Let’s go back to Texas for some more fun:
In an excerpt of the book published at Huffington Post, the pastor of Dallas, Texas’ 11,000-member First Baptist Church, [Robert] Jeffress wrote, “For the first time in history a president of our country has openly proposed altering one of society’s (not to mention God’s) most fundamental laws: that marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
He continued, “While I am not suggesting that President Obama is the Antichrist, the fact that he was able to propose such a sweeping change in God’s law and still win reelection by a comfortable margin illustrates how a future world leader will be able to oppose God’s laws without any repercussions.”
I’ll bet this future world leader could even start a war in Iraq without any repercussions. He could torture people without any repercussions. He could idly sit by and watch a whole American city drown without any repercussions. There is no telling what the president’s embrace of gay marriage could lead to.
Let’s just say that it did not pass my notice that this pastor has a flock of 11,000 people in Dallas.
Yes, far be it from the good pastor to ever suggest Obama might possibly be the anti-Christ.
. . . uhm, “for the good pastor”
Engrave this edict on stone tablets: It is impossible to construct a reasonable sentence that begins with, “While I am not suggesting that President Obama is the Antichrist,…”.
It’s not water, it’s liquid stupid.
It should also not pass your notice that First Baptist Church-Dallas was where Wallie Amos Criswell was pastor from 1944 until 1993 and preached occasionally until shortly before his death in 2002. Nor should it escape you that W. A. Criswell was one of the people who engineered the conservative political takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1978, effectively excommunicating President Jimmy Carter over the issues of abortion and desegregation. The other pastor in the coup was the pastor of First Baptist Church-Atlanta.
The name “First” Baptist Church should tell you that this 11,000-member church is the well-to-do downtown Baptist church attended by Dallas’s elites and and upper middle class Baptists. And that includes substantial parts of the Texas GOP establishment.
To reiterate, this is one of the most politicized congregations in the country and its politics has been since 1968 that of the Republican Party. These are expensive Stetson hat nitwits not folks who live in trailers.
Not totally sure on this but I think that H. L. Hunt and his sons were somehow connected with Criswell back in the 1950s or 1960s.
Criswell was definitely part of the cabal who orchestrated the attacks on JFK in the Dallas Morning News in ’63. He had bitterly opposed Kennedy’s election on the basis of JFK’s Catholicism.
These are not nice people at FBD.
Could he have been related to this guy, a charlatan from the L.A. scene in the ’50’s?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuz7fcgSbRs
“And remember, my friends, future events like these will affect you in the future.”
He makes an airtight case, gotta admit.
Jeron Criswell King (or Konig) (The Amazing Criswell)
No relation at all.
Oh, hell, I knew. Just couldn’t resist an opportunity to play a scene from the deeply weird and fascinatingly awful “Plan 9 From Outer Space.” Rarely does a BooMan post provide me the opportunity to do so.
(shrug) confederates. ’nuff said.
Yes, traitors that plunged this country into a horrendous war because “their religion was cool with slavery.” They should have paid a much larger price for being murderous supporters of enslaving others.
This clownshow does realize that going down to the courthouse, and going to church, to get married are different things right?
Actually they don’t. They think the courthouse trip is just a preliminary like going out to pick up the wedding cake for the reception.
And it’s just another thing to get their moralistic righteous anger (which they never could find for slavery or lynching or Jim Crow laws or war or…) exercised. Next week it will be about abortion. Or drinking. Or hip-hop. Or….
They think the courthouse belongs to them. They think Dallas belongs to them. They think the whole damn country belongs to them. They’re angry because they no longer hold the sway they once did. That’s all. A simple temper tantrum.