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Texas megachurch pastor resigns after admitting to molestation claims in 1980s
(www.independent.co.uk)
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About ten years ago, I worked for a small firm where most of the partners attended this very church.
One of the reasons I left was that I felt completely out of place as they integrated their religion into the office culture.
When I left, the managing partner would send me handwritten letters for YEARS effectively telling me that while I had chosen damnation for myself, I owed it to my daughter to have the opportunity for salvation by attending this specific gateway Church in Southlake.
If I didn't have so much disdain and bitterness, I'd be tempted to send him this article.
Found why they were so upset you left.
Good thing you did, before something happened to her.
oh my god, the thought didn't occur to me. Fuck fuck fuck
Guess we know what his idea of Salvation is, too.
As my great grandfather used to say, "Its never too late to burry a man under his own skeletons" perhaps if you are feeling a bit vindictive you could do a bit of investigative journalism on em.
Write him back about concern about his children getting molested at the church
Do it! And the only hand writing from you say something like "just as I suspected"
Send it
God, I hate Southlake.
I do wish I could go back to hating them just because of their smarmy spoiled football team.
God I was going to UNT football games when Todd Dodge was there. It seemed like all of Southlake was attending those games. I hate him with a white hot intensity. I hate his acolytes orders of magnitude more.
The few times I've been through Southlake, I felt like a needed a shower with some 36 grit sandpaper as a loofa.
Based on what I recall of his tenure at UNT, I doubt they stuck it out for very long. I think his kid is the head coach at Carroll now.
Hell, it's not even like I live someplace that's terribly different from Southlake, but the gusto with which that town throws itself into toxic rich people shit is impressively awful. I understand there's finally a bit of a quiet counter-movement now that the chickens are coming home to roost.