Pedophilia in Kansas Church

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Originally Posted by Chateau d'If

This is news because it's the church of the guy who created the Affirmation Statement. You know, the guy who wanted purity? To kick all of the unholy people out?

From what I gather the allegations are that the pastor was having sex with young women and his son has a thing for underage males? Oh, and that the church finances are a mess and money is missing?

Yeah, that sounds like your typical ultracon holiness church to me.

The good thing is that brand of "Apostolic" is forever marked in that community.

My friend, I rarely respond/post much here; however, statements (such as the bolded section) really tend to get me riled up a bit. There are hundreds if not thousands of your so called ultra con churches. For you to allege that the "typical" ultra conservative church is one in which the pastor is committing adultery and the ministry staff are molesting children is not only absurd it is IMHO evil and vile.

There is no defense for the indefensible behavior that is alleged in this instance, nor for ANY other perverse and unrighteous action that robs a child of his/her innocence and scars them for life. There is no excuse for a pastor/leader to break their covenant of marriage for an affair and far worse IMO to use their office/position of authority to manipulate anyone regardless of their age causing them to partake in sinful acts. The truth of the matter is these things happen across the board in EVERY religious org trinitarian, oneness, independent, etc.

I know many conservative men who are wonderful Christians, love God, love their spouse and families, love their congregation, and live clean godly lives. Are there some who are mean spirited? Some who are lords over God's heritage? Some who make shipwreck? Absolutely! But what happened in this church is NOT TYPICAL of Apostolics (cons or libs) Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans, etc. In fact (and I may take some heat here) I do not even believe it was "typical" in the Catholic church. There are millions of Catholics and by comparison few instances. Even one is too many and once more I am NOT defending the indefensible, I am just answering the charge that this is "typical" behavior for any church.