Amarillo Pastor and author David Ritchie was arrested for soliciting prostitution over the weekend in a sting operation involving the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Ritchie was arrested with seven other men.
Ritchie was the pastor of Redeemer Christian Church which is apart of the Redeemer Network, which specializes in church planting. Redeemer Christian is a nondenominational church whose faith confession is adopted from that of The Gospel Coalition and is part of a network of churches in the Texas region. He also chaired the Refugee Language Project which teaches English to so-called “displaced” peoples. Per ABC 7 News, Ritchie was placed on leave Monday by the elders following the arrest.
Most notable about Ritchie is that he authored Why Do the Nations Rage? The Demonic Origin of Nationalism which argues that nationalism is inherently demonic. Where many political scientists might lay nationalism as a Westphalian development, he argues that it goes back to the tower of Babel, which has typically been likened to an attempt at a one-world government rather than a nationalistic one.
Maybe the reason he opposes nationalism so much is because it stands to ruin his ability to mingle with prostitutes.
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Nationalism/kinism is a good and moral thing, because God wants us to love and care about our own kin, and our ethnicity and our race are our extended family, our kin.
All Christians should naturally be nationalists and kinists.
The Bible says that those who don’t provide for their own are worse than an unbeliever.
With regard to David Ritchie, it is satisfying to see another treasonous “pastor” get arrested.
He deserves to be charged with treason.
Someone should ask Ritchie: “is nationalism bad when the jews are doing it? Zionism is the jewish version of nationalism. Do you oppose zionism? Is zionism demonic?”
Just ask Ritchie that and watch him squirm.
Why does it seem like the vast majority of “Christian” leaders these days are traitors?
Presumably, they are all either being blackmailed/bribed, or they are committing treason because they are simply evil.
In either case, it is clear that the VAST majority of “Christian” leaders in America are treasonous scum.