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Missouri Pastor Calls Autism “Demonic” – Where He Went Wrong

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Pastor Rick Morrow of Beulah Church in Richland, Missouri. | Screengrab: YouTube/Beulah Church

First of all, and hopefully I’ve said this before in the years this blog has existed. I’m not a theologian and I never will be. I’ve never been to seminary. I’m not a certified, official Bible teacher. I’m just a guy who has studied, mostly on his own, for a number of years (decades) and have come up with a few ideas. Most of those ideas actually belong to other people and sources. Take all of that into account when reading the following.

Oh good grief.

Periodically, a story will be posted in news or social media making Christians look particularly evil and/or stupid. This time, I found the story in The Christian Post so it’s not like I can accuse them of anti-Christian bias.

The article is titled Missouri pastor who called autism a ‘demon’ resigns from school board after backlash. The “Pastor” in question is named Rick Morrow and his church is Beulah Church in Richland Missouri.

That link used to go to their Facebook page which has been taken offline. They have no twitter account or website that I can find, which in their case, is probably a good idea. I’m sure they’re taking a lot of heat just now.

The article opens with:

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