As you all know, I have stated my feelings on the shooting in Florida. It appears that some of my fellow Fundy Baptists are not in agreement.
The Story:
After 49 people were gunned down in an Orlando gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, pastors in California and Arizona praised the gunman for massacring “perverted predators” and “pedophiles.”In Sacramento, Pastor Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church said the killer succeeded in making Orlando safer.“Are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today?” Jimenez said in a sermon originally posted on YouTube. “Um no, I think that’s great! I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida is a little safer tonight.”In the sermon, delivered just hours after the rampage on Sunday morning, Jimenez also said, “I wish the government would round them all up, put them up against a wall, put a firing squad in front of them and blow their brains out.”
Tempe, Arizona preacher Steven Anderson also rushed to praise the “good news” that “there are 50 less pedophiles in this world.”In a video posted online, Anderson, a pastor at Faithful Word Baptist Church, said while he wouldn’t advocate for violence, he said LGBT people should be “executed by a righteous government.””The bad news is that a lot of the homos in the bar are still alive, so they’re going to continue to molest children and recruit children into their filthy homosexual lifestyle,” he said, adding the attack would be used to attack Christians and push gun control.“I’m not sad about it, I’m not gonna cry about it because these 50 people in the gay bar that got shot up were going to die of AIDS and syphilis and whatever else,” he continued. “At least these dangerous, filthy predators are off the streets. I’m just trying to look on the bright side.” – Source: Pastors Praise Orlando Killings Of ‘Vile, Perverted Predators’ (VIDEO)
It should be noted that Steven Anderson is a apostate Fundy Baptist, who holds to the post-tribulation doctrine and denies the Rapture of the Church. He is also known for his idiotic challenging of border security agents.
As for the other Pastor, I have no information on him. But, he is obviously wrong in his praise of the shooter. Hate the sin, not the sinner; and never, ever, praise something as horrible as this. Both of these man, if these Churches had Godly deacons in them, would be out of a job.