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"WACO, Texas (AP) -- A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning when he adjusted a nearby microphone while standing in water, a church employee said. The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was stepping into the baptistery as he reached out for the microphone, which produced an electric shock, said University Baptist Church community pastor Ben Dudley."

So, the pastor is pwnt by the Big Guy as he prepares to perform the adult full-immersion baptism favored by your friendly neighborhood baptists. Highly amusing, in any case: "I call upon the transforming power of the Lord Jesus..." ZZZZAP!!

11/1/2005 9:28:05 PM

Whats the only thing wrong with a southern baptist?

They aren't held under long enough!

11/1/2005 9:36:25 PM

ok

11/1/2005 9:36:57 PM

heyyy thats funny the way you're mocking a death and the faith of a million people like that


you're awesome!~!~!~!

11/1/2005 9:53:45 PM

I take it you have something against Baptists also?

11/1/2005 9:54:31 PM

he felt god

11/1/2005 10:06:20 PM

while i think the situation is kind of funny,

this thread sucks and you're an idiot

11/1/2005 10:09:42 PM

In Waco Texas, no less.

11/1/2005 10:23:06 PM

'nuff said.

11/1/2005 10:31:07 PM

ignorance.

11/1/2005 10:34:04 PM

My point stands.

Just like 'ignorance of the law is no excuse', not knowing that grabing an electrical object while wet will still take you out of the gene pool.

11/1/2005 10:37:06 PM

I'm a fan of this story because of its uniqueness. You rarely hear about the pastor being electrocuted during a baptism; the story is always about the cross that was spared in the church that was devastated by the tornado.

The point is, it is as ridiculous to assert the involvement of 'divine hand' in the sparing of the cross as it is to assert that a 'divine hand' killed this pastor out of spite.

11/1/2005 10:47:35 PM

dude no one blames god when bad things happen anyway

[Edited on November 1, 2005 at 10:50 PM. Reason : .]

11/1/2005 10:50:03 PM

they should damnit.

[Edited on November 1, 2005 at 11:12 PM. Reason : God made that 2 in the hurricane!]

11/1/2005 11:11:51 PM

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"I'm a fan of this story because of its uniqueness. You rarely hear about the pastor being electrocuted during a baptism; the story is always about the cross that was spared in the church that was devastated by the tornado. The point is, it is as ridiculous to assert the involvement of 'divine hand' in the sparing of the cross as it is to assert that a 'divine hand' killed this pastor out of spite."

Oddly enough, the church I attend was destroyed in Fran and the cross from its steeple was left intact on the rubble (just a pic of it for the first time this weekend). The cross now hangs in the entrance. Just one of those symbolic coincidences that people latch on to in tough times.

I wouldn't think God cares much for symbols/idols either way when the lives of people are more clearly at stake. I would also think, if God were in the habit of intervening with small symbolic gestures it would be more frequently done to remove ones where the people behind the church are corrupt or blasphemous.

11/2/2005 11:05:17 AM

Natural selection?

And by the way, it has nothing to do with being baptist.

I love media.

11/2/2005 12:52:30 PM

what does the media have to do with anything other than reporting that the guy was indeed the pastor at University Baptist Church.

11/2/2005 1:53:23 PM

The news loves poignant stories. Plenty of people are electrocuted every year but the circumstances around this make people go "Heh, go figure."

11/2/2005 1:59:32 PM

science triumphs over religion

11/3/2005 10:09:59 AM

God triumphs over religion.

11/3/2005 11:16:00 AM

see, if the preacher had spent more time looking at the world from a scientific perspective than from a religious one, he would have known not to stand in a pool of water and handle an electrical device.

11/3/2005 11:32:56 AM

I recently went to a Baptist church while I was home on leave with my wife's side of the family; I will say I was raised Catholic and while I do not go to mass every sunday,, the feeling I was left with regarding the difference between a Baptist service and a Catholic mass was that if I wanted to go to a rock concert, I'd pay the 40 bucks and go, instead of hearing howling and electric instuments and catch the occasional "Jesus loves me" lyrics.

11/3/2005 8:05:14 PM

yeah, i don't like the "contemporary" Christian services. they just kinda reek of lame and gay to me.

11/3/2005 8:07:37 PM

The whole arm waiving business is incredibly awkward.

Oh, and the public displays of faith one-upsmanship at my girlfriend's parents' Pentacostal church is intensely embarrassing to be around.

11/3/2005 8:10:53 PM

I THOUGHT IT WAS THE TRASH

11/3/2005 8:32:44 PM

^^yeah, i don't like that shit at all

11/3/2005 8:39:38 PM

I used to feel that way, but then I became more embaraced from the way I felt about it.

11/3/2005 8:44:32 PM