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Your Thursday Morning WTF

There isn’t much funny about this, but really… WTF?

Who is your “spiritual guide”?

Could it be Rod Parsley?

You wouldn’t be the first (or last) fool to be sucked in. We have a presidential candidate that now claims that Rod is his spiritual guide. But I have been very closely involved with some that have truly made this claim and even formed their entire church hierarchy based off of Parsley’s teachings and structural commandments.

One church we were involved with completely modeled their church off of Parsley’s. The “pastor” sent his son to Parsley’s preacher school and when the kid returned, they implemented many changes that come directly from Parsley’s teachings. On a side note, this kid was a prick: I witnessed him threaten the bass player on the “praise team” (from the pulpit, no less) with taking him outside and “whipping your ass”, because the guy questioned how money was being taken up and counted. Even tho he was on the “finance committee” and had been a long-standing member for over 10 years, it brought about threats of ass-whipping… FROM THE NEW PREACHER!!!!

One issue was that no one was supposed to “tithe” with cash. They wanted checks and a yearly accounting of your income, so they could track your tithing to ensure you gave 10%. (You can imagine how well this went over with some, but many simply bowed down and gave them the information). In another hypocritical Parsley “rule” one could not be “leadership” in the church unless you were a member in good standing, tithing as you are supposed and cannot miss meetings for 2 years. Yet, there was hardly anyone, except the family who actually ran the church, who could make those claims (and they sucked my wife and I into the “praise team” after 1 month at the church). So much for rules. Bend them as you need to.

McCain has now made the claim that Rod is his spiritual guide, even though his teachings are idiotic and obviously the rantings of a maniac. Do you rednecks not see the danger in supporting and electing a whacko fake Christian as your president? Do you not think that by destroying Islam (which is Parsley’s objective) Christianity totally betrays the Christ’s teachings? And if so, how can you agree with them?

Is it just because they claim to be “Christian” and also claim the mantle of “Christian Leader”? So what?

It is quite simple, if you have ever read any of the red words in the Bible. These people are anti-Christs. They are teaching and DOING the exact opposite that the Christ taught. That is anti.

McCain’s Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam

By David Corn

March 12, 2008

Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a “war” against the “false religion” of Islam with the aim of destroying it.

On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center. That day, a week before the Ohio primary, Parsley praised the Republican presidential front-runner as a “strong, true, consistent conservative.” The endorsement was important for McCain, who at the time was trying to put an end to the lingering challenge from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a favorite among Christian evangelicals. A politically influential figure in Ohio, Parsley could also play a key role in McCain’s effort to win this bellwether state in the general election. McCain, with Parsley by his side at the Cincinnati rally, called the evangelical minister a “spiritual guide.”

In a chapter titled “Islam: The Deception of Allah,” Parsley warns there is a “war between Islam and Christian civilization.” He continues:

I cannot tell you how important it is that we understand the true nature of Islam, that we see it for what it really is. In fact, I will tell you this: I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and I believe September 11, 2001, was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.

Parsley is not shy about his desire to obliterate Islam. In Silent No More, he notes—approvingly—that Christopher Columbus shared the same goal: “It was to defeat Islam, among other dreams, that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492…Columbus dreamed of defeating the armies of Islam with the armies of Europe made mighty by the wealth of the New World. It was this dream that, in part, began America.” He urges his readers to realize that a confrontation between Christianity and Islam is unavoidable: “We find now we have no choice. The time has come.” And he has bad news: “We may already be losing the battle. As I scan the world, I find that Islam is responsible for more pain, more bloodshed, and more devastation than nearly any other force on earth at this moment.”

Parsley claims that Islam is an “anti-Christ religion” predicated on “deception.” The Muslim prophet Muhammad, he writes, “received revelations from demons and not from the true God.” And he emphasizes this point: “Allah was a demon spirit.” Parsley does not differentiate between violent Islamic extremists and other followers of the religion:

There are some, of course, who will say that the violence I cite is the exception and not the rule. I beg to differ. I will counter, respectfully, that what some call “extremists” are instead mainstream believers who are drawing from the well at the very heart of Islam.

The spirit of Islam, he maintains, is one of hostility. He asserts that the religion “inspired” the 9/11 attacks. He bemoans the fact that in the years after 9/11, 34,000 Americans “have become Muslim” and that there are “some 1,209 mosques” in America. Islam, he declares, is a “faith that fully intends to conquer the world” through violence. The United States, he insists, “has historically understood herself as a bastion against Islam,” but “history is crashing in upon us.”

At the end of his chapter on Islam, Parsley asks, “Are we a Christian nation? I say yes.” Without specifying what actions should be taken to eradicate the religion, he essentially calls for a new crusade.

Rice testifies amid protest | Video | Reuters.com

War Criminal!

Code Pink people can be a bit over-the-top, but, that is exactly what this country needs. People sick and tired of the criminals and people standing up to let them know.

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Iraq: the “greatest humanitarian disaster” of the modern world

This, according to China.

CHINA!?! Calling us hypocrites for human rights abuse?

LOL

That’s gotta hurt (and it does because it is so true).

So here’s the issue: to be the world’s beacon of hope and the object of honor and appreciation, a country MUST be above abusing human rights. The Bush Admin (controlled by neocon criminals) have destroyed our honor & integrity and have turned us (all of us Americans) into a beacon of criminals (not hope). A country cannot do what we have allowed Bush’s fools to do and still expect the rest of the world to love and embrace us.

China slams US for human rights “hypocrisy”

China on Thursday accused the United States of human rights hypocrisy as well as media manipulation, as it branded the U.S. invasion of Iraq the “greatest humanitarian disaster” of the modern world.

In an annual response to Washington’s criticism of China’s human rights record, the Chinese government labeled the United States arrogant, and highlighted what it said were widespread U.S. failures at home and abroad.

“(America’s) arrogant critique on the human rights of other countries are always accompanied by a deliberate ignoring of serious human rights problems on its own territory,” said the report, released by the state Xinhua news agency.
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This was not only inconsistent with universally recognized norms of international relations, but also exposed the double standards and downright hypocrisy of the United States on the human rights issue, and inevitably impaired its international image.”

The annual report, entitled “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007,” presented a wide-ranging attack on the Western superpower’s human rights problems, and singled out the U.S.-led war in Iraq that began in 2003.

“The United States has a notorious record of trampling on the sovereignty of and violating human rights in other countries,” it said.

“The invasion of Iraq by American troops has produced the biggest human rights tragedy and the greatest humanitarian disaster in modern world.”

On the global front, it also criticized civilian deaths in Afghanistan, secret prisons and torture of detainees.

Domestically, the reports said Americans’ right to join unions had been restricted, prisoners’ rights had been violated, and authorities were involved in attempting to manipulate the media.

The report also launched attacks on the United States’ inability to tackle poverty, fight crime and even the exorbitant cost of running for president.

China said it had released the report to give the world a clearer insight into U.S. failings and address the imbalance of the State Department’s annual report on human rights, released Tuesday.

The State Department removed China from its list of the world’s worst human rights violators, but said there were still widespread problems.

U.S. Not Planning To Attack Iran, Says U.S. Iran War Czar

March 13, 2008 

USS STENNIS, PERSIAN GULF—U.S. Iran War Czar Gen. Glenn Jacobs, the general director of the U.S. Center of the Invasion of Iran, announced Monday that neither the United States government nor the 30,000 troops aligned along Iran’s border have any plans to invade the “dangerous and belligerent” Middle Eastern country. “We’re simply taking every precautionary measure we can to maintain the peace between the two countries, such as making sure we have enough cruise missiles to carry out that peace, taking comprehensive aerial photographs of Iranian bombing targets, and calculating how many lives would be lost if we did invade Iran, which we’re not going to do,” Jacobs said while studying a video simulation of what a wide-scale assault on Iran would look like. “We don’t even have the manpower for that kind of operation yet.” According to a statement from the White House, the recently reopened position of U.S. Cold War Czar will be filled soon.
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