Pastor Accused of Raping Women Under Guise of Scriptural Teaching
“A Fort Worth pastor accused of paddling and raping women under the guise of scriptural teaching has been suspended by the national body of the Church of God in Christ.
The suspension comes more than three months after a Fort Worth woman sued the Rev. Sherman C. Gee Allen of the Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ, contending that he repeatedly beat her with a paddle from 2001 to 2005 and forced her to have sex with him.
Since then, eight more women have come forward with similar stories, according to the woman’s lawyers.”
From Dallas News >
What is even more disturbing than beating and raping women is using your supposedly sacred authority as leverage. Sickening. People innocently trust “men of God” almost by default. To take advantage of that to do harm to someone is corrupt in the worst kind of way. These women will be haunted by the memories of this abuse for the rest of their lives and may never be quite the same again. It’s too bad that there isn’t a hell for this fellow to burn in.
There is another issue relevant to this story and that is the “if you don’t get your morals from religion, where are you going to get them?” argument that religious people like to use. If we absorb our morals from religion, how did this turd rise to the prestigous position of “pastor” without any of it sinking in? How did he preach it every Sunday, quoting his Bible with the vim and vigor that only a preacher can muster when reading such trash, and still commit such atrocities?
Thank you to reader Kriscinda for sending this story in. I decided to create a new “abuse of power” category just for this type story which is dissappointingly common.
Category: Abuse of Power, Violence
May 17th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
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