do it for the authorities. Bonus points for tips and hints on the violence.

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