Pastor James McConnell fights back against after recently being charged for speaking out against Islam. WATCH!
The three-day trial has concluded for an evangelical pastor in Northern Ireland who is under fire after delivering a 2014 sermon during which he called Islam “satanic” and “spawned in hell,” with the presiding judge reserving his verdict until after Christmas.
As Written By Billy Hallowell for The Blaze:
Pastor James McConnell, 78, found himself in legal trouble for uttering “grossly offensive” words in the sermon, which streamed on the Internet, though he has vocally fought back against the charges that were brought against him, defending himself on the stand this week.
McConnell, who previously preached at Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in Belfast, Northern Ireland, before retiring, made his comments — which included calling Islam “heathen” — in a sermon delivered at the church in May 2014, the BBC reported.
“The Muslim religion was created many hundreds of years after Christ. Muhammad, the Islam Prophet, was born around the year A.D. 570, but Muslims believe that Islam is the true religion,” he preached. “Now, people say there are good Muslims in Britain. That may be so, but ….