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California Church Leaders Charged With Using Homeless People as Forced Labor

We Never Know

We Never Know

No Slack
So much for their morals. Christians, does this earn them a ticket to hell?

(EL CENTRO, Calif.) — A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry were arrested Tuesday on charges that they used homeless people as forced labor, holding them in locked group homes and forcing them to panhandle up to nine hours a day, six days a week, U.S. prosecutors said.

The former pastor of Imperial Valley Ministries, Victor Gonzalez, and the others were arrested in San Diego, El Centro near the Southern California border with Mexico and Brownsville, Texas. They face charges of conspiracy, forced labor, document servitude and benefits fraud.

California Church Leaders Charged With Forced Labor
 
BSM1

BSM1

What? Me worry?
We Never Know said:
So much for their morals. Christians, does this earn them a ticket to hell?

(EL CENTRO, Calif.) — A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry were arrested Tuesday on charges that they used homeless people as forced labor, holding them in locked group homes and forcing them to panhandle up to nine hours a day, six days a week, U.S. prosecutors said.

The former pastor of Imperial Valley Ministries, Victor Gonzalez, and the others were arrested in San Diego, El Centro near the Southern California border with Mexico and Brownsville, Texas. They face charges of conspiracy, forced labor, document servitude and benefits fraud.

California Church Leaders Charged With Forced Labor
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Yeah, but were they forced into self-flagellation?
 
Ouroboros

Ouroboros

Coincidentia oppositorum
My experience from when I was Christian is that most Christians are good people, however, because many assume that by calling yourself Christian, you're automatically considered a good person. That makes it a perfect place for con artists and manipulative people to get in and hide. We had a con artist in our church who had started to climb the ladder, until someone got information from Interpol that there was a warrant for his arrest out. I think he somehow got tipped off and fled, but I've seen several pastors, youth pastors, elders, etc, who were fired for embezzlement, cheating, and so on.
 
Nakosis

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
We Never Know said:
So much for their morals. Christians, does this earn them a ticket to hell?

(EL CENTRO, Calif.) — A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry were arrested Tuesday on charges that they used homeless people as forced labor, holding them in locked group homes and forcing them to panhandle up to nine hours a day, six days a week, U.S. prosecutors said.

The former pastor of Imperial Valley Ministries, Victor Gonzalez, and the others were arrested in San Diego, El Centro near the Southern California border with Mexico and Brownsville, Texas. They face charges of conspiracy, forced labor, document servitude and benefits fraud.

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Isn't that what the first missions in Calif did? Use the natives as forced labor?
https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1978/april/labor/
 
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Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I always suspected California Christianity might be pro Confederate. Who thought it would be a bunch of Mexicans with a church?

Makes me wonder what the taco version of Dixie sounds like?

 
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We Never Know said:
So much for their morals. Christians, does this earn them a ticket to hell?
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I am not the judge and not the one who can tell who goes to hell. But I know this:

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
Mat. 25:46

People who force people to work are probably not righteous.

Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Ex. 21:16
 
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