Referring to his son Jesse's call to minister in San Francisco:
"... to go to San Francisco to launch a house of prayer, one block from the Castro District - where the homosexuals boast the dominion of darkness."
His followers hissed and booed at the mere mention of San Francisco. Are we to believe that they will turn around 180 degrees and love those who "boast the dominion of darkness?" Delusion has its purpose I suspect, but few, if anyone, are quite that delusional - or clueless.
And lest someone
think that Engle is completely clueless, his purposes are quite clear:
eradicate homosexuality by eradicating homosexuals. His son's ministry
and his teen followers' witnessing in San Francisco's Castro district
were dismal failures. The district's population feel rightly insulted
whenever a self-righteous group starts singing hymns to pray away their
gayness because they know that the meek exteriors of the choir house
feelings of disgust. Abomination. Hypocrisy fairly glows from Engle's
young followers.
The Darkest Raison d'etre Exposed
Five days ago, Engle's purposes were exposed by TWO (Truth Wins Out) reporter Evan Hurst. He attended one of Engle's smaller revivals in St. Louis (June 19 to July 12) and was able to tape Engle's tirade, this time aimed at a more select (and apparently more discreet) group of followers. Hurst's professionalism is evident in his restraint, even while giving the reader his thoughts on Engle's extreme rhetoric. And extreme it is:
"If we're struggling with a homosexual, same-sex desire, LET THE BIBLE KILL YOU, rather than make it easier for you, and say well, there must be a better scriptural answer to this " Brothers and sisters, let the Bible kill you rather than you twist the scriptures!"
Hurst went "underground" to capture a speech/sermon given to a group much smaller than Engle's more public rants. He openly admits that his words are too violent for larger groups and that he will be "vilified" if a tape of it ever surfaces. He peppers his speech with anxious asides of "Are we taping?"
Engle calls his followers "Yahweh Separatists." And in the midst of relating the story of Jezebel and Ahab - paralleling to our own government - he says:
"The Yahweh separatist prophets gotta kill those guys!"
Reporter Hurst tries to maintain an objective, even keel, but finally notes:
But this is the kind of eliminationist rhetoric that, when it goes into the ears of certain kinds of crazies, can be deadly.
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