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A Christian CPA Tells Me I Am a Clown Headed for Hell

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Today, I received the following comment from a Christian CPA named Brian. I won’t use his last name, or say where his business is located, even though he deserves no respect from me. I might, however, send Brian a few bucks since, as you shall see, the CAPS LOCK key on his computer keyboard is either stuck or broken.

Brian didn’t appreciate what I wrote in the post, How Preachers Put the Fear of God into Church Attendees. Here’s what he said:

THIS CLOWN MAY NOT BELIEVE IN HELL NOW BUT ONE TENTH OF ONE SECOND AFTER HE DIES HE WILL AND HE WILL NEEEEEEEEVER GET OUT. ENJOY IT NOW WEIRDO.

Brian has never seen Hell, has no evidence to prove its existence, yet he KNOWS it exists, and that the clown Bruce Gerencser is going there when he dies. Sure scares the h-e-l-l into me! 🙂

Brian is yet another bombastic Christian critic who read all of one post on this site. Just one, and then he ejaculated in my direction. Eww, right? I am immune to such comments/emails, but I find them entertaining, and I hope that the readers of this blog do too.

Thanks, Brian!

Bruce Gerencser, 69, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 48 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.

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17 responses to “A Christian CPA Tells Me I Am a Clown Headed for Hell”

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    thatotherjean

    “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” — Hebrews 11:1

    What a weird, hateful “faith” Brian must have, to hope that Bruce Gerencser is in hell, with no hope of redemption, forever, after he dies. Brian does have that “evidence of things not seen” down, though, since neither he nor any other human being has ever seen even an instant of an afterlife, near-death experiences notwithstanding–but he’s sure Bruce will be in Hell (and Brian won’t).

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      Bruce Gerencser

      Yep! Certainty breeds arrogance. You would think as long as I’m among the living I’d still be a prospect for Heaven. Evidently, this person doesn’t care. 😂

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    dale m.

    This fellow was an early capture of evangelical Christianity. Like communism, he was forced to toe the Party line. And like communism, he has been turned into a robot espousing church Party doctrine. The threat of being labelled a traitor to his own Party heavily outweighs any truth. He simply does not have the strength of character to break the bonds that bind him to the Party Church.
    I strongly suspect that his parents were church evangelicals, as were his grandparents and his great grandparents. Imagine being born into a communist society wherein every one of your generation were absolute, dedicated Party communists. How could anyone possibly escape?!? Like Party communists, Party evangelicalists, are always shocked when someone breaks away from Party doctrine. That’s when the machinations of the Party gear up for a cover up.
    The breakaway member is immediately downcast as a traitor to the Party, a clown, a misguided moron, mentally deranged, a fallen member whose Party affiliations will be revoked if he/ she does not turn around and repent their turning against the system. But they’re too damn afraid of their own shadow and what the Church Party will think of them to really face what just broke away … a FREEDOM FIGHTER !!!

    BUT. Unlike this fellow, you, Bruce are FREE. Despite all the POWER, the MONEY and the connected Party affiliations that communism and evangelicalism offer, Bruce is one who had the strength of character to break away, cut the tethers binding him, and start to enjoy his new found FREEDOM. That my friend, no Party affiliations will EVER allow you to experience.

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  3. amimental

    He calls you a clown? This guy’s a feckin’ Bozo!
    Also, isn’t there some stuff about how when you die you are just in limbo until Jumpin’ Jesus comes back, at which time you’re escorted to your eternal destination, or am I confusing that with a really swell SciFi story I either read or made up?
    Either way, I think Brian needs some serious mental help. Maybe a good spritz in the face from either a squirting flower or a seltzer bottle.

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    Obstaclechick

    Brian disagrees with you but doesn’t have the intellectual fortitude to have an actual conversation about the topic. Instead, he is gleeful that someone else will give you your eternal comeuppance one day. A real class act, that Brian.

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  5. clubschadenfreude

    Poor Brian, he doesn’t even know his bible. No hell “one tenth of a second” after death.

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    Yulya Sevelova

    This particular Brian really went off the rails as he revealed his own true nature, chortling at the prospect of Bruce going to Hell. One gets the idea that he is a Southerner, as most of them behave that way. It wouldn’t surprise me.Brian- the- CPA,is just your garden variety church- going sadist. And these sadists are the main reason that churches are emptying out !! Are you proud of that, CPA Brian ? Are you proud of your role in driving out the youth and others from church with your Calvinistic ,abusive attitude ? You are an abuser for sure. The kind who shoots a 22. at squirrels and birds from a window, right ? Runs down pets crossing a street. Takes babies out to the parking lot at church to whip them for crying, or even worse, up front at the altar, to impress the elders. Yes, I’ve seen your ilk many times in the past. Which is why church is in the distant past !

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    Hugh d Young

    …..or some bleach!!-

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    Sage

    yep, typical christian hate. The church is full of this hate for non-christians who look at christians and say no thanks. Usually it’s a more subtle hatred, but it all boils down to what he spewed.

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    William

    This guys behaviour… I heard before that PTSD was rampant in the 50s so much that it was just thought that was what it meant to be a man, so because of this domestic violence was seen as sort of OK.

    So that’s how I read the Bible.. A bunch of highly wrung out people with PTSD behaving in bizarre ways.

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    Dave

    So heaven will be inhabited by Brian, John Piper, Jerry Falwell and millions of Trumpers. Sounds like Hell to me

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    Barbara L. Jackson

    Thanks Dale M for the comment.

    I have mentioned basically the same thing in other comments. Some Christian leaders act like Stalin did in the Soviet Union. It is just authoritarianism in different clothes.

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    Yulya Sevelova

    Ha- ha, very succinct Dale ! I had to say that this twit writing his desire for the absolute worst fate for a person speaks volumes about how rotten he is as a ” Christian.”. He’s a disgrace to the label, when you consider that. CPA indeed ! I attended churches where imprecatory prayers, as this action on CPA’s part obviously is. Howling calls for death and Hell for church exiters and unsaved relatives were common events. You especially see this in Pentacostal churches. I never went to an IFB church, so I don’t know if they also do this. Bad vibes and shade all the way. Casual cruelty is their norm. Those fleeing such churches are sick of it.

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  13. Brian Vanderlip

    This fellow was an early capture of evangelical Christianity. Like American Republicans, he was forced to toe the Party line. And like American Republicans,, he has been turned into a robot espousing church Party doctrine. The threat of being labelled a traitor to his own Party heavily outweighs any truth. He simply does not have the strength of character to break the bonds that bind him to the Party Church.
    I strongly suspect that his parents were church evangelicals, as were his grandparents and his great grandparents. Imagine being born into a American Republican society wherein every one of your generation were absolute, dedicated Party Republicans. How could anyone possibly escape?!? Like Party Republicans, Party evangelicalists are always shocked when someone breaks away from Party doctrine. That’s when the machinations of the Party gear up for a cover up.
    The breakaway member is immediately downcast as a traitor to the Party, a clown, a misguided moron, mentally deranged, a fallen member whose Party affiliations will be revoked if he/ she does not turn around and repent their turning against the system. But they’re too damn afraid of their own shadow and what the Republican Party will think of them to really face what just broke away … a FREEDOM FIGHTER !!!

    Hmm, what do you think?

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  14. Brian Vanderlip

    Just to be clear to those new around here, I am not the Brian who wrote to Almighty.

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    thatotherjean

    Doesn’t it just? Mark Twain was right: “Heaven for climate; Hell for society.”

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    thatotherjean

    OK, so my computer hates me–or maybe it hates Dave, to whom the above was supposed to be a reply.

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