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Meet a pastor praying for Obama's death

Is that biblical?

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Posted by nmclaughlin on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 2:47 pm

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Andrew Brod

September 2, 2009 - 9:33 pm EDT

I don't know if it's Biblical, but it certainly violates the WWJD principle.

Get A Clue

September 3, 2009 - 9:33 am EDT

That you even have to ask; that there is no loud hue and cry from Christians the nation over regarding a Christian minister using his pulpit to call for such an atrocity tells me all I need to know about the organized religion called Christianity. As if the past 2,000 years of atrocities visited upon the poor, women and children in the name of Jesus the Christ haven't been proof enough.

kuranes

September 7, 2009 - 6:53 pm EDT

Your attitude seems a little one-sided, Clue. Christians have also done a lot of good in the world because of their religion. If you forget that, you run the risk of turning into the same sort of narrow, angry bigot you despise, and will do your cause no favors. Things as complex as major religions are rarely so easy to judge or categorize. I know personally Christians who went to Indonesia at their own expense after the tsunami to help people rebuild. Anybody from your side do that?

Get A Clue

September 8, 2009 - 7:41 am EDT

So you know a few Christians who spent their own money to make the world a better place (as they should) and that excuses 2 millennia of hate crimes against humanity? Please explain your logic. Thanks.

nemo0037

September 3, 2009 - 12:33 pm EDT

Looks like Fred Phelps has some competition in the "religious insanity" department. Just what we need. I know many Christian leaders who would condemn this creep in private conversation, and probably even within the walls of their churches. But in a public forum? Probably not. Because religious nut cases like this fellow and Phelps are natural bullies, and bullies find ways to hurt those who try to stand up to them.

So until these creeps present a general threat to the Christian community at large, they will be ignored for the most part, is my guess.

Get A Clue

September 3, 2009 - 5:33 pm EDT

Refusing to stand up to bullies has destroyed what little credibility Christianity had left. It's always been my experience that bullies are only effective so long as decent people refuse to stand up to them.

Gymnaseum

September 5, 2009 - 10:03 am EDT

So, we should never stand up to bullies, until they threaten some larger cause, nemo? You are right Clue. Nip them in the bud.

nemo0037

September 6, 2009 - 11:05 am EDT

I wasn't giving advice on how to respond to religious bullies. I was merely giving my view of what will happen. In the case of Christian bullies, people tend to hold back because "men of the cloth" are given more deference than any other group. It's a bad idea to let them speak unopposed, but most people will anyway.