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Good thing they've been identified as a hate group, because that's exactly what they are.

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These people need to be raked over hot coals

Slowly

As someone who moved to Washington recently after living in two different large east coast cities, I’ve never felt as unsafe at night in a downtown as I have in Seattle and Portland. I’m a fairly large man and I’m constantly looking over my shoulder, especially in Pioneer Square. I like the area for the most part, though.

Being from Utah and having a large influx, I get that.

The chaotic energy conveyed by your username+comment content is giving me life

Bellingham was also one I wanted to visit Bellingham & Geneva

It's a meme older than electricity.

My though was Snoqualmie, Twin Falls areas

You've never been exposed to the back handed compliments in the Midwest I take it.

Please don't be here in Vancouver. Please don't be here in Vancouver. <clicks link> AH, DAMMIT

His church should lose its tax exemption for promoting violence and hate. Yeah, he can hide behind the First Amendment, but tax him for that right. Also, isn't the Baptist church in trouble for a pastor raping a 16 year old in his office?

As long as they aren't directly supporting or opposing a specific political candidate, they can pretty much do whatever they want.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/charities-churches-and-politics

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And now it’s full of homeless. They piss and shit against our building. The underside of the bridge is full of garbage. They stole copper off the train bridge making it in operable and now they’re burning anything and everything they can get.

It’s a shit show

Also, house prices are up, which is happening everywhere else, but at the end of the day you paid a lot…..and now you live in Aberdeen.

I expect he means the Paul who wrote much of the New Testament of the Bible. And I think he's right.

My coworker is actually related to that guy

the "go to" tactic in wannabe Christian (all hat - no horse) groups is to demonize some other group so as to make their dogma and orthodoxy more self-righteous and "holier-than-thou". It is revealing that such hate is found to be "extreme" in all other religions across the world, but in this country - fear-mongering and scapegoating - is de rigueur. The closer we get to Christmas - the more this will ramp up - proving that this kind of faith is not only ironic to it's core teachings, but usually demonstrates "projection" of their own flaws and biases. Jesus did a pretty good job of preaching about that - but this is overlooked in these "sermons" - and BTW - Jesus was single - not married and no kids (very non-traditional at the time) but then again compare Sermon on the Mount with the idolatry of Jesus posters carrying an AR-15 and laying waste to non-believers. Twisted ideology and in the hands of people who have lost their minds.

You're right, perhaps I'm out of the loop.

It's always a projection

We should revoke the tax exempt status of any church that preaches hate.

Wow, there are so many instances of pastors committing crimes that there's a whole subreddit about it?! NO WAY! /s

I think that's been going on longer than whomever you're referencing. (Lots of people named Paul, wasn't sure)

Yeah that's one of the commandments right? "Thou shalt not kill anyone who will give our shareholders and conservative politicians blind support." ?