Culture Pastor Resigns After Calling a Spade a Spade - Palo Alto: "an elitist sh** den of hate,"

Palo Alto pastor resigns after nasty tweets about city: 'An elitist sh-- den of hate'

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A debate in Palo Alto over permits, traffic, and safety turned into frenzy of internet warfare after unsavory tweets from an associate pastor were leaked to the city's website.

The recovered tweets were posted on a public document addressing the city's latest council hearing, in which the city and the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto sparred over permission to lease the church to outside tenants as a community center.

On his public Twitter account, which has since been removed, the Rev. Gregory Stevens called the city "an elitist sh** den of hate," and "disgusting." Stevens also lambasted the city's "social justice" on Earth Day, calling it a "f****** joke" and criticized the church's elderly community.

n Stevens' 623-word statement, he elaborated on his frustration with what he perceived as a lack of action to address the city's wealth inequalities.

"In my experience of trying to work with this community for almost 3 years, I believe Palo Alto is a ghetto of wealth, power, and elitist liberalism by proxy, meaning that many community members claim to want to fight for social justice issues, but that desire doesn't translate into action," Stevens said. "If the same energies used to organize neighbors around minor parking issues, a young girls choirs, and 'nasty tweets' were honed to fight actual injustices, Palo Alto would be a very different city. Palo Alto needs more action, less lip service."

Meanwhile, Stevens will be moving to San Francisco once his lease in Palo Alto is over. Among his tweets that detailed how much he hated living in Palo Alto, his distaste for Beyonce, and startlingly graphic bathroom banter, Stevens had also asked his Twitter followers for help finding a new job.

"I can't figure out how to grow a church," Stevens wrote on March 20. "I can't even get 3 people around a table of free food to talk about compost as a metaphor for social/personal change. #bye."

lol let's get tax exempt status as a religion and invite this guy over,

 

[Piss Clam]

"I can't figure out how to grow a church," Stevens wrote on March 20. "I can't even get 3 people around a table of free food to talk about compost as a metaphor for social/personal change. #bye."

That usually indicates that you are the asshole.

 

[CWCchange]

^Hard to be an asshole when you're giving away free food.

 

[tehpope]

Where's that Travolta Gif from Pulp Fiction when ya need it?

 

[Lysol]

That usually indicates that you are the asshole.

It depends, if what he's saying is true then it might just be that he's surrounded by assholes. There's always exceptions to the rule, and he does live in California, so there might not exactly be the kind of people who'd join a congregation where he's at if they're the type of people he's claiming they are.

 

[sperginity]

^Hard to be an asshole when you're giving away free food.

George Orwell wrote a book about being homeless in London. One of the daily irritations was having to listen to people preach to you while they gave you one shitty slice of bread and a tiny bit of margarine to eat. All the churches had the same system and there were few other ways to eat. They tried to get everyone to pray together and.. Ugh. The food isn't exactly free when you pay for it in dignity.


Anyway, this guy is exceptional for thinking San Francisco is going to be better

 

[Piss Clam]

It depends, if what he's saying is true then it might just be that he's surrounded by assholes. There's always exceptions to the rule, and he does live in California, so there might not exactly be the kind of people who'd join a congregation where he's at if they're the type of people he's claiming they are.

The way I read the article sounds like he is the same elitist shit bag that he is complaining about.

My Twitter community has always been a small group of progressive ministers and Leftist political activists to whom my rants were geared," he said.

Stevens had also asked his Twitter followers for help finding a new job.

George Orwell wrote a book about being homeless in London. One of the daily irritations was having to listen to people preach to you while they gave you one shitty slice of bread and a tiny bit of margarine to eat. All the churches had the same system and there were few other ways to eat. They tried to get everyone to pray together and.. Ugh. The food isn't exactly free when you pay for it in dignity.

It's called Down and Out in Paris and London and it is a good read.

https://web.archive.org/web/2012101...l.org/Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_London/0.html

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100171.txt

 

[RadicalCentrist]

Took me the longest time to figure out what sh**den fucking was. Who calls places a shit den?

 

[Lysol]

My Twitter community has always been a small group of progressive ministers and Leftist political activists to whom my rants were geared," he said.

Well there's the problem right there as to why he couldn't get a congregation @Piss Clam , he was trying to be a progressive preacher. That's right up there with grounded aviation and deep-sea astronomy in terms of success.

Also, it's still conceivable that he is both an asshole and surrounded by assholes.

 

[Shugo]

food isn't exactly free when you pay for it in dignity.

You already don't have "dignity" when you're taking free food from strangers. Spending the time to put the food in your mouth and swallow at least listening to the person who fed you is the least courtesy you could do.

I mean sure, it's upsetting that people aren't grateful for free food, but maybe his sermon isn't so convincing if no one will listen to it in exchange for food? Maybe he could adapt his message to reach the people and spread the gospel? Instead he's whining that people won't talk to him. He might just not be cut out for the Pastor job, especially when this is how he reacts to feeding the poor.

 

[IV 445]

Pastor Padré has my respect. He should go north to California and do some good for those cities there.

 

[cypocryphy]

I definitely agree with him that Beyonce sucks.

 

[AnOminous]

I definitely agree with him that Beyonce sucks.

He's like the anti-Kevin Allred.

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

That usually indicates that you are the asshole.

That, or maybe it indicates that he's in the Bay Area of California, where decades of being godless sodomites has kinda stripped the church out of the scene in favor of gay bondage clubs and Paleo restaurants/juice bars.
No shit he can't get a church going there.

 

[Hux]

Took me the longest time to figure out what sh**den fucking was. Who calls places a shit den?

What's funnier is that he'll be going to San Francisco which is now a literal shit den as opposed to a figurative shit den like Palo Alto and the rest of fucking California

 

[CWCchange]

George Orwell wrote a book about being homeless in London. One of the daily irritations was having to listen to people preach to you while they gave you one shitty slice of bread and a tiny bit of margarine to eat. All the churches had the same system and there were few other ways to eat. They tried to get everyone to pray together and.. Ugh. The food isn't exactly free when you pay for it in dignity.


Anyway, this guy is exceptional for thinking San Francisco is going to be better

I have to listen to and see worse from other customers at restaurants, and pay for my food.

But, good God no... No homeless is going to want free food and listen to a sermon unless sacramental wine is in the form of an entire bottle of Thunderbird and comes with a fix of heroine.

 

[Positron]

That usually indicates that you are the asshole.

If you read the document, you'll see he is indeed an asshole (or at the very least a very petty, easily annoyed person).

 

[Billy_Sama]

You know the West Coast is fucked when a religious man starts to fail to spread and live in the way of God due to his shitty surroundings.

 

[TowinKarz]

Asshole fails to build productive congregation out of smaller assholes around him, ragequits, fucks off to San Fran to be even bigger asshole, film at 11.

 

[Club Sandwich]

having had to work in Palo Alto for some time (and lived on the peninsula), Palo Alto is a shithole of a special sort, the sort of smug elitism that infects the children of wealthy parents who are off in college by themselves for the first time. and on top of that, you have a lot of younger types that believe wholeheartedly into the Californian progressive ideal. they're just too poor to live in Alamo or Pacifica.