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Absolutely No Preaching Hate.
By Norm Seeley | March 18, 2008
Growing up in Denver, Colorado, in all the services I attended at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, I can not remember one that told me to hate the Jews.
Hate the Blacks.
Hate the Muslims.
It was always a message of Love. Jesus told us to love one another.
There was never one sermon about hate.
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KK and I have where members of Mesa First Assembly for a short time and the story was the same there, never one sermon about hating.
Again it was about Love.
Now as members of First, Desert Vista Church that has now evolved into E3, there has never been a sermon calling on us to hate any group of people.
Not one single sermon preaching hate.
There have been many sermons about sin. While hate is a sin, we have never been told by one of our pastors to hate.
This is why I have so much trouble with what is being said about Barack Obama’s pastor, and apparently now the Parent United Church of Christ, which is defending it as an attack on Pastor Wright. He apparently has called on his congregation to hate the white man, to hate Jews.
There is something fundamentally wrong with that. This could not have been an isolated incident, a single sermon out of thousands. Apparently this was the message he wanted his people to know. Not Love. Hate for the White man. Hate for the Jew.
If any one of our pastors, and there have been 3, started telling me weekly to hate this group or that group, I would get up and leave. Or I would ask them to step down.
Even if that is what I as an uneducated member of the church believed. I would hope and pray that our church leaders would show me the way to the truth. Hate is not the answer.
It also bothers me that Obama has until a couple of days ago, not said a thing.
Does Obama believe that the White Man is Evil?
Does Obama hate the Jews?
Does Obama believe that the White Man brought Aids on the black man?
That is down right scary. I know that he’s trying to distance himself from Pastor Wright, but maybe he should have done that 20 years ago.
As an American, I would be proud to vote for a qualified Man or Woman, regardless of race or creed, as President.
Obama is simply not qualified.
I don’t want a President who believes or associates with those who preach Hate of any group of people.
Topics: America | 4 Comments »
March 18th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Jeremiah Wright == Fred Phelps.
Different colors of the same flavor.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Can you imagine for a moment what a field day the press would have had if one of the many candidates had attended Phelps “church”. Or had Phelps as a spiritual mentor?
Obama seems to be able to con a few with his “silver tongue”, others who have been around see through it. But I for one don’t think he’ll get away from the truth.
He is not the one best suited to lead this country, not by a long shot.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Norm, I guess you don’t want McCain either:
McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio. The megachurch pastor has called upon Christians to wage a “war” against the “false religion” of Islam with the aim of destroying it.
McCain also accepted the endorsement from megachurch pastor John Hagee — who has called the Catholic Church “the Great Whore,” and accused it of inspiring Adolf Hitler to initiate the Holocaust.
Mike
Hackensack, NJ
March 19th, 2008 at 9:53 am
One can simply not get around the fact that Barack Obama is not qualified to be President of the United States.
In what I have heard reported and a quick search of the internet this morning, in the two cases that you mention Mike, McCain has not attended either church and they were endorsements only.
There is a major problem within the Islamic “Religion” and it has to be stopped. Simple as that. There are just too many World Leaders who are side stepping the issue.