Posted on 09/01/2009 8:32:35 AM PDT by libh8er
Protestors have started voicing their opposition outside the congregation of a Phoenix-based pastor, who tells his parishioners that he prays for President Obama's death.
Phoenix-based Pastor Steven Anderson attracted widespread attention after he delivered a sermon titled, "Why I Hate Barack Obama," and encouraged his parishioners to join him in praying for the president's death.
"I hope that God strikes Barack Obama with brain cancer so he can die like Ted Kennedy and I hope it happens today," Fox News quoted him, as saying.
He called his message "spiritual warfare" and said he does not condone killing.
However, some protesters gathered around his church on Sunday, calling Anderson's words "incomprehensible."
According to the report, Anderson has also received some death threats. Anderson's provocative message stems from Obama's abortion-rights stance.
In his controversial sermon, delivered at his Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe before Obama arrived for a speech in Phoenix earlier in the month, the pastor had said he wants the president to "melt like a snail" with salt on it.
"I'm gonna pray that he dies and goes to hell when I go to bed tonight. That's what I'm gonna pray," he told his congregation.
The last time fierce opposition to Obama's abortion position drew widespread attention was when Obama delivered the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, the report said.
The Anderson sermon was also in news after it was reported that one man carrying an assault rifle outside the Phoenix arena where Obama spoke was a member of Anderson's church, the report added. (ANI)
Is he a secret Muslim? They pray prayers like that.
Sounds as nutty as Fred Phelps.
Idiotic... Stupid... Classless... Sacrilegious...
Great example of Christianity at work. /SARC
Dang. I’m attending the wrong church.
I’m gonna pray for that pastor to find the love of God again. That’s hate, not Love. Christ is about love. You can disagree with BHO all day long, and despise his actions and his policies without wishing he would die and go to hell. Wow.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. —Matthew 5:44
No one with even a shred of common sense wants anything to happen to Millstone.
The whole country would be on fire.
Ditto
Wow. Nice. Just because you’re the exact opposite of the spectrum from Rev. Wright doesn’t make it OK.
I thought the best prayer I ever heard was someone who prayed “for the confusion of my adversaries”. Of course, in general I just pray for God’s will. That seems safe. ;)
This guy sounds like the fruitcake from Kansas who cheers the deaths of American military personnel and disrupts military funerals over gays.
I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that when GWB was POTUS, the democrats and liberals indicated dissent was patriotic, and that wishing for the death of the POTUS was just “free speech”....how the worm has turned...indeed.
Saw his picture he’s a youngish WASP!
No real Christian hates his enemies or wants them to go to Hell.
I always cringe when I see "Christians" who want others to got to hell more than God wants people to go to hell.
This is not right. He is president. Respect the office even if you dont the man or party.
I just Googled him and he is a LOT like Fred Phelps (I wouldn’t be surprised if he is a leftist like Phelps as well). He prays for violence against everyone such as homosexuals, ‘warmongers’, etc.
Not Christian in the least. (CINO- Christian in Name Only)
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