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Pastor out at famed Riverside Church after sex toy shopping spree
New York Post ^ | June 12, 2019 | Kevin Fasick, Ebony Bowden and Bruce Golding

Posted on 07/12/2019 11:19:44 AM PDT by Morgana

The reason for her ouster is far more stimulating than any sermon this pastor could have delivered.

The Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, the first woman to lead Manhattan’s famed Riverside Church, lost her lofty post amid complaints that she brought ministers and a congregant on a sex toy shopping spree and then gave one of them an unwanted vibrator as a birthday gift, The Post has learned.

On May 15, Butler allegedly took two Riverside assistant ministers and a female congregant to a sex shop in Minneapolis called the Smitten Kitten, during a religious conference, according to sources familiar with the out-of-town shopping excursion.

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TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: amybutler; amykbutler; apostasy; christian; corruption; cultureofcorruption; leftwingnuts; lesbians; liberalchristian; perverts; pornification; rbc; religion; riversidechurch; sexpositiveagenda; sextoy; sextoys; smittenkitten; strangeindeed
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To: Vendome

Oh my. Isn’t that one handsome.


41 posted on 07/12/2019 12:28:36 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Morgana

bump


42 posted on 07/12/2019 12:32:51 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: DariusBane

43 posted on 07/12/2019 12:33:33 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Vendome

44 posted on 07/12/2019 12:36:03 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: colorado tanker

“spend $200 on a vibrator”

talk about throwing your money in a hole.


45 posted on 07/12/2019 12:36:41 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: Morgana

What a dildo...her decision really sucked.


46 posted on 07/12/2019 12:42:18 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: livius
I don’t know where they went wrong, but ever since the 1960s and possibly before they have had raving leftists running the show. I grew up near there and I did like the bells, though!

The book Covert Cadre describes the cozy relationship between the Riverside Church leadership and the Soviet KGB during the 1960s and 70s.

47 posted on 07/12/2019 12:46:03 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: piasa
You got that right, piasa.

Even their Wikipedia entry can't hide the ugliness that resides within that externally beautiful church.

This latest episode of pushing the envelope, so to speak, may not bring any kind of change to Riverside Church's underlying social doctrine but it should be a warning for those who are attracted to a church by its appearance, not knowing or caring what is taught within its walls.

Chances are, the next pastor will be no less radical than any of those occupying the pulpit since the eminent Harry Emerson Fosdick did almost 90 years ago.

48 posted on 07/12/2019 1:02:58 PM PDT by logician2u
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To: Morgana
to a sex shop in Minneapolis called the Smitten Kitten, during a religious conference

Honestly, you just can't make this stuff up.


49 posted on 07/12/2019 1:13:12 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Morgana
bet they had a religious experience.

Yes.

As in: "Oh God! I'm coming!"

50 posted on 07/12/2019 1:18:31 PM PDT by null and void (The Left isn't banning "Hate Speech", they are banning speech they hate. BIG difference.)
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To: colorado tanker
$200 will get you a couple of hours with

51 posted on 07/12/2019 1:26:27 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Tag, you're it.)
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To: logician2u

Harry Emerson Fosdick advocated appeasement of Hitler, as many leftists/progressives did before Hitler and Stalin’s pact ended.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer visited Riverside in the thirties and was greatly displeased as they preached social justice but not the Gospel. He ended up spending most of his visit to the US teaching Sunday school at a black Abyssinian church in Harlem.


52 posted on 07/12/2019 1:44:16 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Riverside Church....the Conscience of America.

NOT!!!


53 posted on 07/12/2019 1:44:49 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: livius

According to Bonhoeffer the pastor who took part in an assassination plot against Hitler, Riverside was far gone as a church in the 30s preaching politics rather than the Gospel of Christ. The Union Seminary in town was as well.


54 posted on 07/12/2019 1:48:51 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: livius

That’s interesting. O’l John D had a reputation for being pretty buttoned down. And he was anything but a leftist.


55 posted on 07/12/2019 1:52:25 PM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: King Moonracer

LOL! I remember those skits!


56 posted on 07/12/2019 1:53:03 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: livius

In 2010 they played host to a bunch of loons including VIPS’ Ray McGovern …
https://juicyecumenism.com/2010/02/08/religious-truth-commission-to-examine-u-s-war-atrocities/

Ray’s group of truthers and leakers (Kwiatkowski, Cannistraro, Pat Lang, Sybil Edmonds, etc) joined the former Ambassador to Gabon, Joe Wilson, in trying to set up Dick Cheney for impeachment or resignation, but ended up only getting Scooter Libby. McGovern also writes for Russia Today. The church is also part of the Global Zero nuclear disarmament movement that Joe Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame is part of.


57 posted on 07/12/2019 2:03:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Morgana

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.” (John 3:6)


58 posted on 07/12/2019 2:07:40 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: colorado tanker

I didn’t know it was possible to spend $200 on a vibrator.
= = =

I’ll sell you one for $2000.


59 posted on 07/12/2019 2:09:24 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (/S liberally (oops) applied to all posts.)
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To: Mark17; SaveFerris

The Lord tarries because He wants all to repent.
I’m amazed that these so-called pastors keep out perving each other lately.
Days of Noah and Days of Lot.


60 posted on 07/12/2019 2:12:49 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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