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An Evangelical mega church is closing branches after comments made by its founder Mark Driscoll where he referred to women as “penis homes” were unearthed by a blogger.Mars Hill spokesman Justin Dean said financial pressures are forcing the cutbacks in the wake of negative press surrounding the church and its founder, who has stepped down for six weeks amid concerns surrounding his leadership.The Seattle-based church has been growing steadily over the past 18 years to reach 15 branches in five states. Now, Mars Hill church leaders say they plan to cut between 30 and 40 per cent of paid staff. The attendance figures at branches of Mars Hill combined have dropped from about 12,000 to 13,000 a week at the start of the year to about 8,000 to 9,000 a week.“We’ve basically found ourselves in a tough financial position,” Mr Dean told The Seattle Times. “We started the year the strongest we’ve ever been, but since then we’ve seen a decline in attendance and giving, and we saw a steep decline over the last two months.”Its leader, Pastor Mark Driscoll has recently been accused of posting offensive comments on the Mars Hill online forum almost 15 years ago under a pseudo name.In 2000, Mr Driscoll posted a message on a Church board under the name William Wallace II, which read: “Knowing that His penis would need a home, God created a woman to be your wife and when you marry her and look down you will notice that your wife is shaped differently than you and makes a very nice home.In another post he suggested the wives of pastor’s who have an affair may be in some encouraging his infidelity by “letting themselves go”, Vocativ reports. The pastor is also accused of plagiarising passages in one of his books, misuse of church funds and improper behaviour toward subordinates, according to the Religion News Service.Church elders are interviewing the pastor about allegations made against him during the six week period.
No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
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On one hand his comments make him sound like he'd be a great MRA, but then again he's religious.
Life for the sake of life means nothing.
Pros: Rush Limbaugh is sent to the hospital with severe stress related illness resulting from 36 hours of rantingYou get congratulated by multiple progressive figuresCons:You are also the hero of over 60% of the men's rights communityPersonally I think getting Rush to break down on tears during a live broadcast would be well worth it.
Pardon the interruption, good sir/lady; there are aspects of your behavior that I find quite unbecoming, and I must insist most strenuously that I be permitted to assist in resolving these behaviors through the repeated high-velocity cranial introduction of particularly firm building materials.
GIVE ME KNOWLEDGE OR I WILL PUT A CAP IN YO ASS!
I'm still confused as to why a megachurch is naming itself after a pagan deity.
Quote from: Meshakhad on September 25, 2014, 04:07:24 pmI'm still confused as to why a megachurch is naming itself after a pagan deity.People are too stupid to realize that the names of the planets are all based off old Roman/Greek gods.
