A Jan. 6 pastor divides his Tennessee community with increasingly extremist views

[Zorro]

MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. — The pastor promised his followers that this church service would be like no other, and the event on a cold Sunday in March did not disappoint.

“Devil, your foot soldiers are coming out tonight, they’re coming all the way out. We will expel them,” Pastor Greg Locke howled from the stage in a crowded white tent. “You gotta leave, Devil,” he shouted, “you gotta get out!”

Wielding a microphone as he paced the stage, his wife, Tai, at his side, Locke called out “spirits” of anger, rage, bitterness, lust and envy.

“Spirit of molestation, spirit of abuse, get out right now!” Locke commanded.

“Every spirit of homosexuality, lesbianism, come out, come out,” his wife ordered.

“Transgenderism, gender dysphoria, come out.”

“We rebuke it, we rebuke it!” Locke yelled.

The tent slowly took on a spirit of its own. Worshipers began writhing as if in pain. Others waved their hands in the air in benediction. “Amens” began to mix with the guttural sound of growling, moaning and praying in tongues.

“If you’ve had the covid-19 shot, I’m telling you you’ve got poison in your veins,” Locke thundered. “We call out the covid-19 vaccine out right now. Keep that demonic spirit out of you right now in the name of Jesus!”

Some fell to the ground, pawing at cedar chips, or retched into silver vomit buckets that had been set at the end of each row of white folding chairs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/31/tennessee-pastor-extremist-politics/

Gimme that old time retchligion...

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Enough spirits of rage, anger, and bitterness in that tent...

to last a bunch of lifetimes.

If there is a hell, this pastor and his ilk are guaranteed a place of honor in it.

[3Hotdogs]

2. Time and again,

I wish there really was a Hell.

[Skittles]

3. yeah, he's speaking crazy nonsense

but to be fair, most of what is "taught" by religion could be considered nonsense

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Virtue signalling. Whoever acts most possessed will be most praised by peers for being "cleansed".nt

[SWBTATTReg]

5. God will go after this pastor with all of his lies, and other crap that he's preaching. He might as

well serve poison while he is at it. Ironically, he's telling the devil to get out, when in fact, he's the devil (or better, one of the demons doing the devil's work in Tenn. Some pastor eh, I'd say that it's time to hire / get another pastor, one who has his head on right and not spinning all around 360 degrees like the demons on Omen would.

[twodogsbarking]

6. I'm screaming in my mind.

[dalton99a]

7. He's also a liar and cheater

After months of denying they were in an intimate relationship before his recent divorce, Greg Locke, the outspoken internet preacher and lead pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, has married his administrative assistant and ex-wife's best friend, Tai Cowan McGee.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/popular-internet-pastor-greg-locke-marries-church-assistant-after-divorce.html

[lees1975]

8. 2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will match their deeds.