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LINK Georgia Spa Shooter Was a Patient at an Evangelical “Sex Addiction” Clinic | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

It is becoming abundantly clear that Robert Aaron Long, who confessed to murdering eight people (mostly Asian women) at three Georgia spas this week, was steeped in a version of conservative Christianity that critics have spent years describing as harmful.

We already knew a high school classmate described him as “big into religion,” that a neighbor said he came from “a good Christian family,” and the Crabapple First Baptist Church in Milton once celebrated his journey to baptism in a now-deleted Facebook post.

Now the Washington Post is reporting that, according to a former roommate, Long was a patient at an evangelical “sex addiction” clinic that also promoted gay conversion therapy. HopeQuest is about a mile from the first spa that Long targeted.

snytiger6 9 Mar 20
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Is FBI Director Chistopher Wray the only public official who has said racism was not the principal motive for Long’s spa murders?

I think religion’s demonizing sex is the principal motive.

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The church behind this tragedy should be prosecuted fully. They are a terrorist training camp. If they were Muslim and from another country they'd have already been drone striked.

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Demonizing sex , demonizing desires , demonizing preferences . And christians will tell u that they are sooo much better than Muslims .
So hideous , sooo harmful , sooo blind .
And of course , let’s all hate women . Bcz they are satan it’s self . Gays are not really hated , just denied exsistance .

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Evangelicals trying to handle sex addiction never works because the answer is always god. Looks like Long figured out that his therapy was not working and his anger kicked in.

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"We'll help you kill your addiction, by any means necessary." 😟

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Evangelicals have always had a love - hate relationship with sex.

CatholicISM has a hate relationship with sex.

CatholICS? Many do it and pretend guilt so they can confess.

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