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A Culture of Hate - Verity Baptist Revisited

  • It is sad what evils man visits upon man; it is even more so when the evil exposes yet more evil amongst us.  Let us revisit the tragedy of which I speak.  29 year old Omar Mateen, a security guard, entered the Pulse nightclub on the evening of June 12, 2016.  He targeted this gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, as a radicalized message of hate toward the gay community.  When his night of radicalized Islamic terror was over he would kill 49 innocent people and wound 53 others in the name of Allah.  The police ended his costly, albeit short lived, reign of terror... and his life.  Then, there is Roger Jimenez and his Verity Baptist Church.

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  • Lloyd Hargrove likes this
  • Paul Moore
    Paul Moore Tony, I truly enjoy your post’s and the quality of them.

    Hate is probably the most equal opportunity entity ever. It knows no limitation’s, age, gender, orientation, ethnic, culture, geographical, religious, or anything else you could come up with.

    If M...  more
    December 21, 2016 - 1 likes this
  • Tony Villari
    Tony Villari Paul, I think scripture gives God an out on this as we were created with freedom of choice (e.g., don't eat the damned apple). Philosophically, I always fall back on the necessity for yin and yang, for everything in the universe there must be an opposite...  more
    December 21, 2016