Restarting the Burgerpunk thread.
397 posts and 215 image replies omitted.>>682341>"Christian, Catholic, Mormon. Anyone preaching that Jesus is God, essentially, the Trinity, a concept created by man, by Paul. He's not God. God, the father alone, is God," he said.History is in flux, it has never stopped being in flux
Might as well X-post this here because /USA/pol is a troll-infested tard pit where discussion of politics is almost impossible.
https://archive.ph/oQvvX>‘SubwayTakes’ Cut Kamala Harris Interview Because Her Opinion Was Too Weird>Host Kareem Rahma said he felt like it would have cost Harris the 2024 election >In the post-mortem on former Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, many errors with the Democratic strategy have been identified. The love for fracking. The warmongering. The cozying up to the billionaire class. An emphasis on celebrity endorsements at the expense of clearly communicated policy plans to improve the lives of working people. A campaign mottled by the likely-senile Joe Biden. The bucket of screw-ups runs deep. >But something that the Pod Save America fellas missed in their hindsight assessment of the Democratic Party’s commitment to failure was an interview with Harris that never actually made it to the internet. In an interview that’s now gone viral on TikTok with Steven Bertoni for Forbes, Kareem Rahma — the creator and host of the popular social media show SubwayTakes — revealed that there’s an unaired episode featuring Harris. It was so bad and so weird that Rahma feared at the time that he would be blamed if Harris lost the election.>“What happened with Kamala?” Bertoni asked Rahma. >“Her take was really confusing and weird and not good, and so we mutually agreed we shouldn’t publish it,” Rahma said.>The entire idea was presented by the DNC — both Tim Walz and Harris wanted to film episodes of SubwayTakes as part of their digital campaign. It was ostensibly a smart move; SubwayTakes has over 1.2 million followers on Instagram, and a million on TikTok. Clips regularly go viral. It’s a great way to reach a lot of young people on the internet. But Rahma explained that the episode with Harris never aired. “I got lucky, because I didn’t want to be blamed for her losing,” Rahma said. >“It was that bad?” Bertoni asked.>“It was really, really bad and it was… It didn’t make any sense, I can tell you that,” Rahma replied.>The controversial take in question? “It was ‘bacon is a spice.’ Bacon is a spice,” Rahma explained. >What does that mean? It’s really anyone’s guess, as we don’t — and likely never will — have the footage of the full conversation. But for the record, 100 percent disagree. Bacon is not a spice. It’s a meat that can be used as a topping but not a seasoning. Duh. >“Do you think that was her opinion, or do you think she got like a research group to try and figure something out,” Bertoni asked in a longer version of the clip. >“Research group, because originally the take that I was pitched was great,” Rahma replied. “It was that she does not like to take her shoes off on airplanes.” >That’s fun! Normal, just controversial enough to merit debate, but something that will bring people together in conversation. Agree or disagree, that’s a take people can understand. Instead, Harris arrived with the hard to parse, disappointing, ultra uninspiring and kind of embarrassing take few people would relate to. >You know what? Maybe the Pod Save America guys already did have this conversation.>>686974>9mm>shows an ARShoulda done the dualies shooter.
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>How a Christian college ministry glorified a sex offender and enabled him to keep abusing students
>Looking into the camera, the Pentecostal missionary speaks in slow, measured sentences, describing how, for decades, he gained the trust of college students who came to his ivy-draped bungalow in search of spiritual guidance. Using scripture, he convinced them they could open up about uncomfortable topics like pornography and masturbation. Then he would strike, touching their penises and pressuring them to touch his, all under the guise of bringing them closer to Jesus.
>In the two years since Savala recorded that confession at his home in Houston, lawyers, activists and whistleblowers have worked to untangle how a convicted sex offender with an eighth-grade education managed to convince scores of pastors and young Christians to put their faith in him — and why church officials repeatedly failed to stop him.
>He taught them that seeing each other naked in his backyard sauna was essential to becoming true brothers in Christ — or, as he put it, “nudity is unity.” For those struggling with lustful temptation, he offered a counterintuitive solution: group masturbation, sometimes while listening to Christian worship music.
>“He would say things like, ‘Hey, you know it’s OK to masturbate,’” said Joseph Cleveland,“‘Because we’re brothers, we can do it together.’”
>The boys and young men who devoted themselves to Savala called him “Papa Daniel,” “God’s vagabond” and “the holiest man alive.” At his direction, teams of students built the backyard sauna that became the site of his alleged crimes
>The conversations quickly turned more explicit, with Savala commenting on Cleveland’s penis and asking the teen what he thought of his: “You know, you could touch it if you ever wanted to,” Cleveland remembers him saying. Back at his home, Savala insisted he give it a try.
>Cleveland says he didn’t recognize what Savala did to him over the next decade as sexual abuse. Performing oral sex on an older man initially seemed wrong, but Savala was a brilliant theologian and prophet; this must have been part of what made him holy. He was dispensing secret wisdom, with an emphasis on secret. Savala told him no one else would understand, Cleveland said.
>Each night before bed, Salgado — unaware of his host’s criminal record — said Savala told the students to undress and join him in his cramped, cedar-planked sauna. Sitting leg-to-leg, they prayed, sang worship songs and spoke in tongues. The nudity was meant to create an atmosphere of intimacy and openness, Salgado believed, ushering them closer to Jesus.
>The next time Salgado visited Houston, he came alone. And what Savala did in the sauna — forcefully grabbing Salgado’s penis while masturbating himself — no longer felt like a spiritual awakening, he said,
>Over the next decade, the pattern repeated again and again. People came to church leaders with concerns about Savala, and those warnings went unheeded.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chi-alpha-texas-abuse-allegations-christian-missionary-sex-offender-rcna220069 Unique IPs: 37