Posted on 06/28/2015 3:20:51 PM PDT by Salman
One Monday in June, 79-year-old Charles Moore, a retired United Methodist minister, drove to Grand Saline, Tex., his childhood home town some 70 miles east of Dallas. He pulled into a strip mall parking lot, knelt down on a small piece of foam and doused himself with gasoline.
Then, witnesses said, he set himself on fire.
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The Tyler Morning Telegraph obtained a copy of the suicide note from Grand Saline police. In it, Moore lamented past racism in Grand Saline and beyond. He called on the community to repent and said he was “giving my body to be burned, with love in my heart” for those who were lynched in his home town as well as for those who did the lynching, hoping to address lingering racism.
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Where in the Bible does it say that suicide equals Hell?
However, this man’s action is ridiculous and certainly not Biblical (regardless of his cut and paste of 1 Corinthians 13). The location of his soul is known only to God.
“knelt down on a small piece of foam......”
Guy is about to self immolate and he’s worried about knee pain?
(I’ve been in the burn ward)
About the same logic as swabbing the injection site with alcohol before lethal injections.
I would assume the foam was to act as a sponge for the gasoline so that it would not run down the street but stay beneath him.
AMEN!
You’re probably right. I never would have thought of that.
Stupid should hurt.
Yeah, I never got that at all.
FMCDH(BITS)
I guess he showed them.
This was in July, 2014.
At about 150 degrees.
I don’t think that’s what Paul meant in I Corinthians 13 concerning giving one’s body to be burned.
Name two things that get less than 1 MPG.
A Buddhist monk and a United Methodist minister.
This was like, a year ago.
My God! Why couldn’t he go to the White House and set himself on fire there?
What a bleeding heart fool! A lot of good that did!
I’m a firm believer that people who will kill themselves, will not hesitate to kill you and/or others.
Slow burn in process.
StayPuff Marshmallow Man dies after flaming out...
A very detailed story of this event and where it happened should you care to read it.
http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/story-of-reverend-charles-moore?fullpage=1
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