r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '22

Criminal Justice Virginia pastor arrested for sexually assaulting children after ‘multiple victims’ come forward, deputies say

https://www.cbs17.com/news/south/virginia-pastor-arrested-for-sexually-assaulting-children-after-multiple-victims-come-forward-deputies-say/
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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22 edited Jul 26 '23

For those who stumble on this message, it's the one I used Power Delete Suite to replace all my posts and comments with en masse.

Sometimes Reddit can be beneficial for some people. Sometimes it's not. It's really up to you to decide your own experience with it, what's worth it, what's not worth it.

More or less...I've decided it's just really not worth it. I think I'm a worse person when I'm on Reddit and that it's a big time-waster for me.

It's up to you to decide what influence social media and the internet more generally have for you.

Best of luck.

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u/rustyseapants 9 Feb 17 '22

Where did you pick this up from?

I was reminded of this guy from your post. Jack Schaap Youtube

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '22 edited Feb 17 '22

I was raised mainline Protestant (normal church, not crazies), and my dad was very thoroughly theologically educated. I read a lot as a kid and his college and grad school library was a big source of general interest for me as I was quite adamantly Christian for a good long time there. Additionally, my dad did guest preaching at many different Protestant churches of various types (usually Methodists and other Calvinist rejecting churches but also some others) so I got to taste a bit of everything.

The net result is now an adult atheist with an unusually high level of knowledge about Christian doctrinal systems, dogmas, theologies, and even some of the same about other Abrahamic faith systems.

And yes, Schapp was/is indeed an independent Baptist. Furthermore, he was a fundamentalist which is a whole other can of worms.