Evangelicals are calling in notes on bad boy pastor Driscol. Let the bashing begin.

[fromderinside]

Mark Driscoll urged to leave church he founded. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/us/mark-driscoll-is-being-urged-to-leave-mars-hill-church.html

We get the story then we get the lambasting released. Wonderful how fundie faithful drop their icons into the shitter. Makes sense they reject Icons.

Seriously, why do fundies take on such garbage pits as masters and why do they then disown them when he reveals just what a fuckheads they are. Is there something pathological about these dress up puppy skirted 50's worshipers?

 

[Potoooooooo]

Nothing draws flies like shit

 

[Bronzeage]

Mark Driscoll urged to leave church he founded. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/us/mark-driscoll-is-being-urged-to-leave-mars-hill-church.html

We get the story then we get the lambasting released. Wonderful how fundie faithful drop their icons into the shitter. Makes sense they reject Icons.

Seriously, why do fundies take on such garbage pits as masters and why do they then disown them when he reveals just what a fuckheads they are. Is there something pathological about these dress up puppy skirted 50's worshipers?

This kind of thing is very common in any large church with a "dynamic personality" pastor. This type of pastor is very common, but it is uncommon for their church to ever grow beyond a dozen or more families. It's difficult to gather more people when the teaching is hard fundamentalism. Fundamentalism allows for so many disputes over what is significant and what is not, and once a disagreement is found, there is no way to resolve it, except to separate. Small churches usually own no property and rent their worship place. There maybe no paid staff, so if the church folds, there is no great trauma.

A Megachurch is another matter. There is a lot of property and a large payroll. If the pastor is becoming a liability, a lot of people may suffer for it. This gives church elders real incentive to rein in a pastor when their personality has outgrown the pulpit.

 

[repoman]

At the old Freeratio.org I did a post about how Mark Driscoll had sneakily funneled money into a home in a nice area north of Seattle.

Looking again, the Seattle-PI has caught up with the story:

http://wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com/2014/08/seattle-pi-catches-up-to-driscoll-2012.html

Nice!

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Mark Driscoll urged to leave church he founded. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/us/mark-driscoll-is-being-urged-to-leave-mars-hill-church.html

We get the story then we get the lambasting released. Wonderful how fundie faithful drop their icons into the shitter. Makes sense they reject Icons.

Seriously, why do fundies take on such garbage pits as masters and why do they then disown them when he reveals just what a fuckheads they are. Is there something pathological about these dress up puppy skirted 50's worshipers?

I don't think there's anything more to this than what you see. I've never been taken by "charismatic" leaders because I've always perceived them as blowholes, and I didn't identify with blowholes. These type "movements" simply attract people who aren't very smart imho. People within the organization are saying the guy needs help. No shit. And so do they for being attracted to such a personality.

 

[fromderinside]

Great guys. He's a shithead. But look at what's coming out of the woodwork, a bunch of fellow travelers now fellow bashers. This is to what I was referring when I wrote "let the bashing begin". What is it about these "I love the fifties" types that work, like Bronzeage suggested, to first become sycophants and then to start carrying tar and feathers. Isn't this more in line with the effects Hitler had in the early thirties?