It’s a wonderful thing to be a Nobody!
Nobodies only have to please one God,
But have to have God’s Endorsement!
Glad I Am a Pastor – Not a Politician!
Happy I Don’t Endorse John McCain!
Happier I Don’t Endorse HR Clinton!
Happiest I Don’t Endorse BH Obama!
Jumping with Joy They don’t Want it!
May 24, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I fear if any one of the three candidates is elected, we will see an effort made to limit the preaching of any criticism of any other religious belief, and it may eventually fall into the category of being a “hate crime.” As Senator McCain states in the article which follows: “I believe there is no place for that kind of dialogue in America.”
I doubt if Senator McCain would have wanted the endorsement of Paul or Jude.
I am a Baptist Preacher first and a scientist second, and I don’t have any difficulty reconciling the two. I expect to have my beliefs about the doctrines of the church I pastor severely criticized, ridiculed, and at times grievously insulted. But I agree with the ages old quote: “that which cannot be examined is not worth having.” I have learned more from those who criticize my beliefs than from those who agree with them. Please consider what Jesus said his teachings were about to do to the world.
Matthew 10:34-36 – Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
[35] For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. [36] And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
Countless numbers of Ana-Baptists were slaughtered by the Catholic Church from the fourth Century through the Protestant Reformation, and later by some of the Protestant Reformation Churches well into the eighteenth Century.
Do you know any religions that teach what Paul mentions as a last day phenomena?
I Timothy 4:1-3 – Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Jude 3,4 – Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. [4] For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
II Timothy 4:1-4 – I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; [2] Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. [3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; [4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Every time we issue a Blog like this our number of hits from all over the earth diminishes. The last two weeks it has averaged 150 hits per day from all over creation, with a high of 200, and it is forwarded by many to others not on our e-mail notification list. I would not be too surprised to see it drop below 100 a day after I issue this Blog. So, at this time, if you haven’t already figured out what I am politically, please let me now inform you. I am Bible believing Missionary Baptist Pas tor, who is Pro-Life
to the Core, a true converted Yellow-Dog Democrat from the days of Harry Truman, but as a Yellow-Dog Conservative I voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower, and then was crazy enough to vote for Jimmy Carter because I thought he was a conservative Baptist Sunday School teacher. I have been a strong conservative Republican every since. I’m no moderate, but would vote for one if it was the only port in a storm. I am strongly opposed to illegal immigration, gay marriages, abortion, and any type of religious belief that denies Jesus as the Son of the living God. I have no plans to kill or mistreat any illegal immigrants, gays, atheists, Muslims, agnostics, Christian haters, or anyone who does not like who I am or my belief. I just want to live in a country where they, along with me, can have freedom of speech and opinion in the midst of separation of Church and State.
This year, for me, it is currently like voting for a Bride of Frankenstein, or Count Dracula, or the Wolf Man.
I plan to vote for the Wolf Man because he is a bad guy only during a full moon, when he completely blows his cool, and I am somewhat like that myself.
I remember when I was a part of the silent majority, which turned into the vocal minority during the Clinton Administration and, I fear, in the next administration, will become the silenced minority, and eventually the persecuted minority. The future does look bleak for conservative Christians, but lefties will blend right in with the politicians, and the moderates will attempt to serve God and Mammon.
I guess I’d rather vote for someone who is trying to serve God and Mammon, rather than two who just
serve Mammon.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
McCain snubs 2 evangelists’ support
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
May 23, 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday rejected endorsements from two influential but controversial televangelists, saying there is no place for their incendiary criticisms of other faiths.
McCain rejected the months-old endorsement of Texas preacher John Hagee after an audio recording surfaced in which the preacher said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land. McCain called the comment “crazy and unacceptable.”
He later repudiated the support of Rod Parsley, an Ohio preacher who has sharply criticized Islam and called the religion inherently violent.
McCain issued a statement Thursday afternoon announcing his decision about Hagee.
Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive
and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee’s endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well,” he said.
Later, in Stockton, he told reporters: “I just think that the statement is crazy and unacceptable.”
Then in an interview with The Associated Press, McCain said he rejected Parsley’s support, too.
“I believe there is no place for that kind of dialogue in America, and I believe that even though he endorsed me, and I didn’t endorse him, the fact is that I repudiate such talk, and I reject his endorsement,” McCain told the AP.
Hagee had sparked controversy since the San Antonio pastor endorsed McCain on Feb. 27 shortly before the Texas presidential primary.
Parsley’s views were aired Thursday in an ABC News report.
McCain actively courted Hagee, who leads a megachurch with a congregation in the tens of thousands and has an even wider television audience. Former Republican presidential rivals also sought Hagee’s backing.
Hagee has referred to the Roman Catholic Church as “the great whore” and called it a “false cult system.” He also has linked Hitler to the Catholic church, suggesting it helped shape his anti-Semitism. And Hagee said Hurricane Katrina was God’s retribution for homosexual sin.
McCain has faced a barrage of criticism over Hagee, with some comparing the situation to the controversy Democrat Barack Obama faced over the views of his longtime and now former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
McCain tried Thursday to draw a distinction between the Obama-Wright connection and his own relationships with Parsley and Hagee, saying Hagee was not his pastor.
“My church I attend is North Phoenix Baptist Church; my pastor and spiritual guide is Pastor Dan Yeary,” McCain said. “I’ve never been to Pastor Hagee’s church or Pastor Parsley’s church. I didn’t attend their church for 20 years.
I’m not a member of their church.”
Parsley did not return a message for comment left after business hours at World Harvest Church in suburban Columbus.
Obama, who was campaigning in Florida, said that in national politics it’s easy to find people who have said or done offensive things.
“John McCain has to deal with Hagee, who said something that is mind-boggling. I don’t attribute those statements to John McCain.
Nobody thinks McCain believes that stuff,” Obama said. “And for McCain to then suggest that every single statement that was made by somebody is somehow attributable to me is just wrong.
It is just not accurate.”
Until now, McCain had tried to distance himself from Hagee’s views but had not rejected the endorsement.
“I’m glad to have his endorsement,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” in April. “I condemn remarks that are, in any way, viewed as anti-anything.”
The Arizona senator has said he sought Hagee’s support because the pastor, like himself, is a strong supporter of Israel.
The formation of Israel was at the heart of the remarks that prompted McCain to reject Hagee’s support. The comments came in a sermon Hagee gave in the late 1990s, an audio recording of which was posted last week on the liberal blog Talk to Action and reported by The Huffington Post, another liberal blog.
In the sermon, Hagee said, “Then God sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun, and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter.
… How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, ‘My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”‘
Hagee tried to repair the damage by apologizing to Catholics in a letter released just last week. Saying he had emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholic and Protestant relationships with Jews, Hagee wrote, “I want to express my deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful.”
On Thursday, Hagee issued a new statement saying he was weary of the controversy and was withdrawing his endorsement.
Hagee said critics are “grossly misrepresenting my position on issues most near and dear to my heart.”
“I am tired of these baseless attacks and fear that they have become a distraction in what should be a national debate about important issues,” Hagee said. “I have therefore decided to withdraw my endorsement of Senator McCain for president effective today, and to remove myself from any active role in the 2008 campaign.”
The other pastor, Parsley, has described Islam as an “anti-Christ religion” and the Muslim prophet Muhammad as “the mouthpiece of a conspiracy of spiritual evil,” according to ABC News.
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