Pastor Scott Carpenter of the Temple Baptist Church in Kings Mountain, North Carolina delivered a baccalaureate service sermon in which he told students that if they were LGBT they were going to hell. Carpenter stood by his sermon and attempted to justify his actions labeling his bigotry in the guise of love. During an interview with the local news station, Carpenter rhetorically questioned:
Do I hate anybody? Absolutely not. I just love them too much not to tell them the truth. …Was I trying to be mean spirited? Absolutely not. Was I trying to hurt somebody’s feelings? Absolutely not. I was simply had to do what I had to do as a Christian minister.
Baccalaureate services are religious in nature. Because this was not a school sanctioned or mandated event, the students were not required to attend. However, the majority of students chose to attend according to the report by Sarah-Black Morgan of WBTV. In the interview, the pastor assures himself of his actions based on the fact that the event was held at a local church and not on school campus.
The pastor stated, “Nobody got bashed or anything. All I did was simply speak biblical truth.” Clearly this was not the case, as several parents reached out to their local news station complaining about the incident and stating that they felt the pastor used the captive audience to bully his listeners.
Watch the interview with this hateful pastor:
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The older and wiser that I become the more I despise religion, its charlatans and it’s nauseating zealots.
Knowledge and open minds are the enemies of religion. I was 10 when I started to question, and by 13 I was done. I always found it highly ironic, in the internet sense of the term, that something that teaches we are all brother and sisters in the eyes of God has been the principal propagator of pure, mindless hatred and division for thousands of years.
When are we going to stop calling these arrogant, ignorant, sanctimonious bigots “Christians” and “Pastors”? They don’t have a clue about the true meaning and message of Christianity.
Ask
yourselves why Jesus NEVER went to the church leaders to preach and why was not
one church leader chosen to be a Disciple of Jesus? Why did Jesus avoid the
church leaders?
Matthew
20:18-19 “Behold , we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed
unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to
death, And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock , and to scourge , and to
crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.”
Guys read
your Bibles and do not let these manmade religious groups like the Christian
Right, the Christian Coalition, the Family Research Council, the Family Talk
Radio, the Wallbuilders, the Pat Robertsons, the Tony Perkins, the Mike
Huckabees, the Franklin Grahams, and James Dobsons tell you what the Bible
translates to. These church leaders are the same breed of leaders that the Bible
in Matthew is speaking of when they murdered Jesus Christ on that cross. They
tell you education and thinking for yourselves is wrong just as the chief
priests and scribes told the people then that Jesus was evil enough to be put
to death. Read your Bibles and pray! God will make sure you understand what HE
wants you to understand.
Titus
1:16 “They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being
abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”
Matthew
7:15 “Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but
are really vicious wolves.”
Just watch
the actions of the church leaders/television evangelist that claim they know
God. Even the Devil knows God; but his actions are greed, hate,
self-edification, elitism, deceit, distortion, and lies.