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Archae

(46,345 posts)
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 06:39 PM Aug 2018

Kentucky preacher makes a total ass of himself over kids playing football...

Someone finds Preacher Spence's stash of kiddie porn in 3-2-1...

Kentucky preacher posts unhinged rant about children going to hell after walking by peewee football game

A Kentucky Baptist preacher has faced backlash after recording a live video in which he complained about a youth football game, saying that the children were going to hell and that the cheerleaders were dressed as “prostitutes.”

It started when Pastor Ernie Spence of Fellowship Baptist Church in Kentucky passed by Trimble County High School in the Northwest corner of the Bluegrass State and saw children laughing and playing.

To this Christian, it was an affront to his beliefs and demonstrated why “drugs are so bad, fornication and all sorts of ungodliness.”

“I see what’s wrong with America today,” he said. “Right here it is, time to get ready and go to church and the grandstands back here are full up of people. You got all these young’uns out here chasing balls, and it don’t amount to a hill of beans.”

Spence said that the children were more concerned with “their football God” than his God.

“So whenever your children have got more emphasis on what’s going on in the football field than they do the house of God, and people jumpin’ and cheerin’ up and carryin’ on like a bunch of banshee Indians over a kid just running and catching a ball,” he said. “That’s pure ignorance! Pure ignorance!”

Spence said the children would go to hell as a result of their enthusiasm for youth football.

“When these children are burning in Hell, how do you think you gonna feel? But, oh boy, junior can catch a ball, and junior could run. Junior runs straight to hell and you don’t care.”

Trimble was also angry at the 7-year-old girls who were cheerleading at the game.

“You think it’s something your little girl can dress up like a prostitute? That’s perversion out there whenever they shake their pompoms and shout and cheer and stuff. You need to get them in the house of God, friend,” he said. “Raise your family up in the house of God.”

As the woman who posted the video pointed out, the “prostitute” uniforms were a t-shirt and shorts.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/kentucky-preacher-posts-unhinged-rant-children-going-hell-walking-peewee-football-game/

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Kentucky preacher makes a total ass of himself over kids playing football... (Original Post) Archae Aug 2018 OP
Two words..don trump. FU preacher. Never again the phony moral high ground. Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #1
I wouldn't want my children any where near that nutcase .. CatMor Aug 2018 #2
Pic Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #3
He seems nice. LuckyCharms Aug 2018 #4
Ha! Nevilledog Aug 2018 #10
.... A HERETIC I AM Aug 2018 #14
LOL ! YOU Rev are a big part of Americas problem, not kids enjoying their youth. jaysunb Aug 2018 #5
Another Baptist that safeinOhio Aug 2018 #6
Molly called em incomplete Baptists. gibraltar72 Aug 2018 #11
In his search for the meaning of his life Solly Mack Aug 2018 #7
Jesus hung out with prostitutes and adulterous women Drahthaardogs Aug 2018 #8
He wouldn't be like that if he played sports as a kid. Croney Aug 2018 #9
It is time that we spell out the truth. Thunderbeast Aug 2018 #12
"Like a bunch of banshee Indians"? gratuitous Aug 2018 #13
He's just pissed they aren't at HIS church A HERETIC I AM Aug 2018 #15
Methinks thou dost protest too much, Rev. Different Drummer Aug 2018 #16
The video for those of us who don't accept cookies from strangers ... marble falls Aug 2018 #17
Banshee Indians? cwydro Aug 2018 #18
"I see what's wrong with America today," he said. Mariana Aug 2018 #19

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
2. I wouldn't want my children any where near that nutcase ..
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 06:46 PM
Aug 2018

he's mad no one is in his so called church filling the coffers.

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)
5. LOL ! YOU Rev are a big part of Americas problem, not kids enjoying their youth.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 06:54 PM
Aug 2018

Leave your dirty thoughts about little girls shaking pom poms at your altar....please

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
8. Jesus hung out with prostitutes and adulterous women
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 07:06 PM
Aug 2018

"Have none of them condemed you woman?"

"Then neither shall I"


Jesus came for the sinners, not the righteous preacher.

Croney

(4,670 posts)
9. He wouldn't be like that if he played sports as a kid.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 07:07 PM
Aug 2018

He was probably the kid nobody wanted on their team.

Thunderbeast

(3,419 posts)
12. It is time that we spell out the truth.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 07:11 PM
Aug 2018

To be an evangelical is to be delusional and willfully ignorant.

If you use the Bible as parables written by bronze-age nomads that can shed light on ancient thinking...so be it. There are lessons to be learned from those writings, as there are from Plato and Aristotle, and philosophers from many global cultures.

Christianity is a huge money maker. So is Islam and many other "revealed" religions.

It is time for society to challenge these myths for what they are. We must not tolerate these charlatans as they continue to impose their fanatical rituals and beliefs on all of us.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
13. "Like a bunch of banshee Indians"?
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 07:12 PM
Aug 2018

Sounds like Pastor Trimble napped through all his social studies classes.

Mariana

(14,860 posts)
19. "I see what's wrong with America today," he said.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 07:49 PM
Aug 2018

“Right here it is, time to get ready and go to church and the grandstands back here are full up of people.”

Translation:

"The take's been lighter since the peewee football season started. What can I say to get their asses back in the pews and filling the collection plates again?"

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