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.
