Robert Jeffress, senior pastor at the First Baptist Church in Dallas, is back in the news. Jeffress once made headlines in denouncing Mormonism as a cult — he supported Rick Perry. Now, the magachurch pastor has warned his flock that the election of Barack Obama will lead to the rise of the Antichrist. He was careful however not to be too extreme. He noted that he did not believe Obama was the antiChrist because “the Antichrist is going to have much higher poll numbers when he comes.”
Jeffress explained that “President Obama is not the Antichrist. But what I am saying is this: the course he is choosing to lead our nation is paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist.” The way to stop the antiChrist: you guessed it . . . vote Republican “to push back against this evil that is overtaking our nation.”
What is frightening is not that there are fringe characters like Jeffress spouting off such utter nonsense, but that he has a very large following. This following continues despite the fact that I long ago outted Michael Eisner as the Biblical Beast.
Source: Christian Post
I haven’t watched the video but if TAPS isn’t being played then my neighbor’s heartfelt rendition still tops my list of crazy Romney mourning rituals.
how many of you attend church services?
Gene, My daughter sent me that video yesterday. It is great
you can read it right here, christianity is on the decrease in the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimxSVMitK4
Just because Randy Newman is awesome.
Although the young lady with the zombie eyes and the “Romney” finger-painted on her forehead was cute in a Stepford kinda way, the flag at half mast was my favorite.
The delusions of these apocalypse types seems an unending source of amazement to the rest.
Dream on…. Geezus freak…….
There is a youtube video called “Mourning In America” The tune is Randy Newman’s “Louisiana 1927” the images are shocked, stunned and crying faces from Tuesday last. It made me laugh until tears rolled down my face.
For 20 years we have had to put up with insanity like the Reverend’s spewing from one political party. They have slipped the moorings of sanity and built a fantasy world of their own insisting it was reality. So much evil and so much hate has marched forward with a bodyguard of lies, twisted thinking and BS that it has overwhelmed the country at times. Tuesday reality kicked that fantasy world in the head. It felt good to see the dawn of realization for at least one night. Now they have to turn the manure spreader up another notch but I have to hope some people are finally going to hop off the manure spreader.
Although Pastor Jeffres was initially a Perry supporter, he ended up urging his parishioners to support Mitt Romney.
Justice Holmes,
Excellent….
“the course he is choosing to lead our nation is paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist.”
So it’s Barack Obaptist then.
Ok it was 48 years ago that Lyndon passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Not 40. Time flies.
Forty years ago when Lyndon Johnson had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and then the Voting Rights Act of 1965 he predicted to some fellow southern politicians like Eastland and Stennis that the Republican Party would take up the mantle of the southern white redneck cause. Lee Atwater put the program together for Nixon and Raygun and it has been in place ever since. Now the entire Northeaster portion of the US map is blue when it used to be moderate Republican. The former solid Democratic South is now all red. In fact when one looks at the overall success of the strategy you see the red states as being all the former slave states except VA and FL and then the western states (west of Illlinois and Iowa excect the three states on the coast, Nevada and Colorado. Romney helped solidify the redneck states into the red states. The RepubliCons have built this into a 206 electoral vote bloc that guarantees to keep them in minority status (no pun intended whtieboys) for the forseeable future. This pastor in Texas should keep his dumb ass in the news so that the blue states can stay blue.
Obama won Dallas County 57 – 41. The percentages in the city were much higher.
Given the American fascination with exciting endings, is it perhaps not time to get on with the game?
From AP via Yahoo!:
IRS not enforcing rules on churches and politics
He has a huge church with a least 10,000 members. I said the other day that these Texans are “mad” and I meant it. It is not easy here to be a white Obama supporter in Texas except in Austin. The succession movement is well under way, and I am more than ready to leave the state.
For once I find myself in disagreement with you Justice Holmes. I think the IRS codes on that matter need to be enforced (right now they aren’t at all) but taxation of religious institutions gives power to the government that inherently runs afoul of the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses. The power to tax is the power to either favor or destroy. There needs to be checks on it like the current code that drops the exemption for political advocacy. The goal is keep religion out of government and government out of religion. Full taxation is ripe for abuse and invites excessive entanglement. I say enforce one of the few tax code laws I happen to agree with Constitutionally in both form and function already instead of creating an new slew of potential problems.
I’m pretty sure theocrats trying to inject their religion into our secular government have opened the way for the “Rise of the Antichrist”. And as for polling predictions, don’t quit your day job, Rev. Nate Silver has got it covered. Oop! His last name is Silver! That’s a sign that the “Rise of the Antichrist” is impended for it was silver that Judas betrayed Christ for. Unless of you course you’ve read the Gnostic gospels wherein Jesus asked his friend to betray him. Oh religion! What a
tangledcrooked imaginary web you weave!I am being forced to help pay for this man’s insanity through the religious/church tax exemption. Tax exemptions for churchs and clerics should be abolished! That is the kind of change I can believe in!,