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   simpsonfan2 said, 2 days ago

   “…Someone with a vast knowledge of all the local gossip. Is Mrs. Lovejoy home?”
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   keith kunz said, 2 days ago

   everyone thinks the pastor’s wife is the church.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 days ago

   Unfortunately, a really uncomfortable truth here. In the late 1990s, it started being common to have pastors that couldn’t answer a basic question about the Bible that a first year Bible student in 1980 could answer.
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   furnituremaker said, 1 day ago

   Try the Witnesses
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   Dani Rice said, 1 day ago

   @Nabuquduriuzhur

   The trouble was/is that a lot of men entered seminary to avoid the Viet Man draft. Seminaries were DELIGHTED at all the new admissions, and didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Every denomination got a lot of real duds during that period. We ended up with one at our parish; a real lulu. He’s gone now, thanks be to God, but he did a lot of damage before he left.
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   DoctorLarryO said, 1 day ago

   @Nabuquduriuzhur

   Sounds to me like you just got the wrong pastor. I know a man who is lookig for a church and who would be a great addition. Been around a while, but has always stood for the Lord.
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   Darren Blair said, 1 day ago

   @DoctorLarryO

   You’d be surprised how many “wrong pastors” there are.
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   I am an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, better known as the “Mormons”. In addition to being an active member, I am also a vocal member.
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   As you can imagine, this means that I have a lot of people who hate my very existence.
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   I’ve had many a “Good Christian” try to “save” me, only to demonstrate a shockingly limited knowledge of their own faith tradition; I’m being honest when I say that I’ve had people admit to me that they’ve not read the Bible cover-to-cover yet, only for them to go on and try to lecture me about it anyway.
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   As awful as the pew-warmers are, however, the ministers tend to be even worse. While the pew-warmers merely become defensive when shown their own ignorance, a lot of the ministers I’ve encountered have become verbally abusive and even downright hateful.
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   This includes one minister who published an open letter telling a man that he needed to use “any means necessary” to prevent said man’s wife – who I had been speaking to about the church – from becoming Mormon.
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   That’s right: we had a Protestant minister sanctioning spousal abuse as a means of keeping people from becoming Mormon.
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   It’s bad out there.
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