I started drinking coffee when I lived one city north of you, based on your old log in. Peet's French Roast is the gold standard I base all other coffees on. I have to settle for Nogodz hometown brew: Starbucks
And you are right about the seven deadly sins being RC. Protestant teaching is that sin is sin, and we all hang over hell by a single thread, and Dog holds the knife.
This is no different than hearing "God told me that I'll be blessed with $5,000 or more" or "God has lead me to choose you as my wife" or "God told me to kill you if you don't do as I say" and other "Godly" excuses people made for their crimes.
I guess once these people believe one delusion, they can just so easily believe others. I don't know how you stay married to someone who says this about you behind your back. What an abusive predator. But also, this is why you have to educate your kids so they don't search for belonging or miss the immediate red flags that this guy was flying.
Personally, I hope all the educators leave the school at new universities, and that every time a new student thinks about applying or going to this school they see the fact the school protected a predator and think twice about attending.
There's always more than one victim with these creeps- unless they get caught the first time, anyway. Once they find out they can get away with it long-term...
...and that's the thing about religious morality, isn't it? "Psychopath on a leash," indeed. They may be afraid of their deity while they're certain he's watching... but... the moment they realize he 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 watching (they didn't catch a lightning bolt up the ass right then and there, after all), and that they can just apologize to the ceiling after the fact to smooth things over with the big guy in the sky (not to the victims, of course. They 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 apologize to their victims), they see an all-you-can-eat buffet line of human misery and trauma- all of it to be 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦'𝘴, or so they imagine- stretching clear from one horizon to the other.
Pius was blackmailed into silence in WWII. Hitler had the entire history of Jewish massacres. Plus the German history of chold rape was used against the church. It basically forced the ppe into submission.
“Furthermore, the statute of limitations had expired. While there was strong evidence that Reynolds lied to law enforcement when he was questioned about all this, the White County Sheriff’s Office ultimately chose to pursue… nothing. They didn’t think there was enough evidence to go after him.”
Because of this type of action, we will continue to hear about how false allegations ruin men’s lives as though every accusation of rape and sexual assault that never sees a courtroom must have been a lie. This thinking leads to calls for women to be prosecuted for the false accusations, because obviously she’s lying about these upstanding men. So we will see women being victimized again. And it is because the system is setup to protect rapists from any real accountability. Known trauma responses are contorted into consent. Society accepts an explanation of “he said, she said” as an excuse not to investigate thoroughly. Even times when men admit or are caught red handed, and there’s evidence of physical resistance or physical restraint, there’s an assumption of the victim having done something to warrant the attack. Our society hates women so much, they blame women for their own rapes, assume they’re lying and try to prosecute them for failing to prove a crime in a system designed for them to fail. It even goes so far as celebrating women dying from pregnancy, and if they don’t die and don’t produce a baby, then they’re prosecuted for that, they’re blamed for the abuse they endure at the hands of their fathers/brothers/husbands and any possible escapes are blocked, they’re expected to contribute financially to the home, but paid less than men, and expected to do all the cooking and cleaning. Let’s not even discuss the character assassinations of women in politics and how we choose to have a literal dictator with no qualifications and clear cognitive decay over the two most qualified candidates ever simply because they were women.
Thank goodness this woman was believed and will see some justice, even if it’s not for what he did to her. But that’s all women get, roundabout punishment for lesser crimes. Crimes that were perpetrated against men or the authorities. He’s being punished for lying to the police, not for raping her.
The statute of limitations for sexual abuse, regardless of adult or child, should plainly and simply be THROWN OUT. Too many pedophiles and serial abusers have skated because of that crap, and it is well past time this stupidity was corrected.
They have thousands of pieces of evidence and video of him lying and it isn't enough. This is insane, hopefully she can still file a civil suit and get some justice. At the very least this is multiple assaults. Additionally, they may be able to sue the school since there were like 50 other students who complained about his behavior... Crazy
Well said. We can barely get them to admit the SOL (both expansions of the initialism) on child rape is a "get-out-of-jail-free" card, despite knowing how the trauma gets suppressed that takes years to overcome. We know women aren't going to be treated any better.
Instead of posting the ten commandments in public schools, maybe they should be posted in the bedrooms and basements of "pastors" like Reynolds. I also have to wonder why these places call themselves universities.
BTW - how you holdin' up in all that torrential rain?
Seattle's just been getting regular rain with occasional windy gusts. And even then, that depends which neighborhood you're in. We have all sorts of microclimates.
So far, no flooding. And we're getting breaks in the wet stuff where things get a chance to dry out.
Three charges, each 1 to 5 years. While it's not as much as it should be, it can come close if the judge gives the maximum and makes the sentences consecutive.
But, it's Georgia. Christian Fucking Privilege will give him 1 year for each, concurrently, suspended. A slap on the wrist for an egregious betrayal of trust. If the jury convicts, because Georgia and Christian Fucking Privilege.
I never had kids but I always told myself that if I did I would allow them the freedom to make their own choices regarding religion. I became an atheist, in part, because I sampled several different churches and I thought my kids, had I had them, would benefit from the same research/experimentation.
I now feel I was wrong. If I had kids I would instruct them on why religion is fairy tales and wishful thinking and this is the reason why. If kids are inoculated from religion they will have the best defense against predators like this guy.
It certainly helps to make the predators more easily identifiable. Also, someone might come forward sooner rather than later. A predator tried to groom me when I was younger and when he escalated I reported that piece of shit right to the cops!
Thank you. His step-daughter 🤢 came forward right after, so I’m proud of helping to expose him. Possibly even saved someone from further harassment or abuse.
So what drag name did he perform under? Oh... none? He's just a conservative Christian creep again? Huh? Almost like these jerks blood libel innocent people to deflect attention from their own misdeeds and sins.
Once AGAIN, yet ANOTHER pedophile is caught. Is the pedophile ___?
A- REPUBLIKAN
B- RELIGIOU$
C- BOTH
Hint: Only 1 answer is correct, all others half correct.
I've been keeping track of these pedophiles in the daily news since 1987. The correlation between religion, rightwing politics & pedophiles is so strong that I, not a betting man, have won $700 betting when asshole churchlings, Trumplings & MAGAsses deny it. So far I haven't lost a bet.
It is a thankless task to daily fulminate against the mental impositions of the Apostles of Hatred & Disciples of Ignorance otherwise known as churchlings & religionites, with their assholiness (how the assholery lifestyle is known amongst them). So thank you for your kind words. They shall nourish my stamina as I renew combat with the forces of evil (churchlings, religionites, Trumplings & MAGAsses). :)
"Show me an authoritarian religious structure that elevates spiritual leaders to untouchable status and I’ll show you victims waiting to be heard." and it will never change until the last priest is strangled with the entrails of the last king.
The only upside to these stories is that the victims are now being listened to at long last. I don't know why anyone would attend a school like this if given a choice. I doubt their degrees would get anyone accepted to graduate school at a reputable university.
Isn't it amazing how flexible "God's Will (tm)" is when it comes to pastors and their affairs of the flesh, despite the fact that the bible is death on adultery.
Even when they get caught in such a way that they have to admit wrongdoing, they just make the Public Apology to the Ceiling (tm) and it all goes away.
THIS is why god made religion such male supremacist outfits. God's men are pure while women are ALWAYS Jezebels temptresses and outright whores. God had to protect the purity of his murderers.
There is so veryvery very much wrong with this whole story that it very nearly defies human explanation, making me want to EXPLODE…
IN RAGE.
But I am a mature man, and I recognize that my rage right now has nothing to do with sexual abuse, grooming, and hypocrisy, but with that one word that I seem to be writing over and over and over again the last few months: CORRUPTION. But we’re dealing with two kinds of corruption here. There is the absolute moral and religious corruption of this particular article, and then there is the corruption that I’ve recently discovered existed in somebody who was very close to me, and whose actions have now affected my circle of friends, including my best friend. And I don’t know what to do about it and I’m very angry about it.
Let’s go back to this CORRUPTION: Moral corruption, or becoming that which you hate, which is something I’ve written far too many times as we look at the Trumpian/evangelical disease which is going to corrupt everything that it touches.
This: “Reynolds was married—to someone he met when he was her youth pastor (!)—but he let Swinson know that God told him his wife would soon die and she would take her place. Furthermore, they could absolutely have sex…He asserted that while they weren’t married, God had given them freedoms to have sex. It was OK, she recalled him saying, because he had made a vow of “betrothal” before God. She hadn’t understood what he meant, she said, and she hadn’t wanted a physical relationship.”
How do I corrupt thee? Let me count the ways.
Adultery. Fornication. Bearing false witness. Lying about God’s will, which apparently actually is godswill. Grooming. Causing a child to stumble, though not a little child, for once.God tells him his wife is going to die, then he mentions nothing about it in his prayers, like “God please don’t let my wife die!” no, we get “oh well, that bitch gonna die, so I might as well get me some baby poontang. God’s fine with that.” Jesus was not particularly fond of adultery. Paul was not fond of any kind of sex.
So what do we call this? it is not hypocrisy, which would be refreshingly honest in comparison, as I have said many times on these very pages. It is clear that he does not believe the product that he is selling, and no amount of sin-leveling or “everybody sins” is going to make that OK.
We call it CORRUPTION: he has become that which he is supposed to hate. Except that I don’t think he has become that anytime recently, given that he married a girl that he was a youth pastor for.
Words more or less fail me, for once. But then, I see the corruption of my former friend, and I see my best friend, for whatever reasons he may have, supporting this. We have talked about it several times, and he would be the person I would talk to about all of the recent information that has come to light. But I can’t talk to her about it because that drags him right into it again, and put him between the two of us.
Like being between this pastor and his victim and his jesus.
“He asserted that while they weren’t married, God had given them freedoms to have sex. It was OK, she recalled him saying, because he had made a vow of “betrothal” before God.”
Wow. I said exactly the same thing to a girl I knew. I still walk with a limp.
What stood out to me was the fact that he 'told' her that they were betrothed and she would be his next wife. No asking for permission, no consent, no concerns about how she felt.
Women rarely want to know about your nocturnal emissions. Not to kink shame, or generalize too much, but that is not sexy and it’s truly unwanted information, akin to unsolicited dick pics. It isn’t a compliment to us, specimen we aren’t interested in having a romantic relationship with you. We don’t care how horny we make you. That’s a you problem. You only make it clear that you aren’t thinking about us, considering us a person, respect us, but are only interested in women as long as we can do something for you, get you off. We are more than attractive holes for you. And horniness is nothing, it’s not necessary to address, if you ignore it it goes away just as easily as if you give in to it. You won’t die from horniness, or not getting sex, just deal with it yourself, stop imposing this on women.
In addition to the massive EWWWW factor of this creepazoid sex pest, there's this:
"but he let Swinson know that God told him his wife would soon die"
The wife should stay away from upper story windows.
Not even cold in the ground and he's got the next warm body all lined up to satisfy his insatiable lust.
Maybe he forgot that lust is one of his 7 deadly sins.
He’s not a catholic. Those rules do not apply.
Also, “god told me my wife’s gonna die so have sex with me” is nowhere in the bible. I will have more thoughts on this. First cuppa, ya know.
“Also, “god told me my wife’s gonna die so have sex with me””
That’s not the smoothest pickup line I ever heard, but it could be worse*.
* Although I have no idea how.
"God told me to help my wife to join him". No need to thank me.
God told me to ignore everything he said. Apparently, he's been on a bender! 🍺
"God told me that you should have sex with my wife while I watch"
- Jerry Falwell Jr.
I started drinking coffee when I lived one city north of you, based on your old log in. Peet's French Roast is the gold standard I base all other coffees on. I have to settle for Nogodz hometown brew: Starbucks
And you are right about the seven deadly sins being RC. Protestant teaching is that sin is sin, and we all hang over hell by a single thread, and Dog holds the knife.
We do have all kinds of independent coffee places, you know. 😉
And Peet's French Roast in sold in both a Peet's at Sea-Tac International and supermarkets like Whole Foods, Target. Safeway and Costco here.
This is no different than hearing "God told me that I'll be blessed with $5,000 or more" or "God has lead me to choose you as my wife" or "God told me to kill you if you don't do as I say" and other "Godly" excuses people made for their crimes.
No no no, lust is only bad if you are agnostic or a lib.
Otherwise it’s OK, right?
Asking for a friend.
I guess once these people believe one delusion, they can just so easily believe others. I don't know how you stay married to someone who says this about you behind your back. What an abusive predator. But also, this is why you have to educate your kids so they don't search for belonging or miss the immediate red flags that this guy was flying.
Personally, I hope all the educators leave the school at new universities, and that every time a new student thinks about applying or going to this school they see the fact the school protected a predator and think twice about attending.
That was what he said to all the impressionable, naive, young girls he molested.
There's always more than one victim with these creeps- unless they get caught the first time, anyway. Once they find out they can get away with it long-term...
...and that's the thing about religious morality, isn't it? "Psychopath on a leash," indeed. They may be afraid of their deity while they're certain he's watching... but... the moment they realize he 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 watching (they didn't catch a lightning bolt up the ass right then and there, after all), and that they can just apologize to the ceiling after the fact to smooth things over with the big guy in the sky (not to the victims, of course. They 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 apologize to their victims), they see an all-you-can-eat buffet line of human misery and trauma- all of it to be 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦'𝘴, or so they imagine- stretching clear from one horizon to the other.
Their gods have watched every child rape ever done...Yet the did nothing. Fucking useless shitholes.
He sat mute while Catholics and Lutherans engaged in the Holocaust.
"Did you just blackmail the Pope?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
Pius was blackmailed into silence in WWII. Hitler had the entire history of Jewish massacres. Plus the German history of chold rape was used against the church. It basically forced the ppe into submission.
As opposed to honesty before god.
I am sure some of my German Reformed relatives were complicit also.
The first time he groomed a girl, apparently he married her. Now he was just "waiting" for a heart attack to marry the next "wife".
“Furthermore, the statute of limitations had expired. While there was strong evidence that Reynolds lied to law enforcement when he was questioned about all this, the White County Sheriff’s Office ultimately chose to pursue… nothing. They didn’t think there was enough evidence to go after him.”
Because of this type of action, we will continue to hear about how false allegations ruin men’s lives as though every accusation of rape and sexual assault that never sees a courtroom must have been a lie. This thinking leads to calls for women to be prosecuted for the false accusations, because obviously she’s lying about these upstanding men. So we will see women being victimized again. And it is because the system is setup to protect rapists from any real accountability. Known trauma responses are contorted into consent. Society accepts an explanation of “he said, she said” as an excuse not to investigate thoroughly. Even times when men admit or are caught red handed, and there’s evidence of physical resistance or physical restraint, there’s an assumption of the victim having done something to warrant the attack. Our society hates women so much, they blame women for their own rapes, assume they’re lying and try to prosecute them for failing to prove a crime in a system designed for them to fail. It even goes so far as celebrating women dying from pregnancy, and if they don’t die and don’t produce a baby, then they’re prosecuted for that, they’re blamed for the abuse they endure at the hands of their fathers/brothers/husbands and any possible escapes are blocked, they’re expected to contribute financially to the home, but paid less than men, and expected to do all the cooking and cleaning. Let’s not even discuss the character assassinations of women in politics and how we choose to have a literal dictator with no qualifications and clear cognitive decay over the two most qualified candidates ever simply because they were women.
Thank goodness this woman was believed and will see some justice, even if it’s not for what he did to her. But that’s all women get, roundabout punishment for lesser crimes. Crimes that were perpetrated against men or the authorities. He’s being punished for lying to the police, not for raping her.
Sorry, I’m getting into my feels this morning.
The statute of limitations for sexual abuse, regardless of adult or child, should plainly and simply be THROWN OUT. Too many pedophiles and serial abusers have skated because of that crap, and it is well past time this stupidity was corrected.
They have thousands of pieces of evidence and video of him lying and it isn't enough. This is insane, hopefully she can still file a civil suit and get some justice. At the very least this is multiple assaults. Additionally, they may be able to sue the school since there were like 50 other students who complained about his behavior... Crazy
Well said. We can barely get them to admit the SOL (both expansions of the initialism) on child rape is a "get-out-of-jail-free" card, despite knowing how the trauma gets suppressed that takes years to overcome. We know women aren't going to be treated any better.
Lying to cops sounds suspiciously like bearing false witness. Too bad there isn't a commandment about that.
Oh wait...
Instead of posting the ten commandments in public schools, maybe they should be posted in the bedrooms and basements of "pastors" like Reynolds. I also have to wonder why these places call themselves universities.
BTW - how you holdin' up in all that torrential rain?
Seattle's just been getting regular rain with occasional windy gusts. And even then, that depends which neighborhood you're in. We have all sorts of microclimates.
So far, no flooding. And we're getting breaks in the wet stuff where things get a chance to dry out.
Woof. These words from his email say a lot:
“God really has used you to give me life”
I reckon this loser doesn’t view her as a fellow human being. I’m shocked.
Three charges, each 1 to 5 years. While it's not as much as it should be, it can come close if the judge gives the maximum and makes the sentences consecutive.
But, it's Georgia. Christian Fucking Privilege will give him 1 year for each, concurrently, suspended. A slap on the wrist for an egregious betrayal of trust. If the jury convicts, because Georgia and Christian Fucking Privilege.
Maybe not, the charges are for lying to cops. Their, mostly cishet white male, fragile ego must be avenged.
That's why he will have unexplained bruises at his arraignment. I stand by my sentencing prediction.
gaawd protects hs purest creation.
I never had kids but I always told myself that if I did I would allow them the freedom to make their own choices regarding religion. I became an atheist, in part, because I sampled several different churches and I thought my kids, had I had them, would benefit from the same research/experimentation.
I now feel I was wrong. If I had kids I would instruct them on why religion is fairy tales and wishful thinking and this is the reason why. If kids are inoculated from religion they will have the best defense against predators like this guy.
But it was a man that hurt her, not god. Besides he’s not perfect, only forgiven.
/s
I would like to say that you can drop the “/s”, but sadly …
It certainly helps to make the predators more easily identifiable. Also, someone might come forward sooner rather than later. A predator tried to groom me when I was younger and when he escalated I reported that piece of shit right to the cops!
Well done.
Thank you. His step-daughter 🤢 came forward right after, so I’m proud of helping to expose him. Possibly even saved someone from further harassment or abuse.
So what drag name did he perform under? Oh... none? He's just a conservative Christian creep again? Huh? Almost like these jerks blood libel innocent people to deflect attention from their own misdeeds and sins.
I'm soooooooo surprised!!!
Once AGAIN, yet ANOTHER pedophile is caught. Is the pedophile ___?
A- REPUBLIKAN
B- RELIGIOU$
C- BOTH
Hint: Only 1 answer is correct, all others half correct.
I've been keeping track of these pedophiles in the daily news since 1987. The correlation between religion, rightwing politics & pedophiles is so strong that I, not a betting man, have won $700 betting when asshole churchlings, Trumplings & MAGAsses deny it. So far I haven't lost a bet.
Thank you for your service and dedication to this matter David 🤣
It is a thankless task to daily fulminate against the mental impositions of the Apostles of Hatred & Disciples of Ignorance otherwise known as churchlings & religionites, with their assholiness (how the assholery lifestyle is known amongst them). So thank you for your kind words. They shall nourish my stamina as I renew combat with the forces of evil (churchlings, religionites, Trumplings & MAGAsses). :)
"Show me an authoritarian religious structure that elevates spiritual leaders to untouchable status and I’ll show you victims waiting to be heard." and it will never change until the last priest is strangled with the entrails of the last king.
That whole business about power corrupting comes to mind here. 😝
The only upside to these stories is that the victims are now being listened to at long last. I don't know why anyone would attend a school like this if given a choice. I doubt their degrees would get anyone accepted to graduate school at a reputable university.
Scholarship. It was the college that offered her the best conditions.
Sounds like she wound up paying a steep price anyway.
i admire Georgia's priorities. Protecting predators, cops included, and fuck over victims.
The kkkrister way...
Isn't it amazing how flexible "God's Will (tm)" is when it comes to pastors and their affairs of the flesh, despite the fact that the bible is death on adultery.
Even when they get caught in such a way that they have to admit wrongdoing, they just make the Public Apology to the Ceiling (tm) and it all goes away.
And it's never their fault anyway, They were seduced.
How weak they are. I thought their god was their rock, shield and strength.
Puny god.
Since you insist.
https://www.zentaur.org/memes/puny_god.gif
No need for me to post it cuz I knew you would. 😁
THIS is why god made religion such male supremacist outfits. God's men are pure while women are ALWAYS Jezebels temptresses and outright whores. God had to protect the purity of his murderers.
“… women are ALWAYS Jezebels temptresses and outright whores.“
I must be on the wrong dating site.
Day ends in 'Y', in English anyway.
There is so veryvery very much wrong with this whole story that it very nearly defies human explanation, making me want to EXPLODE…
IN RAGE.
But I am a mature man, and I recognize that my rage right now has nothing to do with sexual abuse, grooming, and hypocrisy, but with that one word that I seem to be writing over and over and over again the last few months: CORRUPTION. But we’re dealing with two kinds of corruption here. There is the absolute moral and religious corruption of this particular article, and then there is the corruption that I’ve recently discovered existed in somebody who was very close to me, and whose actions have now affected my circle of friends, including my best friend. And I don’t know what to do about it and I’m very angry about it.
Let’s go back to this CORRUPTION: Moral corruption, or becoming that which you hate, which is something I’ve written far too many times as we look at the Trumpian/evangelical disease which is going to corrupt everything that it touches.
This: “Reynolds was married—to someone he met when he was her youth pastor (!)—but he let Swinson know that God told him his wife would soon die and she would take her place. Furthermore, they could absolutely have sex…He asserted that while they weren’t married, God had given them freedoms to have sex. It was OK, she recalled him saying, because he had made a vow of “betrothal” before God. She hadn’t understood what he meant, she said, and she hadn’t wanted a physical relationship.”
How do I corrupt thee? Let me count the ways.
Adultery. Fornication. Bearing false witness. Lying about God’s will, which apparently actually is godswill. Grooming. Causing a child to stumble, though not a little child, for once.God tells him his wife is going to die, then he mentions nothing about it in his prayers, like “God please don’t let my wife die!” no, we get “oh well, that bitch gonna die, so I might as well get me some baby poontang. God’s fine with that.” Jesus was not particularly fond of adultery. Paul was not fond of any kind of sex.
So what do we call this? it is not hypocrisy, which would be refreshingly honest in comparison, as I have said many times on these very pages. It is clear that he does not believe the product that he is selling, and no amount of sin-leveling or “everybody sins” is going to make that OK.
We call it CORRUPTION: he has become that which he is supposed to hate. Except that I don’t think he has become that anytime recently, given that he married a girl that he was a youth pastor for.
Words more or less fail me, for once. But then, I see the corruption of my former friend, and I see my best friend, for whatever reasons he may have, supporting this. We have talked about it several times, and he would be the person I would talk to about all of the recent information that has come to light. But I can’t talk to her about it because that drags him right into it again, and put him between the two of us.
Like being between this pastor and his victim and his jesus.
"It is clear that he does not believe the product that he is selling, "
Some do believe. Most use this as cover for deviant behavior.
“He asserted that while they weren’t married, God had given them freedoms to have sex. It was OK, she recalled him saying, because he had made a vow of “betrothal” before God.”
Wow. I said exactly the same thing to a girl I knew. I still walk with a limp.
What stood out to me was the fact that he 'told' her that they were betrothed and she would be his next wife. No asking for permission, no consent, no concerns about how she felt.
Just a piece of property to be claimed.
That too. I didn't catch that
Women rarely want to know about your nocturnal emissions. Not to kink shame, or generalize too much, but that is not sexy and it’s truly unwanted information, akin to unsolicited dick pics. It isn’t a compliment to us, specimen we aren’t interested in having a romantic relationship with you. We don’t care how horny we make you. That’s a you problem. You only make it clear that you aren’t thinking about us, considering us a person, respect us, but are only interested in women as long as we can do something for you, get you off. We are more than attractive holes for you. And horniness is nothing, it’s not necessary to address, if you ignore it it goes away just as easily as if you give in to it. You won’t die from horniness, or not getting sex, just deal with it yourself, stop imposing this on women.
It's called a hand and it's pretty effective if applied.