The primary way BLM protesters target these entities is by directing attention: They show up, they refuse to shut up, they make things visibleThe conflagration at Grace Baptist, then, is what happens when that sort of visibility is what its targets crave most.The flyer advertising the AR-15 giveaway
Grace Baptist has always met in Lansingburgh, the long, skinny neck of Troy that stretches north along the Hudson River. For the first 25 years, the congregation met in the building that Koletas had purchased in the church’s early years. But in 2012, it moved to a new building: a once-beautiful brick structure that had been home to Mills Memorial Baptist Church for more than a century.
Koletas grew up on the Philadelphia Main Line, between Ardmore and Bryn Mawr, the son of Greek immigrants. Everyone in his family was Greek Orthodox. In sermons, he refers to this period of his life as a time of great radicalism: He was as Marxist and socialist as could be. But according to one of his daughters, recently interviewed on, none of his extended family members remember any Marxist or socialist politics. He just thinks of his entire life, pre-IFB, as unspeakably liberal.
In person, Koletas is, as his daughter put it, a sort of Dr. Jekyll and Rev. Hyde: He can be charming and charismatic, and come off as totally normal, especially in his formal capacity as a government employee. But as soon as he starts preaching — behind the pulpit or in the streets — he becomes a different person.Tony Koletas is seen at his daughter's wedding in this undated handout photo.
IFB churches are some of the most conservative in the country: Women can’t serve any function in worship, but are also not allowed to wear pants — even pajama pants — and are strongly discouraged from cutting their hair. IFB believers don’t drink, do drugs, or gamble. Many send their children to IFB schools or homeschool because public school is far too liberal. Only the King James Version of the Bible, written in the 17th century, is accepted as Scripture.
Someone need to buy the building across from this church and paint it rainbow like they did with Westboro.
There was a horrible fire in Perry Co., PA. 11 died, 7 of them children. The church sent notice to the area that they were going to show up at the funeral and protest! They were notified that people in this county were going to protect the funeral with guns. They didn't show up.
Excellent article. Very enlightening. False Christians are disgusting
🤯😡 This “church”! gross
Why am I not even suprised that you're defending criminals storming the church?
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