With advances in LGBTQ rights, more people feel safe and comfortable to be their selves and come out to those around them. Unsurprisingly, nowadays, most people in the U.S. will know of someone—acquaintance, family member, work colleague—who is gay.
For one televangelist, this is proof that the “demonic spirit” of homosexuality is succeeding in taking over Christian children.
A clip of right-wing pastor Kent Christmas, founder of Regeneration Nashville in Nashville, TN, delivering a sermon to an arena audience has prompted lots of comments online.
Right-wing pastor Kent Christmas says that Christian children are being “taken over by homosexuality”: “It is a demonic spirit that has come after our seed.” pic.twitter.com/dKWlSZNTne
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 22, 2021
“We have all of this going on – for the last couple of 20, 30 years. And while we’re building the biggest churches, never have Christians’ children been more taken over by homosexuality than they are right now,” said Kent, who was speaking at an evangelical summit last Friday in Washington DC.
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“If I asked each and every one of you to stand that has a son, daughter, niece, nephew, brother or sister that is gay, half of you would stand up in this building.
“Because it is a demonic spirit that’s come after our seed! And the church that God is raising up in this hour is going to have authority over that!
“We’re not gonna tell ’em they’re going to hell, we’re not gonna tell ’em they’re scum. We’re gonna tell ’em that they’re born of God, that God will set them free, and change them by the power of the holy ghost.”
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The clip was shared by Right Wing Watch. Besides the many replies calling Pastor Christmas a charlatan, others marveled at his attire: particularly the rainbow detailing on his shirt.
I love those rainbow buttons on his shirt. Pretty rad. 🌈
— Riley Moore’s Grandfather (@DaJanglin) September 22, 2021
I like the *comin’ after our seed* part. I know trawling for a BJ when I hear it
— Pousseé Comitata, Alarmist (@epaldelta) September 22, 2021
Maybe if he had a few gay friends, they’d stop him from wearing that ridiculous shirt.
— Toad Heartbreak (@toadheartbreak) September 22, 2021
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Chrisk
As an Atheist I’ll never understand how people can get seduced by religion. Not to mention their need to control others and force them to believe in their BS.
I usually go out of my way to just avoid them. I consider them to be mentally ill.
ted
100% agreed
waldorf
Well said, to me religion is on a par with fairies, Father Christmas & elves.
Ken A.
Some Atheists are just as bad as some Christians. On one side some Christians force their beliefs on others and on the other side some Atheists force their disbelief on others. Religion is a compensation for something lacking in people’s lives, answers to their haunting questions and some find a purpose. I don’t begrudge them that if they would keep it within their community and I have a theory why they allow themselves to be deceived and their wallets drained and force their beliefs on the rest of society, their religion is failing them, their church leaders are failing them and their faith is failing them and they’re becoming Atheists and that scares them. They’re trying to convince themselves by pointing their fingers at us and others. Agnostics on the other hand are middle of the road. Maybe not but could be but not like they say. Atheists, who can explain an atheist.
Chrisk
Ken A.
Atheist’s aren’t the ones that are busy legislating control over others like women’s right to their bodies, gay peoples right to living their lives, etc. They don’t demand special privileges like Christians do. Hardly the same.
Matthewnow
Dear Biatch. I’m Gay AND Catholic. Suck it raw you douche.
Vince
Damn right. As Governor Jesse Venture famously said. Religion is for the weak minded and each time I meet or hear of these freaks I’m reminded of that fact.
Mister P
The Bible isn’t enough of a con they need an enemy to keep up the fundraising. LGBT+ community allows them to keep up the grift.
GrizzleyMichael
No the Bible is an innocent object in this bullshit. How can you call yourself Christian if you hate so much
jcool
that speech kind of made me want to nail his son. and his brother. and his nephew. dirty old man.
bsg1967
The big books of make believe spreading hate, lies and fear for centuries.
barryaksarben
HEy we are after all seed not just your sick religion. Seed is seed to a farmer. YOur so called christian kids jsut get messed up by this type of hate directed at them and their families. Keep up the good work of destroying your own church by demonizing regular people. None of us want YOUR seed so calm the fk down
James
CHRIXTIAN TRASH.
blackhook
Reason #10,007 why Christianity is the biggest fraud in history…
GrizzleyMichael
Bitch please you are far from being Christian. Your a miserable hate-filled man and your life is going to be miserable for the rest of your pathetic life.
Heywood Jablowme
“Kent Christmas” is a pretty gay name!
Jim
Isn’t it a porn names????
mateo
Ken A. I consider myself an Atheist–or at the very least, an Agonostic–and I don’t go door-to-door asking my neighbors if they’ve “seen the light” by leaving their religions. Nor do I sing the praises of Atheism when I get together with my friends. I simply don’t allow myself to have all my thoughts and actions controlled by some invisible entity which on the one hand offers me eternal rewards for good behaviour and on the other, eternal hellfire if I do things which someone has deemed to be “sinful”. I try to be a good person and to help those who are in need, not because someone TOLD me to nor because it’s written in some book, but simply because it’s the way I myself would like to be treated. People are perfectly capable of having a sense of spirituality–of feeling at one with others and with the planet on which they live–without having that spirituality clothed in deities and books filled with rules. Now, having said that, I DO believe in the laws of humankind, because I am a part of the human race and those laws have been created by my peers. If I feel a certain law is unjust, then I support a lawmaker who also shares my opinion and thus will overturn or modify that law. And in any case, my judgement is based on feelings of empathy towards others, and not on things that have been ordered by some mythical superior being.
BaltoSteve
They always go straight to the cause being demons wreaking havoc rather than the Divine attempting to teach tolerance and acceptance. Religion isn’t the problem, rigid systems that use the belief of those with a religious inclination are.
JessPH
If one person has an imaginary friend, it’s called mental illness. If a group of people has an imaginary friend, it’s called religion.
vaheva2938
ohh my gudness