Updated January 1, 2022
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Bruce Gerencser, 66, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 45 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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You are permanently banned from this site. Nothing you can say or do will change this fact — even whining to David Tee as you recently did. I can’t stop you from finding ways to read my writing (as your father Dr. Tee does), but you will never, ever, not-one-time be permitted to comment on this blog.
I let you out of Gerencser Jail several times, only to have you immediately return to bad behavior. I even allowed you to comment as long as you only left a maximum of two comments a day. What did you do? Immediately leave six comments. Look in the mirror, Elliot. You are the only one to blame for your ban. Either you are a clueless, immature man or you are a troll — someone who leaves outlandish comments just to get a rise out me or the readers of this blog. My money is on the latter.
This is the last time I will address this issue with you. Don’t like it? Start your own blog and rage away at the Evangelical-pastor-turned-atheist Bruce Gerencser.
Bruce Gerencser
I am guessing there is going to be some fodder for the peanut gallery later 😄.