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To: nanetteclaret

No he didn’t, he’s avoiding it. Truth hurts too much.


16 posted on 09/10/2013 8:17:03 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana; nanetteclaret
nanetteclaret: You missed this one
Morgana: No he didn’t, he’s avoiding it. Truth hurts too much.

Brent Girouex was a pastor at "Victory Fellowship Church" (formerly "Southside Pentecostal Church"), which raises an interesting point. Back in 2008, I did a study of all of the "Protestant" abuse cases that Catholics were posting about, and I broke them down by denomination / affiliation / beliefs. I found that the more free will / Arminian / synergistic their theology was, and the more independent their association was (as opposed to having denominational affiliation), the higher their abuse ratios went. More interestingly, when I looked at the "Reformed" denominations, the converse was true - the number of "Protestant" abuse cases statistically fell off the chart. All together, the average of all abuse cases for "Protestant" pastors only came to around 1%, but when isolated by affiliation, the most independent churches had ratios that were far, far higher than the Catholic priestly abuse average of 4%

Oh, and Morgana / nanetteclaret, I was there when the Girouex news first hit in 2011. No pain was caused by the posting of this thread. You'll have to try harder, if that's your intent.

22 posted on 09/10/2013 9:14:18 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
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