dulios says: "Thus, white evangelical Ministers are free to advocate American wars based on Biblical mandates, rant hatefully against Islam, and argue that natural disasters occur because God hates gay people...By contrast, black Muslim ministers like Farrakhan, or even black Christian ministers like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are held with deep suspicion, even contempt. McCain is free to hug and praise the Rev. Hagees of the world, but Obama is required to prove over and over and over and over that he does not share the more extreme views of black Ministers." I have been a white, evangelical pastor for 21 years, and I have never met someone with Hagee's nutjob views. Go get him, I do! But please don't suggest that I'm on his side, or that he is in any way typical of evangelicals. Young evangelicals, responding to recent exit polls, overwhelmingly say their number 1 voting issue is poverty. Hagee is a dying breed. The "Christian" right is nearly a third smaller than it was eight years ago. Never meant to suggest you were on his side, Masbury. My parents have been white evangelicals for over 20 years as well. I think the functional word in my title is "radical". As you note, the Christian right does seem to be changing. I just mentioned to a friend the other day that the latest incarnation of televangelist (Rick Warren, Joel Osteen) have dropped the dogma and hellfire. Even my parents have left a dogmatic fundamentalist church for a more laid-back church home. And my mom voted, for the first time ever, for a Democrat when she voted for Obama in her state primary. Again, I never meant to suggest that all evangelicals are wingnuts. So we have the magic number 19 - which means the number of Jews who will kill Christian children and bake their blood in the bread that they eat at Passover. you can honestly support Farrakan and his complete anti-Semitic rants as above? Your hypocrisy is showing. you can honestly support Farrakan and his complete anti-Semitic rants as above?WTF? |
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