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the democrat messiah preaches his gospel
Published Jun. 24, 2008
A while back we had a long discussion about the Church taking political stands. I was in an extreme minority with the belief that a Churches right to express political beliefs flows from the First Amendment and they should not be threatened with loss of their tax exempt status just because they express a political stand on a religious issue.
This monring, I read this:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.
The criticism, to be aired Tuesday on Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program, comes shortly after an Obama aide suggested a meeting at the organization's headquarters here, said Tom Minnery, senior vice president for government and public policy at Focus on the Family.
The conservative Christian group provided The Associated Press with an advance copy of the pre-taped radio segment, which runs 18 minutes and highlights excerpts of a speech Obama gave in June 2006 to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal. Obama mentions Dobson in the speech.
"Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?" Obama said. "Would we go with James Dobson's or Al Sharpton's?" referring to the civil rights leader.
Dobson took aim at examples Obama cited in asking which Biblical passages should guide public policy — chapters like Leviticus, which Obama said suggests slavery is OK and eating shellfish is an abomination, or Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, "a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application."
"Folks haven't been reading their Bibles," Obama said.
Dobson and Minnery accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus' teachings in the New Testament.
"I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology," Dobson said.
"... He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."
So my question is this: If Churches are justifiably outraged by this drivel, should they lose their tax exempt status if they respond to it from the pulpit?
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Seriously, dude. Seek help. I don't know how you keep from vomiting with all that bile in your belly.
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June 24, 2008 4:02 p.m.
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June 24, 2008 3:38 p.m.
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June 24, 2008 3:03 p.m.
And where would I find your brilliant writing in the library? Writtenin bright green crayon and nestled in with "Winnie the Pooh" and "Arnold the Aardvark"?
BTW - your post is probably the most bigoted, hate-filled diatribe I have yet seen on GOLO. Cangratulations. You must be proud.
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June 24, 2008 2:45 p.m.
Which ones?
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June 24, 2008 2:00 p.m.
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June 24, 2008 1:41 p.m.
That's quite a statement from someone who obviously can't read themselves. Hey, brainiac - the word "Muslim" isn't even IN this story. It has NOTHING to do with it.
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June 24, 2008 1:00 p.m.
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