Hat tip to Juan Cole for the link to this story:
Voters should oust congressional Republican leaders because U.S. foreign policy is delaying the second coming of Jesus Christ, according to a evangelical preacher trying to influence closely contested political races.
K.A. Paul railed against the war in Iraq on Sunday before a crowd of 1,000 at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, his first stop on what he hopes is a 30-city campaign.
The Houston-based preacher said he believes that the Bush administration has delayed the second coming because U.S. foreign policy has blocked Christian missionaries from working in Iraq, Iran and Syria.
All I can say after reading of the good Reverend Paul’s work is this: Rail on Brother Paul! Rail on!
“Somebody needs to say enough is enough,” he said to worshippers who stood, waved and called out in support.
Paul, who claimed to support conservative political leaders in the past, is launching “a crusade to save America from the wrath of God and Republicans abusing their power,” according to his press materials. […]
“God is mad at this country,” Paul told the congregation. He described the war in Iraq as “unnecessary genocide.”
File this under “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Nice to see a conservative evangelical Christian calling Iraq a genocidal conflict. I know lots of liberal evangelicals who feel this way, but it’s the first time I’ve ever heard of a conservative expressing any compassion for the fate of the Iraqi people in the wake of Bush Pre-emptive War I.
If Jesus delayed his return because of the GOP, doesn’t that make him a liberal? Just askin …
Yes, I do think you are on to something. Jesus saw what was going on in Iraq and said these people are not mature enough for my second coming.
New meme: Staying the course has strayed from the cross.
the only course worth staying is the one to Calgary.
Seems to me, at first glance, that these statements are based just as much in self-interest as they are in compassion. But so be it.
Aside: if the Second Coming were dependent on Christian missionary work in the conversion of ‘heathens’, you’d think it would’ve happened already.
‘Course, some think it has. 41 ain’t really Dubya’s father, y’know.
I don’t care what they are based on, so long as he keeps making them.
Actually, more like a half hour.
The Cleveland story is a bit old – happened a day before his visit with Dennis Hastert.
Very weird. Much more on K.A. Paul and Hastert here.
but a much bigger part tells me that I don’t want any religious leader endorsing / critiquing any political party from the pulpit.
That type of shit has gots to stop.
All I can say after reading of the good Reverend Paul’s work is this: Rail on Brother Paul! Rail on!
LOL ! Yes, Brother Paul seems to do a fine job indeed.
Hey, I used to live there. Except for the orthodox jews (of which there were a boatload in Cleveland Heights, all Russians), there were no revival tents there. Pretty liberal place. I call it the PRCH (People’s Republic of Cleveland Heights)>
I wonder where he was appearing.
We’re Number 53!
Why does it NOT surprise me that we’re dropping like a rock!
says Blix