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Pastor praying for Obama's death sparks protests
KOMO-TV ^ | 9/7/2009 | KOMO-TV

Posted on 09/08/2009 7:04:30 AM PDT by hoagy62

PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona pastor has triggered protests after preaching a sermon last month titled "Why I Hate Barack Obama."

Dozens of demonstrators gathered Sunday outside Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe to protest the message preached by the Rev. Steven Anderson.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: freespeech; oldtestament; pastor; protests
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To: hoagy62

I am unmatched in my contempt for the Obamaloon.

But, please, let us not pray for his death.

Rather, we all want to him to have a long life - so that he can suffer the pain and humiliation of being considered the worse, most incompetent president ever.


21 posted on 09/08/2009 7:25:00 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Blogger
He missed the part about loving your enemies as well.

That part comes right after your enemy is no longer a mortal threat.

22 posted on 09/08/2009 7:27:22 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: Vanders9
It also says love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

Also.

How do YOU reconcile David (A man after God's own heart) praying for the deaths of his and God's enemies with the admonition to love your enemies.

Is the God who destroyed the world by flood and who burned Sodom and Gomorrah and wiped out the Amelekites the same God you worship?

23 posted on 09/08/2009 7:32:03 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Da Coyote

If ever gleeful malice was appropriate, that’s exactly how I giggled when I read your quote. I for one want the Obozo to lead a long, healthy life - last thing we need is a marytyr.


24 posted on 09/08/2009 7:33:16 AM PDT by musicbymuzak
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To: hoagy62

25 posted on 09/08/2009 7:38:31 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (To meet decent people these days you have to create them.)
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To: P-Marlowe

>Is the God who destroyed the world by flood and who burned Sodom and Gomorrah and wiped out the Amelekites the same God you worship?

You do realize there is a new covenant, right? This is the problem with the great Satanic lie of Sola Scriptura: people cherry pick proof texts to say whatever they want, yanking them out of their proper context in salvation history.


26 posted on 09/08/2009 7:40:28 AM PDT by Sanjuro68
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

Bump!


27 posted on 09/08/2009 8:00:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: hoagy62
but he does pray that Obama will die for the good of the nation.

This Pastor has need to seek the face of YHvH
and repent of his sins of misleading his flock.

He clearly is not following the commandments of Yah'shua:

Mat 5:43 "You have heard that it was said,
'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
and hate your enemy.'

Mat 5:44 "But I say to you, love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you,

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
28 posted on 09/08/2009 8:05:12 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: hoagy62

Praying for his death is wrong; praying he truly finds Christ’s salvation and either resigns or sets out to right his wrongs is right.

Either should be followed with Thy will be done.


29 posted on 09/08/2009 8:10:20 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: hoagy62
His speech is protected by the 1st amendment just as Rev. Jeremiah Wrights hate speech was protected.Wright has been at it for 20 years, praying for the destructuion of America, with Obama as one of his prime congregation members.

Whats all the fuss. ( The Rev is right?)

Americans are preparing to resist Obama's national socialist movement, which is their right as a free people.

Send the protestors to Wrights church.

30 posted on 09/08/2009 8:11:50 AM PDT by Candor7
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To: hoagy62
Anderson told his congregation that he doesn't advocate taking up arms, but he does pray that Obama will die for the good of the nation

What - and turn him into a martyr?? If you think the Camelot myth was bad, just wait until the Obama myth gets rolling. It'll go on for decades.

I would never wish death upon him - prison, yes, but not death.
31 posted on 09/08/2009 8:17:51 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Welcome to the Revolution.)
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To: hoagy62
Kind of hard to say anything negative about this since Zero's Minions have wished death upon us all..Question Just when DO we STOP turning the other Cheek? We seem to crap on everyone that is on our side.
32 posted on 09/08/2009 8:19:12 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: hoagy62

He has as much right to ask God to do something anyone else.

BTW, I don’t remember anyone protesting Julianne Malveaux wishing death upon Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas.

Do you remember when she said: “You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person.”- PBS, Nov. 1994


33 posted on 09/08/2009 8:26:54 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: Cheetahcat

I read something by Eugene Robinson the other day denouncing “torture” and the participation of medical professionals in interrogation.

The thought that kept popping back in my mind throughout the whole opinion piece was the knowledge that, given the power to do so, leftists would GLADLY AND JOYFULLY use torture tactics on their ideological opponents,

and when they did, the torture wouldn’t be for information’s sake, it would be torture for torture’s sake - ie, punishment.


34 posted on 09/08/2009 8:30:07 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: P-Marlowe

First, our new covenant means Christians should be looking at the teachings of Christ for their rules of life.

Second, David did not write all the Psalms, but even if he did, 3000 year-old poetry sheould not be used to promote the assasination of the president of the United States.

Third, David was a deeply flawed man who committed many horrific acts, the most notorious being his rape of a woman and the subsequent sending her husband off to die in battle when the woman told David his rape had impregnated her. Calling David “a man after God’s own heart” simply repeats the political propaganda of David’s time.

So, go read your Bible (all of it, not just the parts you like) and talk with your clergyman (if you have one) about your confusion, providing his name isn’t Anderson.


35 posted on 09/08/2009 8:31:49 AM PDT by JBL55
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To: Sanjuro68

Exactly......we don’t need another Phelps. I do not wish death upon a president. I lived through one and will never forget it........just pray he’s a one-termer and lives to see the total downfall of the leftists traitors in this country.


36 posted on 09/08/2009 8:38:20 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: P-Marlowe
Read some of David's prayers in there.

Remember too, that when David had chances to kill Saul, who was indeed seeking to kill David, David passed at least twice.

37 posted on 09/08/2009 8:43:11 AM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: MrB

“... the knowledge that, given the power to do so, leftists would GLADLY AND JOYFULLY use torture tactics on their ideological opponents ...”

This “knowledge” is based upon what? What your sick fantasies tell you?

As Mother always said, what Peter says about Paul says a good deal more about Peter than it does about Paul.

If you have any actual facts underpinning this belief of your, please share it with the class.


38 posted on 09/08/2009 9:14:11 AM PDT by JBL55
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To: MrB
I read something by Eugene Robinson the other day denouncing “torture” and the participation of medical professionals in interrogation.

The thought that kept popping back in my mind throughout the whole opinion piece was the knowledge that, given the power to do so, leftists would GLADLY AND JOYFULLY use torture tactics on their ideological opponents,

and when they did, the torture wouldn’t be for information’s sake, it would be torture for torture’s sake - ie, punishment.

Absolutely these are the same exact mindset that killed 110 Million People ,They are cpmpletly worthless and not to be trusted.

39 posted on 09/08/2009 9:18:07 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: JBL55

Ever read anything on KOS or DU?
Ever read anything by other “liberal” bloggers?

Ever wonder why they lionize and defend folks like Che Guevera, Stalin, Marx, Mao?


40 posted on 09/08/2009 9:18:09 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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