The jury returns its verdict...
"Now 80, the balding, bespectacled Killen -- a former preacher -- appeared to be sleeping during much of the closing remarks."
Click on the photo of the guilty Killen (in the 1960s) to read the story.
posted by John and Mag @ 4:01 PM
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Reverend Killen could use a course in ethics. If I weren't against capital punishment in general, I'd say "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" for this preacher gone bad! Maybe he was bad gone worse--only the Lord knows!! -Wooed
I once took a course from a professor who told the story of how a former student of hers at another seminary made the claim that no Christian had ever been a part of the KKK. The point was that anyone who called himself or herself a Christian and was a member of the KKK, or supported its teachings was, in fact, not a Christian at all. I think that's the most accurate judgment that can be made in a case like this. Edward Ray Killen was/is by no means a minister of the gospel of Christ, and clearly not a follower of it either. Does not that mean he's beyond redemption? I hope not, or we're all in trouble. But, I would not share a communion meal with him right now, or accept his teachings on the gospel, for we do not worship the same God.
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