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Ransom Rideout's avatar

Late again, but want to contribute to this thread. From personal observation and looking into historical records, it seems clear that these charismatic preacher types have been tried for child molestation and rape more often over a long period of time that than any other group in this nation. The SBC is per capita as bad or worse that the Catholic Church.

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Ema's avatar

And... the "Speaker" Mike Johnson is a member of the SBC.

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Anti fascist's avatar

Wow thatтАЩs very telling! Disgusting and infuriating.

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Ransom Rideout's avatar

Look up Holy City, founded, I remember, in the 1920s, as a community of believers, by :

William Edward Riker (February 17, 1873 тАУ December 3, 1969) was a White supremacist religious leader who founded the community of Holy City, California, ...

I grew up with all the progeny of those Baptist white supremacists, and they are still up there, all over in the woods of what is now, since the founding of UCSC, in1965, to be a very progressive commumity. These people, all over our country crawled out from under their logs when the orange blob spread their hatetred far and wide and made their confederacy real again.

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Ransom Rideout's avatar

Well, of course. Why do you think we are where we are today? These are the 'Deploreables" of Hillary Clinton. Their treasonous forebears were PARDONED, for mfn crisesake, by President Andrew Johnson at the start of reconstruction. It should have been "Reconstrainment" for all those insurrectionists. The Civil War NEVER ended. The enemy combatants were pardoned to fight again. Read Heather Cox Richardson.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

She's wonderful. I bought her book about it.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Yes, just recently read her book: How the South Won the Civil War

Super eye-opening, educational

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

ThatтАЩs why white men are desperate to keep their power

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