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A pastor at the Bible Baptist Church in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey is coming under fire after his church posted a video of him claiming to have converted a “smart aleck” youth by “punching him in the chest as hard as I could.” Pastor Eric Dammann begins by saying that he met a young man in Calgary named “Ben,” who was “a nice kid, but one of those — he was a real smart aleck. He was a bright kid, which didn’t help things — made him more dangerous.” “We were outside one day at youth group,” Dammann continues, “and he was just trying to push my buttons. He was just kind of not taking the Lord serious [sic].” “So I walked over to him and went BAM! Punched him in the chest as hard as I could. I crumpled the kid. I just crumpled him.” “Then I leaned over and said, ‘Ben, when are you going to stop playing games with God?’ I led that man to the Lord right there,” he concludes.
 
Holy shit.
(in both senses of the word)
 
What is next? Beheadings?
Christianity going back to it's roots I guess
 
I guess the kid can count himself lucky that he didn't draw any satirical cartoons depicting Jesus.

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That poster behind him: "He who believes in me will live" - does that imply that he who does not believe should be killed?
 
No doubt the blow to the chest induced a reanalysis of the Baptist theology he'd been taught and a sudden realization that it was correct after all.:rolleyes:
 
Potoooooooo said:
He was a bright kid, which didn’t help things — made him more dangerous.”
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Dangerous? To who?
God?
Seems to m ethat this Pastor is admitting the kid was brighter than the pastor. Therefore he was simply forced to bring the argument to a physical level. Good thing God strengthened his arm...
 
"I punched a kid"

This was never the way I planned, not my intention.
I got so brave, seeing red, lost my discretion
It's not what I'm used to, just wanna take you on.
I'm worried for you, you're smart, dangerous.

[Chorus:]
I punched a kid and I liked it,
the way to Christ is through bruises.
I punched a kid just to try it,
I hope my God's the one he chooses.
He was so wrong, it felt so right.
Clearly I'm in the right, tonight.
I punched a kid and I liked it (I liked it).

No, I don't even know your name, it doesn't matter.
You're my testimonial game, just human nature.
It's not what good pastors do, not how they should behave.
My head gets so confused, hard to obey.

[Chorus]

Our God is so very magical,
Omnipotent, but subject to a kid's lip,
Hard to resist, so vulnerable.
Too smart to deny it.
Ain't no big deal, it's a hands-on ministry.
 
That's the guy that tried to sell me a Camry. It would have worked to if he didn't try to force the rustproofing on me.
 
I bet (assuming this actually happened anything like the pastor is recounting) that he really believes this somehow converted the kid too. He has to, or he would have to face the fact that he's a bullying bastard. He's lucky he didn't try that shit with 16 year old me, because I would have laid him out in front of his congregation for all to see.
 
If that was my kid that man would be dead... fucking dead.
The attacking pastor's name is "Eric Dammann".

Hey, Eric.. You are a joke and your god doesn't exist (and if he does, he is a bigger pussy than you). Try that shit within my reach, you fucking cunt, and I will burry you in my septic system with the rest of the shit after I peal your face off.
 
seyorni said:
An interesting contrast between how an angery Catholic monk "lost it" last week here in New Mexico vs and the behavior of the Baptist pastor in New Jersey:
I thought the different approaches was interesting.
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You mean, the difference between, 'I expected better of myself' and 'fuck him for not taking my skybeast seriously?'

A little different, yes.
 
Well, let's be honest, using violence to convert people has a long, long tradition in Christianity.
 
Were it my kid I'd definitely start a conversation with this douchebag. He'd know that if this ever happened again I'd be back to finish the conversation. He'd shit himself for sure. Finishing the conversation definitely wouldn't be bad.
 
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