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Pastor Kills himself before church after saying "Gods not hearing me"
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Napoleost: 6172136 said:Why do christians get sad when someone dies? Isn't that the fukking point? Don't ya'll have this "life after death" shyt figured out?
Word, muslims cant wait to leave this place with the quickness.
Atheist here.
This is just a sad story all the way around. It's terrible for his family and friends. Suicide is tragic no matter who does it or what their belief system is.
We don't need to use his death as some card to win points in a "God/No God" argument.
This is just a sad story all the way around. It's terrible for his family and friends. Suicide is tragic no matter who does it or what their belief system is.
We don't need to use his death as some card to win points in a "God/No God" argument.
Mr Uncle Leroy
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A congregation is saddened to see the loss of their pastor, who killed himself this week right before church. The man, Rev. Teddy Parker Jr., confessed to his congregation that sometimes, “I don’t feel like God is hearing me.”
The preacher committed suicide as his wife and children waited for him to get to church, along with 800 members of his congregation. According to 13 WMAZ, Rev. Parker was the pastor of the Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church in Macon, Ga.
The pastor was found by his wife Larrinecia after he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Lakesia Toomer, who spoke for the church, told WMAZ, “We consider this a private matter between the family and the BMZ church family. We kindly ask that the public respects our privacy at this time.” “When he didn’t show up they went looking for him,” Rusell Rowland, a friend, told the Christian Post. “I’m very surprised because he didn’t preach that. He preached totally against it. It’s something that the congregation don’t really understand.”
The pastor spoke of his personal struggle during a Youtube sermon called “Facing Your Storm with Confidence.”
http://www.ireignsupreme.com/2013/1...tion-i-dont-feel-god-hearing-me-kills-church/
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Greenstrings
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A little bit presumptuous. We can't possibly know that depression is a factor here because the impulses and patterns of thinking that govern religious belief are intense enough to cause such a break on their own. It is almost cynical to suggest that the thing he devoted his life to isn't a gravely significant factor here.
Clinical depression is real (regardless of what @Napoleon thinks of the DSM) and unfortunately because of the stigma attached to it and our limited understanding of the brain, it isn't taken seriously enough but part of rectifying this is not being too hasty to prescribe it when it is undiagnosed and there are other important factors at play.
I can understand why it's tempting. Much of the language and themes that deal with cathartic redemption and imminent relationships with god closely mirror
the rhetoric we associate with depression and anxiety. The bible in many places explicitly addresses doubt and problems relating to faith (as the guy expounded upon in his sermon) and how closeness to god waxes and wanes, so while Christians are taught that god never leaves them, there's a tacit understanding that for various reasons they might not always feel that way. If ultimately somebody was unable to reconcile this having placed god at the center of their universe (he says it himself, he's "come too far to turn back") it's not inconceivable that they might react in this way.
I don't buy "God wasn't hearing me". He probably wasn't listening. The Lord works in mysterious ways. 
DaRealness
I think very deeply
Personally, I have no time for religion, neither am I interested in a dikk measuring theology debate because that shyt doesn't concern me, but some of you clearly don't know shyt about depression.
Why do christians get sad when someone dies? Isn't that the fukking point? Don't ya'll have this "life after death" shyt figured out?
Demon
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Be a delusional schizophrenic who talks to an imaginary savior and get depressed and kill yourself when that imaginary savior doesn't hear you, brehs
what's ridiculous? you being hellbound?
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It obvious this idiot didn't believe in the word he was preaching. Probably was doing dirt on the side and it was about to catch up with his ass.
Greenstrings
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Or maybe his belief was so strong that when he became overwhelmed by doubt he completely lost hope. You know for people that claim to follow the example of Jesus you're sorely lacking in empathy. There are a number of things that could have driven dude to that point. Assuming you know and writing dude off as an idiot is astonishingly dumb.
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What's ridiculous? The part about the guy killing himself because God wouldn't talk to him.
He doesn't understand what he preaches