r/ProRevenge - I EXPOSED this Pastors SECRET Life...

what's up guys welcome to daily dose of reddit this is your host zach and today we have one story from r slash pro revenge because it is a super duper duper super duper long one not quite that long but almost that long alright this story's called newly hired youth minister got me kicked out of church for no reason i found out he had been screwing a deacon's wife and i helped the deacon ruin his life about six to seven years ago i was a ministerial student at a baptist college i had attended the same baptist church since i was a small child it was large about 1 000 members but not a mega church this church had been an enormous part of my life for as long as i could remember i played piano for the youth choir preached at the children's church service which was held in the church's chapel at the same time as the adult service drove the church bus to pick up unchurched children etc and ad infinitum i did all of this for free not even getting reimbursed for expenses during my senior year in college we got a new minister of music education and youth this guy was as charming as an ice cream sundae with razor blades in it i'll call him mr charming all of the deacons and their wives thought he walked on water he was an authoritarian butthole in his first meeting with the church youth group he announced that he had been hired to straighten out the youth group one of his favorite sayings was when i tell my disciples to jump the only questions they get to ask are how high and how far the adults loved him and the youth hated him within a few weeks half of the high school and college students i.e all of those without parents in the church had quit coming to church most youth directors would have gotten into trouble over this but he had the audacity to proclaim in front of the entire congregation in the sunday morning worship service that he had eliminated all of the thorny ground from the youth group a reference to the parable of the sour in the bible and the pastor and all of the deacons loved him for it he didn't waste any time going after what he really wanted the pastor's job the pastor whom i'll call pastor t was about 60 years old within a few weeks of mr charming's arrival rumors started circulating about pastor t's health he was an avid runner and cyclist and that he just didn't seem to be as mentally sharp as he used to be he frequently quoted long bible passages from the pulpit entirely from memory without misstating a single word sometimes in greek or hebrew worst of all however was the accusation that he was really too liberal for the church any baptist will tell you that it is the kiss of death to even be suspected of being a liberal none of these accusations made any sense but people kept talking about them i have no idea why the pastor didn't find out or maybe he did find out and was just too scared to do anything about it this was a baptist church in some denominations like catholic or methodist the denomination assigns pastors and priests not baptists each church calls the minister this guarantees that every pastor always walks a razor's edge the slightest slip and you're out you don't even have to slip maybe you even do the right thing and it still offends enough people it doesn't take many just a handful if they hate you enough then you're out or maybe like pastor t some creep just lies about you and gets your job also the church often owns your house the parsonage or men's your entire family is suddenly homeless and destitute then i became a target i still don't know why a couple of months after starting to work for my church mr charming called me and informed me that my services were no longer needed at youth choir children's church bus ministry anywhere in fact he said he did not even want me to participate in any of these functions at all not even go to the sunday morning worship service i later found out that members of his family had been hired by the church at very nice rates of pay to perform these functions that i'd been doing for free his wife got paid more for playing a beat up piano at the one hour youth choir rehearsal then the main organist and penis got paid for playing adult choir rehearsal plus sunday mornings and sunday evenings when the youth choir sang the wife could barely pick out the notes on a piano this lady radiated bitterness resentment and repressed anger but she rarely said anything she just sat there and glared which was somehow even creepier than when she spoke i was very hurt emotionally so i dropped by pastor t's office and tearfully asked him what i'd done wrong i couldn't get a straight answer except he told me that people are saying things about me and that if i wanted to get a good recommendation from him to our denomination's baptist minister school i'd better shut up and do what you're told so i started asking all of my church friends what people were saying about me everyone everyone said well i didn't want to tell you and i don't believe it but here's what i heard according to the rumor mill i had gotten my girlfriend pregnant and forced her to have a get out of baby card i didn't even have a girlfriend since junior high and i'd been arrested for possession of marijuana and my dad had to pay a bunch of money to hush it up i didn't even know what pot looked like there were other rumors but you get the idea i did what pastor t told me to i never darkened the door of that church again except once months later see below it hurt like hell nice i devoted my life to that church since i was a little kid but i had to have pastor t's recommendation to get into the minister school i wanted to go to and the pain was unbearable just driving by there so i had to keep my distance but i started thinking about mr charming anyone who was that evil had to have a past and it probably wasn't a good one i knew that just before working for my church he had worked at a large baptist church in a small town about 50 miles away that church was actually about twice the size of my church so he had moved from a big church to the same job at a smaller church a bad career move running away from something ah there was something rotten in denmark and it smelled like an opportunity for me as luck would have it one of my uncles and his family lived in that same small town although none of my family attended mr charming's former church so i called one of my cousins told her my story and enlisted her as a co-conspirator i'll call her anne the next sunday morning ann and i attended sunday school and morning worship at mr charming's old church although anne had never been a member of that church it was a small town where everyone knew everyone so she knew most of the people there she started asking about mr charming and she got an earful every one of her friends said that mr charming was a world-class creep he would flirt with and even make suggestive comments to all of the girls in the youth group even those in junior high he was 40 plus years old and had a wife and three children of his own and then there was the touching never anything obvious or illegal but he loved to put his hands all over the young ladies whenever their parents weren't around but just like at my former church the adults loved him because he kept the youth in line our investigation went on for several weeks after church was over we would go to her house have a delicious sunday lunch cooked by my aunt and then write down everything we had learned by then anne's whole family were in on my investigation they were as angry as i was about the way i'd been treated and our weekly report made interesting lunchtime conversation within a few weeks i was sure that all i had to do was drive a few of these young ladies and their parents friends of my aunt and uncle down to my old church let them tell their stories to the parents of a few girls in the youth group and mr charming would become mr unemployed but it kept getting better and better so i kept digging and i really wanted to keep a low profile if i could because i didn't want to piss off pastor t any more than i had to he knew a lot of people in the denomination and he could easily ruin my ministerial career before it even started finally after a month or so ann grabbed me by the sleeve and said you've got to hear this she introduced me to a well-dressed very large guy maybe 30 to 35 years old i'll call him fred we slipped off into a sunday school room where we would not be overheard it turned out that mr charming had a multi-year affair with fred's wife fred had kept his cool when he found out talked with a lawyer and had spent months gathering evidence text messages voicemails emails even photos and videos with fred's wife and mr charming in them apparently mr charming got stimulated by watching videos of himself doing the wild thing with fred's wife then mr charming would send the videos to fred's wife and they would both have cyber sex while texting each other later later they would hook up the old-fashioned way and make more videos finally fred confronted his wife she denied everything but the evidence was just too much fred told her he wanted a divorce full custody of the children their house his retirement money his business her engagement and wedding rings everything even the dog she hired a lawyer but laws and courts being what they are in this rural alabama county her lawyer told her that if the judge saw the videos she'd be lucky if she ended up in a homeless shelter with all of her worldly possessions under her bunk in a garbage sack then fred turned his attention to mr charming fred still sincerely loved his wife and he was convinced that mr charming had deliberately ruined his marriage taking mr charming to court suing him for loss of consortium and otherwise making him legally miserable would take too long this is alabama many alabamians right alabamians alabamians prefer a more direct approach in rural counties the police and jury of your peers will probably include people who have known you since kindergarten so if you have a good reason for your actions and you aren't too stupid about it there are things that you can do fred scheduled an appointment with mr charming in his church office who did not suspect a thing because fred was a deacon and his children were in the church youth group remember that i said fred was big six foot six inches at least 300 pounds and if there was an inch of fat on him he hid it well looked like he could pull up a 100 foot oak tree by the roots without breaking a sweat fred told me that he brought several friends with him and of course the videos one friend blocked the door another unplugged the phone a third one stood behind mr charming and encouraged him to stay seated in his chair fred made mr charming watch about 10 minutes of one of the videos then calmly said i'm gonna stand here and watch you pack up your stuff then you're gonna walk out of this building and never show your freaking ass in this town again or we'll be back mr charming did as he was told a month later he had a new job at another church my old church and started ruining another whole set of lives including mine fred actually did not know where mr charming had gone he assumed that he had moved out of state he was surprised and gratified to learn that this scumbag was only 50 miles away this had all happened just a few months before fred was still deeply in love with his wife they were getting counseling and he hoped that they could save his marriage but his hatred of mr charming was still fulminating like mount saint helens a few minutes before the explosion he presented such a face of restrained rage and vindictiveness that it scared me and i wasn't even the one he was mad at the next day monday i drove back up there and gave him a copy of the directory of my old church it had home addresses phone numbers and email addresses for pretty much every member of the church i showed him the pages that listed all of the deacons and other church leaders and i marked some of the church's major financial donors i explained my situation with pastor t and asked that my name not be mentioned no problem he said the next sunday i could not resist visiting my old church to see how things were going mr charming was nowhere to be seen nor was any explanation given about what had happened to him one weird thing though the pastor looked scared crapless his voice usually resonant loud and almost musically baritone trembled the whole sermon i slipped in just before the service started and made a point of sitting in the very front row center pew the look on his face when he saw me was worth all my trouble i didn't know it at the time but fred had gotten right to work and done a very thorough job the whole church had gotten multiple anonymous emails with photos and videos of mr charming and fred's wife in various well compromising positions and states of undress deacons and major donors got emails plus express mail packages just for good measure mr charming and pastor t had been left out they didn't know anything until the phone call started pouring in after the worship service it did not take long for my church friends to figure out why i was there it was very gratifying i was something of a hero although i kept swearing that i had no idea what they were talking about things continued to blow up in my former church for months afterwards both pastor t and the pastor of mr charming's old church almost lost their jobs because they had lied to my old church's committee of deacons who had recommended hiring mr charming about why mr charming had left his old job but somehow they managed to stay in the pulpits at their churches although a lot of church members left my former church which caused some financial problems there was talk of legal action for sending unsolicited video of the adult variety to little old ladies and other people in the church but nobody ever was able to prove that fred did it i don't think they tried very hard after all his wife was in the videos and photos both churches really really did not want this to become a court case because of mr charming's trysts and the fact that he had spent years screwing a deacon's wife while he had unlimited unsupervised access to dozens of church youth would then become a matter of public record so they hushed it up i never saw pastor t again i had lost all of the trust and respect that i'd had for him and i was sure that he had figured out that i was somehow connected to the whole fiasco so my chances of having a baptist preaching career were precisely zero by that time being a pastor like pastor t was the last thing i wanted anyway i withdrew my application to the baptist minister school and eventually completed a doctorate in archaeology at a different grad school magna [ __ ] laude i've been teaching at a large public university in the midwest of the usa with summer gigs on archaeological digs in europe and i am very happy one last very gratifying event the reason for this post all that happened six to seven years ago fast forward to last march i went to pick up a friend at a large downtown urban bus station in the us everyone hates this place not only is it crowded it is poorly maintained and filthy it smells like spoiled garbage mixed with diesel exhaust and seldom cleaned public restrooms my friend's bus was late i stopped by the newsstand to get myself a soda and a candy bar who do you think was restocking the shelves mr charming i just sat across from the newsstand and enjoyed my drink and snack he recognized me then turned away i just sat and watched him restocking the shelves full of adult variety mags and junk food revenge is a feast that is best enjoyed cold okay that must have been incredibly satisfying due to the skies very nasty disgusting past um it's amazing what people will let church leaders get away with in some cases wow anyway at least it seems he got some of what's coming to him in 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Published: Sat Nov 13 2021